PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Arthur: Collection
This collection foster students' interest in reading and writing, and encourage positive social skills with this collection of classroom resources from ARTHUR. Aimed at children between the ages of four and eight, these resources feature...
Scholastic
Scholastic: Teaching Tools: 6 Steps to Helping Students Set Strong Reading Goals
This site offers six steps to helping students set strong reading goals. It all starts with inspiring your students to think about who they are as readers.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Guide for Determining Text Complexity
An educator's guide to help determine the level of text complexity.
Starfall
Starfall: The Four Friends
This is an interactive ebook of the folk tale "The Four Friends". Children can choose to read the book independently or click on the ear to have sentences read to them.
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: The Color Monster [Pdf]
Explore how our emotions color our lives and add depth to our stories.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: A Word Game for Kids: The Setting Game for Kids
In this game, young writers are asked to describe a place with memorable details. The main focus is to describe a setting -- time and place. If they need help with ideas, they can click the when and where buttons until they have...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: A Word Game for Kids: The Opposite Game for Kids
In this word game, young writers explore antonyms (and prepositions), then create an original story about them. For ideas they can click the nouns and opposites buttons until they find a topic they want to write about.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Color Game
Click the buttons to get a unique starter for a descriptive piece of writing. You can make up a story, a poem, anything you like.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: A Word Game for Kids: The Idea Game for Kids
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...
Curated OER
Mc Graw Hill: Setting
Resource helps with understanding the setting of a story through the use of details.
FableVision
Fable Vision: Peter Reynolds: The North Star: Writing Activity
Be inspired to write your own simple story or poem by choosing a picture from this collection of child-centered illustrations.
TES Global
Blendspace: Sensory Details
A five-part learning module with links to images and videos about sensory details and using sensory language.
Other
Kid Lit: Stories by Kids
KidLit Kids offers a service for students to achieve fame instantly. E-mail your own story and check out the published submissions by other students.
Other
Prezi: Beginning, Middle, and End
Based on the story, Harry the Dirty Dog, this slideshow introduces the different elements of the beginning, middle, and end of a story.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Picture Prompts and Story Starters
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart contains a collection of 55 picture prompts and story starters. Also includes other writing aids, including a rubric, graphic organizers, the writing process, etc. Questions provided by...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Retelling the Story
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart helps to teach students how to retell main events from a story and sequence events.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Story Fairytale
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students learn the elements of a story through fairytales. These include character, setting, plot, and secret ingredient. Includes an Activote session.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Interactives: Elements of a Story: Characters
The interactive story lesson engages students in the study of "characters" and terms associated with them. Using the story of Cinderella as an anchor story, students will identify the following: hero, villain, protagonist, antagonist,...
Can Teach
Can Teach: Word by Word a Story Game
For grades 1 to 3, this game has students write a story by focusing on the word choice.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Setting
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart introduces setting to students using picture clues first and then using only contextual clues. Activotes are also used to check for understanding.
Literacy Head
Literacyhead: Images to Give Writers Ideas: School
A collection of images of school to use as writing prompts. Students can make text-to-self connections, write creative stories, or just write about how the students in the images might feel.
Quia
Quia: Parts of a Book
This is a matching game in which parts of a book are matched with their definitions. Java is required.
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.
Other
Cyberwriter: Narrative Writing
Cyberwriter gives narrative writing activities leveled for K-3rd grades and 4th-8th grades. A brief explanation about narrative writing is also on this page. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.3