Activity
Read Works

Read Works: American Symbols

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage lists and explains some of the different American symbols. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes...
Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Where Does Food Go?

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage explains the process of food digestion. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding...
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Other

Nclr: The Essentials of Teaching Reading

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Find out what the essentials are for teaching reading. This site provides vital information for teachers in developing the most successful reading program for their students.
Unit Plan
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.
Lesson Plan
Michigan State University

Michigan State University: Intervention for Reading: Story Retelling

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
This intervention emphasizes the importance of verbal rehearsal of a story. By retelling, young scholars relate information from the story to their own experiences. In this way, they improve their reading comprehension and memory of...
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BBC

Bbc: Skillswise: Types of Text

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
How can you tell if a text is descriptive, informative, instructional or persuasive? This BBC Skillswise tutorial teaches you how with a factsheet, worksheet, quiz, and game.
Lesson Plan
Love To Know Media

Your Dictionary: Lessons and Activities on Main Ideas for First Grade

For Teachers 1st - 2nd Standards
This site offers links to several lesson plans for teaching main ideas to first and second graders; it also provides and explains some activities for teaching the main idea to first graders.
Lesson Plan
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.
Lesson Plan
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.
Lesson Plan
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.
Website
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.
Lesson Plan
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.
Lesson Plan
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]
Lesson Plan
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]
Lesson Plan
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.
Lesson Plan
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.
Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Narrative Text Structure: Sequence a Story [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which students read a narrative text and write the main events of the story on sentence strips. Materials are included.
Lesson Plan
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.
Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Narrative Text Structure: Character Compare [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which students read a narrative text and complete a graphic organizer to compare two characters. Materials are included.
Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Narr. Text Structure: Picture the Character

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which learners read a narrative text and complete a graphic organizer to illustrate and write characteristics of one of the characters. Materials are included.
Professional Doc
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Student Center Activities, K 1

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
In 2004-2005, a team of teachers at FCRR reviewed current research, collected ideas, and created materials for use in kindergarten and first grade classrooms. The K-1 Student Center Activities include three books and one DVD: The first...
Lesson Plan
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.
Lesson Plan
Common Sense Media

Common Sense Media: Education: Story Elements Retelling

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
In this lesson, students will learn to retell a story using story elements to improve their comprehension of the story. The students will actively listen to a story and complete a graphic organizer to share and discuss with a partner.
Lesson Plan
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.