Unit Plan
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Story Elements Using Cinderella

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Listen to an explanation of the story elements in Cinderella including exposition, characters, setting, sequence, conflict, climax, and resolution.
Interactive
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Interactives: Elements of a Story

For Students K - 1st Standards
Explore the elements of a story using the well-known Cinderella story as source material. Learn about setting, character, sequence, exposition, conflict, climax, and resolution.
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ProProfs

Pro Profs Quiz Maker: Story Elements Test

For Students 9th - 10th
This test is a 35-question, self-scoring, multiple choice test covering story elements. Java is required.
Interactive
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Elements of a Story Interactive

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Explore different ingredients, or elements, that go into stories and make them so much fun. Read the story, "Cinderella," and look at all the different pieces of the tale to see how they all fit together.
Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Interpreting Characters, Setting, Plot, & Theme: Triangle...

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Middle schoolers will view video documenting the real-life story of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in 1911. Students will complete a story elements graphic organizer. This organizer will help them distinguish various story elements...
Interactive
Fun Trivia

Fun Trivia: Short Story Elements Trivia Quiz

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site shares a short story elements trivia game. Examples of short story elements are applied to high school classic literature.
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Analyze the Central Characters in Literary Text/fiction

For Students 7th - 9th Standards
In this lesson, students will learn some ways that writers reveal the complexity of their characters. By closely analyzing one author's characters, they will come to see how their words, actions, and interactions with one another can...
Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Planning Story Characters Using Interactive Trading Cards

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Learners use trading cards to examine fictional characters in a story.
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Story Elements

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart contains story elements to be used with the novel, The Watson's go to Birmingham. It is possible to change the flipchart to fit any novel being read at that time.
Interactive
Quia

Quia: Short Story Elements: Definitions

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
Students can choose from three different activities while practicing story elements. Flashcards give students a chance to learn the elements and their definitions. A matching game gives students an opportunity to test their new learning,...
Unit Plan
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Elements of Literature: The Short Story [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A short group of exercises for students concerning the elements of a short story. Allows students to examine the major story elements, then apply those elements to a given piece of literature.
Interactive
Quia

Quia: Rags to Riches: Literary Elements: Setting, Plot, and Characters

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
In this game, students answer questions about the story elements of setting, plot, and characters
Lesson Plan
Read Works

Read Works: Grade 2: Three Lesson Unit: Plot

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of three lesson plans designed to teach young scholars to identify story elements, retell a story using story elements, and see how characters affect the plot. Lessons are based on the books...
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Story Elements

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart reviews the five main elements of a fiction story using the example of Goldilocks and the Three Bears.
Activity
Quia

Quia: Story Elements Practice

For Students 5th - 6th Standards
This series of flashcards from Quia helps students perform a quick check of their understanding of student elements, such as setting and conflict.
Interactive
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Characters

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Learn about the different types of characters in Cinderella, and determine which traits belong to the hero and villain. Click on the "Character" button.
Lesson Plan
Read Works

Read Works: Plot Kindergarten Unit: Retelling a Story

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Teach retelling a story using plot elements through explanation, guided practice, and independent practice as learners develop the skill. The text, My Red Balloon by Eve Bunting, must be provided by the...
Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Story Character Homepage

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Online lesson which allows for young scholars to create an electronic "Home page," for a specific character when reading a class novel. Students research and create web pages, then present findings to the class.
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Story Fairytale

For Teachers 1st - 6th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students learn the elements of a story through fairytales. These include character, setting, plot, and secret ingredient. Includes an Activote session.
Professional Doc
AdLit

Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Story Maps

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Story Maps are used for teaching students to work with story structure for better comprehension. This technique uses visual representations to help students organize important elements of a story. Students learn to summarize the main...
Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Puppies, Puppies, Puppies

For Teachers 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a boy named Kamil whose dog had puppies. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Popular Culture: What Makes a Book Popular?

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on the elements that makes a book popular and provides links to lists of Goodreads popular books and NPR's "Your Favorites: 100 Best-Ever Teen Novels."
Graphic
University of South Florida

Fcat Express: Probable Passage Matrix (Pdf) [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 8th
Printable PDF file of a Probable Passage Matrix graphic organizer. It asks students to identify the characters, setting, problem, solution, and ending of a story, and it is provided by a standardized test preparation site intended for...
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Larger Than Life

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Students will write a tall tale narrative including larger than life characters with unusual skills or abilities using exaggeration, humor, surprise endings, and story elements (setting, characters, conflict, resolution).