Plot Lesson Plans

Explore the concept of story analysis. Students analyze a movie's characters, setting, dialogue, and theme.  Students use these elements and analysis to create a new story about the characters. A great way to get kids thinking about the character/plot relationship.

Students interact, answer questions, and extend the story plot. They write a Haiku or basic poetry with their words, name characters, create a new ending for a story, and write a new story with one of the characters.

Youngsters study "Lon Po Po." They will compare and contrast China's version of "Little Red Riding Hood" "Lon Po Po" with the traditional version of "Little Red Riding Hood" and then draw or write their own version of "Little Red Riding Hood." They will address the elements of story (plot, setting, characters, and details). 

After searching Google for YouTube videos, pupils will create a Google Search Story. The process of creating these stories will provide practice using narrative elements such as, plot, characters, setting, and conflict. Note: Resource links to the Google Search Story website, plot pyramids, a template, and a rubric are included.

Students examine the basic story elements of the short story. They listen to the classic fairy tale "Little Red Riding Hood," watch a PowerPoint presentation of the Elements of a Short Story, complete a graphic organizer on a selected short story, and create a quiz.

Students pair up and talk about a story, plot, or incident they are working on in writing workshop. Ask the listener to note when his interest is piqued and to share those moments with the storyteller. Those points of intrigue are all potential leads.

Young scholars write and illustrate a story to describe the habitat and life cycle of a selected animal. They write and publish their story, and create a picture of the animal on a wooden board.

Third graders review story plots and the sequence of events in a story they are familiar with. They create sentences explaining the story plot then assemble a "movie viewer" along with illustrations for their story.

Students, after reading and discussing the two texts by Flannery O'Connor, "Good Country People" and "Greenleaf," analyze the plot, tone, characters, themes and setting in each story. They write their own short stories dealing with a detailed plot and real-time events including flashbacks, etc.

Young scholars view slides from the movie "Hoot" and discuss characters, setting and the caption. They identify where in the rise and fall of the plot this scene takes place. They brainstorm elements needed to create a story from a picture. They create a new story for the characters of the movie "Hoot".