1. This is going to be so much fun!!
READING FESTIVAL
This is going to be so much fun!!

2. What is a Reading Fair? Except it’s about one of your favorite books
It’s kind of like a Science Fair
Except it’s about one of your favorite books
You use a tri-fold board and include 10 story elements
Title
Author
Publisher and Publication Date
Setting
Main Characters
Plot Summary
Conflict or Problem
Solution or Resolution
Author’s Purpose
Mood

3. AUTHOR TITLE TITLE and AUTHOR are EASY! Charlotte’s Web E.B White
Pictures by Garth Williams

4. PUBLISHER AND PUBLISHING DATE
PUBLISHER is found on the TITLE PAGE
The PUBLSHING DATE is usually on the
next page
PUBLISHER AND PUBLISHING DATE
Harpers & Brothers
1952
Publisher

5. SETTING The SETTING is the place and time of the story
The setting of the story is Mr. Zuckerman’s Farm.
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6. MAIN CHARACTERS—Only those important to the story
The main characters are Charlotte, Wilber, Templeton, Fern, and the farm animals.
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7. PLOT SUMMARY –brief summary (not retelling) of what
the story is about and what takes place
PLOT SUMMARY  This is the story of a little pig named Wilbur who was born a runt. Mr. Arable decides to kill him for dinner food but his daughter Fern begs him to let him live. When he is older, Wilbur is sold to Fern's uncle, Homer L. Zuckerman, in whose barnyard he's left yearning for friendship, but is snubbed by other barn animals. Wilbur is scared of the end of the season, because he knows that come that time, he will end up on the dinner table. He hatches a plan with Charlotte, a gentle and wise grey spider that lives in his pen, to ensure that this will never happen.
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8. CONFLICT CONFLICT—the problem of the story
Things are chugging along smoothly until Wilbur learns that Mr. Zuckerman will probably turn him into bacon and ham. Yikes! Wilbur is super upset about this news, and so are we. We don't want to lose this little guy, so the conflict is: how is Wilbur going to escape this dire fate? And who is going to help him do it? Yep, it's Charlotte and her web.

9. SOLUTION or RESOLUTION-how the problem is solved
RESOLUTION After all of Charlotte's hard work and Wilbur's eyelash-batting, he wins a special prize at the county fair. His life is saved! Hip hip hooray! The whole novel has been building to this one big victory.
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10. The author’s purpose was to entertain.
AUTHOR’S PURPOSE– why the author wrote the story
Entertain
Persuade
Inform
Combination
AUTHOR’S PURPOSE
The author’s purpose was to entertain.

11. The book made me feel happy but also sad at times.
MOOD-how did the book
make the reader feel?
MOOD
The book made me feel happy but also sad at times.
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