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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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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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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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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: Plot 1st Grade Unit

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of three lesson plans designed to teach learners to identify problems and solutions in fiction text and to retell a story's problem and solution in sequence. Students learn to identify the plot...
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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."
PPT
Tom Richey

Slide Share: Plot Structure

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
A slide show with twenty-one slides explaining elements of plot including: characters, setting, exposition, conflict, rising action, climax, falling action and resolution.
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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 lesson 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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Education.com

Education.com: Rl.3.9 Worksheets: Compare and Contrast the Themes, Settings,

For Students 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Links to 18 worksheets that can be downloaded and printed. Each worksheet focuses on skills highlighted in standard RL.3.9: Compare and contrast the themes, settings, and plots of stories written by the...
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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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Penguin Publishing

Penguin Random House: "Cannery Row" Teacher Guide [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Five-page guide to "Cannery Row" including comments on background, plot, characters, setting, and themes. Also features useful teaching methodology and post-reading activities. This is a .pdf file.
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Teachers.net

Teachers.net: The Gingerbread Man

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Introduce your primary students to retelling and sequencing skills. Will also help move your students to higher-level thinking which deals with characters, setting, and plot. Site offers one week's worth of lessons.
PPT
Other

Prezi: Setting in Literature and How It Affects Characters and Events

For Students 7th - 8th Standards
A slideshow describing the elements of plot as well as the importance of dialogue as it interacts with different plot elements.
PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Characters and Setting

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson introduces the connection between characters and setting in fiction writing.
Article
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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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Story Elements Using Cinderella

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Listen to an explanation of the story elements in Cinderella including exposition, characters, setting, sequence, conflict, climax, and resolution.
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Read Works

Read Works: Bridge to Terabithia 5th Grade Unit

For Teachers 5th Standards
A Grade 5 literature study unit for the novel "Bridge to Terabithia" by Katherine Paterson. The concepts covered include cause and effect, character, genre, plot, predicting, and theme.
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: A Death in the Family

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Created in association with the Masterpiece Theatre film version of "A Death in the Family," this teacher's guide provides materials for the study of the film or the book. Students will study the life and work of James Agee, determine...
Professional Doc
AdLit

Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Story Maps

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
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...
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Teachnology

Teachnology: Lesson Plan: Twenty Questions

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
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.
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Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Great Expectations

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Discovery Channel School offers a lesson plan regarding the study of Charles Dickens novel, "Great Expectations." Students are asked to note that a writer considers theme, plot, characters, setting, and point of view when writing a...
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Narrative Text Structure: Retell Wheel

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which students read a narrative text and then turn a question wheel to answer questions about the characters, setting, conflict, and plot. Materials are included.[PDF]
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts: Grade 7: A Christmas Carol

For Teachers 7th Standards
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...
Interactive
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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