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Find short stories difficult to teach? Here are five of my favourites that your students will love to analyze. A free lesson plan will be available, too!

• The Wind and Water pillar. 2 that never get along , no matter what. The wind pillar.. Also known as Sanemi Shinazugawa , hates Giyuu , the water pillars guts. Or so he thought. He basically bullies the water pillar for being 'too full of himself'. Giyuu on the other hand , doesn't mind these actions and ignores them. One day , Sanemi has had enough. So he decided to take matters into his own hands • | This contains.. | -Smut (All my stories mostly have Smut) - Lime -Angst -fluff -bullying?? The art isn't mine! 💕 if i find out who made the arts , ill give credit! ✨

Struggling To Come Up With Ideas For Your Next Short Story Or Novel? Here Are 25 New Love Story Ideas To Inspire You Today.

So weve got a bunch of kids, right? They all love different kinds of stories - some are all about adventures, while some cant get enough of those fairy tales.

Story elements can be a blast for kids with these free graphic organizers and worksheets for character, setting, and plot.

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Okay--I think I have admitted this before but here I go again, I dislike teaching writing. {Gasp!} I know, shame on me. Such an important part of a day in the life of a first grader. I'm contributing my dislike of writing to not be such a great writer myself growing up. One of my .unstated. resolution's was to become a better writing teacher. Well, let me tell you...this week I have jumped right in! Seems like I just hadn't found a way(in the past) that fit me or my students. While I was going through my writing folder desperately searching for ideas, I found a sheet that gave me inspiration and my writing lessons were brought to fruition! We started off this week talking about "story starters" and how important it was to catch your readers attention in the first sentence or two of your story. The anchor chart *fanatic* that I am made this: Here are the books I used that had great beginnings to show examples of interesting ways to start a story. The next day we picked a character to write our story about and described it using my 'Describe a Snowman' bubble map. I told them I wanted them to use their imagination and be creative. I showed them a few different type of snowmen (from clipart I found) to get their little wheels spinning. Their creativity came to life and describing is what they did! Our next step was to talk about the parts of a story: beginning, middle, end. We discussed these concepts: Beginning=story starter, character and setting introduction. Middle=give your character a problem. Ending=solve the problem and end the story. They caught onto this SOOOOO much better than I ever imagined! I created a worksheet for them to record their thoughts. After completion, we talked about the AND Disease! They thought this was HILARIOUS!!! I wrote and example of something like this on the board: When I read it they {laughed and laughed and laughed}! They thought I was crazy for using the word AND so many times. They were surprised when I told them that --they-- were actually the ones who were consumed by this disease! I had them go back and edit their papers for the "and disease", capitalization and puncuation. Our final day of writing consisted of completing our final draft. I had them transfer their edited writing and complete it by drawing a picture. I was in ~AWE~ after reading most of their stories....had I really taught them step by step with my own ideas!? Heck yes, I felt like I had hit the jackpot!! We will be at it again this week creating a penguin story to go along with our penguin unit! I'm hoping the process will be a little bit more independent (fingers-crossed)! This teacher is all smiles : ) P.S. If you made it this far, you can click on all the above templates and pick them up in my TpT store for FREE!

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Students practice sequencing story events with this worksheet. Cut out the sentences into strips and then build your story by arranging them in the best order.

Don't let your literature anthology dictate the short stories you read with your middle school and high school students. There are so many wonderful short stories out there, many of which can be used to teach a variety of literary elements and paired with other texts. Read on for 13 of my favorites, which literary terms and skills they lend themselves to teaching, plus suggested text pairings and activities.

Growth Mindset: The Power of Yet Recently my 1st grade classroom has morphed into a K/1 combination classroom and then resulted in HUGE gaps (academically, socially, & emotionally) between my s…

A story about Johnny's little sister, Jennie, her friends and the crazy adventures they go on together!!! Hope you enjoy it!!! :)

The Gruffalo lesson plans for K-2. Engaging 5-day lesson plans with differentiated reading response, vocabulary, sentence study, and a craft for this fun story!

Poetry haiku ideas to get students reading and writing poetry. Use this template to teach learners how to write a haiku.

Color mixing is a great activity for a preschooler to explore after learning all their colors. Below I have used a much loved book "Mouse Paint" and expanded on it with a printable and a

Using wordless shorts in language therapy gives you so many options and your clients will LOVE it! Links to the best wordless videos!

A story of how God shows a man the difference between Heaven and Hell by opening two doors. A powerful parable on the difference between love and selfishness.

Read-alouds are one of the best ways to introduce new concepts to students. By integrating stories in lessons, students are introduced to quality books. When students are exposed to engaging literature, it fosters a life-long love of reading. There are even greater benefits when these engaging

Charles Leclerc and Juliette Swift have been racing rivals since the beginning of their karting careers. Unlike others, their rivalry continued off-track. Always trying to outdo the other. Will that all change after a drunk night in a hotel?

Looking for some inspiring quotes to live by? Check out these 16 Brené Brown Quotes about strength and courage. Empower yourself and shift your mindset with these quotes.

I mean...why WOULDN'T you use cootie catchers in your reading block? It makes perfect sense. Ok - remember last week how I was talking about doing a little spring cleaning with some of my TpT resources? Well, I did a little spring cleaning in my file folders on my computer as well. Yikes. Now THAT'S a bit of a rabbit hole. I got in a little deeper than I wanted to, but I figured I might as well finish the job. I got rid of a lot (a LOT) of cringe worthy products that just didn't make the cut anymore, and I got some major organizing done as well. BUT - you know what I found? THIS >>> It's a reading comprehension cootie catcher that I TOTALLY forgot I made! And since it resurfaced for me - I thought I'd resurface it for you! I'm sure I made it for you guys in the first place, but I can't for the life of me find it anywhere on the blog. There's actually 3 different versions. They have different comprehension questions that can be used with any fictional book. They work great as a quick partner review game. You can download them here! Find any long-lost things in your spring cleaning, lately? Pin and Share this freebie:

Ever wondered how to make a book? This little tutorial will show you how to make one with just 1 single piece of paper! This is perfect for kids!

These Shel Silverstein quotes serve as great instructions for how to live life to the fullest, and overcome the challenges that come with it.

Find out about an engaging story elements game that easily works with any fiction text that your students will beg you to play!

How to create a retell literacy center in kindergarten. Plus a list of 20 famous stories and retell props (with printables) to complete this center.

Save time, increase your mental efficiency, and regain inspiration as a yoga teacher by checking out the best yoga blogs of 2019!

To bookworms out there, it's time to monetize your love for reading books. I've written 10 ways on how you can get paid to read books!

We love connecting projects to books, and we're always inspired by the amazing group of bloggers who participate in the Virtual Book Club for Kids (you can also check the club out on Facebook) as the group comes up with some great extension activities each month. This month's author was Leo Lionni. We chose to read and do a project using a book we've really been enjoying lately, A Color of His Own. This is the sweet tale of a little chameleon who is looking for one color to stay all the time, but keeps running into that challenge that chameleons change color. In the end, he winds up finding a friend to always be with so they can at least always be the same color together. I've used this book in the past as a primary teacher. It's a great way to talk about friendship and also about what makes us each unique. My boys have been loving the simple tale and the colorful illustrations this spring. For our activity extension we decided to use cray-pas and watercolors. I love how colorful this art technique can be. I sketched several chameleon outlines onto white drawing paper using permanent marker. (I'm including a printable copy here in case you just want to print one out, or use the printable to trace onto thicker paper.) Afterwards the boys and I each colored in a chameleon using the cray-pas. Big Brother and I thought about ways to create different patterns. Little Brother focused on just coloring his in, using mostly one color. After we were done coloring, we watercolored on top of the cray-pas. The watercolor doesn't stick to the cray-pas, and fills all the white spaces around it. We all had different strategies for painting. When they were done I cut the three chameleons out and we hung them in our play room. I love how they are a set but each one unique. That's part of what can also make this project a great classroom activity, especially for the start of a school year. Or turn it into a fun family project, with each family member creating a chameleon to represent themselves. What Leo Lionni books does your family enjoy? Have you read this one yet? This post may also have been shared at some of these terrific link parties.

This packet helps to build a great foundation of reading comprehension skills! Printable stories with close reading activities require students to go back into the text to find information. Your students will love highlighting, circling, and coloring important information and completing a response activity for each story. Skills Addressed: *Genre identification *Reading for Details *Characters *Setting *Problem *Solution *Sequencing *Cause/Effect *Main Idea/Details

How do I build classroom community? Try these community building picture books and free lesson ideas and activities to build classroom community in upper elementary classrooms.

A story of how God shows a man the difference between Heaven and Hell by opening two doors. A powerful parable on the difference between love and selfishness.

A collection of children's stories with links to their perfect Classical Music pairings, great for inspiring imaginative movement.

Even as an adult, children's books are still one of my favorite things. I have many fond memories of “story […]

We started teaching the 4 year old class at our church this past week. They are sweetest and silliest group of kiddos. I love this age group. We hear all sorts of stories (good ones...it's church!). My favorite part is when they tell me all they know about our topic each week. They always surprise