Foreshadowing
Foreshadowing chart for any book students are reading: for each entry they record a major event, the clue that hinted it was coming and the page number.

- Grades
- Grades 4–6, Elementary, Middle School
- File type
- Multiple File Types
- Subject
- ELA
- Topic
- foreshadowing, literary analysis
- Resource types
- Teacher Tools, Lesson Plans
About this resource
What's inside this resource
This lesson is designed to teach the concept of foreshadowing in literature, why it’s used and how it’s used. This lesson can be used for English Language Learner (ELL) as well as more advanced students. This lesson is designed to accompany the concept of foreshadowing in the Prentice Hall Literature series, Copper Level, for middle school students, but can be used as a stand-alone lesson as well.
This product contains a seven slide power point presentation, a foreshadowing fill in chart using the students’ own examples from books they have read, and 3 student foreshadowing writing templates.
In the classroom
Teaching tips & learning objectives
Learning objectives
- Identify clues an author uses to foreshadow a later event
- Cite the page where a foreshadowing clue appears
Skills covered
- Close reading — tracing an event back to the clue that foreshadowed it
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Concepts & topics
Core concepts
- Foreshadowing
- Literary elements
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