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Clay Animation

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders create a visual story without using words. A study of the history and process of clay animation is explored and discussed. Students storyboard a plot of a story and students divide up into groups designing characters and...
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Writing a Movie Review

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students view a classic movie in class while taking notes. They write a summary/ review of the movie which includes the name of the movie, who wrote it, the characters and a retelling of the story. They include their opinion and how the...
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Read and Remember - Story Grammar

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Pupils use the Story Grammar strategy to outline the main elements of the story which will help them with free recall and cued recall. The strategy includes: identifying the main characters in the story, recalling where and when the...
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Folktales

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders read a Haitian folktale. They study main characters in Haitian folktales and explore multicultural information about Haiti. They clarify understanding by retelling a sentence (paraphrasing) and a passage in their own...
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Historical Fiction- Thanksgiving

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students write a story. In this historical fiction lesson, students research how Thanksgiving began. Students write a fictional story where they are a main character of this time period.
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Story Writing

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Young scholars work in groups to create a story that will be presented to the class.  In this story writing activity, students complete a project planning sheet, work together to create a story that includes a hero and at least two...
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Day Six Lesson- The Whale Rider

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students recognize Maori sayings, identify major characters, and discuss major story lines in The Whale Rider. In this The Whale Rider instructional activity, students repeat and define common words of the Maori and discuss the setting...
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Heroes

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers explore heroic characters. For this philanthropy lesson, students discuss the characteristics of a super hero and then define vocabulary associated with philanthropy such as civic virtue and altruism. Middle schoolers...
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W.W. Jacob's "The Monkey's Paw" Theme

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students identify the theme of "The Monkey's Paw" and relate it to prior knowledge.  In this "The Monkey's Paw" lesson, students discuss fate and coincidence and debate which one controls destiny.  A test is chosen as the...
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Creative Writing: Halloween Theme

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders are read a book about different authors. They identify the parts of a story such as plot and setting. They brainstorm topics for their own paper and begin the writing process. They create a final copy of their story about...
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Story Elements

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders use several pieces of literature to identify specific story elements. In this story elements lesson, 6th graders analyze the story element of character, character traits, and setting for the example stories. Students work...
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Main Idea- Fiction

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders investigate the concept of main idea and supporting details, and how they are used in the genre of fiction. In this literacy lesson, 8th graders listen to a fictional passage and take notes on the characters, setting,...
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Holes, by Louis Sachar

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Learners use reading fluency, comprehension, vocabulary, written expression to write in journals as reading "Holes" by Louis Sachar. Some days are set aside for tests and/or food tasting.
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Our Day Out- Program Design

For Teachers 6th - 7th
In this program design worksheet, students create a short leaflet for a play. Students create a front cover, list of characters, outline of the play, drawings of two characters, and brief description of the author. Students work in...
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Speech Therapy Students Interact Between Schools

For Teachers K - 6th
Students use technology to improve their communication skills and have the ability to interact with other speech students attending other elementary schools. Through riddles, games, and other activities, students attain their speech...
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Southeast Asian Folktales

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders locate and identify the countries of Southeast Asia on a map. In groups, they compare and contrast photographs and artifacts from their own lives with those living in Asia. They write their own folktales based off of...
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Beginning, Middle, and End

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First graders identify the beginning, middle, and ending of a story and describe the plot, setting, and the characters. As a class they read a picture story and identify the beginning, middle, and end. Students then draw a picture of...
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Short Story Framework

For Teachers 6th - 8th
The class gets creative after listening to a short story containing a definitive structure. They are required to think about character, relationship, and setting, while attempting to show rather than tell, in their writing. Dialogue,...
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What's the Point? A Lesson on Point of View

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders read the book, Good Dog by Alexandra Day. In this writing lesson plan, 4th graders re-write the story from a chosen character's point of view. This lesson plan can be used with many other wordless picture books.
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Fractured Fairy Tales

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students use familiar characters, plots, and settings from traditional fairy tales to create "fractured" versions, while experimenting with satire, irony and parody. A fractured fairy tale is designed to be humorous by changing the story...
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From Arbor Day to Earth Day

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students discuss their answers to a given set of questions regarding Earth Day and Arbor Day. They research using the internet then write a bigraphical sketch of their character.
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Pre Writing Strategies

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders review story mapping along with characters, setting, problem, events, and solution. They view pictures and tell the story of their picture orally then they write rough drafts and final copies of their stories in the...
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Civil War on Sunday

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders read "Cvil War on Sunday" together and discuss characters, setting, problem and resolution. They determine facts from fiction used in the story and research drummer boys in the Civil War or Clara Barton using the Internet....
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Louisa May Alcott

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers examine the life of author Louisa May Alcott. In groups, they analyze the book "Little Women" discovering why she worte it and identifying the characters and settings. They use the internet to examine how the books can...

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