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Quia

Quia: Concentration

For Students 6th Standards
Join each story element with its definition in this online memory match game.
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Quizlet

Quizlet: Plot Terms: 7th Grade Level Match

For Students 5th - 7th Standards
Race against the clock to match each story element with its definition. Terms include: plot, introduction, conflict, rising action, climax, falling action, conclusion/resolution, sub-plot, parallel episode, flashback, and foreshadowing.
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Professional Doc
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Target 2% Lessons to Support Comprehension for Grades K Through 5

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Follow links to comprehension lessons for Grades K-2 in both English and Spanish that focus on plot and story elements. Additional links are available in English and Spanish for Grades 3-5 Comprehension lessons on various genres and...
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Interactive
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Elements of a Story Interactive

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Explore different ingredients, or elements, that go into stories and make them so much fun. Read the story, "Cinderella," and look at all the different pieces of the tale to see how they all fit together.
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Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Realism:"an Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" Ambrose Bierce

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on the short story "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" by Ambrose Bierce. It discusses the use of literary techniques such as stream of consciousness, forshadowing, flashback and flash-forward, and offers a PDF of...
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eBook
Other

America Dept. Of State: Outline of American Literature [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This online book presents an overview of American literature chronologically. Eras and movements are explained and biographies of significant authors are provided. This is a good way to understand the background and influences of...
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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Going Beyond "And They All Lived Happily Ever After."

For Teachers 2nd - 8th Standards
After listening to the first 12 pages of the book Once Upon a Cool Motorcycle Dude by Kevin O'Malley, students will discuss story elements leading them to develop their own solution to the story's problem. Students will then generate...
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Lesson Plan
Read Works

Read Works: Grade 2: Two Lesson Unit: Theme

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A set of two lesson plans designed to teach students to use story elements to identify theme and to match a given theme to a story. Lessons are based on the book Aesop's Fables by Jerry Pinkney....
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Everyone Loves a Mystery a Genre Study

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Contains plans for lessons that teach about the mystery story genre, including its story elements and vocabulary. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as well as...
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Unit Plan
Scholastic

Scholastic: Book Files: Out of the Dust

For Students 9th - 10th
"Out of the Dust", a Newbery Award Winning, poetic book by Karen Hesse. The heroine, Billie Joe, faces issues of forgiveness and healing during the Dust Bowl. The story is set in Oklahoma, during the Great Depression. Make a smart choice...
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Book Files: Where the Red Fern Grows

For Students 9th - 10th
Make a smart choice by reading your favorite novel with a BookFiles reading guide. The file provides in-depth information on the author. There are questions to guide the reading of each chapter. Story elements are highlighted, as well...
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Unit Plan
Scholastic

Scholastic: Book Files: Julie of the Wolves [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
"Julie of the Wolves", by Jean Craighead George, is story of cultural pride, survival, and courage. The heroine, Miyax is lost in the Alaskan tundra. Make the smart choice by reading the novel with a BookFiles reading guide. The file...
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: It's Your Birthday, Dr. Seuss!

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This lesson plan is intended to be used during the month of March when the class is preparing to celebrate Dr. Seuss Day. After listening to and reading different stories by Dr. Seuss, the students have opportunities to compare and...
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Unit Plan
Scholastic

Scholastic: Book Files: Sounder

For Students 9th - 10th
Newbery Award Winner, "Sounder", by William H. Armstrong, is about a sharecropping family and their hunting dog, Sounder. Overarching themes of this novel are courage, family, racial injustice, the importance of education, and hope. Make...
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Unit Plan
Scholastic

Scholastic: Book Files: My Side of the Mountain

For Students 9th - 10th
"My Side of the Mountain", is a Newbery Honor, by Jean Craighead George. This book is about Sam Gribley's adventure in the Catskill Mountains. The novel's themes are nature, independence, survival, and adventure. Make the smart choice by...
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Unit Plan
Scholastic

Scholastic: Book Files: The Giver

For Students 9th - 10th
Lois Lowry's, "The Giver", is an Newbery Award novel. Themes of "The Giver" are diversity, freedom, connections, choice, individuality, honesty, and family. Make the smart choice by reading the novel with a BookFiles reading guide. The...
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Unit Plan
Scholastic

Scholastic: Book Files: Sarah, Plain and Tall

For Students 3rd - 8th
Patricia MacLachlan's "Sarah, Plain and Tall" takes place on a prairie during the late 1800s. Sarah arrives to live with a family and brings them new life. Make a smart choice by reading your favorite novel with a BookFiles reading...
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Book Files: Holes

For Students 3rd - 8th
"Holes" by Louis Sachar, is a Newbery winner. Trouble seems to follow Stanley Yelnats and his family. Can Stanley "fulfill" the void/hole that exist? Make the smart choice by enjoying the novel with a BookFiles reading guide. The file...
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Book Files: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

For Students 9th - 10th
"Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry", by Mildred D. Taylor is a riveting, Newbery Award winning novel, about a family living in the 1930s Jim Crow South. Make a smart choice by reading your favorite novel with a BookFiles reading guide. The...
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Unit Plan
Scholastic

Scholastic: Book Files: Bridge to Terabithia [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 8th
"Bridge to Terabithia", a Newbery Award winner by Katherine Paterson is a contemporary novel of friendship, accepting differences, giving, imagination, and caring for others. Friends, Jess and Leslie live in rural Virginia community....
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Larger Than Life

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Students will write a tall tale narrative including larger than life characters with unusual skills or abilities using exaggeration, humor, surprise endings, and story elements (setting, characters, conflict, resolution).
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Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Contemporary Literature: The Modern Short Story

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson is an introduction to the modern short story including defining the short story, how the modern short story differs from the classic short story, the elements of a short story, and what is to be expected in this unit.
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Website
PBS

Pbs Teachers: Story Writing With Arthur

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This series of 12 downloadable activities teach students some basics of story writing, using books or videos from the PBS "Arthur" series as a springboard. Activities include creating story maps, asking questions about characters and...
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Comics in the Classroom: Introduction to Narrative Structure

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Contains plans for four lessons that teach students about narrative plot structures by using "The Three Little Pigs" fairy tale or a similar story. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites...

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