This would be a great activity to have your child try at home. Just get a piece of paper and draw 5 rectangles, like shown to the right. After reading a book or a chapter from a book, have your child fill in the rectangles. To make it more fun, your child could draw and color the characters and the setting.
Being able to fill out a story map successfully will be incredibly helpful when we move onto summarizing and retelling a story or a chapter.