This medium worksheet gives kindergartners nine fill-in-the-blank sentences that stretch their narrative vocabulary. Young learners complete ideas about how once upon a time is a way to start a story, that the setting is where it takes place, that a reader is someone who reads your story, that the middle comes after the beginning, and that a story about a princess is a fairy tale.

A four-pair matching task then links ending, middle, hero, and tale to clear definitions: the last part, the center part, the brave one, and a short story. The page builds the words kindergartners need before writing their own narratives.