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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Interactives: Elements of a Story

For Students K - 1st Standards
Explore the elements of a story using the well-known Cinderella story as source material. Learn about setting, character, sequence, exposition, conflict, climax, and resolution.
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Elements of a Story Interactive

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Explore different ingredients, or elements, that go into stories and make them so much fun. Read the story, "Cinderella," and look at all the different pieces of the tale to see how they all fit together.
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Other

Katie Kazoo: The Five Essential Elements of a Story [Pdf]

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
Learn the five essential elements of a story.
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Other

Lifestream Center: Lessons: Literary Concepts: Elements of a Story

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
This site offers a basic understanding of the elements of a story. It clearly defines each literary term.
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TES Global

Blendspace: Reviewing Elements of a Story

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
A ten-part learning module with links to images, texts, websites, and videos to about story elements.
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University of South Florida

Fcat Express: Plot & Conflict Resolution

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
Strategies to help students understand the elements of a story provided by a standardized test preparation site intended for fourth grade. Includes strategies such as DLTA/DRTA, Plot Diagrams, Story Clock, Story Mapping, Summary...
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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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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Contemporary Literature: The Modern Short Story

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson is an introduction to the modern short story including defining the short story, how the modern short story differs from the classic short story, the elements of a short story, and what is to be expected in this unit.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Ninth Literature and Composition: Short Stories

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson provides and introduction to a short story unit. It focuses the lessons and morals taught by short stories and the use of literary elements in fiction. I provides a list of essential questions.
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PBS

Pbs Kids: Writers Contest: Story Central

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Stories by young writers grades K-3. Students can log in and keep their own writing materials or create "mashups" using elements from the stories provided here.
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Curated OER

National Park Service: Elements of Literature [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A PDF glossary listing and defining literary elements.
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TES Global

Blendspace: What Makes Stories Scary?

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A learning module that includes fourteen links to websites, videos, and activities on writing scary stories. Lessons focus on vocabulary, plot and character development, elements of gothic stories, tone and mood, suspense, and more.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Writer's Model: Writing a Short Story

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This seven-page example is of a short story entitled "T-formity." Clicking on the "Writer's Guide" link in the upper right-hand corner of the page enables the user to get tips, directions, and explanations on the essay.
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Story Behind the Science

Story Behind the Science: Development of the Periodic Table [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Article describing the history of the development of the periodic table of elements, particularly the work of Dmitrii Ivanovich Mendeleev.
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Web Elements

Web Elements Periodic Table: Meitnerium

For Students 9th - 10th
This WebElements site offers basic data, history and the story of the synthesis of meitnerium.
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University of Minnesota

University of Minnesota: The Elements of Digital Storytelling

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Learn the theory and elements of digital storytelling, with plenty of real-world examples provided for each element. While the purpose of the site is not specifically to instruct teachers how to use digital storytelling in the classroom,...
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Read Works

Read Works: Grade 2: Three Lesson Unit: Plot

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of three lesson plans designed to teach young scholars to identify story elements, retell a story using story elements, and see how characters affect the plot. Lessons are based on the books...
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Other

Short Story Elements

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Geared toward high school students, this site contains many notes and links on the aspects of short story, figurative language, and figures of speech.
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ProProfs

Pro Profs Quiz Maker: Story Elements Test

For Students 9th - 10th
This test is a 35-question, self-scoring, multiple choice test covering story elements. Java is required.
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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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TES Global

Blendspace: Story Elements

For Students 4th - 7th Standards
A twelve-part learning module with links to videos, images, and websites to use while learning about story elements and the development of a plot.
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TES Global

Blendspace: Short Stories

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
A thirteen-part learning module on short stories including links to videos, images, graphic organizers, games, informational sites, and more.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Story Elements

For Teachers 6th - 9th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart defines the elements of a story: character, setting, theme, and conflict.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Story Fairytale

For Teachers 1st - 6th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students learn the elements of a story through fairytales. These include character, setting, plot, and secret ingredient. Includes an Activote session.

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