An engaging video featuring William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is accompanied by six activities designed to reinforce vocabulary, story elements, and comprehension. Scholars match words to pictures, place events in sequential order,...

Scholars experience Shakespeare's, Twelfth Night, with an engaging interactive. After watching the story, six activities extend the learning experience. Topics include characters, vocabulary, a sequence of events, comprehension, and...

Does everyone always appreciate kindness? Part of a comprehensive series, Aesop's 136-word fable "The Woodman and the Serpent" tells the story of a snake that is rescued by a farmer and later tries biting the farmer's daughter. Readers...

Put a reggae spin on literature instruction with a music video detailing what characters are, and what a setting is. In addition to the concept's definitions, the video displays an excerpt that showcases how to identify the characters...

Make a study of Charles M. Scultz's famous comic strip Peanuts in your language arts class. Class members read and discuss the baseball-themed book POW! A Peanuts Collection. After talking about themes and vocabulary, they complete...

Learn how to retell a story by using the five finger approach. This video uses the story "The Tortoise and the Hare" as an example. [3:33]

Abby Brown, KIDS Clubhouse Adventures co-host, loves to help kids have fun while learning! In this segment, Abby teaches kids about the components of a fairy tale including characters and settings found only in our imaginations. [1:29]

A character's response to major events can have a significant effect on how a story unfolds. This quick video follows characters in a fictional show, Scout Ship 7. Watch as Captain Rodney and Edison Benson critique this episode of the...

This video lesson focuses on character types including the following: flat, damsel in distress, fugitive, rebel, womanizer, country bumpkin/city slicker, social climber, traitor, siren, man sinned against, and guilt-ridden forgiveness...

In this video Laura Turner explains how to write a movie review including being open to the film, beginning with positive points, and noting all of the elements of the film. [2:54]

In this lesson, you will learn how an author uses dialogue to introduce a story by examining what the characters say to each other and determining how the story is set up. A slideshow and student handouts are available with site login....

In this lesson, you will learn to describe how the characters' traits and motivations contribute to the sequence of events by asking, 'What character trait or motivation made this event happen?' [7:58]

In this lesson, you will learn to explain how a playwright tells a story by looking at setting, character dialogue, and stage directions. [6:26]

A music video [3:42] about the five elements of a story: setting, plot, characters, conflict, and theme. Includes downloadable student handouts.

Jennifer Barber introduces the different characters she created for her stories when she was seven years old. She reads one of her stories using different voices to differentiate between the three characters. This resource teaches...

In this episode of Piggley's Storyteller Warehouse, the host shares the basic building blocks of all stories: Who? What? Where? The host then sets the characters' names, the conflict, and the setting to the tune of a rap song.

Story retelling is a critical skill for reading comprehension. Sing along with Jack and increase your reading comprehension and story retelling skills. Learn about the parts of a story or elements of a story. [2:38]

This video explains 4 things that a good reader considers when retelling a story. [4:29]

In this video, effective for engaging students with significant cognitive disabilities, the teacher uses a literature book to set a purpose for reading and the students successfully listen to achieve the purpose: to identify the...

Video, effective for engaging students with significant cognitive disabilities, demonstrates the use of a variety of communication approaches to support students ability to identify and talk about the feelings of a character.

This video is an overview of the process Imagineers at Disney go through to design costumes for characters and workers. [5:26]

In this lesson, you will learn how to make your story more realistic and exciting by adding details about the characters. [5:38]

This slideshow tutorial introduces major and minor characters in fiction writing.