Short Story Examples, Our New Home Lesson

- Grades
- Grades 3–12, Elementary, Not Grade Specific, Adult Education, High School, Middle School
- Pages
- 5
- File type
- Answer key
- Included
- Subject
- ELA, Reading
- Topic
- short story, reading passage
- Resource types
- Teacher Tools, Lesson Plans
- Answer key
- Included
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What's inside this resource
Our New Home Short Story Lesson Plan for ESL ELA ELL students. Introduce your students to the pre-intermediate short story "Our New Home" with this engaging English language arts lesson plan. Through rich discussion questions and comprehension activities, learners analyze plot, characters, and central themes of this literary text. Then, grammar exercises assess and build skills from the narrative. Implementation ideas within the resource guide educators to customize sessions for whole-class, small-group, or individual assignments. This versatile short story analysis unit integrates reading, writing, vocabulary, and grammar standards into one interdisciplinary package for upper elementary students.
Includes an answer key
Makes it easier than ever for educators to evaluate student responses accurately
Eases manual workload on teachers when assessing responses delivered using traditional or conventional methods.
The package consists of three PDFs with four ready-to-print pages along with one digital access file. With its emphasis on what you can find in a new property, it injects a dose of fun into everyday schooling while imparting valuable educational content.
In terms of implementation, there's room for flexibility depending on class size or individual learner preferences: whole group setting inclusion, where all learners navigate through collectively; small-sized subsection utilization, allowing more intimate discussion amongst peers; traditional homework assignments that encourage independence in learning.
In the classroom
Teaching tips & learning objectives
Learning objectives
- Answer true-or-false questions about a short story
- Discuss the meaning of new vocabulary words
- Identify possessive forms in a text
Teaching tips
- Using the Google Apps copy requires a Google account.
Skills covered
- Reading comprehension — students judge true-or-false statements about the story
- Vocabulary research — students look up and discuss five words from the story
- Grammar noticing — students locate possessive forms in the text
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Concepts & topics
Core concepts
- Short story
- Vocabulary
- Possessives
- ESL
- A2 level
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