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Special Collection: Top Stories for Teaching Mood
Our top stories, videos, lesson plans, and activities for exploring mood
The Nothing
Whatever you do, don’t look behind you.
Learning objective: to identify the mood in a work of fiction and explore how the author creates that mood, then write a sequel staying true to the mood of the story
Author Read Aloud
Lewis reads her story aloud and talks about mood.
Lost in the Woods
Two kids are lost in a terrifying forest. Can a golden retriever find them before it’s too late?
Learning objective: to explore how author Lauren Tarshis creates mood in the introduction of a narrative nonfiction article
Mountain of Doom
Journey 2,000 years into the past, to the day Mount Vesuvius erupted.
Learning objective: to explore how author Lauren Tarshis creates mood in 2 sections of a narrative nonfiction article
Hunting a Snake-Headed Monster: Allan Davey; The Nothing: Mimadeo/Shutterstock.com (background); JETACOM AUTOFOCUS/Shutterstock.com (branch); Jean du Boisberranger/Getty Images (tree trunk); Frankenstein: Allan Davey; Lost in the Woods:Stone36/Shutterstock.com (woods); Jeka/Shutterstock.com (girls) ; Mountain of Doom: Gary Hanna; Bearing Up: Gary Hanna