ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: History Comes Alive: Developing Fluency and Comprehension
Let the power of imagination and inference serve as a "time machine" to bring Benjamin Franklin into the classroom! History and science come to life in a dialogue with Franklin the inventor, developed through instructional activity...
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Charmides by Plato
This is the full text of dialogue Charmides by Plato including two prefaces and an introduction. In this dialogue, the beautiful youth, Charmides, who is also the most temperate of human beings, is asked by Socrates, 'What is Temperance?'
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Character Clash: A Mini Lesson on Paragraphing and Dialogue
Contains plans for a minilesson that teaches about proper dialogue format while writing, specifically paragraphing. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as well as...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Talking About Books to Improve Comprehension
This lesson is a conversation-starter! In this lesson, students learn about striking up deep-thought conversations and staying on topic in the form of a book talk.
E Reading Worksheets
E Reading Worksheets: Characterization Lesson
This learning module incorporates materials to support the instruction of characterization approaches that are used by authors. A PowerPoint lesson on characterization is available. An additional lesson plan on the topic of...
E Reading Worksheets
E Reading Worksheets: Story Structure Activities
This learning module provides remediation and extra practice with analyzing story structures. Reinforcement for story structures is provided through the two PowerPoint lessons, three quizzes, and four different worksheets.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Divided Quotation Punctuation
An eight-slide presentation explaining how to properly punctuate a divided quote.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Divided Quotation Punctuation
Notes demonstrating how to correctly write and punctuate a divided quotation. Notes can be read and/or listened to and examples are provided.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Prewriting: Dialogue
A six-slide presentation introducing how to have a dialogue in order to brainstorm ideas during the prewriting stage of the writing process.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Inventing a New Word
Inspired by the main character's actions in Frindle by Andrew Clements, students will be asked to reinvent an everyday object with a brand new word. They will need to imagine a character has reinvented their word, and then they will...
Other
Storytelling in the Classroom
There are several steps to becoming a storyteller. Find out what they are and be on your way to becoming a storyteller here! Learn how to find good stories to tell, and how to tell them to an audience effectively.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Characters and Staging in Drama
Learn how playwrights characterize their protagonists and antagonists through the dialogue and staging of their plays.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Writing Engaging Stories With Literary Strategies to Enhance Plot
Use various literary strategies and devices, including dialogue and suspense, to enhance the plot in a short story.
Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center
Wisconsin Rt I Center: Character Map [Pdf]
Teachers will learn about importance of character maps. Teachers will learn how to implement character maps; measure progress with character maps; and find research to support the use of character maps. Several reproducible character...
Other
Writing world.com: Writing Dialogue for Children
A good site for teachers and writers looking to write for children, or teach children how to write dialogue. Includes tips and guidelines.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: W.3.3.b: Use Dialogue and Descriptions of Actions
Links to 2 lessons and activities that build student skills in standard W.3.3.b: Write Narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.
Education.com
Education.com: W.3.3 B Worksheets: Use Dialogue and Descriptions
[Free Registration/Login Required] A site with links to 30 worksheets that can be downloaded and printed for student use while building skills with standard W.3.3B: Write Narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using...
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Using Tableau to Explore Physical & Chemical Changes [Pdf]
In this lesson, 5th graders explore how to use tableaux to dramatize physical and chemical changes, and add dialogue to the tableaux to support their argument of whether the change is physical or chemical.
Starfall
Starfall: Guess, Guess
This interactive is a little ebook play with dialogue between Boy and Girl. Click on Words to complete an activity.
Starfall
Starfall: Dog and Cat
This interactive is a little ebook play with dialogue between Dog and Cat. Click on Words to complete an activity.
Starfall
Starfall: Cookies
This interactive is a little ebook play with dialogue among Mother, Girl, and Boy. Click on Words to complete an activity.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Using Commas and Quotations
Quotations and commas are two very useful punctuation tools that indicate dialogue and brief pausing in sentences. Learn how to use them correctly! [0:46]
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts: Grade 3: Because of Winn Dixie
Third graders learn about the value of companionship, the joy of finding friends in unexpected places, and the significance of building a community of different perspectives. They explore how authors develop the reader's understanding of...
Ted Nellen
Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Literary Terms a E
The first of three pages of simple definitions for literary terms. This page, A - E, covers forty-four terms from "Allegory" to "Exposition."