Teaching short stories

Using Micro Teaching--stories students can read in under 10 minutes--is a great way to introduce skills, techniques and so much more in high school English classes. For AP® Literature and all ELA classes 9-12.

Short stories are valuable to middle school and high school English teachers, as well as students, and I love teaching short stories at the beginning of a new

Short stories are a great way to engage students and teach meaningful skills without having to enter into long units. Middle schoolers love a good suspenseful story that can be covered in a single …

Adding a Reading Literature Journal to Your Instruction Sometimes, as English/Literature teachers, we have a hard time making room for short stories in our instruction. There is a focus on novels and longer texts. However, it

Three high school English teachers get together to share their favorite short stories to teach and activities to make them sing...

Short story units have the potential to deeply inspire and impact learning with students, but if the approach is disjointed or lacking any sort of alignment, these units can feel like flops. Here are the ways that I craft meaningful, engaging, and interesting units to highlight the short stories th

Build student confidence and reading endurance with these resources. Teaching short stories has never been more exciting or engaging! (blog post)

The brevity of teaching short stories makes them great vehicles for focusing on specific skills, including plot, conflict, characterization, character development, text structure, literary criticism, and evaluating historical context. Some teachers use short stories at the start of the year. Others use them to complement individual units of study. However you choose to incorporate teaching short stories into your classroom, these are 5 lessons and skills to highlight with short stories!

One of my favorite units to teach is my short story unit. Teaching students about the elements of fiction and literary devices is so much fun. Helping

Looking for dystopian short stories to teach in your secondary classroom? Keep reading for a list of the 31 best dystopian short stories!