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Learning English through Short Stories Unit PlanLearning English through Short Stories Unit Plan
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British Council
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2nd - 8th
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English Language Arts
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28 days
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Learning English through Short Stories

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Use short stories to teach English? Yes! Designed as a professional development opportunity for English language teachers, the ideas in this booklet can easily be adapted to advanced ESL/ELL classes.

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Concepts

elements of a short story

Additional Tags

english language arts

Instructional Ideas

  • Have class members identify the elements in a popular short story written in their first language

Classroom Considerations

  • Although designed as a professional development opportunity for British teachers, many of the materials in the packet can be adapted to most advanced English Language Development classes

Pros

  • The 82-page booklet includes a rationale for using short stories to teach language learners, model lessons, activities, worksheets, and links to related resources and materials

Cons

  • The activities presumes class members have high intermediate, proficient, or advance proficient language skills

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Beginning Short Stories w/ Questions - An Adventure

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Short Story Planning Guide

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Short Story Lesson Plan: "The Californian's Tale"

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Middle schoolers read the short story "The Californian's Tale" by Mark Twain and complete related activities. They discuss vocabulary for the story and complete a vocabulary matching definition activity. They complete  writing...
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Short Story Lesson Plan: “The Californian’s Tale”

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Middle schoolers explore the theme of "The Californian's Tale" by Mark Twain. After reading Twain's short story, they identify and study its literary theme. Additionally, they analyze information and relationships in the piece, and write...
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Writing Short Stories: The Fun Way

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Do your young authors suffer from writer's block when they try to write short stories? Access their natural creativity with C-Gor, the writing monster! The instructional activity takes aspiring authors through a new writing process...
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Genre: Short Story

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Discover the genre of short stories with sixth graders. They discuss the characteristics of short stories from the book America Street. Then, they compare and contrast movies and television shows and chart story characteristics....
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Short Story Elements

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Young scholars engage in a lesson that investigates the elements that are necessary in a short story. Each element is covered separately while they take notes for each part. Then the teacher points out each element while reading a short...
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Lesson Plan

Short Story Commercials

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Students read short story selections, and work with classmates to produce commercials using digital video equipment.
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Write a Short Story

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Students compare two paintings, depicting urban life in America in the 1940's, answering a series of questions, then create a short story about the paintings' characters. They compare 'Nighthawks' and 'Nightlife.'
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