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.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Science Now! Agony of Defeat
A video clip asks students to explain how forces and motion affect the skier in the film. This is one in a series of creative writing prompts. [0:32]
Ted Nellen
Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Setting
This is a glossary entry for the term "Setting," the time and place a story takes place.
SMART Technologies
Smart: Reviewing Sequence of Events
Students will identify time-order words in order to comprehend passages, place events in sequential order on a time line, and use a flow chart to organize their thoughts for writing in this interactive SMART whiteboard activity.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Left Brained Writing Prompt: Mini Worshop: People to Write About
In this mini-workshop, students are provided step-by-step instructions for writing about important people in their lives that they have not yet written about. Click the instructions button when you are ready to begin.
E Reading Worksheets
Ereading Worksheet: Author's Purpose
A ten-question interactive reading exercise over the author's purpose. An embed code is available for class websites.
Joe Landsberger
Study Guides Strategies: Reading Fiction: Narrator and Character Types
A clear explanation of the various types of narrators in fiction, as well as some questions a reader can ask to determine narrator type and make other analyses about a piece of literature.
ProProfs
Pro Profs: Main Idea Benchmark
This is a four-question multiple choice quiz over the main idea; students read nonfiction passages and select the main idea. Links to related quizzes on the same topic are provided.
Quia
Quia: Short Story Elements: Definitions
Students can choose from three different activities while practicing story elements. Flashcards give students a chance to learn the elements and their definitions. A matching game gives students an opportunity to test their new learning,...
Quia
Quia: Metaphor Quiz
Read five short paragraphs and choose the main idea of each. Check the answers when finished to see how many were right.
Quia
Quia: Character Traits/descriptions
This reading resource provides vocabulary words with definitions. All words are related to character development and character traits. A link to associated review activities is included.
Quia
Quia: Short Story Elements: Definitions
Play a memory match game by uncovering each story element along with its definition.
Quia
Quia: Elements of Plot Flashcards
Ten flashcards with plot element vocabulary words and their definitions.
Quia
Quia: Short Story Elements: Definitions
Twenty-two flashcards with plot elements and their definitions.
Quia
Quia: Short Story Elements: Definitions
Play a matching game by joining each plot element with its definition or example.
Quia
Quia: Compare and Contrast
Answer questions comparing and contrasting two short texts in this five-question quiz.
Other
Katie Kazoo: The Five Essential Elements of a Story [Pdf]
Learn the five essential elements of a story.
Austin Independent School District
Austin Independent School District: Character Frame [Pdf]
A graphic organizer designed to help students understand characterization by visualizing a character and describing that character's actions and feelings throughout a story.
Quia
Quia: Story Elements Practice
This series of flashcards from Quia helps students perform a quick check of their understanding of student elements, such as setting and conflict.
Quia
Quia: Point of View Quiz
This interactive activity assesses students' understanding of point of view. Students will read five brief narrative passages; after reading each passage, students will identify the point of view.
Teachnology
Teachnology: Lesson Plan: Point of View
In this lesson, students compare/contrast two versions of "The Three Little Pigs" including the traditional from the pigs' point of view and "The True Story of the Three Little Pigs" by Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith version as told from...
TES Global
Blendspace: Ela: Character Traits
Four video clips followed by questions to help students learn to identify character traits in literary texts.
TES Global
Blendspace: Ri/rl 5.6 Point of View
Work through twenty-two links to pictures, charts, and videos to learn more about point of view in both informational and literary texts.