[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will learn how to write an essay that has only one purpose: to tell a story about you. It's called a personal narrative, personal because it is all about...

Excellent resource for empowering students to become better learners. This lesson includes acquainting students with the narrative writing process, emphasizing the importance of writing, encouraging students to use imagination,...

This WordGirl lesson plan helps students use new vocabulary and work in small groups to tell a story based on visual clues.

Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson exposes students to graphs using logarithmic scales. Although the graphs are at first non-intuitive, students should quickly "get used" to the scale. The lesson leads to a good...

This lesson focuses on the short story "Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin which takes place in Louisiana during one hour at the turn of the 19th century. Chopin uses local color and various forms of irony to tell the story. The text is...

Chapter by chapter lessons and answer key to use with the nonfiction award winning book, Lincoln: A Photobiography, which tells the story of Lincoln's life through pictures and words.

View the media-rich work of teams of student journalists assigned to produce high-interest feature stories using pictures, audio, and words. Learn how to tell a story well by thinking critically about the different choices made by each...

How can using your five senses help you tell a better story? Young writers brainstorm three sensory details about a personal topic before writing a story about it. If they need help with ideas, they can click the magic button for story...

In this lesson, young scholars will watch a video clip with a Native American storyteller telling a traditional story. Students will use supporting evidence from the story to give meaning to oral and written texts.

In this interactive lesson, students learn the basics of how stories are structured, gain vocabulary about storytelling elements, and explore how the arts, specifically drawing, can be a valuable way for students to tell stories.By the...

Teaches basic computer science concepts using the programming language Scratch. In this activity, students learn how to create animated waves in an ocean setting and then compose a high seas story.

Find a matched set of activities--each with a slightly different disciplinary emphasis--that takes participants through a close examination of the work of contemporary California artists Joan Brown and Jay DeFeo. Their work often...

This is a matching game in which parts of a book are matched with their definitions. Java is required.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Use this flipchart with the Harcourt Series 3rd grade Basal. It incorporates spelling and vocabulary as well as story mapping.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This story tells the story that teaches a lesson about trust. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding for...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This fiction piece tells the story of a little girl who draws a map of the school for her little brother. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This realistic fiction passage tells the story of a family taking cover after learning that a tornado is nearby. This passage shares basic facts about tornadoes. This passage is a stand-alone curricular...

A short biography of Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953 CE). Click to the past radio shows to hear his music and learn more about this famous composer.

Experience the image collections of the Delaware Art Museum through storytelling. Read and/or listen to stories that others have told about artwork in the museum. Use interactive media to tell or picture a story. Includes lesson plans...

Great exercise for practicing the preterite and imperfect tenses. Choose the correct form of a verb to complete sentences that tell the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. Immediate feedback corrects the answer and gives the reason...

Great exercise for practicing the preterite and imperfect tenses. Choose the correct form of a verb to complete sentences that tell the story of Superman. Immediate feedback corrects the answer and gives the reason for its application in...

[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, students will learn how to find the tone in a passage using a close reading strategy. They will also look at diction and discover that examining a writer's...

Are you interested in games? Have you innovative ideas? Use your imagination to create a story-based board game with inspiration from two early computer game designers.

Explore Inuit legends through a variety of drawings and sculptures. At this site, you can look at photographs and click "Legends" to read the story represented by a specific piece of art.