Unit Plan
TES Global

Tes: Hatchet Timeline, Story Grammar, and Conflict Resolution

For Students 5th - 9th
[Free Registration/Login Required] TES provides a downloadable resource for Gary Paulsen's novel, Hatchet. Graphic organizers are provided to help students analyze the characters, conflicts, and, and grammar connected to Hatchet.
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TES Global

Blendspace: Literary Elements

For Students 3rd - 7th Standards
A six-part learning module with links to videos and graphic organizers on plot and plot elements.
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
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...
Graphic
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Narrative Pyramid

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
A printable narrative pyramid where students can record information about a story including the character, setting, problem, main events, and solution. Directions on how to use this type of graphic organize as well as lists of teaching...
Graphic
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: I Can Analyze a Story or History [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This graphic organizer can be used to help students analyze a story or a historical event. Students will look closely at the story's characters or people involved in the historical event. Then they will summarize the story or event, and...
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Literary Elements

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart allows students to be actively engaged in identifying and describing story elements. It uses the Learning Focus lesson plan format, such as an activator, graphic organizers, modeling,...
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PBS

Pbs: Mathline Creature Feature Lesson Plan [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
An interdisciplinary math, science, and language arts lesson plan that engages students in an exploration of statistics. Through a study of various forest climates, students utilize data collection and analysis, classification, and...
Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: F Bf 1,000 Is Half of 2,000

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This task is about an online mathematics organization that is trying, over a four-year period, to generate 2,000 math problems that cover all grades. This real-life modeling task could serve as a summative exercise that draws on many...