World Wide School
World Wide School: Etext of Short Stories
The complete etext to the short stories of Charles Dickens.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Playing With Genre Through Newspapers and Short Stories
Contains plans for three lessons that ask students to compare narrative writing (short stories) to expository writing (news articles) in order to understand what makes each genre unique. In addition to objectives and standards, this...
Yale University
Yale University: Elements of the Short Story
This unit from the Yale University on elements of the short story is designed to develop student comprehension skills, particularly making inferences and generalizing. It also involves students in reading a number of short stories to...
Other
Short Story Library at American Literature: Young Goodman Brown
Read the full text of Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" on this site for free. With links to other short stories by American authors.
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Free Graphic Organizers for Planning and Writing
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides graphic organizers that students can use to plan their written pieces. Graphic organizers for all modes of writing are provided.
Bartleby
Bartleby.com: The Short Story: Iriving
This Cambridge History of English and American Literature site examines the contributions of Washington Irving to the development of the American short story genre.
Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center
Wisconsin Rt I Center: Story Writing Frames [Pdf]
Teachers will learn how to use story writing frames with their students. Teachers will learn how to implement story frames; measure progress with story frames; and find research to support using story frames. A reproducible story frame...
University of Oregon
Pizzaz, Creative Writing & Storytelling: Creative Writing via Basket Stories
This PIZZAZ (People Interested in Zippy and ZAny Zcribbling) lesson plan will engage students in creative writing about items found in a basket. Examples of creative writing are provided. Examples of springboard ideas are included.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: W. Somerset Maugham
A complete multi-day lesson plan comparing a Maugham short story to one of the same name by Jeffrey Archer. Referenced to IRA/NCTE standards, it includes links to assessment sheets and handouts.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Lamb to the Slaughter Persuasive Writing [Pdf]
This is a PDF of a persuasive writing assignment for the short story "Lamb to the Slaughter" by Roald Dahl. It asks the students to watch a linked video clip of the closing argument by Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird and apply...
British Library
British Library: 20th Century: Angela Carter's the Bloody Chamber
These activities offer students a unique opportunity to examine how a writer crafts a narrative. By exploring many of Angela Carter's early drafts, students will uncover how she created her ground-breaking short story collection, "The...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Short Adventure Stories
Inspired by the interactive plot ideas here, writers will create an original three-paragraph adventure story. First, each writer will create an original adventurer. Next, each writer will place the adventurer in a brief, organized...
Other
The Literary Link: Washington Irving: On Style and Purpose in Short Story
Two excerpts from Early American author Washingtom Irving about his preference for writing short works and why.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Tie It Up With Transition Words to Write a Story!
Read, write, and present a digital narrative with transition words to help us put the events in order! After modeling the lesson, groups of learners will write narratives to recount a short sequence of events, they will include details...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Taking Apart and Reconstructing Stories
This lesson is designed as a project-based unit plan that will take students through the narrative process from deconstruction to construction. After initial discussion, students will use the Interactive Story Map feature at Read Write...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Writing Leads in the Middle School Class
Great instructional activity in which students read various examples of "leads," or attention-grabbing introductions, in literature. Students then contemplate and develop their own interesting "lead" for a short story and share it with...
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: How to Write a Blackwood Article by Edgar Allan Poe
Classic Reader provides numerous classic written pieces from famous authors. One work is "How to Write a Blackwood Article," a work written by the author, Edgar Allen Poe.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: The Pros and Cons of Discussion
Contains plans for four lessons that use "Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. to engage students in a discussion about what constitutes equality. Lessons use re-writes, persuasive essays, computer activities, and informal class...
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: "Two Military Executions" by Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Bierce is famous for his writings on the Civil War and showing the brutality that occurred. "Two Military Executions" is short story about a young soldier sentenced to death for hitting an officer. Read the full text on this site.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: The Yarkand Manner by H. H. Munro
H.H. Munro, also known as Saki, was a British writer known for his short stories. Read "The Yarkand Manner" short story as an example of his writing style.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: "What Occurred at Franklin" by Ambrose Bierce
Known for his cynical writings, Ambrose Bierce was often called "Bitter Bierce". Read his short story "What Occurred at Franklin" on this site.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: "South of the Slot" by Jack London
The full text of the short story "South of the Slot" by Jack London. Register for a free account to unlock annotation tools, printing, and more.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: "The Spook House" by Ambrose Bierce
The full text of the short story "The Spook House" by Ambrose Bierce. Register for a free account to unlock annotation tools, printing, and more.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: The Siege of the "Lancashire Queen" by Jack London
The full text of the short story The Siege of the "Lancashire Queen" by Jack London. Register for a free account to unlock annotation tools, printing, and more.
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