This is a Google Slides presentation with a brief introduction to Rudyard Kipling, author of Rikki Tikki Tavi and an explanation of the conflict in the story between the mongoose and the cobras. The story is presented in both audio and pdf format. Attached to the Slides presentation is a digital plot diagram for students to complete as they read.
This activity was created as a result of the ALEX Resource Development Summit.
This learning activity is an engaging teacher-created Google Slides presentation with basic definitions of literary terms illustrated with examples (gifs and videos) featuring a student favorite, Spongebob Squarepants. This activity includes a link to a Quizlet flashcard set.
This learning activity is a Google Slides presentation with an embedded video of actor Sean Astin reading A Bad Case of Stripes. Students will practice using academic vocabulary terms to identify plot elements in the picture book and complete a plot diagram.
Students will watch a video about an Aesop Fable. They will identify the theme of the fable portrayed in the video and support their answer with evidence from the video. Students will use a Google Slideshow to support a fictional narrative writing.
This activity results from the ALEX Resource Development Summit.
Students will write a fictional narrative that includes the literary elements of characters, setting, and plot. Students will write a fictional narrative that includes a specific theme and two examples of personification. Students will be assigned a partner. Students will identify the theme and personification used in their partner's story.
Resources include:
1. YouTube Videos: Pixar Animated Shorts to use with the students. The animated shorts tell a story focusing on the elements of plot (characters, setting, conflict, rising actions, climax, falling actions, and resolution).
2. Plot Diagram
Students will watch a Pixar Short video and complete the attached plot diagram that focuses on characters, setting, conflict, rising actions, climax, falling actions, and resolution. Students will demonstrate their understanding of the plot in the video by completing the attached plot diagram.
Students will summarize the Pixar Short video story, describing how the plot unfolds, and how the characters respond to challenges/problems using visual evidence.
Students will watch a short video about the elements of plot and identify character, setting, problem, and solution. Then, students will be given cards with text. Students will sort the text cards into the four categories of character, setting, problem, solution.
Students will write a fictional narrative incorporating the literary elements of plot (character, setting, problem, rising action, climax, falling action, solution). They will also include multimedia components and visual displays in their presentations to enhance the development of ideas and themes.
Students will read another student's narrative and respond to the plot questions attached to be sure they comprehend the text and the literary element of plot used in the text.
