Description
Have your students demonstrate their understanding of any short story by creatively blending written analysis with visual elements using this one-pager reading comprehension project. Students synthesize ideas from the text through illustrations, symbols, and written responses, resulting in imaginative and meaningful literary analysis.
This one-pager activity encourages close reading and critical thinking as students visually represent their interpretation of the story. The final projects serve as unique and engaging analyses of literature while also creating eye-catching bulletin boards and classroom displays that showcase student learning.
Students are encouraged to incorporate multiple literary elements into their one-pager, such as theme, main idea, point of view, foreshadowing, symbolism, conflict, flashback, mood, tone, irony, characterization, and imagery, allowing teachers to tailor the assignment to their instructional focus.
This resource includes
Student directions for the one-pager project in a ready-to-print PDF format, a rubric for the project in a ready-to-print PDF, two example one pagers including one based on Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes and one based on The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe, eleven blank printable templates (optional), and an editable Word document so teachers can modify the directions or rubric as needed.