This learning module focuses on analyzing story elements including the order of events, character, conflict, resolution, and plot. It provides a model story with questions and answers and then a practice story with questions.

This interactive game of "Match" assesses students' knowledge of story element definitions. Students will match the correct definition of a story element to its corresponding definition.

For this lesson, students will interact with the book Hedgie's Surprise by Jan Brett and create a Readers Theatre performance. Students will engage in interacting with story elements during before, during, and post-reading activities.

A lesson plan in which learners read a narrative text and then turn a question wheel to answer questions about the characters, setting, conflict, and plot. Materials are included.[PDF]

This is a glossary entry for the term "Characterization" including a definition and the characteristics to be developed: Character's appearance, actions, thoughts, voice, and reaction from others.

"The Bloody Chamber" is a collection of modern fairy tales, many of which incorporate elements of Gothic literature. Greg Buzwell traces the Gothic influence on Carter's stories, from the Marquis de Sade to Edgar Allan Poe.