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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Mystery

For Students 9th - 10th
This slideshow focuses on the genre of mystery; it provides background, compares and contrasts mystery and crime fiction, lists the common elements of mystery, and provides literary examples with Nancy Drew and Agatha Christie novels.
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Literary Visions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Twenty-six half hour videos on literary analysis for high school students that feature authors, scholars, actors and noted critics. Topics include The Art of the Essay, Setting and Character in Short Fiction, Responding to Literature and...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: American Masters Collection: Ursula K. Le Guin

For Students 9th - 10th
Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin tells the intimate coming-of-age story of the Portland, Oregon, housewife and mother of three who forever transformed American literature by bringing science fiction and fantasy into the literary mainstream....
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Contemporary Literature: The Modern Short Story

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson is an introduction to the modern short story including defining the short story, how the modern short story differs from the classic short story, the elements of a short story, and what is to be expected in this unit.
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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: 103 Things to Do Before/during/after Reading

For Students K - 1st Standards
The highly-respected Reading Rockets program offers both teachers and students a toolkit of ways to connect more actively with the materials they read. Some of these techniques are specifically for fiction-reading, others are designed...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Thriller

For Students 9th - 10th
This slideshow focuses on the genre thriller by providing background information, listing key elements, and providing two examples: "The Riddle of the Sands" by Erskine Childers and "The Bourne Identity" by Robert Ludlum.
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Quizlet

Quizlet: Literary Elements/humorous Fiction Terms Test

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Literary terms are included in this assessment. This test assesses the following words: allusion, antagonist, dialogue, flashback, imagery, protagonist, symbol, dialect, hyperbole, idiom, irony, parody, pun, sarcasm, understatment, and...
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Literary Visions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A series of 24 instructional videos, each about 30 minutes in length, designed to teach literary analysis. Topics include Responding to Literature, The Elements of Short Fiction, Tone and Style in Short fiction, The Elements of Poetry,...
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The Best Notes

The Best Notes: Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

For Students 9th - 10th
This is an online study guide/notes for the non-fiction book Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer including author information, literary elements, chapter-by-chapter summaries/notes, study questions, and analysis. The book retraces the steps of...
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University of Oregon

University of Oregon: Pizzaz!

For Teachers 1st - 9th Standards
Come and check out this incredible resource from the University of Oregon. This site features links to creative-writing for poetry and fiction, as well as other teacher resources.
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The Best Notes

The Best Notes: The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a complete online study guide/notes for the short story collection The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury including author information, literary elements, chapter-by-chapter summaries/notes, study questions, and analysis.
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The Best Notes

The Best Notes: Lost Horizon by James Hilton

For Students 9th - 10th
This is an online study guide/notes for the novel Lost Horizon by James Hilton including author information, literary elements, chapter-by-chapter summaries/notes, study questions, and analysis.
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The Best Notes

The Best Notes: Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a complete online study guide/notes for the short story collection Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury including author information, literary elements, chapter-by-chapter summaries/notes, study questions, and analysis.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Story Elements

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart reviews the five main elements of a fiction story using the example of Goldilocks and the Three Bears.
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Caro Clarke

Not Stopping the Reader: How to Avoid Stumbling Blocks

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is the eighth article in a series that focuses on helping the new novel author. This article looks at how the author can avoid creating stumbling blocks that disrupt the flow of the novel.
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Caro Clarke

Explaining Too Much: Why More Is Less

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is the eleventh article in a series that is designed to help the new novel author. This article focuses on how to eliminate needless information in your novel. The key is to not explain too much about the action.
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Caro Clarke

Caro Clarke: Description: What's It For?

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is the twelfth article in a series that is designed to help the new novel writer. This article focuses on how to effectively use descriptions in any writing.
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Caro Clarke

The Art of the Unspoken: Saying More by Describing Less

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is the thirteenth article in a series that was developed to help the new novel author. This article focuses on how good descriptions aren't necessarily connected with a lot of words, good descriptions are clean and to the point.
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Write4 kids.com

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site provides a great deal of information on writing children's stories. Contains "Advice, instruction, insider tips, insight and inspiration."
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Elements of Literature: Guide to the Sign of the Beaver [Pdf]

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This Holt Literature guide in .pdf format, offers some background on the novel, a chapter-by-chapter summary, and some post-reading suggestions.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Ninth Literature and Composition: Short Stories

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson provides and introduction to a short story unit. It focuses the lessons and morals taught by short stories and the use of literary elements in fiction. I provides a list of essential questions.
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: American Passages: Becoming Visible: N. Scott Momaday

For Students 9th - 10th
Relying on many elements, including traditional Native American and European American traditions, this biography features the rich literary contributions of N. Scott Momaday. See "N.Scott Momaday Activities" for more resources.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Popular Culture: What Makes a Book Popular?

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on the elements that makes a book popular and provides links to lists of Goodreads popular books and NPR's "Your Favorites: 100 Best-Ever Teen Novels."
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Other

Building Characters With Adversity

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Extensive and very interesting article advising the reader on how to develop characters through adversity.

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