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Writing Morning: Narrative Setting

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Provide an overview of setting in a narrative. Learners discuss story elements, focusing on setting. Then, they set the scene for an imaginary world using their five senses. This is a great way to help your class better understand this...
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Lesson Plan 7: The Elements of Story

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Budding novelists work on character development by relating to the characters in their stories. They imagine their own hopes and dreams and recall those of characters from books they've read. Learners also consider struggles the...
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Fairy Tale Story Planner

For Students 4th - 5th
Provide your class with a way to plan their own fairy tale. Learners use this graphic organizer to help them plan their own original fairy tale by identifying the setting, characters, conflict, and conclusion for their story.
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Star Stories

For Teachers Pre-K - 6th
An unusually inventive and entertaining presentation awaits you and your class. The first few slides introduce the animals that certain constellations represent. There are also creative stories by other students of fictitious animals...
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STORY GRAMMAR

For Students 2nd - 5th
In this story grammar worksheet, students are asked to describe the setting, main characters and events from their book in short-answer form.
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Fortune Cookies Motivate Writing

For Teachers K - 5th
Fortune cookies are used as motivation for a story. In this creative writing lesson, young writers review the six traits process. They discuss interesting characters, setting, problem and solution in a story. Original stories based on...
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Write a Round-Robin Story

For Teachers 3rd - 12th Standards
Learners discover the elements of a story (introduction, plot, climax, resolution, denouement). In groups of five, one student writes an introduction and passes it to the next person, who writes the plot and passes it to the next person,...
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Create a Book with Student Treasures

For Teachers 1st - 6th
You can't publish a story until after it has been revised and edited! Budding authors investigate the writing process while drafting an original story. They select a topic, complete a rough draft, edit it, revise it, and finally publish...
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Digital Storytelling

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Scholars of all ages can use the various tools of technology to construct and illustrate a story. Utilizing this resource, learners work with a partner to brainstorm and draft a story based on personal experience. They use computer...
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How to Achieve Your Financial Goals

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Learners explore economics by creating a budget. In this financial goal setting lesson, students investigate their use of time by completing a worksheet. Learners identify financial goals they would like to achieve in the next several...
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Our Wonderful Stories: Lesson Plan 5

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
The fifth installment in a writing unit that culminates with a Hyperstudio illustrated group story project, this plan is ripe with ideas for ways to design group writing projects for elementary writers. Use the whole unit as a base from...
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George Washington's Socks by Elvira Woodruff

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
A solid, straightforward book report form is an excellent addition to your literature unit. Class members note the main characters, point of view, plot elements, and other important details from a story, adding their favorite part from...
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My Memory Book

For Students 2nd - 5th
Look back on the school year by spending a few days putting together books that learners can reflect on in the coming years. Learners note down personal information and their favorite things, respond to questions with goals, stories, and...
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Story Writing

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students examine story writing. In this writing lesson, students discuss the structure of a story and create a story using suspense and character description with dialogue.
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Organizer
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Story Planner

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this pre-writing graphic organizer, students fill in a chart with the characters, setting, plot, beginning and ending that they will use to write a story.
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Story Framing Legends

For Teachers 4th - 9th
Students review, examine and study the seven stages to a traditional legend or modern story in legend form. They locate two traditional legend stories and see if they fit into the two categories listed for them in two boxes. Each student...
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Writing Parts of a Story

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this writing worksheet, students analyze the literary elements in a story. Students write short responses for the following categories: setting, characters, beginning, middle (problem), solution and end.
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Telling a Story

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students create a story about a picture. In this writing lesson, students select a picture and write a story about what happened in the picture. Students are encouraged to write a story with a beginning, middle, and end.
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Making a Magical Story

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Learners create their own magical story. In this story writing lesson plan, students listen to the story The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe b C.S. Lewis to find the basic elements of a story. They come up with their own magical...
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The Gingerbread Story

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students explore storytelling by reading a classic book. In this story structure lesson plan, students read the story The Gingerbread Man and identify the characters, settings and plot. Students answer reading comprehension questions...
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The Golden Rules of Story Writing

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this story writing skills worksheet, students consider 6 guidelines for authoring their own stories. Students use the guidelines as they write their own stories.
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Lesson Plan C32: Story Starts

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students write story starters to begin the writing process. In this creative writing lesson plan, students examine story starters and review the structure of paragraphs. Students create their own story starters that engage readers by...
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Analyzing Story Structure

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners explore language arts by completing a graphic organizer in class. In this story structure lesson, students read the poem "Sick" by Shel Silverstein and discuss the different elements in the piece which make it an effective poem....
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The Beach Trip: Finish the Story

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this finish the story activity worksheet, students read an unfinished short story entitled "The Beach". Students use the lines provided to finish the story as they wish.

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