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Latin Storytelling: Aeneas Flees from Troy
Students practice Latin language skills by reciting information from the tale of Aeneas' flight from Troy. They respond in Latin to prompts and questions posed in Latin by the teacher. They demonstrate they know who the main characters...
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Nursery Rhyme
After reading several types of informational and narrative text involving Nursery Rhymes, have your young readers create a dramatic reading of their selected tale to perform for the class.
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Talk is Cheap
Second graders listen to the tale, "The Tortoise and the Hare" and discuss the moral of the story. Afterward, they brainstorm words that encouraged the Tortoise to accomplish his goal. Students then review the concept of goal setting and...
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Language Arts: Plot Summary
Eighth graders implement plot summary organizers to identify essential elements such as conflict and resolution in literature. In pairs, they retell fairy tales to each other and complete plot summaries about them. As students read new...
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Clam-Shell Concentration
Learners discuss leisure activities of old Japan. They depict familiar stories or information through symbolic illustrations. Students decide upon game rules and interact in a positive manner while playing the game. They play...
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Fantasy on My Fingers
Students translate story characters into three-dimensional finger puppet figures. They tell tales with wiggles and words and utilize their finger puppets to convey a story in front of their classmates as the curtain goes up and the...
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Leprechaun Legends
Explore the world of leprechauns. Learners do research on the folk tales, symbols, and characters found in Ireland's traditional stories, poetry, and music. They create a large, stand-up leprechaun to illustrate their knowledge about...
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Rabbit in the Garden!
Students read a classic tale from the Beatrix Potter collection, and recognize the main characters and settings of the story. They discover the extraordinary life of Beatrix Potter and then create their own illustration of a favorite...
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Think of an Ending
Good endings are hard to find. And write. This, the final lesson in a six-part series devoted to study of the ingredients of a good story, focuses on crafting endings. Class members draft ideas about what should happen to each of their...
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Magical and Mystical Details
Identify magical and mystical details in the tales The Legend of Bluebonnet and The Legend of Old Befana. Talk about seemingly impossible details and illustrations in order to demonstrate the qualities of legend and magic. Encourage...
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Sentence Combining
After a demonstration by the teacher of how to combine sentences, groups read a story loaded with short, choppy sentences and work together to combine sentences to create a more interesting tale. They record their version on a...
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The Winter Child quiz
In this follow-up to A Midsummer Night's Faery Tale, learners get a chance to show they remember what they read. Twenty multiple-choice questions are straightforward and simple. Answers are immediately available when testing online.
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Go Walk East of Eden
What will you find when you go East of Eden? A tale of deception and untruths, family and love, betrayal and discovery - all of humanity in a novel. Most questions in this quiz focus on the plethora of characters and relationships upon...
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A Christmas Carol Quiz
"God bless us...every one!" The touching tale of A Christmas Carol is the subject of this quiz. Ten mostly multiple-choice questions are structured as fairly simple reading comprehension.
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The Great Fire of London
In the year 1666, a great fire spread and destroyed much of London. Tell the tale of The Great Fire of London with the help of this image rich presentation. Pictures of the fire, where it began, and The London Gazette where it was...
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The Hare and the Tortoise
Here is a simple re-telling of the classic fable, "The Tortoise and the Hare." Learners are either read to, or they read along, as each slide progresses through the tale. The moral of the story is present as well; slow and steady wins...
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Historical Fiction: Island of the Blue Dolphins
Island of the Blue Dolphins, Scott O'Dell's classic tale of Karana, a young girl stranded on an island off the California coast, is the focus of a 16-slide presentation that includes a list of vocabulary words, guided reading questions,...
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English Literature - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Everything you wanted to know about the history of English literature and language but were afraid to ask. From Beowulf to Canterbury Tales, the Knights of the Round Table to Robin Hood, Addison, Fielding, Shakespeare, Swift, and many...
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Lesson Plan 2: So What's a Novel, Anyway?
What makes a novel a novel? Class members select a favorite novel, record their impressions on a worksheet, and then come together in groups to discuss the elements common to narrative writing. Next, they identify the characters, the...
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Bud, Not Buddy: Anticipation Guide
Hoover flags? Hoover blankets? Hoovervilles? Drawing upon prior knowledge of the Great Depression class members respond to the prompts on an anticipation guide for Bud, Not Buddy, Christopher Paul Curtis’s tale of Bud Caldwell’s quest to...
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The Catcher in the Rye: Biopoem
Here’s a catchy way to study characterization. Readers of The Catcher in the Rye select a character from Salinger’s classic tale to use as the subject of a biopoem. A teacher sample is provided.
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Anticipation Guide for Death of a Salesman
"It is better to ignore something unpleasant than to face reality." Readers of Death of a Salesman complete an anticipation guide before tackling Arthur's Miller's tale of Willy Loman and his sons. After completing the play, class...
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The Hobbit: An Overview of the Book and Author
Readers of The Hobbit will share in the adventure with a brief overview of the life of J.R.R. Tolkien and the publishing history of the tale of Bilbo Baggins and his trip over the Edge of the Wild.
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Wuthering Heights Reading Guide
The chapter-by-chapter questions on a Wuthering Heights reading guide are sure to help readers keep the events straight in Emily Bronte’s masterpiece. One can well imagine unquiet slumbers for the readers of this tale of love and revenge.
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