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Unit Plan
Cassandra Reigel Whetstone

Farmer McPeepers and His Missing Milk Cows

For Teachers K - 3rd
Pair your reading of Farmer McPeepers and His Missing Milk Cows with the questions and activities provided here. Learners answer questions about the text, create story maps, put together brochures, relate math to the story, practice some...
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Printables
Freeology

Annotations Bookmark

For Teachers 5th - 10th
In general, pupils are not allowed to write in school-issued books; however, they can write on a bookmark that you provide! Kids can take notes on the setting, characters, themes, and connections as they read a short story or novel.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

"The Most Dangerous Game" Study Guide

For Students 7th - 12th
After reading Richard Connell's best known work, "The Most Dangerous Game," have your class complete the 12 study questions included here. Readers answer plot related questions, compare and contrast characters, and analyze story elements. 
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Celebrate Change

For Teachers K - 12th
Students develop fantasy creatures and characters, describing personalities in terms of gestures, actions, and expressions displayed. Then they make fantasy masks, focusing on shape, form, proportion, line, and emphasis to demonstrate...
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Lesson Plan
Louisiana Department of Education

Essential Elements Cards

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Use essential elements cards to help lesson plan! Each card contains an informational text common core standard for grade levels six through eight and suggestions for activities and supports. Cards address skills such as citing textual...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Deciding Theme

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
Read aloud to your class the fable "The Lion and the Mouse" as you explore characters' choices and the effects they have on a story. Apply what is discussed to finding a theme of the chapter "Not Giving Up" from The Wizard of Oz. 
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Lesson Plan
National Endowment for the Humanities

A Story of Epic Proportions: What Makes a Poem an Epic?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners analyze the epic poem form and its roots in oral tradition. For this epic poetry lesson, young scholars research the epic hero cycle and recognize the pattern of events and elements. Learners analyze the patterns embedded in the...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Genre Lesson: What is a Mystery?

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd Standards
Young scholars identify the characteristics of the genre of mystery.  In this genre lesson, students discover the elements of a mystery story and begin recording the elements on a class chart of the book entitled Two-Minute Mysteries:...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Retell the "Tail" of the Tale

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students explore story structure. In this multicultural literacy lesson, students discuss common elements of folk tales and then listen to the story Tiger and the Big Wind: A Tale from Africa. Students identify the problem and solution...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Story Literary Elements Worksheet

For Students 7th - 12th
In this literary elements worksheet, students read selected short stories and then respond to 5 short answer questions based on the stories.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The School Story by Andrew Clements-Reading Comprehension Packet/Worksheets

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Learners practice reading skills by reading The School Story by Andrew Clements and answering questions over that story. For this reading comprehension lesson, students answer questions over story elements, vocabulary, and comprehension...
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Activity
Curated OER

Convergence with The Cay: Exploring Geographic Concepts Wrapped in a Story

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Here's an awesome unit that uses The Cay as the anchor text. The 16-page packet is loaded with teaching ideas, activities, and suggested adjustments.
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Lesson Plan
Pennsylvania Department of Education

Drawing Conclusions Based on Literary Elements

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students compare versions of Cinderella and draw conclusions based on the story elements identified. In this literacy comprehension and story elements lesson, students read several versions of Cinderella, complete a "Comparing Folklore"...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Parts of a Story

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this story worksheet, students read about different story elements such as setting, characters, plot, and theme. Each element is illustrator by a cartoon.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Elements of Messages

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine media messages. In this media awareness lesson, students analyze political cartoons and identify the literary elements they incorporate. Students also use the Media Elements Handout to identify the elements in other...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Identifying the Theme in a Story

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students recognize Theme through the use of simple, short stories. Using Pro Quest, students begin by researching the literary element, theme, and how it can be identified. They then identify the themes in Aesop's Fables and other short...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

One Story, Many Tales

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students compare and contrast various versions of the fairytale Cinderella. In this folktale lesson, students read The Korean Cinderella and The Egyptian Cinderella and analyze the differences between the two stories. Students identify...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Explore the Elements of Art

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students recognize elements of art such as texture, shape line and color.  In this elements of art lesson, students create a still life picture with oil pastel or crayons.  Students define elements of art vocabulary. Students relate...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

How can we write a silly story?

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders use the writing process and create a silly story.  In this silly story activity, 2nd graders will review person, event and setting and complete a chart for each.  Students will put a person, event and setting in an...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Story Quilts

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students listen to Tar Beach, by Faith Ringgold, and create story quilts.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Story map

For Students 4th - 5th
In this story map worksheet, learners fill in a story map that contains the elements of conflict in a story. Students answer the questions of who, what, and why.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Compare and Contrast: Literary Analysis

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders are able to use active listening skills, take notes and identify literary elements of a short story. They use/create graphic organizer, compare/contrast literary elements from various stories and compare and contrast traits.
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Organizer
Curated OER

Graphic Organizer: Story Pyramid

For Students 5th
In this graphic organizer:  story pyramid worksheet, students analyze 6 components of the story (exposition, conflict, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution) and write the details in the boxes.
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Organizer
Curated OER

Story of Self-Choosing to Participate

For Students 7th - 12th
Everyone has a story; help your writers develop their own with this prewriting packet. Designed for upstanders to share their story and encourage others to be upstanders, this set of questions helps writers craft and structure a story to...

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