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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Nature Cat: Story Exploration Packet

For Students Pre-K - 1st
As you watch Nature Cat, use these tools to guide discussions and learning activities. Includes printables on story elements, alternate endings, vocabulary words, character traits, an episode map, and a Venn diagram.
Lesson Plan
Common Sense Media

Common Sense Media: Education: Story Elements Retelling

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
In this lesson, students will learn to retell a story using story elements to improve their comprehension of the story. The students will actively listen to a story and complete a graphic organizer to share and discuss with a partner.
Interactive
Quizlet

Quizlet: Story Elements Quiz 6th Grade Honors Gravity

For Students 5th - 8th Standards
This interactive game of "Gravity" assesses students' knowledge of story element definitions. Students will match the correct story elements to their corresponding definitions.
Activity
Quizlet

Quizlet: Story Elements Quiz: 6th Grade Honors: Flashcards

For Students 5th - 8th Standards
These interactive flashcards provide definitions for different story elements.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Story Elements

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
During this lesson, students will analyze what distinguishes the stories they love. Reading and reviewing their favorite books will help students begin to identify elements of a story. Students have the opportunity to navigate the...
Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Understanding the Elements of a Story

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
A six-part learning module with links to images with information and graphic organizers and a quiz on story elements.
Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Narrative Text Structure: Retell a Story [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which young scholars read a narrative text and complete graphic organizers to map the story. Materials are included.
Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Cinderella: A Character With Culture

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Students will engage in a Reader's Theater adaptation of Cinderella after reading several different versions that come from various cultures. Students will complete a graphic organizer with story elements that apply to the story Cinderella.
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Using Fairy Tales to Teach the Short Stories

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Familiar fairy tales are used as guides to help students analyze the elements of the short story: plot, theme, setting, point of view, and character.
Article
Other

How the Language Really Works: Novels and Stories

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This brief article explains perspective, types of narrators, and the elements of fiction.
Handout
Yale University

Yale University: Elements of the Short Story

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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...
Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Plot Structure: A Literary Elements Mini Lesson

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Contains plans for two lessons that ask students to apply Freytag's Pyramid (also known as Freytag's Triangle) to pieces of writing, oral storytelling, and television shows. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional...
Handout
Harold D. Underdown

The Use of Visual Elements to Tell a Better Story

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Short article gives excellent tips concerning how to use visual elements to enhance a written story. Article was written specifically for children's literature, but can also apply to other genres as well.
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Other

Penn. Department of Education:comparing and Contrasting Different Versions

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
Comparing and contrasting is a higher-level thinking skill promoted in the Common Core Standards leading to the ability to comprehend and analyze texts through various topics and genres. This lesson plan on Comparing and Contrasting...
Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Empowered Fiction Writers: Generating and Organizing Ideas

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
Do your students' minds go blank when they confront a blank piece of paper? Speedwriting can help them get started with writing as well as come up with topics to write about. They can then incorporate their key ideas and phrases into a...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Grammar and Literature Through Digital Storytelling

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
In this lesson middle schoolers create digital stories in cooperative groups using multimedia tools to demonstrate comprehension of the elements of grammar, literature, and technology introduced in the lesson. Students become actively...
Unit Plan
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Literary Visions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A series of 24 instructional videos, each about 30 minutes in length, designed to teach literary analysis. Topics include Responding to Literature, The Elements of Short Fiction, Tone and Style in Short fiction, The Elements of Poetry,...
Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Narrative Text Structure: Retell Ring [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which students read a narrative text and answer questions about the plot. Materials are included.
Handout
Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Principles of Composition

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
If you are a teacher OR a student looking for a well-informed website on elements of the writing process, you are in luck! This site from the Capital Community College is very comprehensive and easy-to-navigate. From grammar basics to...
Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Book Report Alternative: The Elements of Fiction

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Analyzing a book takes the form of creating their own when students complete this activity. The stated goal is to help students "Read like writers." Includes link to a template for student use.
Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Fairy Tales From Life

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
A guideline for helping students to write their own fairy tales. This is a fun activity that will help students to analyze a literary style and follow a pattern.
Lesson Plan
National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Fairy Tales Around the World

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This collection of activities gives students a chance to discover and compare fairy tales from around the world. It provides a wealth of links to resources, printable diagrams, discussion questions and the like.
Website
Other

University of Virginia: Welcome to Digital Storyteller

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Helping classrooms to utilize more technology, the University of Virginia has developed this website to provide a source for building digital storytellers.
Handout
Authors Calendar

Author's Calendar: (Johan) August Strindberg

For Students 9th - 10th
Biographical information on Swedish playwright, novelist, and short-story writer, August Strindberg. Explains how he combined in his works, psychology and naturalism, and later elements of mysticism. Includes quotations and links to...

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