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Read Works

Read Works: The Disappearing Room

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards

[Free Registration/Login Required] This literary text passage shares a short mystery. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding for vocabulary...

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Read Works: My Favorite Alley Cat

For Teachers 2nd Standards

[Free Registration/Login Required] Requires free membership. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding for vocabulary learning. It contains...

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Read Works: Casey Saves the Play

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards

[Free Registration/Login Required] This short literary text passage shares the story of a character who is able to particiapate . This passage is intended for guided practice and is designed to reinforce essential reading comprehension...

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Read Works: The High Dive

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards

[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage shares the story of a girl who gets the courage to go off of the high dive. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and...

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Read Works: All About Ants

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards

[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage describes the roles of different types of ants. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding...

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Read Works: Setting Kindergarten Unit: When (Seasons, Day, or Night)

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards

[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan, based on Look! Snow! by Kathryn O. Galbraith, in which learners learn how to utilize text and picture clues to determine basic time elements of setting in a story. Students follow this...

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English Online: Beginners: Describing Actions

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards

This game allows students to practice structuring sentences by viewing parts of the sentences with images that represent them.

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Lil' Fingers Storybooks

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards

An interactive resource for children which features several online storybooks. Toddlers and children can read along, listen and learn as each story develops.

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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Writing a Roundabout Story

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards

In this lesson plan, If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, by Laura Numeroff, is used as a mentor text to highlight the trait of organization. The content focus of the lesson is to highlight that authors' story structures can be imitated. Story...

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Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center

Wisconsin Rt I Center: Story Writing Frames [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards

Teachers will learn how to use story writing frames with their students. Teachers will learn how to implement story frames; measure progress with story frames; and find research to support using story frames. A reproducible story frame...

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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Using Curiosity for Descriptive Writing

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards

Lesson plan which allows kindergartners to combine their experiences and curiosity into developing beginning descriptions. Students use memories and illustrations in writing.

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Read Works: Sequence Kindergarten Unit: Beginning and End

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards

[Free Registration/Login Required] This webiste provides a lesson in which students identify and describe the beginning and end of a fiction story. Lesson includes ideas for direct teaching, guided practice, and independent practice and...

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CPALMS

Cpalms: Reading With Our Eyes, Fingers, Toes, Ears and Nose

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, students are learning to identify sensory words in their reading, specifically in poetry. Students will gain a perspective on how authors use sensory words to portray their ideas. They...

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Read Works: Alyssa Wears a Bow Tie

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards

[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage is a fictional narrative about a girl who chooses to show her creativity by wearing a bow tie on the first day of school. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces...

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Read Works: The Yo Yo

For Teachers 2nd Standards

[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a boy named Brendan who learned that it is always better to share his toys. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.

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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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Success Link

Success Link: Descriptive Writing Mittens

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

Use this lesson plan to teach descriptive writing. A checklist is provided so students can self-monitor their writing.

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Quizlet

Quizlet: Story Elements (1St Grade) Match

For Students 1st - 3rd Standards

This interactive game of "Match" assesses students' knowledge of story element definitions. Students will match the correct definition of a story element to its corresponding definition. Picture cues are provided on this review resource.

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Starfall

Starfall: Plays, Fiction, Nonfiction

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards

An index of links to six fiction storybooks, eight nonfiction books, and three plays. Each book has pictures and audio that will allow students to click to hear sentences or individual words as they read along. Links to three different...

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Success Link

Success Link: Characters, Setting, Plot, Conclusion, and Summarizing a Story

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

This lesson plan offers a step-by-step procedure for teaching young scholars how to identify story elements and to summarize a story. It explains how to use a "Who Am I" activity, as well as a linkage activity in identifying characters...

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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.

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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Monitor for Understanding: Sum Summary! [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

A lesson plan in which young scholars read a narrative or informational text and complete graphic organizers to help them write good summaries of the texts. 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: Narrative Text Structure: Summary Step Up [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards

A lesson plan in which students read a narrative text and complete a graphic organizer to show the plot elements of the story. Materials are included.

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