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Story sheet · Places and maps · Ages 6–8
Where Does It Happen?
Draw the setting of a story, then use your senses to describe it: what can you see, hear and smell?
- Ages
- Ages 6–8 (grades 1–3)
- Time
- about 25 minutes
- Part of a story
- Places and maps
- Kids practice
- describing a setting, using the senses, adjectives
What kids do
“Take the reader somewhere. Draw it first, then use your senses.”
- Draw the place where your story happens
- I can see…
- I can hear…
- It smells like…
- Something strange about this place:
How to run it
- Brainstorm settings: a moon base, a candy factory, a swamp, the inside of a backpack.
- Close your eyes and imagine standing there before drawing.
- The strange detail is often where the story begins.
Talk about it
- Would you like to visit this place? Why?
- What kind of character lives here?
- What could go wrong here?
Take it further
Write the first paragraph of a story set here, using one detail from each sense.
Draw first, then write
Free for home and classroom use. Print as many copies as you need.
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