Short Story Unit Planning - Inclusive Recommendations for Teaching Short Stories
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Ready to make your Short Story unit more inclusive? Here are texts and ideas you can use! Increase the representation in your unit with these short stories, songs, and TV episodes. In addition to selections from popular literature textbooks, this list includes stories available online, recommendations from YA short stories anthologies, and more.
Teaching Short Stories - made easy!
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❤️ Ready to change things up? I want to give you confidence in choosing new short stories for your short story unit. I'm not saying that you need to replace every text -- I want to continue a dialogue on how to make our curricula more inclusive.
This curated list represents 30+ hours of research. You can use any of these text suggestions as you plan your unit.
Ideas for your Short Story Unit:
25+ inclusive text suggestions organized by teaching topic:
- Setting
- Conflict
- Characterization
- Symbolism
- Pacing & Suspense
- Mood & Tone
- Irony
What other teachers are saying:
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “Phenomenal resource that keeps getting better as more ideas are added! Love the focus on diverse characters and various formats of storytelling.” -JoAnna W.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “This a fantastic resource to get new ideas of inclusive texts to teach. She has basically done the research for us and now we can use her ideas to implement new texts in our classes, Also, knowing that the seller may update this over time makes it a valuable investment. Highly recommend.” -Emily F.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “Well-researched and very thorough. I had been struggling with the whiteness of so many short stories that are easily available so this has been a great resource.” -Victoria D.
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Your resource is a .pdf with a link to the Google Doc of text suggestions. It is meant to save you TIME researching so that you can get to the fun stuff. You can email me at nouvelle.ela@gmail.com if you have any questions. **This is a living document, meaning that I may update the Google Doc with more resources and ideas. Be sure to bookmark it. :)**
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