Washoe County School District
Three Skeleton Key
Conduct a close reading of George G. Toudouze's well-known horror story "Three Skeleton Key." This plan breaks up the reading into several steps and provides text-dependent questions to ask along the way. Learners will have the chance to...
PBS
The Power of Personal Narrative
Personal narratives are powerful things. Whether told from the first-person or third-person point of view, whether in the form of an essay, a short story, novel, or video, whether fiction or fact, they capture readers and give them...
Jackson Public Schools
Summer Reading Activities
Provide parents with the tools they need to bridge the summer learning gap with this collection of fun activities. Whether it's creating an alphabet poster with illustrations for each letter, playing a game of sight word concentration,...
E Reading Worksheets
Comprehension and Inference Question Creator
Encourage learners to ask questions about what they read with a learning exercise about comprehension and inference questions. The resource provides directions and examples that guide kids through crafting their own questions.
New York State Education Department
Comprehensive English Examination: January 2011
Scholars read an excerpt from the short story "The Bonfire" by Kunikida Doppo as well as a nonfiction passage about handcycling. Next, they answer comprehension-based multiple-choice questions. Additionally, they respond to short-answer...
EngageNY
Grade 10 ELA Module 1: Unit 2, Lesson 6
Is history "little more than a relic," as one of the characters in "The Palace Thief" contends? Has Hundert's love of antiquity kept him from changing with the times? Readers consider how the author uses these conflicting views to...
EngageNY
Grade 9 ELA Module 1, Unit 1, Lesson 14
Karen Russell's short story "St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves" has a unique structure that adds value to the story. With the fourteenth activity in a unit about literary analysis and textual support, analyze how Russell has...
Great Books Foundation
State of Affairs
Good verses evil. Scholars make inferences after taking a close look at the short story, State of Affairs, in which Daniel Defoe goes back and forth comparing good and evil thoughts through his writing. After reading the text, there are...
EngageNY
Grade 10 ELA Module 1: Unit 2, Lesson 9
Do our childhood circumstances significantly shape us? As the close reading of “The Palace Thief” continues, groups examine how the results of the first "Mr. Julius Caesar" competition influenced the development of the characters in...
Read Works
Fireflies
A short story about a nighttime adventure at summer camp provides readers with a chance to practice their comprehension skills.
EngageNY
Grade 10 ELA Module 1: Unit 2, Lesson 11
Is identity unchanging? Do events in our childhood forever influence our character? Groups ponder these questions as they examine Ethan Canin’s short story “The Palace Thief.”
Waunakee Community School District
Identifying Themes in Literature
If your language arts learners have a hard time determining the universal theme of a written work, use a straightforward worksheet to help them find it. After reviewing a list of common themes, kids note the title, character, plot, point...
Curated OER
American Frontiers
High schoolers study the settlement of the American frontier through literature. For this literature lesson, students read and discuss works by James Fenimore Cooper, Bret Harte, Mark Twain, Willa Cather, and Hamlin Garland. High...
Curated OER
Reading and Vocabulary Comprehension
In this reading and vocabulary comprehension worksheet, students read the passage "A Cold Day" and answer multiple choice questions. Students answer nine comprehension questions.
Curated OER
Story Poem
In this story poem worksheet, students read aloud the short story "The Big Cat And The Little Cat," and complete a variety of activities including those that deal with adjectives.
Curated OER
Reading Comprehension
In this recognizing the meanings of sentences worksheet, students read statements and answer the comprehensive questions in complete sentences, read short passages and identify the statements that are correct, and arrange sentences in...
Curated OER
Waiting
As both a comprehension and vocabulary skill activity. This activity provides a quick review . This 9 question activity includes a short story, vocabulary quiz, and comprehension portion.
Curated OER
Tyler's First Game
This worksheet, focusing on comprehension and vocabulary, provides a way for students to practice test-taking skills. Student read a short story and answer the 10 questions that follow.
Curated OER
“Time to...”
Students review elapsed time and vocabulary in this activity. Student read a short story and then answer 10 questions. This is a good activity for test-taking practice.
Curated OER
Story Elements
Sixth graders use several pieces of literature to identify specific story elements. In this story elements lesson, 6th graders analyze the story element of character, character traits, and setting for the example stories. Students work...
Curated OER
Jojo's Story
Students explore global relationships by reading stories of children in villages. In this foreign aide lesson plan, students discuss the story Jojo's Story which describes the trials and tribulations of a ten year old boy living in a...
Curated OER
Elements of a Short Story
Learners read a short story and then map out the elements of a short story using "Inspiration" software. They read 'Tell-Tale Heart' by Edgar Allen Poe.
Maine Content Literacy Project
Understanding Theme
The ninth in a fourteen-lesson plan series, this plan marks a sort of midpoint in a unit devoted to the study of short stories. Pupils learn about theme and work on their short story projects by adding to their blogs, checking in with...
Maine Content Literacy Project
Setting in "Hills Like White Elephants"
Continue your study of the short story with the next lesson in this fourteen-lesson series. After wrapping up a study of "Hills Like White Elephants" through a quiz and discussion of the setting, learners are introduced to the final...