Plot Pyramid
Activity
Hands-On!
Grades
6-12
Lesson Plans © by Selena Smith 2014
Use
with any
story!
Instructions:
1. Print page 3 and cut on dotted line. Print page 4 (preferably on lightcolored paper if you have some).
2. Students cut the plot terms and definitions along the dotted lines.
3. Students paste the terms in the smaller boxes along the plot pyramid
where they think those terms go. Then, they paste the definitions in the
larger boxes near those terms.
4. After reading a story, students write in parts of the plot in the circles
attached to the plot term or definition.
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Lesson Plans © by
Selena Smith 2014
Resolution
Climax
Falling Action
Rising Action
Narrative Hook
Lesson Plans © by Selena Smith 2014
Highest point of the
story where everything
changes after it.
Background
information and
setting.
Event(s) following the
turning point before
the final ending.
End of the story;
the conclusion
past the term
and definition in
the correct
place on the plot
pyramid.
Plot Terms and Definitions Cut apart and
Highest point of the
story where everything
changes after it.
Background
information and
setting.
Event(s) following the
turning point before
the final ending.
End of the story;
the conclusion
An incident that sets
the story in motion and
leads to conflict.
Exposition
Resolution
Climax
Falling Action
Rising Action
Narrative Hook
Exposition
past the term
and definition in
the correct
place on the plot
pyramid.
Plot Terms and Definitions Cut apart and
The events that lead
up to a turning point –
may involve conflict.
An incident that sets
the story in motion and
leads to conflict.
Lesson Plans © by Selena Smith 2014
The events that lead
up to a turning point –
may involve conflict.
Plot Pyramid
Smaller boxes = terms
Larger boxes = definitions.
Circles = information from
the story.
Feel free to turn paper
sideways to write in
some of the circles.