Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Hide and Seek

For Teachers 4th
[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.
Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Rachel Meets Harry

For Teachers 3rd
[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.
Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Her Own Room

For Teachers 6th
[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...
Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Unexpected Fortune

For Teachers 5th
[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...
PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Central Conflict

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An eight-slide document introducing central conflict in a literary text and providing examples from The Arabian Nights.
Handout
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Complication

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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...
Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Narrative Text Structure: Retell Wheel

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
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]
Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Narrative Text Structure: Summary Step Up [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
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.
Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Narrative Text Structure: Retell Ring [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which young scholars read a narrative text and answer questions about the plot. Materials are included.
PPT
Tom Richey

Slide Share: Elements of Plot

For Students 8th Standards
A slide show with ten slides about the parts of a plot development: exposition, conflict, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution.
PPT
Tom Richey

Slide Share: Plot Structure

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
A slide show with twenty-one slides explaining elements of plot including: characters, setting, exposition, conflict, rising action, climax, falling action and resolution.
Interactive
Quia

Quia: Short Story Elements: Definitions

For Students 5th Standards
Play a memory match game by uncovering each story element along with its definition.
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Quia

Quia: Elements of Plot Flashcards

For Students 5th Standards
Ten flashcards with plot element vocabulary words and their definitions.
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Quia

Quia: Short Story Elements: Definitions

For Students 5th Standards
Twenty-two flashcards with plot elements and their definitions.
Interactive
Quia

Quia: Elements of Plot Matching

For Students 5th
Play a matching game by joining each plot element with its definition.
Interactive
Quia

Quia: Short Story Elements: Definitions

For Students 5th Standards
Play a matching game by joining each plot element with its definition or example.
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Quia

Quia: The Elements of Plot

For Students 6th Standards
Complete each definition by typing the plot element into the correct box in this ten-question quiz.
Interactive
Quia

Quia: Story Elements Practice

For Students 6th Standards
Join each story element with its definition in this online matching game.
Interactive
Quia

Quia: Concentration

For Students 6th Standards
Join each story element with its definition in this online memory match game.
Graphic
Other

Wilsonplays: Elements of Fiction

For Students 3rd Standards
A chart that lists and defines the elements of a story including: character, setting, events, problem, and solution.
PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Rising Action

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This slideshow lesson explains rising action in fiction.
Unit Plan
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.
Unit Plan
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.
Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Understanding the Elements of a Story

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
A six-part learning module with links to images with information and graphic organizers and a quiz on story elements.