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Let's Retell a Story

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this retelling a story worksheet, students review and discuss all the components involved in retelling a familiar story. Students choose a favorite story/book and fill out a graphic organizer retelling it in their own words. Students...
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The English Roses

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore psychology by reading a children's book in class. In this bullying lesson, students read the story The English Roses and discuss the main characters, story and setting. Students identify the moments when the main...
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Cereal Box Book Report

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
What is is about cereal boxes that draws consumers in? Tap into the effective marketing of cereal boxes and apply those elements to a book report. Pupils cover cereal boxes with information about their chosen books. they must create a...
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Pay it Forward

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students explore the basic concept of micro-financing. For this economics/literacy lesson, students listen to One Hen by Katie Smith, in which a small loan changes the life of the main character. Students employ comprehension strategies...
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When Randolph Turned Rotten

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students explore friendship by reading a book with their classmates. In this human relationship lesson plan, students read the story When Randolph Turned Rotten, and discuss the main character's relationships as well as the overall arc...
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Guided Writing: Writing a Story on the OHP

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Pupils practice fluency as well as story-writing skills. They work together to prepare and write their stories. Students are told that they are going to write a story entitled 'A Wonderful Day' and that they are going to be the...
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Bug's Eye View

For Teachers K - 5th
Learners explore biology by writing fictitious stories in class. In this insect life lesson, students identify many different types of insects in the animal kingdom and the classifications they fall into. Learners collect insects on a...
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Freckle Juice

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students analyze a chapter from the assigned book they are reading.  In this reading comprehension lesson, students read chapter four from Freckle Juice by Judy Blume, and discuss the main character, Andrew.  Students complete a...
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Fairy Tale Press

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students create the front page of a newspaper by writing news stories about the main characters and plots of fairy tales.
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Sami and the Time of Troubles

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students read Florence Parry Heide and Judith Heide Gilliland's, Sami and the Time of Troubles before discussing it as a class. They brainstorm ideas for a letter to the main character, Sami. Next, they write a rough draft of a letter to...
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STORY GRAMMAR

For Students 2nd - 5th
In this story grammar worksheet, students are asked to describe the setting, main characters and events from their book in short-answer form.
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My Book Report

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
In this literacy/writing worksheet, students compose a book report. Students identify the following literary elements: main characters, setting, beginning, problem and solution. Students then compose paragraphs for each of these story...
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Rockin' Thad

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this consonant digraph TH activity, students help the main character Thad sort ten words into two jars. Students distinguish the difference between a soft TH and a hard TH in ten words.
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King Arthur

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Learners explore literary classics by reading The Legend of King Arthur. For this legendary story lesson, students read the story The Legend of King Arthur and identify the main characters and how they will reenact the story. Learners...
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
In this story structure lesson, students read the book A Tree Grows in Brooklyn and identify the characters, setting and main themes of the book. They answer a list of study questions about the book.
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Wemberly Worried Lesson Plan

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Learners read a book and explore the feelings of the main character during a book talk. For this lesson about the book Wemberly Worried, students listen as the teacher reads, recall events from the story as teachers lists them on a piece...
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The Keeping Quilt

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students discover story analysis by discussing a book the class reads together.  For this reading comprehension lesson, students read the book The Keeping Quilt and discuss the different characters and plot points among the class. ...
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The Trumpet of the Swan: Sam's Diary

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
In this reading worksheet, students respond to the book The Trumpet of the Swan by completing a diary writing activity. Students write two diary entries about their day and end them with a question, just as Sam the main character did in...
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Writing Formal and Informal Letters

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders write a thank-you note and a formal letter of request that included relevant information, such as a return address, date, inside address, proper salutation, body, closing, and signature. They write an imaginary letter to...
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Writing Is Rough

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners identify the main idea in a story and discuss their own writing. They examine the sources of conflict in the story or the piece they are writing. They make portfolios of their best writing samples.
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Hooway for Wodney Wat

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Young scholars examine speech difficulties by reading a children's book in class. In this children's literature lesson, students read the story Hooway for Wodney the Wat, and analyze the characters, story and the bullying that takes...
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Writing a Story: Planning

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this rewriting a familiar story worksheet, students choose a familiar story and fill in the squares of a graphic organizer with new information about the characters, setting, story starter, ending. and/or main events. Students write 5...
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Healthful Eating

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students read a story about how cartoon characters are partially to blame for American's obesity problem, and answer vocabulary and comprehension questions about it. In this healthful eating lesson plan, students respond to literature by...
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Book Letters

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students study language. In this writing lesson, students listen to a story and then compose a friendly letter, about the  book, to a friend. They work independently to compose their letter depicting what happened in the story, their...

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