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Sentence combining: This lesson is designed for students who write short choppy sentences. Students will learn to combine short choppy sentences that develop their ideas and involve the reader in the action of the story.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 English Language Arts); By DPI Writing Strategies.

The bear who wouldn't sleep: Intermediate-level ESL students will apply facts from a content-based reading passage to create a short story about a bear who doesn't hibernate with his family.; Format: lesson plan (grade 2 English Language Arts); By Donna Kauffman.

Sentence elaboration with prepositional phrases: This lesson is designed for students who write short choppy sentences. In this lesson, students will learn how to write more elaborated, complex sentences by adding prepositional phrases and clauses.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 English Language Arts); By DPI Writing Strategies.

Little Bit - BIG BIT - Little Bit: This lesson helps students who tend to jump right in and tell their entire story in the first few sentences and then struggle to complete their story. Students will learn to start and end their stories with just a "Little Bit" about the setup and closure of the story.; Format: lesson plan (grade 2–4 English Language Arts); By DPI Writing Strategies.

MaraLIMAthon: Kindergarten students will work with an older grade buddy (we worked with 1st grade students) to make predictions, and then over a two-week period, see changes in lima bean growth, and be able to document the lima bean's progress. The buddies will work together to create an illustrated short story about lima bean characters that they create.; Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts, Mathematics, and Science); By Kristi Waddle.

How ironic!: This lesson will introduce students to the concept of irony. Verbal, situational, and dramatic irony will be defined, but the focus of the lesson is situational irony. This lesson can be used prior to teaching longer, more complex short stories that contain situational irony. This lesson is modified for an English Language Learner (ELL) who reads at the Intermediate Low (IL) level.; Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Arts and English Language Development); By Ann Gerber and Tericia Summers.

Comparing creation stories: In Two worlds: Educator's guide, page 1.5; In this activity, students compare creation stories from three peoples -- Cherokee, European, and West African -- that met in colonial North Carolina.; Format: lesson plan (grade Social Studies); By Pauline S. Johnson.

Modern folk tales: Playwriting: Working in teams, students will rewrite short folk tale or fable plays, modernizing them. Then, they will present the old and new versions of the play.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3 English Language Arts); By Dayle Payne.

One, two, three... go Poe!: In this lesson, students will be able to compare and contrast three short stories they have read by Edgar Allan Poe. The assignment will be divided into three parts: (1) They will have read and discussed or completed other classroom activities on each of the three stories. (2) They will work in small groups to brainstorm and create comparison/contrast charts that will be shared with the class. (3) Students will create their own graphic organizers based on the ideas shared in step two and then create a draft and final paper.; Format: lesson plan (grade 11 English Language Arts); By Janie Peak.

The life and works of Edgar Allan Poe: Students will evaluate a sampling of literary selections by Edgar Allan Poe and assess the influence of Poe's life on his works.; Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts); By Peggy Stanley.

Lesson plans for teaching conventions: A collection of LEARN NC's lesson plans for teaching conventions, the fifth of the five features of effective writing.; Format: bibliography/help

Story shackles: Linking students to written text: Chain your students to reading a given text critically! Story Shackles is an imaginative and stimulating way for students to acquire the ability to retell events of a story or text, sequence the action or happenings in a story, or to simply summarize the plot, main ideas with supporting details, or general information of a story or text.; Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 English Language Arts); By Kim Rector.

Oral history through personal narratives: Students apply their knowledge of story elements to art and literature of the 1950s by developing a story, comprehending someone else's story, and diagramming the five elements of plot. Students will then create, revise, edit, and publish their own personal narrative.; Format: lesson plan (grade 9 English Language Arts and Social Studies); By Mary Magee.

Comparing and contrasting Little Red Riding Hood stories: This lesson will introduce the Venn diagram to students. They will read two versions of the story "Little Red Riding Hood" and list details from each in separate diagrams.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3 English Language Arts); By Amber Miller.

Awesome action words: Good writers use precise verbs to make stories interesting and vivid. In this lesson, students will learn to replace boring, redundant, generic verbs with more precise “Awesome Action Words.”; Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 English Language Arts and English Language Development); By DPI Writing Strategies.

For White People Only. Others Please Keep Out.: This illustration from Charles Waddell Chesnutt's 1901 short story "The Bouquet" shows Sophy, an African American girl, peering through the gate of a cemetery that was open to whites only. The caption reads "For White People Only. Others Please Keep Out."; Format: image/illustration

Writing a ghost story/mystery: Building upon the students' knowledge base of Blackbeard the Pirate, the numerous shipwrecks off of the N.C. coast, myths, and legends of the Carolinas, and/or The Lost Colony, students will write a ghost story or mystery narrative of their own.; Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Arts and Social Studies); By laura ritchie.

Understanding the elements of a story: Students will read a story, understand the elements of the story, analyze characters, and complete research about good and evil.; Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Arts and English Language Development); By Abha Bhatnagar and Meera Madan.

Reading newspapers: Factual reporting: This learner's guide introduces students to the use of historical newspapers as primary sources and provides key questions for reading them.; Format: article/learner's guide; By Kathryn Walbert.

Digital literature: Electronic books offer numerous benefits: They're usually searchable, they can be made instantly accessible to the visually impaired, they're often free, and, perhaps best of all, they're accessible right now. This list compiles some of the best sources for finding great works of literature on the Web.; Format: bibliography/help

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