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INTERNET ASSIGNMENT: THE DAY DIZZY DUCKLING GOT LOST

For Students 1st - 3rd
For this reading / writing worksheet, students use the Internet to read a story about ducks. They then summarize what they have read under each related illustration. Seven story elements are provided, along with one summarizing statement.
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Describing Our Senator

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders find the narrator or speaker in a story. In this story elements lesson, 3rd graders listen to the story My Senator and Me and answer comprehension questions. They complete a descriptive writing piece from different...
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Henry and Mudge and the Long Weekend by Cynthia Ryant

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Young scholars practice reading skills by reading a story and answering questions over that story. In this Henry and Mudge and the Long Weekend comprehension lesson, students answer questions about story elements, vocabulary, and...
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Robin Hood: England's Man of Mystery

For Teachers 5th
Students study the tale of Robin Hood to further their knowledge of character traits, improve their vocabularies, and increase their knowledge of the Medieval Ages. In this Robin Hood lesson, students complete 14 lessons that help them...
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Adapting a Fairy Tale

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners read and prepare a new oral version of a selected fairy tale. They read and compare/contrast two fairy tales and identify the main story elements. In small groups they create a new oral version of one they fairy tales and...
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Jacob the Great

For Students 5th - 8th
In this reading comprehension worksheet, students read a 1 page passage titled Jacob the Great and complete comprehension, inferential, and story element questions about it. Students complete 22 multiple choice questions.
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Wushu Were Here

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students create a fan-shaped story screen that explains 4 major points surrounding various facts, myths, expressions, or story elements in Chinese history, culture and/or literature.
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When Turtle Grew Feathers

For Teachers Pre-K
Students discuss being a friend and sing songs about friendship.  In this friendship lesson, students listen to When Turtle Grew Feathers.  Students  answer questions about the friends in the story. Students discuss the...
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Narrative Poetry

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders explore narrative poetry. In this language arts lesson, 6th graders create a group story. Students discuss the characteristics of narrative poetry and use a story elements checklist to determine which poems are narrative...
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Lord of the Flies Survivor

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders read and discuss the story elements and themes of the novel, Lord of the Flies. They simulate survivor groups through quizzes and voting off the group with the lowest scores, and group e-mail discussions.
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Analyzing Relationships

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students explore relationships between story characters. In this story elements and reading comprehension lesson, students generate character traits of the characters in Bridge to Terabithia, by Katherine Paterson. Students describe...
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Fractured Fairy Tales

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this writing worksheet, students choose one of 6 fairy tales to rewrite. They change story elements such as the character, location, viewpoint, or problem to create a "fractured fairy tale".
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Do-deca-he-dron-It's Greek to Me!

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students create a dodecahedron shaped visual report of the literary elements of a short story.
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Adventure Stories

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students write an adventure story. In this writing lesson, students listen to an adventure story and identify the elements of an adventure story. Students use story starters to create their own adventure story.
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Teaching Language Arts in Kindergarten Using Stories, Aesop's Fables, and Tall Tales

For Teachers K
Students search into a variety of story elements in the eight lessons of this unit. The title, author, illustrator, setting, main character, problem, solution, events and the story are the components of the lessons.
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Constrating Cinderellas/ Connecting LA Cenerentola

For Teachers K - 3rd
Learners contrast the traditional Cinderella character with a modern, independent and socially conscious Cinderella. To activate prior knowledge by eliciting from the students some of the familiar story elements of the traditional...
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Finding Buck Henry

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students read and demonstrate competence in the general skills and strategies of the writing process via the novel "Finding Buck Henry." They recognize complex elements of plot. Students analyze devices used to develop characters in...
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Silly Nilly

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders create their own stories with a life instructional activity and illustrate them.
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Literature and Interactive Writing: "Plenty of Penguins"

For Teachers K
Students listen to and discuss the story elements of the story "Plenty of Penguins." They discuss the elements of reality and fantasy, and as a class write two sentences on small dry erase boards in the form of a letter to the teacher...
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Tell Me a Whopper!

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders investigate tall tales as a literary genre. They listen to a number of tall tales to discover how exaggeration is used as a story element. They write and publish a tall tale using word processing software. They illustrate...
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Story Map

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this reading response worksheet, students use this story elements chart to record who, where and when details. Students also record rising and falling action and the most exciting part. It is unclear where to write the story events.
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Share Stories and Discuss

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Learners explore literature by examining story elements. In this storytelling lesson, students identify the importance of setting, and characters within a story. Learners answer questions about their personal opinions on storytelling and...
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Learning About Safety with Clifford

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students explore discussing stories with their children. They read and discuss Clifford's Sports Day and identify connections between the book and their daily lives. They simulate discussing the book with their children and note...
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Chana's Anguish and Triumph -1

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students study the family history of Elkana. They describe story elements and character feelings based on their understanding of the story.

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