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Better Lesson: rl.k.3 With Prompting and Support, Identify Characters, Settings,

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This landing page provides different lesson plan choices on teaching RL.K.3 With prompting and support, identify characters, settings,
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Analyze Differences in Characters' Moral Dilemmas

For Students 9th - 10th
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson focuses on moral dilemmas that characters face including defining and identifying moral dilemmas, an American dilemma, and in other countries. Then students...
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Curated OER

Mc Graw Hill: Lesson C: Identify Point of View

For Students 1st - 2nd Standards
Discover information about characters and their thoughts and feelings in a story. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.6
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Curated OER

Mc Graw Hill: Compare Characters' Point of View

For Students 1st - 3rd Standards
Defines and explains how to show how different characters think and feel.
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Read Works

Read Works: Lesson 2: Good and Evil Characters

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This lesson will allow students to understand why Fairy Tales have good and evil characters and identify good and evil characters in a Fairy Tale.
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Read Works

Read Works: Kindergarten: Character: Lesson 1: Physical Attributes of a Character

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan, based on David McPhail's Lost!, in which students are introduced to literary characters and explore the various clues, such as descriptions and illustrations, that communicate a...
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Read Works

Read Works: Plot 1st Grade Unit

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of three lesson plans designed to teach students to identify problems and solutions in fiction text and to retell a story's problem and solution in sequence. Students learn to identify the plot...
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Read Works

Read Works: Grade 2: Two Lesson Unit: Setting

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[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

Read Works: Explicit Information Kindergarten Unit: Identifying Information

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Use Animal Taste by Kirsten Hall to teach students to find explicit information inside informational texts. Includes ideas for teaching, guided practice, and independent practice. Although the book is...
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Library of Congress

Loc: How to Find a Novel,etc. Without Knowing Its Title or Author

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Use this guide to help identify a literary work when they know only its plot or subject, or other textual information such as a character's name, a line of poetry, or a unique word or phrase. Trusted databases, library catalogs, and more...
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ABCya

Ab Cya: Keyboarding Challenge: Learn the Keyboard

For Students 1st - 5th
Learn basic keyboarding with this interactive keyboard. The focus is on identifying letter positions on the keyboard. Responses are checked immediately.
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Read Works

Read Works: Grade 1: Three Lesson Unit: Character: Actions, Feelings, Looks

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of three lesson plans, based on David Shannon's books No, David!, David Gets in Trouble, and David Goes to School. Students learn how to utilize text and picture clues to determine and describe...
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts, Grade 10: Macbeth

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students explore the ideas of ambition and failure. They learn that conflicts serve as the basis of a text's meaning and that identifying the internal and external conflicts of a story reveals the motivations of complex characters. They...
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Read Works

Read Works: Grade 2: Three Lesson Unit: Plot

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of three lesson plans designed to teach young scholars to identify story elements, retell a story using story elements, and see how characters affect the plot. Lessons are based on the books...
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Read Works

Read Works: 2nd Grade Lesson: Personification

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
[Free Registration/Login Required] Learners 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

Read Works: Setting 1st Grade Unit

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of three lesson plans designed to teach students to use pictures and word clues to determine the setting of fiction texts. Lessons are based on the books The Cow Who Wouldn't Come Down by Paul...
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Read Works

Read Works: Setting Kindergarten Unit: Where

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Use the book Gaspard at the Seashore by Anne Gutman to teach clues students can use to determine where a story takes place. The book must be provided by the teacher, but downloadable worksheets for...
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Read Works

Read Works: Setting Kindergarten Unit: When (Seasons, Day, or Night)

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan, based on Look! Snow! by Kathryn O. Galbraith, in which students learn how to utilize text and picture clues to determine basic time elements of setting in a story. Students follow this...
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University of South Florida

Fcat Express: Probable Passage Matrix (Pdf) [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 8th
Printable PDF file of a Probable Passage Matrix graphic organizer. It asks students to identify the characters, setting, problem, solution, and ending of a story, and it is provided by a standardized test preparation site intended for...
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Fun Brain

Fun Brain: Bunny Count (Count and Match Numbers 1 to 10)

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A game that challenges younger students to count bunnies and other animal characters from 1 to 10.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Setting

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart introduces setting to students using picture clues first and then using only contextual clues. Activotes are also used to check for understanding.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Annie and the Wild Animals Project

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson contains pre- and post-reading activities for Jan Brett's Annie and the Wild Animals. Students identify setting and animal characters from the story and learn about Scandinavia (where the...
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TES Global

Blendspace: Ela: Character Traits

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Four video clips followed by questions to help students learn to identify character traits in literary texts.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood: Life's Little Lessons: Disappointment

For Students Pre-K - K
Whether the disappointment comes from unmet expectations at a birthday party or from another disappointment such as not getting a favorite snack at the grocery store or missing out on playtime with a friend due to illness, it is...