Teaching short stories

Are you looking for short funny stories for your kids in English? Here I have come up with the most beautiful stories.

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

Help your students write a successful short story by guiding them through this process. Includes free graphic organizers - great for the pre-writing process for narrative stories!

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)

For many students, the short story genre is accessible and within reach. They aren’t daunted by their length unlike novels where they are gazing down the endless lengths of dozens and dozens of pages. With short stories, students aren’t puzzled by layers and layers of meaning and interpretation densely packed into the lines of a short poem. And, for many students, short stories are the Goldilocks-style “just right” for reading and writing.

One day, while tutoring, I asked a sophomore what he’d been doing in English class lately. To my horror, he replied, “Oh, we’re ju...

Teaching short stories helps focus on specific skills, including plot, conflict, character development, text structure, and literary criticism.

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