Story structure

Story structure The set of a story's episodes, a story line (plot)instruction is designed to help readers understand the who, what, where, when, and why of stories, what happened, and what was done and to infer causal relationships between events. Readers learn to identify the main characters of the story, where and when the story took place, what the main characters did, how the story ended, and how the main characters felt. Readers learn to construct a story map recording the setting, problem, goal, action, and outcome of the story as they unfold over time.

Story structure The set of a story's episodes, a story line (plot) instruction improves the ability of readers to answer questions, to recall what was read, and to improve standard comprehension test performance. The instruction also benefits recall, question answering, and identifying elements of story structure The set of a story's episodes, a story line (plot) .

For example, in 1983 Jill Fitzgerald and Daisy L. Spiegel found that instruction in narrative structure enhanced story structure The set of a story's episodes, a story line (plot) knowledge and had a strong positive effect on reading comprehension with average and below-average fourth-grade students who had been identified as lacking a keen sense of narrative structure.

The NRP examined seventeen studies using story structure The set of a story's episodes, a story line (plot) instruction with readers ranging from third grade through sixth grade. Story structure The set of a story's episodes, a story line (plot) instruction improved readers’ ability to answer short-answer questions and retell the story. In three of the studies, standardized tests were used for assessment. Story structure The set of a story's episodes, a story line (plot) instruction led to improved reader scores in two of those studies.