Research Guides: Literacy in the Elementary School (62-221): Plot

Definition:

Plot: Plan of action - events in the story that are linked by cause and effect

Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
ISBN: 9780060254926

Max is sent to bed without his supper because he acted like a wild thing, initiating the cause-and-effect chain of events.
Stellaluna by Janell Cannon
ISBN: 0152802177

After she falls headfirst into a bird's nest, a baby bat is raised like a bird until she is reunited with her mother.
The Three Little Javelinas by story by Susan Lowell; illustrations by Jim Harris
ISBN: 0873585429

A southwestern adaptation of "The Three Little Pigs."
Knots on a Counting Rope by Bill Martin, Jr. and John Archambault; illustrated by Ted Rand
ISBN: 9780805005714

A grandfather and his blind grandson, Boy-Strength-of-Blue-Horses, reminisce about the young boy's birth, his first horse, and an exciting horse race.
Jumanji by Chris Van Allsburg
ISBN: 9780395304488

Left on their own for an afternoon, two bored and restless children find more excitement than they bargained for in a mysterious and mystical jungle adventure board game.

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