ClassFlow
Class Flow: Onset Rhyme
[Free Registration/Login Required] A one page flipchart that has an activity for students to create words. Have students move initial letters to appropriate endings to create words.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Picture Prompts and Story Starters
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart contains a collection of 55 picture prompts and story starters. Also includes other writing aids, including a rubric, graphic organizers, the writing process, etc. Questions provided by...
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Class Flow: Sequences Before & After
[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson asks the students to decide on the sentence order, then drag them into the boxes, deciding whether they describe before or after.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Story Fairytale
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students learn the elements of a story through fairytales. These include character, setting, plot, and secret ingredient. Includes an Activote session.
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Class Flow: Summarizing 5 K With Poetry
[Free Registration/Login Required] Using Poetry with Young Writers: This flipchart is a poetry unit for the Early Childhood classroom that reviews the 5K year. Students are introduced to writing poetry, both from the heart and through...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: The Napping House
[Free Registration/Login Required] Flipchart aligned with the story - The Napping House.
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Class Flow: The Writing Process
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart presents a lesson on the writing process. Students are taken through the process step-by-step as they compose a short story.
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Class Flow: Describing Words
[Free Registration/Login Required] Children are able to identify describing words in sentences and pictures. They then are able to brainstorm describing words about a picture and write sentences using the words.
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Class Flow: Ending Sounds
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart reviews ending sounds and includes Activote questions, matching activities, and web links.
Can Teach
Can Teach: Word by Word a Story Game
For grades 1 to 3, this game has students write a story by focusing on the word choice.
Can Teach
Can Teach: How to Write a Cinquain
At the most basic level a cinquain is a five line poem or stanza. Here are two variations. Lesson plan indicated for 1st grade and above.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Writing a Story
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart explores the steps for writing a story such as coming up with a title, a main idea and supporting details that keep the reader interested.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Building Creative Writing
[Free Registration/Login Required] This simple activity will enhance the descriptive writing of primary aged children. By building upon each page of the flipchart over a period of several days, it makes the students more aware of nouns,...
Quizlet
Quizlet: 2nd Grade: Unit 2 Reading: Main Idea: Test
This interactive assessment features 6 matching and 5 multiple-choice questions over terms relating to the main idea and their definitions. These terms include the following: topic, topic sentence, main idea, detail, supporting details,...
Quizlet
Quizlet: Plot 2nd Grade Match
Race against the clock to match twenty plot terms with their definitions.
Auburn University
Auburn University: Invitations: Reading Lessons From Preservice Teachers
Links are provided for leveled reading lessons created by preservice teachers at Auburn University. Levels include emergent literacy, beginning reading, growing independence and fluency, and reading to learn.
Other
Goodnight Stories: The Walk
A combination of words and pictures creates a story about a little girl who takes a walk and ends up making friends with a little bird.
Starfall
Starfall: A House in a Tree
This is an online children's picture book for early readers. It includes story word list.
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Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Expository Text Structure: Super Summary [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which students read a text and then complete a graphic organizer to help them write a summary. Materials are included.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Student Center Activities: Grades 2 3
In 2005-2006, a team of teachers at FCRR reviewed current research, collected ideas, and created materials for use in second and third grade classrooms. These included two books for students and a teachers guide with a DVD for...
Other
Goodnight Stories: Finish a Story
You can write your own ending for these stories, and if you have parent permission, you can submit the ending to the site for possible publication.
Education.com
Education.com: Rl.2.5 Worksheets
[Free Registration/Login Required] The following worksheets can help students practice the Common Core State Standards skill of describing the overall structure of a story.
ABCya
Abc Ya: Story Maker
Create your own story using the tools on this site. You can add a title page, type your story, and illustrate it using the paint tools. The story can then be saved and printed.
HotChalk
Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Elements of a Story
This resource provides a lesson plan to teach students about the elements of a story.