Tes: Prose: Short Stories

As your authors prepare to write a hypothetical novel, they need all the inspiration they can find! Using a book they have already read (and enjoyed), learners complete a literary analysis by filling in eight short-answer...

The opening chapters of Mark Twain's masterpiece, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, can be daunting for some readers. A reader's theater assignment divides the second chapter of the novel into a seven-role script, allowing...

A thirteen-part learning module on short stories including links to videos, images, graphic organizers, games, informational sites, and more.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This series of 13 lessons explores the horror/ghost film genre. Students will culminate the study by writing their own ghost stories.

A ten-part learning module with links to images, texts, websites, and videos to about story elements.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This site provides comprehension and theme-related activities to accompany Farukh Dhondy's short piece "Two Kinda Truth." False stereotypes and evidence of racism will be discussed in the instructional...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This site contains a downloadable worksheet for a character profile booklet.

A learning module with six links to videos, questions, and activities to use while reading the short story "Ghost of the Lagoon" by Armstrong Sperry.

A nine-part learning module with links to images, videos, and websites to use while reading Toni Cade Bambara's short story "The War of the Wall."

Readers listen and critically read fictional prose to answer prediction questions at designated stopping points, and then they give a summary of the short story. This lesson is ideal for English language learners developing English...