7 Simple Short Story Literary Prompts You Need for Your Classroom

student working on short story literary elements

Searching for an authentic way to help your students analyze short story literary elements? As ELA teachers, we know that our students struggle to move past identifying literary elements to analyzing their purpose. So often my students feel like it’s enough that they found the conflict. But let’s be real. We should be expecting so […]

Teaching Literary Elements The Best Way At The Beginning of the Year

story book with pop up images to use for teaching literary elements

We are past the first few days of getting-to-know-you activities and we read to start teaching literary elements to our students. By high school, most of our students know the elements of a short story even if they claim that they don’t! But, teaching story elements can be tedious. And, we don’t want to create […]

Create Your English 10 Short Story Unit in 5 Easy Steps

english 10 short story unit blog post cover

Looking for a refresh on your English 10 short story unit? Still, trying to figure out where to start? Maybe the thought of a short story unit rewrite seems too daunting. Friend, I am here for you! I want to make your life easy. In this post, I will give you my English 10 short […]

How to Teach Literary Elements in a Story in an Engaging Way

open book with fairy lights glowing in the middle to show the literary elements in a short story

Literary elements in a story are some of the major standards covered in an curriculum especially in high school but sometimes those lessons can become dry. By the time our students reach us in high school, we expect them to know about point of view or conflict or characterization. BUT and that’s a big BUT, […]

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