Relate literary elements and devices to each other, including main idea and supporting details, climax, point of view, and imagery
- Recognizing use of flashback
Lesson Plans
The Big Ideas in Bud, Not BuddyStudents will identify the theme in a short story and explore the various themes in Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis. 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.
Running the Bases
Supporting details lesson plan geared toward GED students that are appropriate for middle school students.
Glencoe/McGraw-Hill Feeling Sleepy
Recognizing supporting details
Teachers' Handbook of Lesson Plans
Main idea and supporting details lesson plans appropriate for middle school students
Summary, Note Taking, Main Idea, and Detail
Various activities from note taking
Reading Online News
Using online news to identify author's purpose
Teachers' Handbook of Lesson Plans
Main idea lesson plans appropriate for middle school students.
"Unforgettable Character"
Students will recognize the main idea of a story, understand unfamiliar words in context, make inferences, and integrate information from outside the passage.
Developing a Character
Writing a narrative
Elements of a short story
Using interaction with peers to comprehend elements of a short story
Novel News: Broadcast Coverage of Character, Conflict, Resolutions, and Setting
Exploring literary elements through news coverage
What's the Big Idea?
Students learn to identify the main idea in a reading passage by using a technique to eliminate unnecessary words that are not relevant to the main idea.
Resources
Finding the Main Idea
Interactive Activity
Glencoe/McGraw-Hill Name That Literary Element
Interactive game
Glencoe/McGraw-Hill Sounds Like Poetry
Poetry interactive game
Special Education Files
SMART Notebook Activities
Types of Conflicts
This lesson introduces the types of conflicts that authors use in their stories.
Plot diagram
A diagram for SMARTboard when introducing plot in a story
Elements of plot
Students will be able to define elements of plot and then will be able to identify these elements in the fairy tale "Little Red Riding Hood"
Creative writing tools (parts of a story)
Use a range of techniques and different ways of organizing and structuring material to convey ideas, themes and characters
Story Structure
This is an introductory lesson about the parts of a plot of a story.
ELL Suggestions
Suggestions for English Language Learners:
(E/B)=Entering/Beginning, D=Developing, EX=Expanding)
http://www.learner.org/interactives/story/index.html
(D/EX) Focuses on all parts of story and allows learner to distingush parts, including climax
(E/B) Respond to literal questions that involve figures of speech from visually supported phrases
(E/B) Identify words or phrases representing figures of speech in visually supported related sources
(E) Identify words and phrases related to different time frames following oral directions with visual support
(B) Match oral phrases or sentences supported visually with different time frames
(D) Identify use of literay devices related to different time frames in visually supported discourse (e.g., foreshadowing or flashback)
(EX) Analyze use of literary devices related to differerent time frames in visually supported oral passages
The above ELL suggestions came from the following resources:
WIDA Consortium's English Language Proficiency Standards and Resource Guide, PreK - Grade 12
