Read Works
Read Works: Sequence 3rd Grade Unit
[Free Registration/Login Required] This website provides a series of two lesson plans designed to teach students to create a graphic organizer showing the sequence of events in a fiction text. The lessons include ideas for direct...
Read Works
Read Works: Main Idea 4th Grade Unit
[Free Registration/Login Required] A two-lesson unit on main idea and details through which students use the topic sentence to identify the main idea of a paragraph and categorize details as main idea or supporting. With free login,...
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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: I Can Infer About a Story or an Event [Pdf]
Students will use this graphic organizer to help them make an inference about a story or an event. Students will list the literal text evidence and then make an inference about the text evidence.
CommonLit
Common Lit: The Scientific Method
A learning module that begins with "What Is a Rocket" by NASA, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free teacher and student...
CommonLit
Common Lit: "Don't Hate on the Trait" by Bird Brain Science
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...
CommonLit
Common Lit: "Can't We All Just Get Along?" by Bird Brain Science
Earth is full of a variety of living things that interact with one another in many different ways. This informational text explains the various different types of relationships they can have with one another. It also offers guided...
Learning Farm
Learning Farm: Explaining Relationships
An interactive activity that practices determining relationships between events and concepts.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Powerful Writing Description in Creating Monster Trading Cards
Contains plans for two lessons that teach about descriptive writing by asking students to create their own monster trading cards with vivid descriptions. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Using the Five Finger Rule
Students identify text features in nonfiction, as they continue to study cells' function as building blocks of organisms, and summarize the requirements for cells to live.
Other
Educeri: Compare & Contrast the Overall Structure in Two or More Texts [Pdf]
A 10-page handout that explains clearly what text structure is and four different types, with accompanying examples. Different types are then presented along with two pieces of informational text and a modeled analysis, then two other...
Other
Literacy Design Collaborative: Partner Retelling of Narrative Text
For this lesson, the teacher reads a story aloud and learners work with a partner to retell the story using sentence starters. Includes downloadable poster.
South Carolina Educational Television
Know It All: Types of Conflict
Students will learn about the four major types of conflict. They will use children's books to identify the types of conflict used, as well as create their own narratives using one of the types of conflict.
South Carolina Educational Television
Know It All: Non Fiction Text Features
Fifth graders will use non-fiction books to identify and explain how text features help them as individual readers.
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Story Maps
Story Maps are used for teaching students to work with story structure for better comprehension. This technique uses visual representations to help students organize important elements of a story. Students learn to summarize the main...
SMART Technologies
Smart: Reviewing Sequence of Events
Students will identify time-order words in order to comprehend passages, place events in sequential order on a time line, and use a flow chart to organize their thoughts for writing in this interactive SMART whiteboard activity.
Quia
Quia: Short Story Elements: Definitions
Students can choose from three different activities while practicing story elements. Flashcards give students a chance to learn the elements and their definitions. A matching game gives students an opportunity to test their new learning,...
Quia
Quia: Short Story Elements: Definitions
Play a memory match game by uncovering each story element along with its definition.
Quia
Quia: Elements of Plot Flashcards
Ten flashcards with plot element vocabulary words and their definitions.
Quia
Quia: Short Story Elements: Definitions
Twenty-two flashcards with plot elements and their definitions.
Quia
Quia: Short Story Elements: Definitions
Play a matching game by joining each plot element with its definition or example.
EL Education
El Education: Sapling Rise a Micro Field Guide
Students create a field guide for a three foot by three foot plot of ground. Students name their plots, graph temperature, create an inventory and table to record observations, make illustrations, and write informational text based on...
EL Education
El Education: Testing the Waters
Students tested water at several sites in a local creek and write a scientific paper showing their testing and results. Scientific papers include an abstract, introduction, methods, results, and discussion including recommendations...
TES Global
Blendspace: Story Elements
A twelve-part learning module with links to videos, images, and websites to use while learning about story elements and the development of a plot.
TES Global
Blendspace: Types of Plot Conflict
A six-part learning module with links to texts and videos about the six basic plot conflicts in literary texts.