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Identifying Story Elements
Second graders explore story elements. In this language arts instructional activity, 2nd graders identifying characters, setting, and plot in familiar stories. Students listen to a story and complete a graphic organizer.
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Story Grammar - Hyperstudio Presentation
Students use short stories assigned to them to create diagrams of the story, enhance their diagrams with background drawings, and present their work to the class for comparison to other groups' presentations.
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Story Elements
Middle schoolers create a "character T-shirt" that exemplifies their ability to analyze a character. The students also compare and contrast characters in a given story. Finally, the middle schoolers write a presentation about the...
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Writers Workshop Story Sequence
Learners read stories and explore the importance of sequential order. In groups, students are given sentence strips. Learners holding the sentence strips, place themselves in a logical order to make a story. Individually, students...
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A Halloween to Remember-- Story Starter
In this writing worksheet, students read a suspenseful Halloween story starter which begins with a child running down the street, candy flying everywhere. Students read the story starter and finish the story.
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Story Mapping
In this graphic organizer worksheet, students fill in a detailed story map. Students record the main events in the beginning, middle and end of the story.
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Story Map
In this language arts worksheet, students demonstrate their understanding of a story by filling in information on this story map. Students record the setting, main and supporting characters, problem and solution.
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Story Elements
In this literature companion activity, learners respond to 6 short answer questions regarding story elements about a story of the choice.
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Story Outline
Students examine the qualities of a piece of writing. In this language arts lesson, students begin writing by following an outline for what goes into a story. Students illustrate their story when it is finished and share their stories...
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Volcano Story Starter
In this volcano story starter, students read one sentence about some people in a village near a volcano. Students write the rest of the story. Note: the first sentence on this has a grammatical error.
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Story Map
In this Language Arts worksheet, students create a story map. Students include information about the setting, major and minor characters, plot, three events, and outcome.
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A Random Act of Kindness-- Story Starter
In this writing worksheet students recall a time when they were kind to someone else and how that made them feel. Students read the story starter and finish the story.
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A Noise in the Attic -- Story Starter
For this writing worksheet, students read the story starter about lying in bed and suddenly hearing a noise in the attic. Students finish the story in their own way.
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Event/Story Pyramid
In this story mapping worksheet, students use the graphic organizer to fill out a pyramid with important words describing the main character, setting and events.
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Story Writing Prompt
In this early childhood writing prompt learning exercise, students look at the picture of foxes and use the words fox, foxes, lunch, and bench to write a story on the lines provided.
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Writing a Short Story - Weather
Students write a short story based on the weather condition they chose. in this short story lesson plan, students must include a theme, setting, characters, and plot.
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Classic Short Stories - Locked Room Settings
Students read "The Problem of Cell 13" by Jacques Futrelle and explore the mystery genre. In this mystery genre lesson, students read the short story and discuss the author's inclusion of locked room settings. Students then write their...
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Planting Clues in Short Stories
Pupils explore "The Purloined Letter" by Edgar Allan Poe. In this literature lesson, students review the placement of clues in short stories. Pupils plan and write their own short stories with clues for the reader to find.
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Genre Lesson: Short Story
Stories from Sandra Cisneros' The House on Mango Street provide sixth graders with an opporltunity to identify the elements of a short story. After several modeling exercises, readers use the provided worksheet to recording information...
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The Best Song Ever-- Story Starter
In this writing worksheet, students read a story starter "The best song of all time is..." Students finish the story, telling about their favorite song and why they like it.
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Future Careers-- Story Starter
In this writing worksheet, students consider their future career choices and decide if they could try any 3 careers what they would be. Students finish the story.
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Story Starters: Life in Thailand
In this life in Thailand worksheet, 6th graders use sixteen different pictures of life in Thailand as inspiration to write original stories.
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Problem Solving: Story Problems
In this problem solving activity, 3rd graders will read and solve 6 story problems about time, money, and numbers of objects. Students must use logic, addition and subtraction skills.
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Comprehending the Story
Learners explore story-grammar. They discuss story-grammar and read That Mean Man. A story map is created and a Venn Diagram is used to compare and contrast concepts within the story. They retell the story and use a story pyramid to...
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