PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Storytelling With Words and Pictures
In this interactive instructional activity, students learn the basics of how stories are structured, gain vocabulary about storytelling elements, and explore how the arts, specifically drawing, can be a valuable way for students to tell...
American Forum for Global Education
American Forum for Global Education: Sign Walk
Designed for primary age students, this site from the American Forum for Global Education is a lesson plan for teachers who want to make their students more aware of signs in the community.
Read Works
Read Works: Plot 3rd Grade Unit
[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of four lesson plans designed to teach students to predict problems and solutions in fiction text and to identify the relationship between problems and character conflicts within a story....
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Confucius Changes China
In this lesson learners analyze Confucianism and its effect on conflicts in China. Students will evaluate an excerpt from The Analects of Confucius to realize the usefulness of Confucius' teachings and create an original cartoon using...
Live Wire Media
Good Character: Teaching Guides for Middle School
Although these teaching guides are designed to be used with a video series called "Big Changes, Big Choices," most of the material here can be used without the videos. The topics covered in this series include both life skills and...
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.
Quizlet
Quizlet: Story Elements Quiz 6th Grade Honors: Learn
This interactive lesson engages students in learning story element definitions. Students will type the correct story element after reading its definition.
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Cultural Characters [Pdf]
In this lesson plan, students use photos that relate to a social studies concept (i.e., country of study, historical person, natural disaster, geographical landmark, religion, or governmental strife) as a springboard to write a...