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Students will understand the structure and elements of narrative texts, including plot, characters, setting, and theme.

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Students will learn to analyze stories to identify their themes, conflicts, and the perspectives of different characters.

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Students will be able to create their own narrative texts, using proper structure and imaginative elements.

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Use Padlet to gather and share digital resources, including examples of narrative texts, and analysis tools.

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LibGuides: English and Literature: Padlet for Instruction

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Library resources for the study of literature.

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Introduce students to the concept of narrative texts, explaining the key elements and showing examples.

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Have students analyze a short story to identify its plot, characters, setting, and themes.

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Organize students into groups for a discussion on a narrative text, focusing on character motivation and theme.

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Students use Padlet to collaboratively create their own short stories, focusing on incorporating the elements of narrative texts.

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There's a good chance you've done the "write on a sticky note and put it on the wall" activity - or have seen it happen before.
Padlet lets those sticky notes have images, links and videos AND be available with practically any Internet-ready device.
It used to be blocked by my school's Internet filter. This school year, the powers that be have allowed it through on student devices, opening up lots of possibilities in class!

Padlet is a great place for gathering ideas, sharing them and modifying them later. It's like a living, breathing webpage. Users can add links, YouTube videos, files and images to Padlet notes. They can move and arrange them. A link to a Padlet can be shared and Padlets can be embedded into webpages.

Here are 20 ways to use Padlet in class:

15. Collect videos to share in class

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20 useful ways to use Padlet in class now

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Padlet is a web app that lets users post notes on a digital wall. The uses for this site in the classroom are virtually endless!There's a good chance

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Groups present their stories to the class, explaining the elements of narrative texts they included.

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Evaluate students' analyses of narrative texts for understanding of key concepts.

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Assess the narrative texts created by students for creativity, structure, and use of narrative elements.

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Have students reflect on what they learned about narrative texts and how they can apply this knowledge.

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Assign a narrative text for students to read and prepare an analysis for the next class.

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Encourage students to write their own short narrative text, using elements discussed in class.