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2nd grade · English Language Arts · Unit 3 of 12

Story Builders

Characters, settings and order

What your child practices

Reading short stories, then naming the character and setting, explaining why things happened, and retelling events in order.

Alaska content standards learning standard: RL.2.3; RL.2.5 · characters, settings and the order of events

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. The main character is who the story is mostly about.
  2. The setting is where and when the story happens.
  3. Events happen in order: beginning, middle and end.

Example: Jay forgot his lunch at school. His teacher shared her apple. Where does this story happen? Look for place words. The story happens at school. Answer: at school

Story Builders in Alaska

In the Alaska content standards, this is unit 3 of 12 in 2nd grade English Language Arts, after Sound Detectives and before Word Power.

Gradelings describes a child's practice on this unit as Beginning, Approaching, Meeting or Exceeding (Four practice steps). That reflects practice, not a report-card mark: the teacher decides the mark.

Source: Alaska Department of Education and Early Development

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    Who is the main character in this story?

    A little rabbit named Pip lived in a burrow.

    One night, Pip heard a loud noise outside.

    Pip peeked out and saw it was only the wind.

    Pip hopped back in and fell asleep.

    • 💨the wind
    • 🦉an owl
    • 🐇Pip the rabbit

  2. Question 2

    Where does this story happen? (the setting)

    A little rabbit named Pip lived in a burrow.

    One night, Pip heard a loud noise outside.

    Pip peeked out and saw it was only the wind.

    Pip hopped back in and fell asleep.

    • 🏬at a busy mall
    • 🌙in a burrow at night
    • 🏖️on a beach at noon

  3. Question 3

    What was the noise?

    A little rabbit named Pip lived in a burrow.

    One night, Pip heard a loud noise outside.

    Pip peeked out and saw it was only the wind.

    Pip hopped back in and fell asleep.

    • 🚚A truck
    • 💨The wind
    • 👹A monster

  4. Question 4

    Tap what happened, from the beginning to the end.

    A little rabbit named Pip lived in a burrow.

    One night, Pip heard a loud noise outside.

    Pip peeked out and saw it was only the wind.

    Pip hopped back in and fell asleep.

    • Pip saw it was the wind.
    • Pip lived in a burrow.
    • Pip heard a noise.
    • Pip fell asleep.

  5. Question 5

    Who is the main character in this story?

    Amir and his sister made a lemonade stand.

    They squeezed lemons and added sugar and water.

    Neighbors stopped by to buy a cup.

    At the end, they counted their coins.

    • 🧒Amir
    • 🧑‍🍳a baker
    • 🍋a lemon tree

  6. Question 6

    Where does this story happen? (the setting)

    Amir and his sister made a lemonade stand.

    They squeezed lemons and added sugar and water.

    Neighbors stopped by to buy a cup.

    At the end, they counted their coins.

    • 🌊under the sea
    • 🏰inside a castle
    • 🏘️outside near their home

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