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Organizer
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Fairy Tale Story Planner

For Students 4th - 5th
Provide your class with a way to plan their own fairy tale. Learners use this graphic organizer to help them plan their own original fairy tale by identifying the setting, characters, conflict, and conclusion for their story.
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Every Picture Tells a Story

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore story structure. In this literacy and story structure lesson, students listen to picture books and illustrate a favorite part of the story. Students share their pictures and place them in sequential order on a bulletin...
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Story Elements - Sequence and Meaning

For Teachers K
Students practice sequencing story elements for meaning. In this story elements instructional activity, students participate in a teacher demonstration in how to sequence story elements in a story about the grocery store. They break into...
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Retelling a Story with Story Elements

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Second graders identify the events in a story using story elements. In this story elements instructional activity, 2nd graders review the story elements and read Dav Pilkey's book, Dog Breath: The Horrible Trouble with Hally Tosis....
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Sequence of a Story within a Story

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders read a story.  For this story sequencing lesson, 4th graders learn about the use of flashbacks in a story.  Students read Tell Me a Story, Mama and identify flashbacks in the story.
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Organizer
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Story Map--Upper Elementary Worksheet

For Students 4th - 6th
In this retelling of a story worksheet, students choose a story they've already read and fill out the story map. Students follow the sequence of the story map step-by-step.
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Identifying Problems and Solutions in the Story

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Students explore story structure. In this Groundhog's Day story structure literacy lesson, students listen to the story Groundhog Stays Up Late by Margery Cuyler, then pause half way through the story to identify the problem and...
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Organizer
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Planning a Story: Bug Graphic Organizer

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this story planning worksheet, students fill in a graphic organizer in the shape of a bug. Students read the short prompts on the legs and arms of the bug and fill in details about what their story elements will be.
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Printables
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My Stories -- Writing about Pictures

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
In this writing activity, learners write 10 short stories using the full color picture prompts which are shown above the blank primary lines. There is a cover sheet with the title "My Stories" if students wish to make a book and use it...
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Organizer
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Story Train

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this story sequencing worksheet, students will record the beginning, middle and ending of the book that they are reading on a graphic organizer in the shape of a train.
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Digital Story Book

For Teachers Pre-K - 3rd
Learners create a photo story.  In this visual arts lesson, students choose a sentence about a specific topic, create a picture to go with their sentence, and take a digital photo of their picture.  The teacher compiles all of the...
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Story Pyramid

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students read tall tales to identify story elements. In this story elements activity, students read about Johnny Appleseed and Pecos Bill and use graphic organizers to record information. Students read in small groups, read independently...
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Lesson 3: Retell a Story with Sequence Clue Words

For Teachers 1st
First graders evaluate sequence words. In this order of events lesson plan, 1st graders practice using sequence words to retell a story. They do guided practice with the teacher retelling a story they have read as a class and then try it...
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Analyzing Story Elements

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Lesson ideas to teach students how to analyze story elements through visual representation.
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Scary Short Story Writing Lesson

For Teachers 6th - 8th
There's nothing like the prospect of writing a scary story to get your middle schoolers' writing juices flowing! In the lesson presented here, pupils listen to scary short stories read to them by the teacher. Then, a discussion ensues...
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A Nice Story

For Teachers 2nd - 8th Standards
Explore word choice in writing. Your class listens to a short story entitled "A Nice Day" (included) and discusses how the story could be improved. Pupils replace the word nice throughout the story with various synonyms, then reread the...
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The Bones of a Story

For Teachers K - 1st
For this Language Arts worksheet, students read a Clifford book and describe 5 story elements. These include title, setting, characters, problem, events, and resolution.
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Writing
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Going for the Goal-- Story Starter

For Students 4th - 5th
In this writing worksheet, students set goals for the coming year and decide the steps they would take to achieve them. Students read the story starter and finish the story.
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Writing
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A Fitting Introduction-- Story Starter

For Students 5th - 6th
In this writing worksheet, students think about how they would introduce a person they admire and respect to a large group of people in an audience. Students read the story starter and finish the story.
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Story Starters

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders examine the pictures on a chart and relate to their own experiences. In this story starters writing lesson plan, 6th graders explore the pictures presented by the teacher and then create an original story based on the...
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Short Story

For Teachers 1st - 2nd Standards
Learners draw conclusions from the short story Ssssssilent Hunter and listen to the clues to find out what animal is being described. In this drawing conclusions lesson plan, students explain why they think the animal is what they...
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Language Experience Stories

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Here is a great way to bring core content to your special education classroom. Included is a set of instructional ideas intended to help learners increase their verbal and written expression through storytelling. Tape recorders, story...
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StoryBuilder for iPad

For Students 2nd - 6th
Invite your kids to tell all sorts of stories with this interactive app. Learners view images and record their own voices as as they create short narratives to go along with the images. The app provides plenty of customizable scaffolding...
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The Rumpelstiltskin Story

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Why didn't Rapunzel's hair stop growing?  Why did it take the fairy godmother so long to intervene in Cinderella's affairs? Young writers consider unanswered questions like these and compose news articles investigating the true story...

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