Identify setting, characters, plot, and theme. SPI 0501.8.1

Links verified on 4/15/2010

1. Analyzing the setting - graphic organizer for students
2. Circle Plot Diagram - The tool can be used as a pre-writing graphic organizer for students writing original stories with a circular plot structure (e.g., If You Take a Mouse to School), as well as a post-reading organizer used to explore the text structures in a book. Student Interactive from Read/Write/Think
3. Common Themes in Literature - list of a few common themes in literature
4. Fiction, Setting the Story - learn how authors manipulate time and space, mood, and spatial order in descriptions of settings
5. Interactive Plot Creator - Scroll to the middle of the page. Press the buttons for a setting, a character and a conflict, then write using this interactive writing prompt. [This expired page is from the Internet Archive known as the Wayback Machine.]
6. Plot Chart - chart the plot with this graphic organizer
7. Plot Development - article with example of how a plot is developed
8. Plot diagram - interactive tool to chart a circle plot - demonstration of how to use this tool given
9. Plot Diagram - interactive tool to chart beginning to ending of plot - demonstration of how to use this tool given
10. Plot Outline - graphic chart for students
11. Problem/Solution Chart - Fill out this chart as a whole class activity brainstorming session to learn to recognize problems and solutions in stories. This uses cause and effect, but can be adapted.
12. Setting Plot and Theme - lesson and quiz [This expired page is from the Internet Archive known as the Wayback Machine.]
13. The Short Story: Read to Write-Setting - lesson and activities [This expired page is from the Internet Archive known as the Wayback Machine.]
14. Story Stew - Lesson plan to introduce story elements.
15. Story Character Outline - print and let students complete information about the story they are reading
16. Story Element Quiz - learn the definitions of parts of a story
17. Story Map - The Story Map interactive is designed to assist students in pre-writing and post-reading activities by focusing on the key elements of character, setting, conflict, and resolution. Student Interactive from Read/Write/Think
18. Story Shackles (Linking Students To Written Text) - 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
19. Teaching about Conflict in Literature - Lesson Plan - uses graphic organizer to plot out stories.
20. Theme - lesson and activity on how to find themes
21. Understanding the Plot - lesson and activities [This expired page is from the Internet Archive known as the Wayback Machine.]
22. Using Excel to Make a Plot Tension Graph - step by step directions on using Excel to make a plot tension graph
23. Walk Two Moons: An Integrated Unit - integrated study combining setting, theme, point of view, character, and plot with geography and geometry
24. Writing about Theme - lesson plan - format could be adapted to another story