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Read Works: Sequence 2nd Grade Unit: Flashback Sequence
[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson plan helps students identify the sequence of events in a story with flashback. The lesson includes ideas for direct teaching, guided practice, and independent practice and utilizes the book...
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Read Works: Vocabulary in Context 2nd Grade Unit: Dictionary
[Free Registration/Login Required] This website provides a instructional activity in which students learn to use a dictionary to determine the meanings of unfamiliar words. The instructional activity utilizes the book The Mitten by Jan...
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Read Works: Grade 2: Three Lesson Unit: Figurative Language
[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of three lesson plans designed to teach learners to identify and explain the meaning of figurative language including personification and idiom. Lessons are based on the books Once in a Blue...
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Read Works: Grade 2: Two Lesson Unit: Setting
[Free Registration/Login Required] A set of two lesson plans designed to teach students to use context clues to identify the setting and changes within it. Lessons are based on the books Bigmama's by Donald Crews and The Stories Julian...
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Read Works: Vocabulary in Context 2nd Grade Unit: Context Clues
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a lesson in which students learn to use context clues in surrounding sentences to determine the meanings of unfamiliar words. The lesson utilizes the book The Life Cycle of an Emperor Penguin by...
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Read Works: Sequence Kindergarten Unit: Beginning and End
[Free Registration/Login Required] This webiste provides a lesson in which students identify and describe the beginning and end of a fiction story. Lesson includes ideas for direct teaching, guided practice, and independent practice and...
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Read Works: Grade 2: Three Lesson Unit: Genre
[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of three lesson plans designed to teach students to compare and contrast fiction and non-fiction, identify the characteristics of non-fiction, and use guide words to locate topics in an...
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Read Works: Genre 2nd Grade Unit: Encyclopedias
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson in which students use the book Children's Illustrated Encyclopedia edited by Jayne Parsons to learn to locate information and find facts about a subject in an encyclopedia. Lesson includes...
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Cpalms: Five Little Monkeys: Comparing and Contrasting
[Free Registration/Login Required] Five little monkeys sitting on a bed or sitting in a tree? In this close reading lesson, students will compare and contrast the actions of the characters in two of Eileen Christelow's beloved books,...
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Read Works: Main Idea Kindergarten Unit: Using Details to Create a Title
[Free Registration/Login Required] Lesson uses Amazing Gorillas! by Sarah L. Thomson and In the Wild: Leopards by Stephanie St. Pierreto to teach young scholars how to use textual details to create a title for informational text. Ideas...
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Read Works: Grade 2: Three Lesson Unit: Main Idea
[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of three lesson plans designed to teach students to identify main ideas through headings and chapter titles, and then to write appropriate titles of their own. Lessons are based on the books...
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Read Works: Vocabulary in Context 3rd Grade Unit: Dictionary
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan in which students learn to use a dictionary to determine the meanings of unfamiliar words. Lesson utilizes the book The Life Cycle of a Beetle by Bobbie Kalman and Molly Aloian and...
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Read Works: Grade 2: Four Lesson Unit: Drawing Conclusions
[Free Registration/Login Required] Designed to teach students to identify the difference between explicit information and conclusions and to make text-to-self and text-to-text connections. Lessons are based on the provided text "The...
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Read Works: 2nd Grade Lesson: Figurative Language
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson in which students use the book Once in a Blue Moon by Nicola Morgan to learn to identify and interpret the meaning of figurative language in a fiction text. Lesson includes direct teaching,...
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Read Works: 2nd Grade Lesson: Personification
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will use the book The Runaway Tortilla by Eric A. Kimmel to learn to identify and understand the use of personification in a fiction text. Lesson includes direct teaching, guided practice, and...
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Read Works: 2nd Grade Lesson: Idioms
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, students use the book More Parts by Tedd Arnold to learn to identify and understand the use of idiom in a fiction text. Lesson includes direct teaching, guided practice, and independent...
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Read Works: Figurative Language 3rd Grade Unit
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this three-activity unit, students use the book If You Hopped Like a Frog by David Schwartz and some additional short texts to learn to identify and understand the use of simile and metaphor in...
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Read Works: 3rd Grade Lesson: Metaphors
[Free Registration/Login Required] A instructional activity in which students use the book If You Hopped Like a Frog by David M. Schwartz and an additional short text to learn to identify and understand the use of metaphor in fiction....
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Read Works: 3rd Grade Lesson: Poetry
[Free Registration/Login Required] A instructional activity in which students use two provided poems to learn to identify and understand the use of similes and metaphors in poetry. Lesson includes direct teaching, guided practice, and...
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Read Works: 4th Grade Lesson: Puns
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan in which students use the book Rhyme & PUNishment Adventures in Wordplay by Brian P. Cleary to learn to identify and understand the use of puns. Lesson includes direct teaching, guided...
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Read Works: 3rd Grade Lesson: Science Fiction
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson in which learners 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, guided...
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Read Works: Genre 4th Grade Unit: Biography
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan 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,...
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Read Works: Plot 3rd Grade Unit
[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of four lesson plans designed to teach students to predict problems and solutions in fiction text and to identify the relationship between problems and character conflicts within a story....
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Read Works: Vocabulary in Context 2nd Grade Unit: Prefixes
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson in which students learn to use the meanings of prefixes to help determine the meanings of unfamiliar words. Lesson includes directions for direct teaching, guided practice, and independent...