Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts: Grade 6: Out of the Dust
Focused on the Dust Bowl and how families fought for a meaningful existence and survival, this unit will offer students different perspectives on how people respond to adversity, the lessons that can be learned from hardship and failure,...
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts: Grade 6: The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Sixth graders will learn about the influence of family expectations and religious values on the development of one's personal identity. Students will also learn how reading informational texts in coordination with literary texts can...
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts: Grade 7: A Christmas Carol
Seventh graders learn that writers use stories and distinctive characters to teach us lessons. Students will explore how the choices of characters affect the plot and build the theme of a story. Students will come to understand that...
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Romeo and Juliet: Setting
Students build their knowledge of a text's setting by reading background information and answering questions to prepare to read Romeo and Juliet.
Google
Louisiana Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Grade 5: The Birchbark House: Unit Files
A Google Drive folder with instructional presentations, discussion questions, student activities, and assessments for the book, The Birchbark House.
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: The Color Monster [Pdf]
Explore how our emotions color our lives and add depth to our stories.
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Story Maps
Story Maps are used for teaching students to work with story structure for better comprehension. This technique uses visual representations to help students organize important elements of a story. Students learn to summarize the main...
Ted Nellen
Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Literary Terms S Z
The third of three pages of simple definitions for literary terms. This page, S - Z, covers twenty-two terms from "Saga," to "Understatement."
Ted Nellen
Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Setting
This is a glossary entry for the term "Setting," the time and place a story takes place.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: A Word Game for Kids: The Setting Game for Kids
In this game, young writers are asked to describe a place with memorable details. The main focus is to describe a setting -- time and place. If they need help with ideas, they can click the when and where buttons until they have...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Left Brained Writing Prompt: Mini Workshop: Building a Setting
This mini-workshop provides step-by step instructions to help students build a great setting for their stories. Press the instructions button when ready to begin.
abcteach
Abcteach: Fairy Tale Book Report [Pdf]
Wonderful printable fairy tale report form. It covers the major elements of a fairy tale as well as other literary elements.
Curated OER
Mc Graw Hill: Setting
Resource helps with understanding the setting of a story through the use of details.
British Council
Learn English Kids: Story Maker
This site is a story maker; students choose from three types of stories: fairy tale, horror story, or science fiction. They follow the directions choosing from pictures and typing in words. Then the complete story is finished and they...
Quia
Quia: Short Story Elements: Definitions
Students can choose from three different activities while practicing story elements. Flashcards give students a chance to learn the elements and their definitions. A matching game gives students an opportunity to test their new learning,...
Quia
Quia: Compare/contrast Character, Plot, and Setting Test
This interactive activity assesses students' understanding of the story elements. Students will read passages that include a short story and a brief drama; then students will answer assorted questions associated to each piece.
Quia
Quia: Story Elements
This interactive game of "Rags to Riches" assesses students' knowledge of story elements. Students will identify the definitions of the story elements and the applications of story elements in stories.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Elements of Literature: The Short Story [Pdf]
A short group of exercises for students concerning the elements of a short story. Allows students to examine the major story elements, then apply those elements to a given piece of literature.
Quia
Quia: Story Elements Practice
This series of flashcards from Quia helps students perform a quick check of their understanding of student elements, such as setting and conflict.
SMART Technologies
Smart: Developing Characters and Settings
In this activity provided by SMART, students will give reasons why they feel characters are important in a story. Students will explore how to create effective characters and settings in their own writing by using a character web.
Teachnology
Teachnology: Lesson Plan: Twenty Questions
For this lesson each student will have a turn in the "hot seat" where they answer class questions about a book they are reading including questions about the characters, setting, and plot.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Characters and Setting
This lesson introduces the connection between characters and setting in fiction writing.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Background vs. Integral Setting
This lesson compares background (settings that do not affect the story) and integral settings (the story depends on the setting to make sense).
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Setting
This slideshow lesson defines and discusses setting in fiction writing.