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Scholastic

Follow the Clues

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Invite your text detectives to bring their magnifying glasses to school to examine the clues in a text and make predictions. They write down three clues and a prediction on the graphic organizer.
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Education Outside

Plant, This Is Your Life!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Individuals select a plant, illustrate it in their journal, record observations, and create a life story for their plant that accounts for its features and any unique properties. Using these descriptions, a partner attempts to locate...
Writing
Perfection Learning

In The Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson - Activity Book

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
Moving to a new country isn't easy, as Shirley Temple Wong learns in In The Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson by Bette Bao Lord. A series of language arts activities carry readers through the novel, addressing the story's themes,...
Unit Plan
Penguin Books

An Educator's Guide to Al Capone Does My Shirts

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
It's hard to imagine that life on Alcatraz could be dull. A series of intriguing lessons take readers through the novel Al Capone Does my Shirts. Pre-reading questions introduce the text and a range of suggestions, from comic strips to...
Lesson Plan
K20 LEARN

Do Hungry Dragons Really Like Crunchy Tacos?: Adjectives

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
Tacos are the theme of a lesson all about adjectives. Scholars list as many adjectives as possible to describe tacos and play a game of Not Like the Others before reading Dragons Love Tacos by Adam Rubin. Peers guess their favorite foods...
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E Reading Worksheets

Making Predictions #3

For Students 3rd - 4th Standards
Sometimes it's helpful for kids to predict what is coming next when reading a story. Show your learners how to use evidence from the text they are reading to predict what happens next in five short passages.
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Teach-nology

The Terrific Taxi

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
What would you wish for if you were granted one wish? Kids read a story about a taxi that bestows wishes upon its passengers in a short cloze activity. They use ten words at the bottom of the page to fill in the blanks throughout the...
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Teacher's Corner

Dr. Seuss Author Study

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
Want to know more about Dr. Seuss? Scholars research topics such as his childhood, family, education, jobs, and story themes to learn more about the ever-popular and fun to read author, Dr. Seuss. 
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K12 Reader

Little Women: Helping Father

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Jo's decision to sell her hair to bringing her wounded father home is a pivotal and poignant scene from Louisa May Alcott's Little Women. Class members read the excerpt and answer four questions about the details, vocabulary, and plot...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Temperature Stories

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students create a story that matches the provided temperature data. They use graphed temperatures as the plot for their creative writing story.
Writing
Curated OER

Writing Prompt: "The Castle"

For Students 2nd - 5th
In this writing prompt activity, students write a story about a prompt based on a castle appearing overnight. Worksheet provides prompt and lined sheets for writing.
Writing
Curated OER

Writing Prompt: Magic Carpet

For Students 2nd - 5th
In this writing prompt worksheet, learners write a story about an adventure they take, riding a magic carpet to anywhere they choose. 
Writing
Curated OER

Writing Prompt: Important Person

For Students 2nd - 5th
In this writing prompt instructional activity, learners write a story about a person who is important to them and what the person did that impressed them. Pages are lined for writing.
Writing
Curated OER

Writing Prompt: "New Sled"

For Students 3rd - 5th
For this writing prompt worksheet, students are given a prompt about getting a new sled on a morning when is has snowed 2 feet. Students write a story based on the prompt. 
Writing
Curated OER

Writing Prompt: "Abducted"

For Students 2nd - 6th
In this writing worksheet, students write a story, imagining the experiences they have after being abducted by aliens. Pages are lined to allow for writing.
Writing
Curated OER

Writing Prompt: 1st Day of School

For Students 2nd - 5th
In this writing prompt worksheet, students write a story to a friend about the first day of school, the atmosphere and what impressed them. Pages are lined for writing.
Writing
Curated OER

Writing Situation: Family Gathering

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this writing worksheet, students are given a prompt about writing a story about a favorite family gathering. Pages are lined for writing.
Writing
Curated OER

Writing Prompt: "Brother Trouble"

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this writing worksheet, students write about their little brother accidentally getting locked inside the house alone. Pages are lined for writing.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Historical Fiction- Thanksgiving

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Young scholars write a story. For this historical fiction lesson, students research how Thanksgiving began. Young scholars write a fictional story where they are a main character of this time period.
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Curated OER

The Three Little Pigs

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students listen two versions of the story of The Three Little Pigs in order to clarify the concept of point of view. They complete a Venn diagram and write a postcard to one of the book's characters using their point of view.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Fun with Summarizing

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars practice summarization by creating a story map. After reading Freckle Juice, students working in groups, create a story map of the main events of the story. Groups use their story maps to summarize a chapter of the story...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Solving an Original Character's Problem With Voice and Emotion

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students read the story A Bad Case of the Stripes and then write their own story conveying a lot of emotion. In this writing lesson plan, students select a title, an emotion, brainstorm, and then start writing.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Name Jar

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students participate in a lesson that focuses on the literature of Korea. "The Name Jar" is read by students to practice some essential reading skills. This would include the recognition of sequence in a story, characterization, and...
Writing
Curated OER

Text Messaging Tales

For Students 4th - 5th
In this reading and writing worksheet, students read the text messages sent between 2 friends. Students complete a 4 part story showing what happens in between each set of text messages.

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