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Read Works

Read Works: Main Idea Kindergarten Unit: Using Details to Create a Title

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Lesson uses Amazing Gorillas! by Sarah L. Thomson and In the Wild: Leopards by Stephanie St. Pierreto to teach students how to use textual details to create a title for informational text. Ideas for...
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Read Works

Read Works: Helping a Friend

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This ReadWorks module contains a pair of literary texts that narrate teamwork-themed stories about a children's running race and a children's soccer game . Pictures, photos, and question sets are...
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Read Works

Read Works: Finding Food

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage discusses how obtaining food was challenging in the past. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes...
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Curated OER

Google for Education: Children and Technology: Collaborative Illustrated Story

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Students collaboratively create an illustrated story as a team by using Google Presentation.
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SEDL

Cognitive Framework: Instructional Resources Database: Instructional Activities

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This professional resource includes a database to find the answer relative to the best instructional practices related to alphabetic literacy. This site offers activities in English and Spanish to help teach literacy topics.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Character Web

For Students K - 1st Standards
In this activity, students will create a character web. Students will use a character from their storybook character for the web.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: rl.k.3 With Prompting and Support, Identify Characters, Settings,

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This landing page provides different lesson plan choices on teaching RL.K.3 With prompting and support, identify characters, settings,
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: rl.k.2 With Prompting and Support, Retell Familiar Stories

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This landing page offers a variety of lesson plans that instruct students on RL.K.2 With prompting and support, retell familiar stories, etc.
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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Building World Knowledge: Informational Text

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Before, during, and after-reading ideas for introducing students to informational texts in the early-elementary grades in order to boost reading achievement through the upper-elementary grades.
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CPALMS

Cpalms: Buzzing Tails

For Students K - 1st Standards
This video tutorial features the character named Bobby who will assist students as they search for key details in a nonfiction text.
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Education.com

Education.com: ri.k.9 Lesson Plans

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] These lesson plans can help students practice identifying basic similarities in and differences between two texts on the same topic.
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CPALMS

Cpalms: It's All in the Details

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Using this comprehensive lesson plan, students will use a web graphic organizer to learn to record the main idea and details learned from informational text read aloud to them.
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Education.com

Education.com: sl.k.5 Lesson Plans

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Choose from four quality lesson plans to help students practice the Common Core Standard of adding drawings or other visual displays to descriptions as desired to provide additional detail.
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CPALMS

Cpalms: Lafs.1.ri.4.10

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This website offers various resources to meet the common core standard of reading informational texts appropriately complex for grade 1. Resources include center activities, lesson plans, and a professional development article.
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Monitor for Understanding: Strategic

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which students complete a graphic organizer to record prior knowledge before reading, ask questions while reading, and summarize a text after reading. Materials are included. [PDF]
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Classifying Info [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which students read a text and complete a graphic organizer to find the main idea and supporting details. Materials are included.
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Expository Text Structure: Summarizing [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which students read a text and record the main ideas and supporting details on a graphic organizer. Students then complete the organizer by writing a summary of the text. Materials are included.
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Exp. Text Structure: Classic Classifying

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which students read a text and write main ideas and supporting details in boxes on a graphic organizer. Materials are included. [PDF]
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Narrative Text Structure: Retell Wheel

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which learners read a narrative text and then turn a question wheel to answer questions about the characters, setting, conflict, and plot. Materials are included.[PDF]
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Expository Text Structure: Just the Facts

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which students read a text and complete a graphic organizer to identify the topic and supporting details or facts. Materials are included.
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Expository Text Structure: Book Look [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which students look through a book to identify text features and complete a graphic organizer. Materials are included.
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Narrative Text Structure: Retell Ring [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which students read a narrative text and answer questions about the plot. Materials are included.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Text to Self and Text to World Connections

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Students will further their reading comprehension by associating real-life events with the events of a story.
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TES Global

Blendspace: Compare Two Texts

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This lesson will allow students to identify similarities and differences between two texts on the same topic. Includes a video on comparing and contrasting, printable charts, activities, and an assessment question.