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Edit Your Story

For Students 4th
In this writing worksheet, 4th graders read a checklist of editing reminders and practice editing a paragraph on the worksheet.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Three Skeleton Key: Elements of Literature

For Students 6th - 8th
Rats! How are they described in "Three Skeleton Key," and what happens to the characters in the story? Study the vocabulary and the story with these worksheets. Learners complete pre-reading activities, study vocabulary, complete...
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Activity
Seussville

Hooray For Diffendoofer Day!

For Teachers K - 6th Standards
Eleven engaging activities make up a story guide that accompanies Dr. Seuss' Hooray For Diffendoofer Day! Scholars design a fictional classroom setting including scary face tests, writing job descriptions, adapting the book into a play,...
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Study Guide
Reed Novel Studies

When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit: Novel Study

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
What a joy to see the world through the eyes of a child. When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit allows readers to see a child's perspective of fleeing Germany due to having a father the Nazis wanted. Scholars read about the adventures of the...
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Lesson Plan
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Literary Elements: Storytelling Techniques

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students think about what makes a story interesting to read or hear. What kinds of details make a story come to life? How can a storyteller create a feeling of excitement or suspense? What kinds of characters do students like? If anyone...
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Worksheet
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Monster Patterns

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this craft worksheet, students use the two monster patterns to color, cut and glue to craft sticks to make puppets. Directions tell students to tell a partner a story about scary monsters.
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Lesson Plan
US Holocaust Museum

Life in Shadows: Hidden Children and the Holocaust

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Hiding in the filth of a sewer, as a child, to avoid capture by Nazi soldiers—sounds scary! Scholars investigate the youngest victims of the Holocaust, the children. They research video clips and written sources from the Holocaust...
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Worksheet
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The Fair

For Students 4th - 5th
In this story completion learning exercise, students read the beginning section of the story 'The Fair.' Students then finish the story on the provided lines.
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Handout
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The Story of Jack O'lantern

For Students Higher Ed
In this Halloween reading worksheet, students learn the origin of the Jack O'Lantern by reading the Irish tale. Note: There are references in this story to selling souls to the Devil, purgatory, the fires of Hell and Jack who gets drunk...
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Interactive
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ESL Reading Comprehension-Fantasy Story

For Students 4th - 5th
In this ESL reading comprehension worksheet, students fill in blanks in a fantasy story, clicking a link to check answers and then watching a video of the story.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Tell-Tale Hearts of Writers

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Knock, knock, knock...Creep out your class with a critical thinking lesson focused on word relationships in Edgar Allen Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart." They investigate  the relationship between word choice, mood, and interpretation of a...
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Lesson Plan
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Night on Bald Mountain

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners use appropriate terms to reflect a working knowledge of the musical elements. Then they use terminology from music and other arts to analyze and compare the structures of musical and other artistic and literary works. Students...
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Lesson Plan
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You've Got My Money!

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars recall Orff instrument families and specific instruments so that they can put sound effects to certain words in a scary story to make it more interesting.
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Lesson Planet Article
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Celebrating Halloween through Language and Literature

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Use the theme of Halloween to spice up campfire stories, journal writing, and presentations in your classroom.
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Lesson Plan
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Comprehension: Create a Summary from a Narrative Text

For Teachers 2nd
If your class can sequence events in a story, are pretty good at retell, and can identify the main point, they are probably ready for reading comprehension through summarizing. This lesson provides a teacher's script that facilitates...
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Lesson Plan
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Writing a Halloween Poem

For Teachers 6th - 8th
A delightful lesson on poetry is here for you and your middle schoolers. Learners are instructed to write a Halloween poem. They get to choose the age range for the audience of the poem. So, it may be scary (for older kids), or humorous...
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Using Figurative Language

For Students 4th - 8th
Adding details and figurative language makes any story more fun to read! After reading two versions of the same story, one devoid of figurative language and one embellished, young writers are asked to add alliteration, hyperbole,...
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Lesson Plan
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Sarah, Plain and Tall - Intro to Literature Circle jobs

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students read a book with each student having a specific job for the class.  In this literature lesson, students read Sarah, Plain and Tall over 10 days, dividing up responsibilities for each student to make sure everyone understands the...
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PPT
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Little Red Riding Hood

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Here is a short, but effective, four-slide presentation on the sequence of events in the story, Little Red Riding Hood. The elements of the story (setting, characters, plot, etc.) are present, then a slide which puts the story in order...
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Utah Education Network (UEN)

Decision Making

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Making decisions, while maybe scary, is a skill that can be learned. Introduce teens to a five-step decision-making process that makes what may seem overwhelming possible. Pupils learn the steps and practice them by playing games,...
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Lesson Plan
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What's Outside the Window

For Teachers K - 2nd
What do your students see when they look outside the window? This project lets their imagination go wild, and lets you see what kind of daydreaming they do best. They each draw, paint, and color an image of what they imagine as they are...
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The World of Amelia Bedelia

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Get ready to laugh with your class by reading the book Amelia Bedelia's First Day of School. After they read the book and do activities comparing their first day of school with Amelia' they will then have conversations around the story....
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Lesson Plan
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How Do Adjectives Improve Writing?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Using adjectives to create vivid descriptions is the focus of exercises in this resource. A cloze reading activity asks class members to add missing adjectives to passages from Mark Teague's The Lost and Found. They then read Teague's...
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Lesson Plan
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Language Conventions: Elements of a Good Log Entry

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Pupils use writing logs to achieve clear and creative thinking about the story they are reading. They then describe changes in mood that happened in the story consider why such changes usually occur.

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