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1. Genre: Fink Genre Extensions 2. Plot: Odyssey Plot Extensions 3. Mood/Setting: Oakley Mood Extensions 4. Point of View: Stowe POV Extensions 5. Character Dev't: Owens Character Dev't Extensions 6. Fig. Language: Appleseed Fig. Language Extensions 7. Theme: Armstrong Theme Extensions 8. Storytelling: Gatton Storytelling Extension

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Literary Elements Mapping from Read?Write?Think.org

http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/lit-elements/
Graphic Organizers for: Character, Conflict, Resolution, Setting

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

http://www.teachers.net/lessons/posts/1353.html
Story Elements focus: character, plot, setting

Older/Advanced Students

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

http://www.learner.org/exhibits/literature/index.html
The site focuses on the classic short story, “A Jury of Her Peers,” by Susan Glaspell. The story is available at the website and sections on plot, point of view, character development, setting, and theme.

“Mrs. Dowling’s Literature Terms”

http://www.dowlingcentral.com/MrsD/area/literature/LitTerms.html
Each term contains a lesson, exercises and quizzes.
See also “Figurative Language” http://www.dowlingcentral.com/MrsD/area/literature/Terms/figspeech.html

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.