Curated OER
Creating Literary Texts - Finding Homes for Pets
Students explore animal adoption and create a picture book. In this creative book lesson plan, students discuss their personal experiences with animal adoption and watch a video segment about the topic. Students view example sample...
Curated OER
Writing Original Literary Texts - The World of Volcanoes
Students watch a video about an active volcano and use similes and metaphors to write an original poem. For this poetry and volcano lesson, students define similes and metaphors and brainstorm examples. Students watch a video about lava...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway:analyze the Development of Plot Through Characters
This learning module will take the user through examples and applications of how to indentify plot through characters in fictional texts.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway:analyze (Describe) Point of View in Literary Texts/fiction
In this learning module, students will learn to analyze fiction told from the first-person, third-person limited, and third-person omniscient points of view.
PBS
Pbs: American Masters: Lesson 2: Truman Capote: Other Voices, Other Rooms
This lesson plan is based on the PBS episode of American Masters about Truman Capote. Young scholars will read and analyze how Truman Capote develops characters as they record their findings on worksheets included with this lesson. Then...