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Contents 1 Common core standards 2 Related articles 3 Teaching strategies 3.1 Graphic organizers 4 Classroom activities 4.1 Foreshadowing 4.2 Flashback 4.3 Foreshadowing and flashback 5 Cyber games and activities 5.1 iPad apps 6 Free worksheets 6.1 Foreshadowing 6.2 Flashbacks 6.3 Foreshadowing and flashbacks 7 At home 8 Videos 9 Helpful links 10 Product reviews

Common core standards

• Grade 4 Explain major differences between poems, drama, and prose, and refer to the structural elements of poems and drama when writing or speaking about a text CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.4.5
  • Structural elements of poems, e.g. verse, rhythm, meter. Structural elements of drama, e.g. casts of characters, settings, descriptions, dialogue, stage directions
• Grade 5 Explain how a series of chapters, scenes, or stanzas fits together to provide the overall structure of a particular story, drama, or poem CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.5.5
• Grade 6 Analyze how a particular sentence, chapter, scene, or stanza fits into the overall structure of a text and contributes to the development of the theme, setting, or plot CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.6.5
• Grade 7 Analyze how a drama’s or poem’s form or structure (e.g., soliloquy, sonnet) contributes to its meaning CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.7.5
• Grade 8 Compare and contrast the structure of two or more texts and analyze how the differing structure of each text contributes to its meaning and style CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.8.5
• Grade 9-10 Analyze how an author’s choices concerning how to structure a text, order events within it (e.g., parallel plots), and manipulate time (e.g., pacing, flashbacks) create such effects as mystery, tension, or surprise CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9-10.5
• Grade 11-12 Analyze how an author’s choices concerning how to structure specific parts of a text contribute to its overall structure and meaning as well as its aesthetic impact CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.11-12.5

Related articles

• Plot
• Exposition
• Setting
• Characters
• Tone and mood

Teaching strategies

Foreshadowing and flashback are two literary devices that are often taught together.

Graphic organizers

• Foreshadowing from Kim's Korner is a one page chart of what happened and what was the clue.

• Prediction chart from ReadWriteThink has students list their predictions and then state if they were right.

Classroom activities

Foreshadowing

• NY Learns Making Predictions and Discovering Foreshadow is a well developed 8th grade lesson plan on predictions and foreshadowing. It has lots of resources attached-- some are SMART board files. Even if you don't have one, the attached prediction paragraph rubric is still pretty good.

• Prediction Cards from Scholastic is another mini-lesson that has students create prediction cards about a story to share with their peers. Their peers then make predictions about the story from the information given on the cards and discover if they were right.

• Learner.org Foreshadowing is barely even a mini-lesson-- it's a handout to give groups of students when they begin to read a story telling them what to look for as they read and some guiding questions.

• Teacher1Stop Predicting and Foreshadowing is a brief lesson with a video link and really good foreshadowing graphic organizer. The lesson is for grades 5 and up.

Flashback

• Flashback is a brief, middle school lesson on flashback with passages for students to read and discussion questions.

Foreshadowing and flashback

• Scholastic’s Foreshadowing and Flashback Lesson uses the “Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allen Poe to introduce the concepts and includes the story, follow up activities and worksheets. It’s a very well put together lesson package.

Cyber games and activities

Harcourt Predictions Grade 3 has students read short passages and predict what will happen next. Foreshadowing is not explicitly mentioned in the game.

Ed Place Flashbacks is an interactive worksheet that guides students through the steps of creating their own stories with flashbacks.

iPad apps

Free worksheets

Foreshadowing

• Teach-nology Prediction has students read short, simple paragraphs and make a prediction about what will happen next. The questions do not specifically address foreshadowing.

• ISL Collective Looney Tunes Foreshadowing has students read examples from Looney Tunes cartoons and state what each example foreshadows. Aimed at elementary school students.

• Foggy Figures from Superteacher is a two page story with numerous questions (multiple choice and open ended) about foreshadowing within the story. The text is at a mid to upper elementary level.

Flashbacks

• Readworks Flashbacks and Sequence is afour page, grade 4, worksheet on flashbacks with passages for the students to read.

Foreshadowing and flashbacks

• Education.com Flashback and Foreshadowing has three passages with three questions after each asking students to identify the foreshadowing and flashbacks in the passages.

• McGraw Hill has an entire workbook on literary elements online-- foreshadowing is on page 15 and flashback on page 17

At home

Videos

| Foreshadowing in Films is a nine minute video montage that explains foreshadowing. If you skip the narration and watch only the video clips, it would work well in a lesson. The first 30 seconds are jaws, 2:29 is a clip from Star Wars, 3:10 in is a clip from Mulan, 3:54 is a clip from Cinderella, and 6:53 is a clip from Aladdin. Each clip is under 30 seconds and then has a discussion of what was foreshadowed.

| Flashbacks in Twilight is a YouTube clip from Twilight that has great examples of flashbacks. Okay—at least clear examples.

Helpful links

• Bright Hub Education has a good list of stories to use in teaching foreshadowing.

• Free PowerPoints has a downloadable slideshow on foreshadowing and flashback. Here is another one from the same website.

Product reviews

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