Identifying Story Settings

One of the first narrative elements we teach to our littlest learners is story setting – the time and place in which a story unfolds.

This cut-and-paste worksheet has been designed to help your students differentiate between story settings and non-settings. Students are required to cut out the images, then look at each picture and sort them. If the picture is a setting, they need to glue it in the ‘setting’ row. If the picture is not a setting, they need to glue it in the ‘not a setting’ row.

Multiple Applications for This Story Settings Worksheet

This versatile resource can be used in multiple ways in your classroom. Why not try some of the following suggestions:

• Whole-class warm-up
• Small-group rotations
• Targeted intervention groups
• Fast finisher challenge
• Homework activity

Easily Prepare This Resource for Your Students

Use the dropdown icon on the Download button to select between the editable Google Slides or the easy-print PDF version of this resource.

As this download contains an answer sheet, we recommend printing one copy of the resource, then removing the answer sheet before continuing to prepare the resource.

This resource was created by Samantha Rose, a Teach Starter collaborator.

Click below for more resources to use when teaching story settings!

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Story Setting or Not? - Sorting Activity

Explore the difference between story settings and non-settings with this hands-on sorting activity.

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What Is the Setting? - Worksheets

Encourage your students to identify the setting in short and simple texts with this set of six worksheets.

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Narrative Settings Teaching Presentation - Hey Diddle Diddle

Engage young readers in texts and learn about setting with an instructional slide deck featuring the Hey Diddle Diddle rhyme.