Lauren Birdsong
Description - This website contains a variety of short stories for students to choose to read.
Rationale - This website is good for letting students get to choose a short story that interests them.
Description - This website explains a few elements of short stories.
Rationale - This websites has just the story elements that I am wanting to introduce to my students and the explanations are fairly simple for each element.
Description - This website has a type of flashcards that students use to learn story elements.
Rationale - While this website has more story elements than I would want to introduce at first, but as we move along in the year, I could introduce more elements of a story. Also students can keep this as a resource for later in their school years.
Description - This website tells students about the 5 basic elements of a story.
Rationale - This website has a video that explains the elements of a story, as well as short paragraphs. The video also gives examples of these story elements.
Description - This video explains the setting of a story.
Rationale - This video gives a simple explanation of a setting and gives students an opportunity to practice along with the video
Description - This video simply defines what a character is.
Rationale - This video also gives students an opportunity to practice along with the video
Description - This is a website that has many parts to explore.
Rationale - This is a good resource for students to use. Numbers 4 and 5 are the best because there is a video with a catchy beat and a picture with a good yet simple definition.
Description - This is a good interactive for students to learn elements of a story.
Rationale - This reads students a story and then gives them a good interactive process to go through to learn and identify the elements of a story.
Description - This website has lots of stories for students to read.
Rationale - Students can continue to use this beyond 1st grade and read stories online. They can choose the age they are and then pick stories to read.
Description - Infographic contains and defines elements of a story.
Rationale - This infographic simply defines the elements of a story. This also contains pictures to help students understand the elements of a story.
