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Story Cycles

This post-reading activity helps students identify the main events of a story in a cycle format, showing how the end of the story returns to ideas presented at the beginning.

Strategies/Skills Used

Reading Strategy 7: Determine the most important ideas and events and the relationship between them.
Reading Strategy 9: Identify and interpret literary elements in different genres.
Reading Strategy 10: Summarize what has been read.

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(1) Have students identify the story’s main events in a circular story or one that involves a life cycle.

(2) Have them record these events on the Story Cycle Graphic Organizer. They can draw the events and/or describe them in phrases or sentences.

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