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Fun Trivia

Fun Trivia: Short Story Elements Trivia Quiz

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site shares a short story elements trivia game. Examples of short story elements are applied to high school classic literature.
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TES Global

Blendspace: Interpreting Literature Terms

For Students 3rd - 7th Standards
A fourteen-part learning module on literary terms including links to text, videos, word lists and images on literary terms such as plot, setting, character, point of view, style, theme, and more.
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TES Global

Blendspace: Literary Elements

For Students 3rd - 7th Standards
A six-part learning module with links to videos and graphic organizers on plot and plot elements.
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TES Global

Blendspace: Story Elements

For Students 4th - 7th Standards
A twelve-part learning module with links to videos, images, and websites to use while learning about story elements and the development of a plot.
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TES Global

Blendspace: Types of Plot Conflict

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
A six-part learning module with links to texts and videos about the six basic plot conflicts in literary texts.
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TES Global

Tes: Revision: Macbeth, English Literature, Interactive Quiz (Connect 4)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This Power Point interactive presentation is a review over William Shakespeare's Macbeth through a game of "Connect Four."
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Plot and the Most Dangerous Game

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart teaches students about plot and gives examples from short story and also highlights vocabulary.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Short Story Unit Applying Literary Terms

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is a review and assessment of a collection of short stories. The following literary terms are applied to the stories: plot structure, types of characters, characterization, irony,...
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Story Elements

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart reviews the five main elements of a fiction story using the example of Goldilocks and the Three Bears.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Story Fairytale

For Teachers 1st - 6th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students learn the elements of a story through fairytales. These include character, setting, plot, and secret ingredient. Includes an Activote session.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: The Little Red Ant

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] The Little Red Ant and The Great Big Crumb is a story in the third grade Scholastic Literacy Series. This flipchart contains activities on order of events, cause/effect, vocabulary, and plot sequencing.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Plot

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is a review of the conflict, foreshadowing, and setting you will find in a plot.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Dragon in the Rocks

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is used as students read the story Dragon in the Rocks from the Scholastic Literacy Place series. There is a lesson on closed syllables, context clues, and identifying plot and setting.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Keepers

For Teachers 1st - 6th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Skill Focus: Plot - Plot means a series of events that center on the story problem. This resource delves into the plot of the book KEEPERS. It discusses vocabulary and spelling words from the book as well.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Literary Elements

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart allows students to be actively engaged in identifying and describing story elements. It uses the Learning Focus lesson plan format, such as an activator, graphic organizers, modeling,...
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Literature: Constructing Plot

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site has an explanation of the elements of a plot with clear examples. Click on "What goes into plot" for more information.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Common Words With Multiple Meanings

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson introduces common words with multiple meanings.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Plot Devices

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson introduces common plot devices in fiction writing. This tutorial lesson shares a short slideshow with the lesson's content.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Characters and Plot

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson introduces the connection between characters and plot in fiction writing.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Elements of Literature: Plot Outline [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A graphic organizer for students, laying out the basic outline of a story's plot and allowing students to fill in the necessary details.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Subplot

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson introduces the subplot in fiction.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Evaluating Plot & Conflict

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students learn to evaluate types of conflict within literature. This flipchart describes the various types of conflict and assesses the students' ability to differentiate them.
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Other

Story Arts: Storytelling Activities & Plot Structure Scenarios

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
This collection of storytelling activities-developed by storyteller/author Heather Forest for her storytelling workshops with students, teachers, and librarians-can be expanded by educators into language arts lesson plans to support...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Plot & Theme

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson introduces the relationship between plot and theme. This tutorial lesson shares a short slideshow with the lesson's content.