READING FAIR

This is going to be so much fun!!

What is a Reading Fair?

It’s kind of like a Science Fair

Except it’s about one of your favorite books

You use a tri-fold board and include 10 story elements

• Title
• Author
• Publisher and Publication Date
• Setting
• Main Characters
• Plot Summary
• Conflict or Problem
• Solution or Resolution
• Author’s Purpose
• Mood
TITLE and AUTHOR are EASY!

TITLE
Charlotte’s Web

AUTHOR
E.B White
Pictures by Garth Williams
 PUBLISHER is found on the TITLE PAGE

The PUBLSHING DATE is usually on the

next page

PUBLISHER AND PUBLISHING DATE

Harpers & Brothers

1952

Publisher
 The SETTING is the place and time of the story

SETTING
The setting of the story is
Mr. Zuckerman’s Farm.

USE COMPLETE SENTENCES!!

 MAIN CHARACTERS—Only those important to the story

MAIN
CHARACTERS
The main characters
are Charlotte,
Wilber, Templeton,
Fern, and the farm
animals.
USE COMPLETE SENTENCES!
PLOT SUMMARY –brief summary (not retelling) of what
the story is about and what takes place

PLOT SUMMARY
 This is the story of a little pig named Wilbur
who was born a runt. Mr. Arable decides to kill
him for dinner food but his daughter Fern begs
him to let him live. When he is older, Wilbur is
sold to Fern's uncle, Homer L. Zuckerman, in
whose barnyard he's left yearning for
friendship, but is snubbed by other barn
animals. Wilbur is scared of the end of the
season, because he knows that come that time,
he will end up on the dinner table. He hatches
a plan with Charlotte, a gentle and wise grey
spider that lives in his pen, to ensure that this
will never happen.
USE COMPLETE SENTENCES!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070016/plotsummary
 CONFLICT—the problem of the story

CONFLICT
Things are chugging along smoothly until Wilbur
learns that Mr. Zuckerman will probably turn him
into bacon and ham. Yikes! Wilbur is super upset
about this news, and so are we. We don't want to
lose this little guy, so the conflict is: how is Wilbur
going to escape this dire fate? And who is going to
help him do it? Yep, it's Charlotte and her web.
http://www.shmoop.com/charlottes-web/plot-analysis.html
 SOLUTION or RESOLUTION-how
the problem is solved

RESOLUTION
After all of Charlotte's hard work and
Wilbur's eyelash-batting, he wins a
special prize at the county fair. His life is
saved! Hip hip hooray! The whole novel
has been building to this one big victory.

USE COMPLETE SENTENCES!

http://www.shmoop.com/charlottes-web/plot-analysis.html
AUTHOR’S PURPOSE– why the author wrote the story
• Entertain
• Persuade
• Inform AUTHOR’S
• Combination PURPOSE

The author’s purpose

was to entertain.
 MOOD-how did the book
make the reader feel?

MOOD
The book made me feel
happy but also sad at
times.

USE COMPLETE SENTENCES!