British Council
Romeo and Juliet
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,...
British Council
Twelfth Night
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...
Andrews McMeel Publishing
POW! A Peanuts Collection
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...
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You Tube: Flocabulary Five Things (Elements of a Short Story)
Learn about five story elements: plot, character, conflict, theme and setting in this engaging music video. [3:42]
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Introduce the Main Character and His/her Role
Writers introduce the characters and use details to show their importance to the plot. Let's practice adding description to help readers learn about the main character's personality and motivation. [6:41]
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Learnzillion: Understand How an Author Develops Setting
In this lesson, you will learn how an author develops setting by using words and phrases to infer where the text takes place and what the place is like. [7:05]
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Learn Zillion: Determine the Theme of a Story
In this lesson, you will learn how to identify the theme in a passage by asking "What did the main character learn?" [4:16]
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Learn Zillion: Describe How a Playwright Builds Suspense
In this lesson, you will learn to describe how a playwright builds suspense by using clues in the setting, stage directions, and dialogue. [6:01]
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Learn Zillion: Determine the Theme of a Story
In this lesson, you will learn to determine the theme of the story by analyzing the change the character goes through in the story. Login gives access to a slideshow and a student handout. [4:16]
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Learn Zillion: Describe a Change in a Character
In this lesson, you will learn to describe the change in a character by drawing on the character's thoughts, words, or actions. Login gives access to a slideshow and a student handout. [8:16]
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Learn Zillion: Describe a Setting Using Words and Phrases From the Text
In this lesson, you will learn how an author develops setting by using words and phrases to create a mental picture of where the text takes place and what the place is like. A slideshow and student handouts are available with site login....
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Learn Zillion: Describe an Event Using a Character's Words and Actions
In this lesson, you will learn to describe an event in the story by drawing on characters' words and actions. Login gives access to a slideshow and a student handout. [5:10]
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Learn Zillion: Describe a Character's Personality Using Details From the Text
In this lesson, you will learn how to describe a character's personality by using details from the text. Login gives access to a slideshow and a student handout. [7:09]
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Learn Zillion: Develop Ideas About Characters by Tracking Actions and Feelings
In this lesson, you will learn how to grow your ideas about characters by tracking characters' actions and feelings and asking "What does this tell me about the character?" [2:31]
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Learn Zillion: Explain How a Playwright Tells a Story
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]
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Learn Zillion: Describe a Character Using Evidence From the Character
In this lesson, you will learn to describe a character in a story by drawing on characters' words. [6:50]
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Learn Zillion: Describe How One Character Feels About Another
In this lesson, you will learn to describe how one character feels about another character by noticing the character's words and actions. Login gives access to a slideshow and a student handout. [7:19]
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Learn Zillion: Add Specific Details to Show a Character's Reactions
In this lesson, students use details to let the reader know how a character is reacting to an event and practice adding physical actions to writing to help the reader understand the characters. A printable student handout is available...
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Learn Zillion: Planning a Response to a Writing Prompt
In this lesson, you will learn how to plan your writing by using boxes and bullets to organize each part of your narrative. [4:29]
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Learn Zillion: Create Conflict for the Character
In this lesson, writers set up a conflict for their main character at the beginning of the story then practice adding details to better explain a character's problem. [9:16]
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Learn Zillion: Include Details to Make a Story Flow
In this lesson, students include necessary details to avoid reader confusion, and practice adding details and information to make a story flow naturally. [9:36]
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Learn Zillion: Develop Events in a Narrative Using Description and Dialogue
In this lesson, you will learn to develop experiences and events in a narrative by using description and dialogue. Login gives access to a slideshow as well. [7:05]
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Learn Zillion: Bring Characters to Life Using Details
In this lesson, you will learn how to bring characters to life in a story by using details such as thoughts, feelings, actions, and dialogue. [8:01]
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Flocabulary: Five Elements of a Story
A music video [3:42] about the five elements of a story: setting, plot, characters, conflict, and theme. Includes downloadable student handouts.