Learners develop skills needed to write short stories. They pick out an object in the room and describe it without saying what it is. They describe their hand and the lines on their hand without using words "Line, finger,skin or vein"

In this creative writing learning exercise, students use the picture to generate ideas for a story. Students also incorporate the elements about the plot and setting for their story.

For this writing prompt worksheet, students use the prompt 'It was the bottom of the ninth and we were down by four runs,' to write a short story.

Tenth graders read short story, "The Storyteller" by Saki, and expand on concept of stories for students by reading and evaluating several popular students's stories as well as writing their own original students's stories.

Students read a short story, The Tell-Tale Heart and create a story map identifying the elements of a short story included in the selection. Students complete an Accelerated Reader test on the selection.

Students examine how to outline their story, to write a story and then edit their work. They illustrate their story using drawing features like squares, circles, and other shapes or a drawing program if they have it on the computer.

Students use their art materials to go outside and draw a picture of a scene. They can also write down specific notes in a small spiral notebook about the scene they want to remember so they can write their stories. They complete their...

Young scholars use the information they wrote about on the topic they chose in studying About Weather. They then write a short story using the information choosing a theme, setting, characters, and the plot.

This site from Bibliomania contains the full and complete text to Francis Bret Harte's story, The Outcasts of Poker Flat.

Provides lesson ideas for investigating the poet Paul Laurence Dunbar. It includes ideas on form, style, artistic appeal, comparison and contrast. There are also questions about the text provided.

This index page links to the full text of four Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly short stories, including "The False Rhyme," "Ferdinando Eboli," "The Mourner," and "The Mortal Immortal."

This is the full text of the short story Fire of Beauty by L. Adams Beck, a part of the Ninth Vibration, a collection of short stories.

Explore the world of Ray Bradbury when you visit this educational resource. Each work is hyperlinked to study guide questions.

This is the text of the short story "Alibi Ike" by Ring Lardner, a story about an ace baseball player nicknamed "Alibi Ike" due to his making up excuses. After falling in love with the beautiful sister-in-law of the team manager, he is...

This site focuses on Leo Tolstoy featuring links to his biography, and the full text of eight novels and one short story. These works include Anna Karenina, War and Peace, and The Death of Ivan Ilych.

This is an online study guide/notes for the collection of short stories "A Good Man Is Hard To Find" by Flannery O'Connor including author information, literary elements, short story summaries/notes, study questions, and analysis.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Teachers may choose from over 20 short stories that have printable worksheets for checking comprehension.

This site provides a collection of concise folktale plots for student retelling. Teachers can also view and use the links that contain online lesson plans and activities.