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Core Knowledge First Grade ELA Curriculum
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Core Knowledge First Grade ELA Curriculum

For Teachers 1st Standards
Eleven units make up the Core Knowledge First Grade ELA Curriculum Set. Each read-aloud anthology showcases a different topic and comes with a daily calendar, detailed lesson plans, and in-class and at-home practice. Plenty of teacher...
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Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss!
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Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss!

For Teachers K - 6th Standards
Celebrate Read Across America Day or Dr. Seuss's birthday with a collection of reading comprehension materials. Versatile for any Dr. Seuss book, the worksheets and activities promote both foundational reading skills and critical thining...
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Core Knowledge 7th Grade ELA Curriculum
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Core Knowledge 7th Grade ELA Curriculum

For Teachers 7th Standards
Eight guides comprise the Core Knowledge seventh grade English Language Arts Curriculum Set. The guides, developed by the Core Knowledge Foundation, are designed “to advance excellence and equity in education for all children.” Unit 1...
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Story Elements Organizer
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Story Elements

For Students K - 2nd
Need a graphic organizer to help young readers list the events in a story? This worksheet includes the story title, author, setting, and characters split into four sections. Make charting story elements easy with this resource.
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Identifying Story Elements Lesson Plan
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Identifying Story Elements

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Help your class identify story elements. They will discuss character, setting, problem, and solution after reading a story. A graphic organizer will help them to identify various elements with guided practice and independent practice...
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Story Elements PPT
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Story Elements

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Review story elements with your class using this resource. Learners can take a story they have read as a class and identify story elements. They focus on characters, setting, the introduction, and plot. Then, they use graphic organizers...
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Knights of the Round Table adapted by Gwen Ross Lesson Plan
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Knights of the Round Table adapted by Gwen Ross

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Everyone loves the tales involving King Arthur and his knights. After reading Knights of the Round Table by Gwen Gross, learners draw inferences and conclusions, analyze story elements, and discuss figurative language, including...
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Story Elements that Support the Theme Lesson Plan
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Story Elements that Support the Theme

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
Three great graphic organizers guide readers to see how the elements of plot and main idea can be charted to reveal the theme of a story. Model the process on the provided Direct Teaching Teacher Graphic Organizer using Aesop’s The...
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Story Elements: Henry and Mudge Story Worksheet
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Story Elements: Henry and Mudge Story

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this story elements from a Henry and Mudge story activity, students read the story, cut out story elements, and glue them into the correct categories on the second activity. Students cut and paste seventeen story elements.
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Story Elements  Lesson Plan
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Story Elements

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders identify story elements. In this story elements lesson, 3rd graders look at main idea, characters, point of view, theme and setting. They create a five paneled comic strip from a book.
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Noisy Nora, Studious Students: Story Elements Lesson Plan
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Noisy Nora, Studious Students: Story Elements

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Alliterative adjective nicknames generate stories inspired by Rosemary Wells' book Noisy Nora (also a thematic complement to any class with children who make a ruckus to get attention). Class members explore basic story elements --...
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Story Elements - Sequence and Meaning Lesson Plan
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Story Elements - Sequence and Meaning

For Teachers K
Students practice sequencing story elements for meaning. In this story elements lesson plan, students participate in a teacher demonstration in how to sequence story elements in a story about the grocery store. They break into groups by...
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Analyzing Story Elements Lesson Planet Article
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Analyzing Story Elements

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Lesson ideas to teach students how to analyze story elements through visual representation.
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Exploring Contrasting Story Elements Through Tapestry and Poetry Lesson Plan
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Exploring Contrasting Story Elements Through Tapestry and Poetry

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Young thinkers view two narrative art tapestries and study the images included that tell a story about the Roman Emperor Constantine. As they examine the details of the tapestries, pupils use a Venn Diagram to record the similarities and...
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Interpreting Characters, Setting, Plot, and Theme - The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Disaster Lesson Plan
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Interpreting Characters, Setting, Plot, and Theme - The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Disaster

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Examine story development and historical disaster with your class. Learners view a video depicting the incidents surrounding The Triangle Shirtwaist Disaster. They use graphic organizers and the Internet to gather enough information to...
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Writing: Mentor Text Lesson & Microteaching  Lesson Plan
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Writing: Mentor Text Lesson & Microteaching

For Teachers 3rd
Mentor texts are a great way to demonstrate how to write with purpose. Pupils will be reintroduced to two well-known books and then asked to think about them from the writer's point of view. They will see that the author had to use basic...
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Comparing and Contrasting Yourself to a Character Lesson Plan
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Comparing and Contrasting Yourself to a Character

For Teachers 1st - 2nd Standards
First and second graders explore character as a story element. They  listen to the first part of the story First Day Jitters by Julie Danneberg and observe the teacher modeling a compare and contrast characters activity. Learners...
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Reading Comprehension: My Lucky Day Lesson Plan
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Reading Comprehension: My Lucky Day

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Tell a story using pictorial representations as textual support. Special education pupils reading at an elementary level will enjoy identifying characters and other story elements while increasing their vocabulary with their handy PECS...
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Using Story Elements to Write a Rep Lesson Plan
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Using Story Elements to Write a Rep

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students write a rap song to tell the who, what, and where of a story. In this literature lesson, students learn to identify the setting, characters, and plot of a story. Students watch a video and discuss story elements. Then...
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Teaching Story Elements: Jack and the Beanstalk Lesson Plan
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Teaching Story Elements: Jack and the Beanstalk

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students define fictional story elements. In this reading comprehension lesson, students read Jack and the Beanstalk and view an included SMARTboard lesson. Students use the SMARTboard to match the story element terms with the specific...
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Gingerbread Friends Lesson Plan Guide Lesson Plan
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Gingerbread Friends Lesson Plan Guide

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
Full of activities for Jan Brett's story "Gingerbread Friends," this resource will get your kids in the mood for some snacks, fortify their need for vocabulary, and fill their minds with story elements.
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Plot Summary for Story Element Lesson Plan
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Plot Summary for Story Element

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Seventh graders identify story elements utilizing a plot summary organizer. In this story elements lesson, 7th graders discuss the elements of a good story. Students use The Three Little Pigs to practice finding the plot elements....
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Story Elements Lesson Plan
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Story Elements

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Sixth graders use several pieces of literature to identify specific story elements. In this story elements lesson, 6th graders analyze the story element of character, character traits, and setting for the example stories. Students work...
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Plot Summary for Story Elements Lesson Plan
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Plot Summary for Story Elements

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Ninth graders identify story elements utilizing a plot summary organizer. In this plot summary lesson, 9th graders discuss the elements of a good story and listen to the story of the three little pigs. Students complete a group plot...
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