Read Works
Read Works: Hide and Seek
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a girl named Tracy who played hide and seek with the cousins she was babysitting. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Read Works
Read Works: Rachel Meets Harry
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a spider named Rachel who gets blown from her web during a storm and meets a trapdoor spider. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Read Works
Read Works: Her Own Room
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a girl named Isabel who is happy to finally get her own room, but sad that her sister is going away to college. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in...
Read Works
Read Works: Unexpected Fortune
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a girl named Claire who visits her father in the hospital and learns that shared struggles can have an effect on family relationships. A question sheet is available to help...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Central Conflict
An eight-slide document introducing central conflict in a literary text and providing examples from The Arabian Nights.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Complication
Notes that introduce complication in plot and show examples of how the conflict becomes more complicated throughout the rising action of a story. Examples are provided from Mary Shelly's Frankenstein and Virginia Woolf's "The Duchess and...
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Narrative Text Structure: Retell Wheel
A lesson plan in which students read a narrative text and then turn a question wheel to answer questions about the characters, setting, conflict, and plot. Materials are included.[PDF]
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Narrative Text Structure: Summary Step Up [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which students read a narrative text and complete a graphic organizer to show the plot elements of the story. Materials are included.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Narrative Text Structure: Retell Ring [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which young scholars read a narrative text and answer questions about the plot. Materials are included.
Tom Richey
Slide Share: Elements of Plot
A slide show with ten slides about the parts of a plot development: exposition, conflict, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution.
Tom Richey
Slide Share: Plot Structure
A slide show with twenty-one slides explaining elements of plot including: characters, setting, exposition, conflict, rising action, climax, falling action and resolution.
Quia
Quia: Short Story Elements: Definitions
Play a memory match game by uncovering each story element along with its definition.
Quia
Quia: Elements of Plot Flashcards
Ten flashcards with plot element vocabulary words and their definitions.
Quia
Quia: Short Story Elements: Definitions
Twenty-two flashcards with plot elements and their definitions.
Quia
Quia: Elements of Plot Matching
Play a matching game by joining each plot element with its definition.
Quia
Quia: Short Story Elements: Definitions
Play a matching game by joining each plot element with its definition or example.
Quia
Quia: The Elements of Plot
Complete each definition by typing the plot element into the correct box in this ten-question quiz.
Quia
Quia: Story Elements Practice
Join each story element with its definition in this online matching game.
Quia
Quia: Concentration
Join each story element with its definition in this online memory match game.
Other
Wilsonplays: Elements of Fiction
A chart that lists and defines the elements of a story including: character, setting, events, problem, and solution.
TES Global
Blendspace: Literary Elements
A six-part learning module with links to videos and graphic organizers on plot and plot elements.
TES Global
Blendspace: Story Elements
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.
TES Global
Blendspace: Understanding the Elements of a Story
A six-part learning module with links to images with information and graphic organizers and a quiz on story elements.