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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Development of Characters Through Literary Devices

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson, students learn how writers develop characters through a variety of techniques: narration, dialogue, interaction with other characters, interaction with setting, and characters' thoughts. RL.9-10.3 Analyzing Characters,...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Compare/contrast Themes and Genres in Literary Texts

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Determining the theme is not easy; you have to use the clues the author leaves to figure it out yourself. The author implies information about the story through plot points, setting, and characters. You infer and draw conclusions based...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Speaking, Listening and Writing Compound Contrasting Sentences

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Students will be answering text-dependent questions in which they will have to describe the differences between the different characters, settings, and major events in our stories using complex contrasting sentences. The students will...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Development of Characters Through Literary Devices

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on how writers develop characters through a variety of techniques: narration, dialogue, interaction with other characters, interaction with setting, and character's thoughts.
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E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Setting Worksheets

For Teachers 1st - 5th Standards
In this learning module, students will study the concept of setting in literary text. Worksheets and PowerPoint lessons are provided to help students practice with finding "settings" and then citing reasons that support their answers.
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Read Works

Read Works: Grade 2: Two Lesson Unit: Setting

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A set of two lesson plans designed to teach learners to use context clues to identify the setting and changes within it. Lessons are based on the books Bigmama's by Donald Crews and The Stories Julian...
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Read Works

Read Works: Setting 3rd Grade Unit

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is series of two lesson plans designed to teach young scholars to visualize the setting and determine its effect on characters in a fiction text. Lessons are based on two short texts and the book...
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Other

Fiction Factor: The Importance of Setting

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An interesting article concerning the importance of setting to any piece of fiction. Gives good information about how setting affects characters and "world-building."
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Other

Seekers Blog Spot: How Setting Affects Characters

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Information and examples of different ways the setting of a text can affect the characters and character development. (Published: Sept. 29, 2016)
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Quia

Quia: Rags to Riches: Literary Elements: Setting, Plot, and Characters

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
In this game, students answer questions about the story elements of setting, plot, and characters
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning:ninth Grade Lit and Comp: Introduction to Personal Narrative

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson is an introduction to a unit on personal narratives including the characteristics of a personal narrative: tells a story, events are in chronological order, and it has characters, setting, and plot. Click next at the bottom...
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Variations in Plot and Setting

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Although Disney's version of Cinderella is most popular in America, hundreds of versions exist across many cultures. This resource provides lessons, which examine the similarities and differences in literary elements among many versions...
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Read Works

Read Works: Setting 1st Grade Unit

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of three lesson plans designed to teach students to use pictures and word clues to determine the setting of fiction texts. Lessons are based on the books The Cow Who Wouldn't Come Down by Paul...
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Read Works

Read Works: Setting Kindergarten Unit: When (Seasons, Day, or Night)

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan, based on Look! Snow! by Kathryn O. Galbraith, in which students learn how to utilize text and picture clues to determine basic time elements of setting in a story. Students follow this...
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Read Works

Read Works: Setting Kindergarten Unit: Where and When

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Based on Knuffle Bunny by Mo Willems, a instructional activity in which students learn how to utilize text and picture clues to determine a when and where the story takes place.
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Penguin Publishing

Penguin Random House: "Of Mice and Men" Teacher Guide [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Six-page guide covering pre-reading tips, plot, characters, symbols, setting, and post-reading activities. This is a .pdf file.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: rl.k.3 With Prompting and Support, Identify Characters, Settings,

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This landing page provides different lesson plan choices on teaching RL.K.3 With prompting and support, identify characters, settings,
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Contemporary Drama: Characteristics of a Drama

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on the characteristics of a drama including the four elements of a play: characters, dialogue, action, and gesture. It features a presentation of characterisics of drama, a Wikipedia article "Drama," and Quizlet:...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Interpreting Characters, Setting, Plot, & Theme: Triangle...

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Students will view video documenting the real-life story of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in 1911. Students will complete a story elements graphic organizer. This organizer will help them distinguish various story elements and put...
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Read Works

Read Works: Fourth Grade: Two Lesson Unit: Setting

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A two-lesson unit on setting where students use book The Three Brothers: A German Folktale by Carolyn Croll to show how the setting effects the plot of a story, and the book Even More Short and Shivery:...
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Curated OER

Mc Graw Hill: Part 1: Reading Literature: Use Illustrations and Details

For Students K - 1st Standards
Learn how drawing characters, settings, and events can help with reading comprehension.
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Quizlet

Quizlet: R.3 Analyze How and Why Individuals, Events, or Ideas, Develop/interact

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Please align to CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.3 Analyze how and why individuals, events, and ideas develop and interact over the course of a text.
eBook
University of Massachusetts

University of Massachusetts: Aesop's Fables: "The Fox and the Grapes"

For Students 1st - 8th Standards
Two traditional retellings of Aesop's fable "The Fox and the Grapes." The first has literal illustrations of the original fable. The second tells the same story, but has illustrations that give the story a modern setting and characters...
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Read Works

Read Works: Setting Kindergarten Unit: Where

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Use the book Gaspard at the Seashore by Anne Gutman to teach clues students can use to determine where a story takes place. The book must be provided by the teacher, but downloadable worksheets for...

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