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Story surgery: As early as first grade, children can begin to revise their stories using "Story Surgery." In this lesson, students learn how to use scissors to perform "story surgery" by cutting their stories apart at the point where more information can be added.; 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.

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.

Three Cool Kids: After reading Three Cool Kids by Rebecca Emberley, students will discuss literary elements: characters, setting, problem and solution. The teacher will record using the Inspiration software what students say, making a web that shows the different elements of the story.; Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts); By Genevieve Kiser.

Writing with Koala Lou: Sequencing and BME: After reading the story Koala Lou aloud, students practice sequencing the events of the story and identifying the beginning, middle, and end. Upon completing this activity in cooperative groups they write using a teacher given prompt, including proper sequence and beginning, middle, and end. They also share the final product with their cooperative group.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3 English Language Arts); By Jenifer Lewis.

Story sequencing: This multi-faceted lesson teaches students how to sequence stories. It reinforces the following concepts: first, last, before, after, left, right. This lesson can also focus on carryover of articulation skills to answering questions as well as story telling.; Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts); By Michele Christon.

Imaginative writing: This plan addresses emerging writing skills by engaging the student's interest in creating original drawings.This plan is for Special Needs students, non-readers with limited writing skills, and reluctant learners.; Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 English Language Arts); By Ann Franklin.

Three Billy Goats Gruff: Students will examine language in three different versions of the traditional "Gruff" tale. These will be compared and contrasted through Venn diagrams. Each text will be introduced, examined, and contrasted in a different lesson.; Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts); By Sandra Doyle.

Gingerbread Man Fun: This lesson will allow students to demonstrate sense of beginning, middle, and end of a story. They will also use various objects to create patterns comparing these objects using appropriate vocabulary (small, medium, large).; Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts and Mathematics); By Rebecca Jones.

Where do I begin?: Picking a good beginning helps you to focus your story on just one main event. In this lesson students will learn how to pick a good beginning for their personal narratives.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts); By DPI Writing Strategies.

Storytelling with Cherokee folktales: This is a two day lesson pertaining to telling Cherokee folktales. This lesson can be modified and used with any folktale.; Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Arts); By Ricky Hamilton.

Practice story: In Ongoing assessment for reading, page 1.9; Ready to practice? Print out the following story and have a blank piece of paper or a blank running record form ready. Use the sound clip below to practice taking a running record of this child’s reading. First, record what the...; By Jeanne Gunther.

"So what?" details: Students will learn that adding details to a piece of writing doesn't make it better if the details are "So What?" details. Details and elaboration should be related to the main idea and should move the story along in an interesting manner.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts); By DPI Writing Strategies.

Mixing colors with Little Blue and Little Yellow: This is an integrated lesson based on a French book entitled Little Blue and Little Yellow by Leo Lionni. Within the lesson, students will experiment with various colors to create new colors and eventually write their own version of this story.; Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 Visual Arts Education, English Language Arts, and Science); By Lisa Tartaglia.

Habitat happenings (Lesson five): This is lesson five in the series. During this lesson students will put the things they have learned from previous lessons into a creative writing assignment. The students will choose an animal to be and will describe themselves and their living environment.; Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts); By Kelly Stewart.

A million fish... Serving up exaggeration: Students will become familiar with the term "exaggeration" and how it can be used in stories to catch the reader's attention. Students will create narrative stories of their own using exaggeration.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 English Language Arts); By Jennie McGuire.

Splitting bears: Students will learn sequencing (beginning, middle, end) by using a bear pattern.; Format: lesson plan (grade 2 English Language Arts and Information Skills); By Kendra Sisk.

Getting in order: "Jack and the Beanstalk": The students will read "Jack and the Beanstalk" as a group and create flip books to illustrate and sequence the main events.; Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 English Language Arts); By Leslie Robinson1.

The Legend of the Blue Bonnet: Students will create their own version/retelling of The Legend of the Blue Bonnet by Tomie dePaola; Format: lesson plan (grade 2 English Language Arts); By Shari Peacock.

Kindergarten walk: This is an introductory lesson in a series of lessons on our community and community helpers. Rosie's Walk by Pat Hutchins will be used as the pattern to plan our own walk around our school playground. Students will then create a simple map of our school playground.; Format: lesson plan (grade K Mathematics and Social Studies); By Michelle Hensley.

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