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This Short Story Elements unit includes plot, characterization, conflict, theme, and setting. Notes can be completed using a PowToon video (think PowerPoint but online and more exciting) at the following link: https://www.powtoon.com/online-presentation/dZFNQMAGGvR/5-elements-of-short-story/ Practice pages can be used to identify the short story elements in any short story. I prefer to use simple fairy tales. We did one as a class ("Hansel and Gretel") and then students were asked to work in

This unit contains a 10 slide PowerPoint including a link to a YouTube video for review. A worksheet where students draw an idiom and give the literal and figurative definition is also included. Finally, a quiz where students match idioms to their figurative definition as well as writing an idiom seen in the review video wraps up the unit. Meets the following Common Core State Standards: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.3.5.A Distinguish the literal and nonliteral meanings of words and phrases in context