Brave Irene – Setting Brace Map

Over the last week, we started reviewing literary elements again.  Identifying the setting was the one area of literary elements that our first graders struggled with the most.  On Friday, we read the story Brave Irene (great story by the way) and came up with the 3 settings from the story.  We used a brace map to display the settings and then added evidence that supported the setting identifiation. The kiddos did great with it.  See below….