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Tell Me A Foreign Language Story

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students practice retelling a simple story representative of the country where the target language is spoken: French, German, or Spanish. Given a worksheet with story details, students fill in missing details and rearrange details to...
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Telling The Truth

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students explore the importance of telling the truth. They read a story about honesty and sing a song. Students volunteer to sit in a speak easy chair and share their happiest moments, times when they were glad to tell the truth, and...
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Team Stories

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students work together to write stories. Each one uses creative thinking skills to compose the beginning, middle, or end of a story. The writing skills help the brain to begin to think in new ways to develop the artistic parts of thinking.
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The World of Cinderella Stories

For Teachers 1st
First graders listen to traditional and nontraditional Cinderella stories and watch a video entitled "Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters." Individually, children draw and illustrate the stories they have heard, create a story sequence, and...
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Adventure Stories

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Young scholars write an adventure story that contains a title, as many sentences as possible, and a conclusion. On the peer and teacher assessment sheets, the number of sentences required are left blank so that the teacher may determine...
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Comprehension Skills: Picture, Question and Summarize Using Fiction Stories

For Teachers K
Students build a variety of comprehension skills through the nine lessons of this unit. Picturing events, monitoring understanding during reading, forming questions, and summarizing stories form the core of the lessons being taught...
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Bookmark Strategy: Building Comprehension and Keeping Track of Stories

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners explore the concept of comprehension.  In this comprehension lesson, students use a bookmark to mark a place in a story they want to "stop and think" about what they are reading.  Learners practice this skill with a...
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Ancient Story Problems

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Pupils research ancient civilizations, and develop story problems using symbols and coins from those times. They retell these story problems using modern terms and coins.
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Story Books

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students discuss a narrative work of art, then write stories describing the action and publish their stories and illustrations in books.
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Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters - Mapping the Story

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students listen to John Steptoe's story, "Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters" and create a story map.
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Understanding Stories

For Teachers K
Students engage in a lesson that is about the increase of reading comprehension. They read the book "The Mitten" by Jan Brett and then list the main characters of the story. They discuss some of the main ideas in the story like having...
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Stories from the Thousand and One Nights

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students hold a Thousand and One Nights storytelling festival with each one memorizing a story to relate to classmates. While examining provided resource links, they select and practice a story they would like to retell. As a dress...
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Strange Stories

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students complete activities about new words. In this new words instructional activity, students complete activities to teach vocabulary and practice new words. Students read a story and add in the new words.
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Story Time

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders watch soap operas online.  In this English instructional activity, 9th graders explore the story elements of the soap opera.  Students write a journal on their own interpretations of characters. 
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Creating a Story Quilt

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students create a quilt to represent an important event in their life. In this visual arts lesson plan, students research Faith Finggold and her quilts. Students use art supplies to create their own quilt and share the symbolic meaning...
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Story Bears

For Teachers 1st
First graders study different teddy bears featured in stories. For this lesson on popular story characters, 1st graders are provided information on the authors who wrote famous stories with bears as the main character. Students create a...
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Self Esteem: The IALAC Story

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students explore the concept of self-esteem and listen to a story.  In this IALAC (I am lovable and capable) story lesson, students examine the impact that certain life events have on a person's developing self-esteem....
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I Have a Story to Tell

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students use research information to create a story reflective of an individual of the Great Depression. Students use the RAFT (role, audience, format, topic) learning strategy to identify their role as the author, their audience, the...
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Christianity-Lent: The Story of Jesus in the Desert

For Students 5th - 7th
In this Christianity instructional activity, learners experience Jesus' trial in the desert by placing the 14 words provided in the word bank into the 5 paragraph story included on the instructional activity.
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Opera- The Story of Carmen

For Students 10th
In this opera worksheet, 10th graders read a synopsis of the story of the opera, "Carmen." They answer 7 questions bases on their comprehension of the story.
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Researching Some Loyalist Stories

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students use electronic media to research Loyalist stories from Canada. They use the research to create a brochure, slide show, or electronic newsletter.
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My Pretend Friend

For Students K - 2nd
For this writing worksheet, learners read a story starter which asks them to tell about a real or pretend friend. Learners write the story and illustrate it.
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Complete the Story

For Students 1st - 3rd
For this story worksheet, students fill in the blanks to a story about going to bed with words from a word bank. Students fill in 14 blanks total.
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The Japanese Kite Stories

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders recognize the importance of making and flying of kites in the Japanese culture. They make up a story about themselves, their families, or just a story that was written by a third grade Japanese student when creating their...

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