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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.
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.
SMART Technologies
Smart: Developing Characters and Settings
In this activity provided by SMART, students will give reasons why they feel characters are important in a story. Students will explore how to create effective characters and settings in their own writing by using a character web.
Teachnology
Teachnology: Lesson Plan: Twenty Questions
In this activity 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.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Characters and Setting
This lesson introduces the connection between characters and setting in fiction writing.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Background vs. Integral Setting
This lesson compares background (settings that do not affect the story) and integral settings (the story depends on the setting to make sense).
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Setting
This slideshow lesson defines and discusses setting in fiction writing.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Setting and Theme
This slideshow lesson defines setting and theme, explains the relationship between them and offers strategies to find the theme in fiction writing.
Fun Trivia
Fun Trivia: Short Story Elements Trivia Quiz
This site shares a short story elements trivia game. Examples of short story elements are applied to high school classic literature.
TES Global
Blendspace: Interpreting Literature Terms
A fourteen-part learning module on literary terms including links to text, videos, word lists and images on literary terms such as plot, setting, character, point of view, style, theme, and more.
Other
Bruce Hale: How to Write a Story
Author/illustrator Hale shows you how to put together a story by creating all the story's parts.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Story Elements
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart reviews the five main elements of a fiction story using the example of Goldilocks and the Three Bears.
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.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Plot
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is a review of the conflict, foreshadowing, and setting you will find in a plot.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Annie and the Wild Animals Project
[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson contains pre- and post-reading activities for Jan Brett's Annie and the Wild Animals. Students identify setting and animal characters from the story and learn about Scandinavia (where the...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Dragon in the Rocks
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is used as students read the story Dragon in the Rocks from the Scholastic Literacy Place series. There is a lesson on closed syllables, context clues, and identifying plot and setting.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Literary Elements
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart allows students to be actively engaged in identifying and describing story elements. It uses the Learning Focus lesson plan format, such as an activator, graphic organizers, modeling,...
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.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Setting and Conflict
This lesson explains the relationship between setting and conflict in fiction writing.
Other
Prezi: How Does the Time Period of the Setting Affect the Plot?
Learn how setting affects character and how time period affects plot.
Other
Prezi: Setting in Literature and How It Affects Characters and Events
A slideshow describing the elements of plot as well as the importance of dialogue as it interacts with different plot elements.
Shmoop University
Shmoop: Animal Farm Analysis: Literary Devices in Animal Farm
This site provides a literary analysis of Animal Farm by George Orwell using the literary devices in the novel including symbolism, imagery, allegory, setting, point of view, genre, tone, writing style, plot analysis and more.
Quizlet
Quizlet: Story Elements Quiz 6th Grade Honors: Learn
This interactive lesson engages students in learning story element definitions. Students will type the correct story element after reading its definition.
Quizlet
Quizlet: Story Elements Quiz: 6th Grade Honors: Flashcards
These interactive flashcards provide definitions for different story elements.