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Reference: What Is the Main Idea of a Story
This reference page defines the main idea of a story and explains how it differs from topics of a story.
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Class Flow: What a Character
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart discusses ways that authors reveal character traits. Students learn to find examples in the literature to demonstrate that character traits. A sample assessment, graphic organizer and web...
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Class Flow: Alike? Different? Compare and Contrast
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart contains numerous interactive activities. The flipchart introduces students to the concept of comparison and contrast, how it relates to real life, how it is used by authors, and signal...
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Class Flow: Cause Effect
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart discusses cause and effect relationships and presents a variety of activities to help students understand this concept. Activote questions are included in the flipchart.
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Class Flow: Graphic Organizer Compare Contrast
[Free Registration/Login Required] This graphic organizer flipchart creates a template to help students compare and contrast ideas and objects. It can be used in many different subject areas.
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Class Flow: Graphic Organizer Compare Matrix
[Free Registration/Login Required] This graphic organizer uses a matrix to help students compare items or events. It is useful for helping students understand and analyze reading passages, historical events, and scientific experiments.
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Can Teach: Examining a Character's Personalities
In this lesson plan students will be able to understand the different personalities of a character by examining how they act when in contact with other characters. Lesson plan indicated for 4th grade and above.
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Can Teach: You Are What You Say Personality Profiles
In this lesson plan students will develop personality profiles by analyzing the quotes of a character, historical figure, present day figure, etc. Lesson plan indicated for 3rd grade and above.
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Internet4classrooms:3rd Grade Skills Builder: Main Idea
This interactive Language Arts skill-building site provides links to interactive activities that focus on finding the main idea of a reading selection. Online lessons, games and quizzes challenges students understanding of main idea.
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Cyberwriter: Narrative Writing
Cyberwriter gives narrative writing activities leveled for K-3rd grades and 4th-8th grades. A brief explanation about narrative writing is also on this page. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.3
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Diffen: Affected vs. Effected
What is the difference between the words affected and effected? Read this quick comparison about the two commonly confused terms.
BBC
Bbc Bitesize Revision: Some Purposes of Reading
As part of a review and close reading section of BBC Bitesize, this site presents an overview of various purposes of reading, including a five-bullet point explanation of reading purposes. Click the Next button for more information.
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Teaching Made Practical: Compare and Contrast a Book and Movie Activities
The book is always better, or is it? Students will compare and contrast a book and a movie using the critical thinking questions included on this site. Also included is a list of children's books that have been made into movies as well...
Quizlet
Quizlet: Story Elements Match
Match each story element with its example as you race against the clock in this online matching game.
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Quizlet: Plot Terms: 7th Grade Level Match
Race against the clock to match each story element with its definition. Terms include: plot, introduction, conflict, rising action, climax, falling action, conclusion/resolution, sub-plot, parallel episode, flashback, and foreshadowing.
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Quizlet: Plot Terms: 7th Grade Level Flashcards
Eleven flashcards on the elements of a story including: plot, introduction, conflict, rising action, climax, falling action, conclusion/resolution, sub-plot, parallel episode, flashback, and foreshadowing.
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Quizlet: 5th Grade Text Structures: Match
In this interactive game, students match the terms for the types of text structure to the correct descriptions.
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Quizlet: Types of Details: Match
In this interactive game, students match the words having to do with types of details to their definitions.
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Quizlet: Types of Details: Learn
In this interactive focusing on learning types of details, students type in the word to match the definition given.
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Quizlet: Story Elements Quiz 6th Grade Honors Matching
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.
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Quizlet: Story Elements Quiz 6th Grade Honors: Learn
This interactive lesson engages students in learning story element definitions. Students will type the correct story element after reading its definition.
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Quizlet: Story Elements Quiz: 6th Grade Honors: Flashcards
These interactive flashcards provide definitions for different story elements.
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Quizlet: Text Structure: Test
This is an interactive test over text structure including patterns of organization, types of writing, and graphic organizers. It consists of nine matching and eight multiple-choice questions.
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Quizlet: Text Structure: Flashcards
This interactive set of flashcards helps students to learn the terms and definitions for types of text structure, organizational patterns, and keywords and graphic organizers for the types of text structures.