Lesson Plan
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 students 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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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Using Fairy Tales to Teach the Short Stories

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Familiar fairy tales are used as guides to help students analyze the elements of the short story: plot, theme, setting, point of view, and character.
Unit Plan
Penguin Publishing

Penguin Random House: 'Dust' Teaching Guide [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
"Dust", a novel by Canadian author Arthur Slade, is set in a prairie town during the Depression. The story revolves around a mysterious man with a rainmaking machine who is somehow connected to the disappearance of children in the town....