Second graders practice the necessary steps that should be taken in order to create a story from scratch. They brainstorm as a class in order to come up with different ideas. Students write a story that includes a plot, characters, and...

In this story elements worksheet, students are instructed to read a Clifford book, then fill in graphic organizer "bones" with the title, setting, characters, problem, events and resolution.

Young scholars practice their listening skills. For this early childhood lesson plan, students identify various fire safety rules. Young scholars answer questions after listening to a story.

Students examine how African Americans escaping slavery used storytelling to communicate. They listen to and read the lyrics for the song, Follow the Drinking Gourd, view the Reading Rainbow video, and write and illustrate their own story.

Learners work in groups to identify the major characters and events found in a Nevada Native American folklore story. Each of the groups takes on the role of a different tribe, and they are given a story from that tribe's oral history....

Read The Napping House and describe the visual characteristics of the illustrations.  In this perspective lesson, learners identify color elements.  They recognize that the text is repetitive and find patterns in the...

Students investigate diversity. In this diversity instructional activity, students look at a variety of apples in order to compare and contrast their physical characteristics. They apply the concept to people by listing how people are...

Here is a game intended for use at home that could easily be adapted to the school environment. The class reads an informational story about emperor penguins and then they watch a clip from the film, March of the Penguins. They focus on...

Learners compare the Native American version of Cinderella to the more popular version they know. They compare legends with fairy tales and explore character traits and discuss the meaning of good character. They write a fairy tale of...

Students explore philanthropy. In this service learning lesson, students read Sam and the Lucky Moon, identify the elements of the story, and examine the benefits and costs of giving.

Differentiate instruction with this crafty approach to demonstrating comprehension. Learners choose a fictional book at their reading level, and afterward create a quilt square. The square is "decorated" with words, illustrations, and...

Teach your class the rules of capitalization with this fun, engaging lesson. Children participate in a learning activity, collaborate with peers, and practice their writing as they learn three specific rules: to always capitalize the...

Students examine the importance of Cinderella's shoe in the Cinderella story. In this giving lesson, students use Cinderella as the basis to set-up a "shoe drive" for children in need. Students contribute to a class story to encourage...

Here’s a cross-curricular program music activity that uses Peer Gynt to engage class members. Groups take one section of “In the Hall of the Mountain King,” choreograph their section of the tune to represent the story as they imagine it,...

Reading Mary Pope Osborne's Civil War on Sunday? Here's a packet crammed with activities, exercises, reading guides, and project suggestions. A must-have for your curriculum library.

Priming and shaping, two teaching strategies used to prepare kids for upcoming activities, are detailed in this resource that models how to prepare kids for a trip to the supermarket. Activities include creating a shopping list,...

Students listen to the book Finding the Friendship Dolls, A True Story: How Children Can Help Create World Peace through Toys. For this world peace lesson, students choose events in the story to create a timeline of those events....

In this story comprehension worksheet, students answer a set of comprehension, discussion and extension questions about the story The Nightingale. A suggestion for research is included.

Learners are introduced to the characteristics of fables and folktales. In groups, they read and identify the various elements in the stories they read from around the world. For each story, they analyze the setting and the various...

Learners read the story Kate and the Beanstalk in order to compare and contrast this fractured tale to the original fairy tale of Jack and the Beanstalk. For this fairy tale reading lesson, students first discuss the plots of many...

Students put the events of a story in the correct order.  In this sequencing lesson plan, students are paired up and labeled A or B.  Students in each group receive a set of story or event sequence cards and they take turns...

Second graders write a personal narrative using webs they created and a story map worksheet. In this personal narrative lesson plan, 2nd graders make lists of ideas to write about and pick one to focus on.

Students read the book Ta-Na-e-ka and identify the elements of plot in the story. In this plot lesson plan, students also create a journal response to the story.

These language arts worksheets present a picture and a space for the teacher to type a word list for the students to use in the story. Students write using the given word list related to the picture.