AdLit
Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Story Maps
Story Maps are used for teaching students to work with story structure for better comprehension. This technique uses visual representations to help students organize important elements of a story. Students learn to summarize the main...
Ted Nellen
Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Literary Terms F R
The second of three pages of simple definitions for literary terms. This page, F - R, covers forty-seven terms from "Fable," to "Romance."
Ted Nellen
Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Deus Ex Machina
This is a glossary entry for the term Deus ex Machina which literally means "god out of a machine." It is a negative reference to an author who uses a supernatural being like an angel to resolve a plot.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: A Word Game for Kids: The Colored Wheels Game
What kind of interesting things could happen to a vehicle that's an unusual color? In this student-created lesson, young writers click the color and the wheel button until they find a colored vehicle they want to write about. Then they...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: A Word Game for Kids: The Colored Animal Game for Kids
How did this zebra turn green? Do the other zebras like him still? Young writers click on the animal button and the color button until they find a combination they want to write about. Then they write a story about the animal including...
Curated OER
Mac Millan: Story Elements: Grade 6
This learning module focuses on analyzing story elements including the order of events, character, conflict, resolution, and plot. It provides a model story with questions and answers and then a practice story with questions.
Other
Basic Literary Terms: The Novel and Short Story
This site has definitions of many parts of short stores including crisis, novel, short story, plot, exposition, theme, etc.
Other
Anthologies online.com: Understanding Theme and Premise
AnthologiesOnline.com provides this article Understanding Theme and Premise by Susan J. Letham, which provides tips on how to develop ideas for writing.
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: Compare/contrast Character, Plot, and Setting Test
This interactive activity assesses students' understanding of the story elements. Students will read passages that include a short story and a brief drama; then students will answer assorted questions associated to each piece.
Quia
Quia: Story Elements
This interactive game of "Rags to Riches" assesses students' knowledge of story elements. Students will identify the definitions of the story elements and the applications of story elements in stories.
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: Elements of Plot Matching
Play a matching game by joining each plot element with its definition.
Quia
Quia: Short Story Elements: Definitions
Play a matching game by joining each plot element with its definition or example.
Quia
Quia: The Elements of Plot
Complete each definition by typing the plot element into the correct box in this ten-question quiz.
Quia
Quia: Story Elements Practice
Join each story element with its definition in this online matching game.
Quia
Quia: Concentration
Join each story element with its definition in this online memory match game.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Elements of Literature: The Short Story [Pdf]
A short group of exercises for students concerning the elements of a short story. Allows students to examine the major story elements, then apply those elements to a given piece of literature.
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Story Maps
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides six story-map graphic organizers.
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Graphic Organizers for Teaching Literature & Reading
This resource provides a collection of free downloadable graphic organizers. These graphic organizers address the following categories: character webs, responding to literature, reading analysis, story maps, cognitive bookmarks, and...
Teachnology
Teachnology: Lesson Plan: Twenty Questions
In this lesson plan each student will have a turn in the "hot seat" where they answer class questions about a book they are reading including questions about the characters, setting, and plot.
