A story grammar is a charted outline that summarizes main story events, settings and characters.
Authors carefully structure their writing.
Readers who perceive the structure of a reading selection are better able to construct meaning and identify important ideas and events. By charting the structure students reflect on basic story parts or elements and on the interrelationships among the elements. Students can use story grammars to organize ideas during reading and for writing narrative compositions at all grade levels. Introduce this strategy using a story that is familiar to all students. Read the selection to students.