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Story Map

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this story map learning exercise, students read a story and find the different story elements. They fill in the setting, characters, conflict, and climax. 
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Story Time

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders watch soap operas online.  In this English lesson, 9th graders explore the story elements of the soap opera.  Students write a journal on their own interpretations of characters. 
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Outline of a Legend/Folk Tale

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students create outlines of folk tales and legends. They read a folk tale or legend in the target language. They complete an outline of the key events of the story including the main characters, plot, story elements and theme or moral.
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Identifying the Problem and the Solution in a Story

For Teachers K Standards
Story elements: the problem and the solution. Help your youngsters identify these elements by reading Bringing Down the Moon, by Jonathan Emmett. After a class discussion and chart creation discussing problems and solutions from past...
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"Esio Trot" by Roald Dahl

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students read Roald Dahl's Esio Trot and complete vocabulary and reading activities. In this reading and vocabulary lesson plan, students review vocabulary for the activity and listen to the story. Students discuss the story elements and...
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"Thank You Ma'am" by Langston Hughes

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students use Langston Hughes' "Thank You Ma'am" as a reading and vocabulary improvement activity. In this reading and vocabulary lesson, students review the related vocabulary and read the poem. Students discuss the story elements in the...
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"The Fog Horn" by Ray Bradbury

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Students read Ray Bradbury's "The Fog Horn" and complete reading and vocabulary activities. In this reading and vocabulary lesson plan, students review the vocabulary for the story and take turns reading the story. Students discuss the...
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The Little Prince (Chapters 1-4) by Antoine de Saint-Exupery

For Teachers 12th - Higher Ed
Students read Antoine de Saint-Exupery's The Little Prince and complete reading and vocabulary activities. In this reading and vocabulary lesson plan, students review vocabulary for the story and identify story elements for the text.
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Break the Pentomino Code!

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students read and analyze the book, Chasing Vermeer. They discuss the main story elements, analyze how pentominoes are important to the story, use a pentomino code to decipher a message, and create a secret code of their own.
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Literature: Rikki-Tikki-Tavi Character Analysis

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders read the story "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" and analyze one of its characters. After completing a story element worksheet, they identify their favorite character. In several sentences students give reasons for their choices with...
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Literature: Plot Patterns

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students read and analyze "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" for plot patterns. In a plot summary pyramid, they organize the story elements in sequential order. To illustrate plot summary techniques, students cite examples from...
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My Book Report

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
In this literacy/writing worksheet, students compose a book report. Students identify the following literary elements: main characters, setting, beginning, problem and solution. Students then compose paragraphs for each of these story...
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Then What Happened?

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students complete activities about the story "Diary of a Worm", by Doreen Cronin. In this reading comprehension lesson, students make predictions and apply prior knowledge about the topic of the story. They actively listen as the book is...
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Little Red Hen

For Teachers K - 3rd Standards
Pupils listen to a teacher reading of The Little Red Hen, identify the story elements and sequence them. They talk about different jobs associated with providing food and act out a play based on the story. Be aware that although several...
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INTERNET ASSIGNMENT: THE DAY DIZZY DUCKLING GOT LOST

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this reading / writing learning exercise, students use the Internet to read a story about ducks. They then summarize what they have read under each related illustration. Seven story elements are provided, along with one summarizing...
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Muggie Maggie

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Young scholars practice story telling by placing story elements in order to make sense to a reader.  In this reading comprehension lesson, students practice using vocabulary words from the story Muggie Maggie, as well as reviewing...
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Describing Our Senator

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders find the narrator or speaker in a story. In this story elements instructional activity, 3rd graders listen to the story My Senator and Me and answer comprehension questions. They complete a descriptive writing piece from...
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Cause and Effect with "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs"

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore reasoning by reading a book with their classmates. In this cause and effect lesson, 4th graders read the children's story Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs and discuss the story elements, characters and plot....
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Henry and Mudge and the Long Weekend by Cynthia Ryant

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students practice reading skills by reading a story and answering questions over that story. In this Henry and Mudge and the Long Weekend comprehension lesson plan, students answer questions about story elements, vocabulary, and...
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Robin Hood: England's Man of Mystery

For Teachers 5th
Students study the tale of Robin Hood to further their knowledge of character traits, improve their vocabularies, and increase their knowledge of the Medieval Ages. In this Robin Hood lesson, students complete 14 lessons that help them...
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Adapting a Fairy Tale

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students read and prepare a new oral version of a selected fairy tale. They read and compare/contrast two fairy tales and identify the main story elements. In small groups they create a new oral version of one they fairy tales and...
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Jacob the Great

For Students 5th - 8th
For this reading comprehension worksheet, students read a 1 page passage titled Jacob the Great and complete comprehension, inferential, and story element questions about it. Students complete 22 multiple choice questions.
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Wushu Were Here

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Young scholars create a fan-shaped story screen that explains 4 major points surrounding various facts, myths, expressions, or story elements in Chinese history, culture and/or literature.
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When Turtle Grew Feathers

For Teachers Pre-K
Students discuss being a friend and sing songs about friendship.  In this friendship instructional activity, students listen to When Turtle Grew Feathers.  Students  answer questions about the friends in the story. Students discuss the...

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