Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Education: Telling a Painting's Story
This Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Studies lesson plan features museum field trip writing activities. Upon returning from the museum, students will write stories inspired by paintings that they observed and evoked an...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Sea Creatures
This video segment from Nature features various sea creatures. [5:52]
University of Oregon
Pizzaz, Creative Writing and Storytelling: Magazine Marvels
This PIZZAZ lesson allows learners the opportunity to write stories about magazine picture collections. Two examples of creative writing pieces are provided.
Other
San State Francisco University: Newsworx (1001 Words)
View the media-rich work of teams of student journalists assigned to produce high-interest feature stories using pictures, audio, and words. Learn how to tell a story well by thinking critically about the different choices made by each...
Other
Jefferson County Schools: Print a Prompt
Check out this resourceful site featuring "Print a prompt." Students can choose from several different titles and prompts and they are provided with a printed copy.
Other
Who Wrote That? Featuring Tamora Pierce
The story of Tamora Pierce's first experience with writing a book is told here, along with details that don't appear in many other interviews.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Taking Apart and Reconstructing Stories
This lesson is designed as a project-based unit plan that will take students through the narrative process from deconstruction to construction. After initial discussion, students will use the Interactive Story Map feature at Read Write...
National Endowment for the Arts
National Endowment for the Arts: The Big Read: Poe: Stories and Poems
Guide to the stories and poems of Edgar Allan Poe, including historical information, author biography, discussion questions, and a ten-lesson teaching unit with project ideas and essay questions. A radio show, with transcript, features...
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Critical Reading: Types of Reading Material
This lesson focuses on the types of reading material and their distinguishing features. It also included two videos including the key features from a newspaper story video and a video that defines scholarly articles.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Houghton Mifflin Books: Zathura by Chris Van Allsburg
This comprehensive teacher's guide for the book "Zathura" by Chris Van Allsburg provides us with an opportunity to examine how writers blend scientific information with a fictional story.
Other
Infotoday: Digital Storytelling Finds Its Place in Class
When we use multimedia to develop and share student stories we foster self-expression. The added dimension of video provides a method for these students to display their creativity. This article features an educator's insight and tips in...
Aaron Shepherd
The Crystal Heart, a Vietnamese Legend (R's Theater)
A reader's theater version of a folktale from Vietnam for 13 players, ages 10 and up. Adapted by children's book author Aaron Shepard from his picture book "The Crystal Heart," the themes explored are kindness and false imagining....
Scholastic
Scholastic: Laura Numeroff Biography
This resource features a biography of the author Laura Numeroff. Students and teachers will benefit from this inside look at the life and work of this children's author.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: "The Leopard Man's Story" by Jack London
Text of the short story "The Leopard Man's Story" by Jack London. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: "My Own True Ghost Story" by Rudyard Kipling
Text of the short story "My Own True Ghost Story" by Rudyard Kipling. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: "A Newspaper Story" by O. Henry
Text of the short story "A Newspaper Story" by O. Henry. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: "No Story" by O. Henry
Text of the short story "No Story" by O. Henry. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: "Nobody's Story" by Charles Dickens
Text of the short story "Nobody's Story" by the Victorian author Charles Dickens. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: "The Poor Relation's Story" by Charles Dickens
Text of the short story "The Poor Relation's Story" by Charles Dickens. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: "The Schoolboy's Story" by Charles Dickens
Text of the short story "The Schoolboy's Story" by Charles Dickens. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: "The Rubber Plant's Story" by O. Henry
The text of "The Rubber Plant's Story" by O. Henry. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)
Sonoma State University
Sun Site: Jack London White Fang, Etext
This site features the full text of White Fang originally published in The Outing Magazine between May and October 1906 as well as a concordance.
Other
Literature Unit: "A Day No Pigs Would Die"
This site features questions for each of the chapters in Robert Newton Peck's "A Day No Pigs Would Die."
Education.com
Education.com: Rl.3.5 Worksheets: Refer to Parts of Stories, Dramas, and Poems
[Free Registration/Login Required] Links to 20 worksheets and graphic organizers for students to use while practicing skills within third grade reading standard RL.3.5.