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Write It Resources

Interactive Sites

Literary Elements Mapping from Read?Write?Think.org

Story Stew Lesson from North Street Elementary School, Brockway, PA

Older/Advanced Students

  • “Literature: What Makes a Good Short Story” Annenberg Foundation’s Learner.org:
  • “Mrs. Dowling’s Literature Terms”

The Elements of Good Storytelling

  • http://www.skotos.net/articles/ELEMENTS.shtml
  • Setting, character, plot, back-story, and detail are the core elements required to tell stories – in books, movies, or games. Kimberly Appelcline, a Creative Writing graduate student at SFSU, explores these topics and offers advice on how to tell good stories in this instructional series.

Book:

Tarlow, Ellen. Teaching Story Elements with Favorite Books: Creative and Engaging Activities To Explore Character, Plot, Setting, and Theme--That Work with Any Book! Scholastic, Inc., Penguin Press. East Rutherford, NJ. 1998.