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Read Works

Read Works: Tossing Around Dodgeball

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage shares the pros and cons associated with the game of dodgeball. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes...
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Austin Independent School District

Austin Independent School District: Reading Within Genre [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
A series of three lesson plans and printable graphic organizers designed to help students find the key traits of the myth, fable, and fairy tale genres.
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Read Works

Read Works: Change at the United Nations

For Teachers 3rd
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the United Nations and its leader Ban Ki-moon from South Korea. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works

Read Works: Stop Bullying

For Teachers 3rd
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about bullying and how to stop it. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works

Read Works: Are Roller Coasters Safe?

For Teachers 3rd
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about scientists studying the safety of roller coasters. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works

Read Works: Planet Y

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a boy named Zack who is traveling to a new planet with his family. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works

Read Works: Genre 4th Grade Unit: Strategies for Identifying Genres

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A instructional activity in which students use books from the classroom library to learn strategies that can be utilized to determine the genre of a book and to understand how knowing the genre before...
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E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Genre Worksheets

For Teachers 3rd - 9th Standards
This learning module provides remediation with identifying genre of books and various texts. Practice with capitalizing nouns is provided with through worksheets, an online site, and a video tutorial. .
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Read Works

Read Works: Fact and Opinion 3rd Grade Unit

For Teachers 3rd
[Free Registration/Login Required] A three-lesson unit on fact and opinion through which students learn how to identify facts and opinions in different fiction genres. Students also use non-fiction texts to identify and verify facts and...
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Read Works

Read Works: 3rd Grade Lesson: Science Fiction

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson in which young scholars use the book Commander Toad and the Intergalactic Spy by Jane Yolen to learn about the characteristics that define science fiction. Lesson includes direct teaching,...
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University of Illinois

University of Illinois Extension: Character Education "Two Sides"

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Excellent resource for empowering students to become better learners. This lesson includes promoting the love of reading, helping students understand different points of view, different genres in literature, and critical thinking skills....
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Read Works

Urban Education: Exchange: Read Works: 3rd Grade Lesson: Fantasy

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] A instructional activity in which young scholars use the book Zathura by Chris Van Allsburg and fantasy texts from the classroom library to learn about the characteristics that define fantasy. Lesson...
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Read Works

Read Works: Genre 4th Grade Unit: Historical Fiction

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] A unit of instruction in which students use the book Meet Addy: An American Girl by Connie Porter to learn about the characteristics that define historical fiction. Lesson includes direct teaching,...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Using Snowflake Bentley as a Framing Text for Multigenre Writing

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Using Snowflake Bentley as a model, students create a working definition of multigenre text and then use that definition to create their own multigenre piece about winter or another theme.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Write Talks: Students Discover Real Writers/audiences/purposes

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
There's a world of writers out there, and in this lesson students discover them as they listen to presentations from local writers and learn about what, why, and how they write in their day-to-day lives.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Using Snowflake Bentley as a Framing Text for Multigenre Writing

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this lesson plan using the book Snowflake Bentley, a Caldecott Medal-winning book, students will work in small groups to create an original multigenre work about winter.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Two Bad Ants Realism vs. Fiction Writing

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart was designed to accompany Scott Foresman Reading- 3rd grade- Unit 6- Two Bad Ants by Chris Van Allsburg. It covers a variety of reading strategies, including making predictions, context...
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Read Works

Read Works: Genre 4th Grade Unit: Biography

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson in which students use the book A Picture Book of Anne Frank by David A. Adler to learn about the characteristics that define boigraphy. Lesson includes direct teaching, guided practice, and...
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Other

Native American Bedtime Story Collection

For Students 3rd - 5th
This site provides eleven short stories based on different Native American stories. Stories from different tribes such as Navajo and Lakota.
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Other

Animal Myths & Legends

For Students 2nd - 8th Standards
Creative site that collects Native American and Australian Aboriginal tales, retelling them in an easy-to-read style. Also collects animal stories, such as how the zebra got its stripes, from kids from all over the world. Includes links...
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Sally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwind

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart accompanies the story Sally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwind from the Scholastic Reading Series, Literacy Place for 4th grade. It introduces and discusses the genre of tall tales, vocabulary,...
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Unit Six Two Bad Ants

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart contains the target skills, comprehension skills, text structure, grammar, phonics, vocabulary, genre, and literary sources from the Scott Foresman reading series,"Two Bad Ants"..
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Rosie, a Visiting Dog's Story Harcourt Series Flipchart

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart correlates with the Harcourt Reading series. It explains story genres, multi-syllabic words, reading comprehension questions, and singular possessive noun practice.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Dinosaurs: Dinosaur Write

For Students 3rd - 5th
Show your knowledge of dinosaurs by writing about them. Pick a genre from poems, newspaper articles, biographies, and many more. Write your own and/or read what others have written.

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