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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Haitian Folktales

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders identify parts of Haitian culture through folktales. They compare and contrast a Haitian folktale with an African American folktale. They read "Bye-Bye" a Haitian folktale. They create and write their own folktale. They...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Making A Step Book or Layer Book

For Teachers K - 5th
Students create a step book for their Math, English or Social Studies class. They pick a topic of their choice and illustrate the pages for their book. They share their book with the class.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Growing Pains of the Yearling

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders read The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings.
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Analyze Linear Plot Developments in Literary Texts/fiction

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson focuses on how conflicts determine the resolution of the story. In this lesson, students learn how to recognize conflict, analyze linear plot, and determine how...
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Analyze Linear Plot Developments in Literary Texts/fiction

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will learn how to recognize conflict, analyze linear plot, and determine how the conflict is resolved.
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Analyze Linear Plot Developments in Literary Texts/fiction

For Students 7th - 9th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] You will learn how to use the elements of linear plot development to determine whether and how conflicts are resolved.
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Unit Plan
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Literary Visions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Twenty-six half hour videos on literary analysis for high school students that feature authors, scholars, actors and noted critics. Topics include The Art of the Essay, Setting and Character in Short Fiction, Responding to Literature and...
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Central Conflict

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An eight-slide document introducing central conflict in a literary text and providing examples from The Arabian Nights.
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Types of Plot Conflict

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
A six-part learning module with links to texts and videos about the six basic plot conflicts in literary texts.
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Writing Literary Text With an Engaging Story Line

For Students 7th - 9th Standards
A learning module that teaches students how to write an engaging literary text in six lessons: Introduction, The Narrative Hook, Setting, Conflict, Plot, and Ending.
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Handout
Ted Nellen

Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Conflict

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a glossary defintion of the term "Conflict" as it pertains to the plot in fiction. It defines conflict and lists two types: internal and external and is seen in these forms: man vs man, man vs. nature, man vs self.
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Interpreting Characters, Setting, Plot, & Theme: Triangle...

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Students will view video documenting the real-life story of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in 1911. Students will complete a story elements graphic organizer. This organizer will help them distinguish various story elements and put...
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Alex's Discovery

For Students 2nd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a boy named Alex who meets a man from outer space in need of some help. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in understanding plot.
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Graphic
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Elements of Literature: Plot Outline [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A graphic organizer for students, laying out the basic outline of a story's plot and allowing students to fill in the necessary details.
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Unit Plan
Department of Defense

Do Dea: Story, Identity, Unity

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Delve into the art of storytelling in this self-guided unit. Multiple topics are covered such as literary genres, the 7 elements of fiction, figurative language, theme, characterization, etc. At the end of the unit, write your own flash...
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Activity
Quizlet

Quizlet: 3rd Grade Story Elements and Plot Vocabulary: Match

For Students 3rd Standards
In this set interactive game, students match story element terms with their definitions. These terms include the following: introduction, setting, characters, conflict, rising action, falling action, point of view, moral, plot, and...
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Activity
Quizlet

Quizlet: 4th Grade Story Elements and Plot Vocabulary: Match

For Students 4th Standards
In this set interactive game, students match story element terms with their definitions. These terms include the following: setting, characters, conflict, rising action, falling action, exposition, protagonist, antagonist, point of view,...
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Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Narrative Text Structure: Retell Wheel

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which students read a narrative text and then turn a question wheel to answer questions about the characters, setting, conflict, and plot. Materials are included.[PDF]
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: I Need Quiet!

For Teachers K Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a boy named Kahlil who figured out a way to eliminate noisy distractions so he could read. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Lesson Plan
Read Works

Read Works: Bridge to Terabithia 5th Grade Unit

For Teachers 5th Standards
A Grade 5 literature study unit for the novel "Bridge to Terabithia" by Katherine Paterson. The concepts covered include cause and effect, character, genre, plot, predicting, and theme.
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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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Interactive
Quia

Quia: Story Elements

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
This interactive game of "Rags to Riches" assesses students' knowledge of story elements. Students will identify the definitions of the story elements and the applications of story elements in stories.
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Quizlet

Quizlet: Story Elements Quiz 6th Grade Honors: Learn

For Students 5th - 8th Standards
This interactive lesson engages students in learning story element definitions. Students will type the correct story element after reading its definition.
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Lesson Plan
Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts, Grade 10: Macbeth

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students explore the ideas of ambition and failure. They learn that conflicts serve as the basis of a text's meaning and that identifying the internal and external conflicts of a story reveals the motivations of complex characters. They...