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ASL: Building a functional vocabulary

For Teachers 2nd - Higher Ed
Best resource ever! Teaching and learning to teach ASL just got easier. For special education teachers or those working with hearing impaired students, this lesson plan provides story and time telling practice using ASL. Each blue link...
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Tellagami Labs

Tellagami

For Students 2nd - 12th Standards
Bring the world of video messaging into your classroom with this creative communication application. Offering the ability to create animations with customized characters, backgrounds, and recorded messages, this resource is guaranteed to...
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Native American Literature

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Introduce your class to the writing of the indigenous Americans and, even more well known, their story telling. An engaging presentation describes what kinds of texts would be included in the oral stories performed and some common themes...
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Lesson: The Power of Story

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Universal themes found throughout the world in the form of stories is the topic of today's instructional activity. Upper graders analyze the cultural context of the Mithila piece, Hanuman. They consider the universal themes the image...
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Lesson Plan: A Guided Tour

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Albert Bierstadt's painting Wind River Country shows viewers how a reader progresses through a story. Your class studies the light and dark areas, how the eye moves across the painting, and what attracts the audience to the work, and...
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Map It Out

For Teachers K - 4th
Explore how illustrations add to a story. Young learners will look at picture books to see how the pictures tell the story. They create illustrations to go with a chosen story, and then flip the activity so they have to write a story to...
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Paper Bag Butterfly Puppets

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Whether you're using it to tell stories, explore the letter b, or during a life science lesson, these butterfly puppets will be a hit. Youngsters use crayons, tissue paper, and paper bags to create butterfly puppets.
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Geography and Culture of China

For Teachers 7th
Take out a map, a paper, a ruler, and those coveted colored pencils for a activity on Chinese culture and geography. This is a multifaceted approach to basic geography skills that incorporate story telling, class discussion, primary...
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Roboteacher

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Present this slide show to your class and see what they think. It's the story of Roboteacher, obviously written and perhaps illustrated by a student. It could be used to reinforce story boarding, story telling, story retell, or creative...
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An Amusing Speech

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Practice public speaking by telling an amusing story in this speech preparation lesson. Young speakers use note cards to plan out a speech of an interesting story in their lives. They practice their speech at home, ultimately delivering...
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A Corny Story

For Teachers 2nd
Supplement your nursery rhyme unit. Learners follow a boy named Jack as he experiences a series of adventures through this rhyming story. It provides your class with a phonics and reading review. Teachers can use this format to present a...
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Goldilocks and the Three Bears

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Tell the story of "Goldilocks and the Three Bears" to your little learners with the help of this animated slide-show. Read along or have the students tell the story of Goldilocks as you forward each slide. Note: This presentation would...
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Pictures, Photographs, and Captions

For Teachers 6th Standards
"How do photographs contribute to an autobiography?" Laurence Yep's The Lost Garden provides learners with an opportunity to examine how photos and their captions contribute to and clarify events in a story. Class members use expressive...
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Adjective Monster

For Teachers K - 2nd
Explore descriptive writing and visual art. Listen to the story Go Away Big, Green Monster by Ed Emberley and generate a list of adjectives used in the book. Name familiar shapes and create a shapes list. Choose an adjective and shape to...
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The Ogre Bully

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Young scholars listen to the book, The Ogre Bully, and discuss the problems the farmer and his family had during the story.  In this garden themed lesson, students examine different fruit and vegetables and plant them in soil to grow. ...
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"The Little Red Hen"

For Students K - 2nd
In this story telling worksheet, students listen to the story "The Little Red Hen", color and cut out five farm animals to make finger puppets and six kitchen or farm items.
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Numbers in Art

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students choose a number from one to twelve and tell a number story about it. They listen to the teacher read "Numbers in Art" by Lucy Micklethwait. Students choose three numbers from one to twelve and view works of art while looking for...
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Las Christmas: Favorite Latino Authors Share Their Holiday Memories

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders read Las Christmas and discuss their own cultural traditions. In this holiday traditions lesson, 8th graders write their personal story about a tradition or holiday memory. Students complete all stages of writing in...
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Dramatic Story Telling

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students act out stories. In this pantomime lesson, students sit on the ground with a partner and act out a story as the teacher reads it. They discuss what they learned from the activity. 
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Story Telling

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students practice story telling. In this story telling lesson, students work in groups to read a fable and divide it into a beginning, middle, and end. Each member takes a section and practices retelling it with vocals, gestures, and...
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Nasreddin's Visitors: Recreating a Story

For Students 4th - 6th
In this story recreation activity, students choose the correct sentence from 3 given to tell the story, using context clues to put the sentences in the proper sequence.
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Story Telling: Chill Out

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students explore story telling. In this story telling lesson, students listen to classic campfire horror stories and prepare a storyboard organizer for an original scary story. Students share their story with the class.
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Telling a Story Through Dance

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students explore how to tell a story through dance. In this dance lesson, students watch Swan Lake and choose a story of their own to show through dance.
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The Rest of the Story Worksheet

For Students 6th - 8th
In this oral traditions worksheet, students choose a character from 1 of the 3 poems and compose an ending for the story from that character's point of view. The characters include an American Indian orphan, a European, and an American...