Curated OER
Biography Tea
Students. through a variety of library books on biographies, explore and assess the contributions of individuals to society. They choose one person to write a short biography on after reading their biography checked out from the library.
Curated OER
Journey to the Center of the Earth I
Students identify the elements of science fiction and write their own example. In this Journey to the Center of the Earth lesson plan students complete several activities about science fiction, authors and novels.
Can Teach
Can Teach: Class Book Ideas: Story Frames
This site discusses how story frames are a great way to support emergent writers in the classroom. Lots of story prompts and writing frames to use in a K-2 classroom.
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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...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Frame Story
Notes introducing various forms of frame stories, or stories that provide a framework for additional stories within. Examples of different frameworks are provided with classical texts including The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Frame Story
This lesson introduces the frame story in fiction writing. An audio lesson [3:38] and notes are included in this learning module.
Other
Goodnight Stories: Finish a Story
You can write your own ending for these stories, and if you have parent permission, you can submit the ending to the site for possible publication.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Book Report Alternative: Examine Story Elements Using Comic Stri
Comic frames are traditionally used to illustrate a story in a short, concise format. In this lesson, learners use a six-paneled comic strip frame to create a story map, summarizing a book or story that they have read. Each panel retells...
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: The Frame Up by Richard Harding Davis
The full text of the short story The Frame Up by Richard Harding Davis. Register for a free account to unlock annotation tools, printing, and more.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: A Group of Noble Dames by Thomas Hardy
This is the full text of the book A Group of Noble Dames by Thomas Hardy, a collection of short stories. The stories are contained by a frame narrative in which ten members of a club each tell one story about a noble dame in the 17th or...
Austin Independent School District
Austin Independent School District: Character Frame [Pdf]
A graphic organizer designed to help students understand characterization by visualizing a character and describing that character's actions and feelings throughout a story.
Other
Reading Quest: Strategies for Reading Comp.: History Frames: Story Maps
This activity will help you teach students chronological order as well as identifying key people and events. Printable worksheets.
Other
Japan Society: Framing Twentieth Century Japan: A Top Ten List
An essay, by university professor William Tsutsui, itemizes ten themes that can help make the story of modern-day Japan understandable. Themes touch on a range of issues, including the changing role of women, technological advances, and...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Using Snowflake Bentley as a Framing Text for Multigenre Writing
Using Snowflake Bentley as a model, students create a working definition of multigenre text and then use that definition to create their own multigenre piece about winter or another theme.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Chaucer: Background: The Canterbury Tales
This page provides the background for Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, a series of 22 short stories from 29 pilgrims traveling from Canterbury to Kent. It begins with a prologue that sets up the frame story and introduces the characters....
NASA
Dawn Mission: Education: Structure and Properties of Matter: Ion Propulsion
Student groups explore propulsion technology necessary for the Dawn project to complete its mission. Learning module components include story mapping, online interactive activity, RAFT writing exercise, and other standards-aligned...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Mice Squeak, We Speak
In this lesson students will write an informative sentence in response to listening to the story; "Mice squeak, We speak". Included in this lesson are examples of student work, videos of oral presentations, and puzzle pieces for new...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Does a Kangaroo Have a Mother Too?
Students will write an informative sentence in response to listening to the story "Does A Kangaroo Have a Mother Too?". Included in this lesson are videos of mother and baby animals, pictures of the lesson in action, and a video of...
International Reading Association
Reading Online: Electronic Classroom: A Web Quest for Because of Winn Dixie
This site includes an excellent WebQuest related to Kate DiCamillo's book, Because of Winn-Dixie. Vocabulary exercises, story frames, story pyramids, social studies, and science links are part of this WebQuest for students. As this is an...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Some Animals Don't Do That!
In this lesson plan, Dogs Don't Wear Sneakers by Laura Numeroff, is used as a mentor text for to highlight the trait of idea development. The content focus of the lesson plan is to highlight what topics cannot do. Students generate a...
Shmoop University
Shmoop: The Canterbury Tales: General Prologue and Frame Story
Read background information on The Canterbury Tales: General Prologue and Frame Story in this informative site that includes a look at the characters.
Other
Reading Quest: Making Sense of Social Studies
Teaching students to read well in areas other than language arts requires teaching and reinforcing the kinds of reading strategies taught here. There are 27 strategies, ranging from brainstorming to word mapping. The site includes PDF...
ABCya
Ab Cya: Animation for Kids: Animate Star
Create an animated story with AnimateStar. Students will love producing from two to forty frames, saving them, and sharing them.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: A Left Brained Writing Prompt: A Day as Your Shoes
It's fun to personify articles of clothing as a means of inspiring creative writing from your students, and this mini-workshop has students a) personify their shoes on a page in their writer's notebook, b) share their story ideas out...