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Charlotte's Web
Students complete a variety of activities related to the book "Charlotte's Web" by E.B. White. They create a comic strip based on the characters, setting, and plot of the story, and examine the author's writing process. In small groups...
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Reading-Author's Purpose
Students review what author's purpose is by understanding that authors either persuade, inform, describe, or entertain with their story. In this language arts lesson, students bring in junk mail and in small groups discuss what the each...
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Language Arts: Solch Sight Words
First graders recognize Dolch sight words on cards and texts. They practice the selected words by creating short sentences. After reading different fables, 1st graders create their own illustrations to accompany the stories. Once they...
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Students create a presentation in which they retell the events of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. In this A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court lesson plan, students are introduced to Mark Twain in a PowerPoint, then...
Starfall
Lemonade Girl
Let your students' inner comic book artists emerge in this fun activity, which provides a word bank of twenty-seven words to be used in a story about what kids want to do when they grow up. Opportunities to illustrate their ideas, as...
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Comprehending the Comics
Students discuss and examine the comic strip section in newspapers. They compare and contrast themselves and others with the comic strip characters. With partners, they select a comic strip and complete a student activity sheet.
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Ways to Share Books
In this book report idea sheet, students are given a list of 20 possibilities for creating a non-traditional book report (e.g., making a diorama; making a poster).
Harper Collins
If You Give...Series Teaching Guide
If you give teachers a few good ideas, they can really bring a story to life. Included in this resource are dozens of activities to use as your class reads books in the If You Give... series. From holding puppet shows and creating comic...
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Narrative Writing
Students create new sentences using adverb clauses identified from a book. For this narrative writing lesson, students write new sentences from some of the dependent clauses used in a book read to them by the teacher. Students put the...
Do2Learn
Sequencing Chart
Take note of events in a story with this organizer. Learners write down the who, what, where, and when, writing down four events in the order that they occur.
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Superhero Comic Strip Using Greek and Latin Roots
Students create comic strips in groups and explain to the class the Latin and Greek roots of their superhero names. In this Latin and Greek root lesson plan, students get into groups and come up with superhero characters to integrate...
Wiley Publishing
Anatomy and Physiology Workbook
Peruse a workbook for every system in the human body. From cellular makeup to the integumentary system to human reproduction, the 300-page workbook features informative reading passages, guided practice, and humorous comic strips to get...
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Solution-Hero
Students analyze the decision-making skills. In this character education instructional activity, students read a comic book and identify the superhero. Students then analyze the types of decisions the character makes throughout the story...
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Story Elements
Third graders identify story elements. In this story elements activity, 3rd graders look at main idea, characters, point of view, theme and setting. They create a five paneled comic strip from a book.
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Adding Snap to Language Arts
Students take photographs of themselves, animals, and objects and used these photos as springboards for writing stories, plays, photo captions, comic strips, ads for products, and greeting card messages.
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Eudora Welty's "A Worn Path" in Graphical Representation
Students analyze graphical forms of Eudora Welty and interpret the shorts stories in the representations. For this graphical representations lesson, students analyze the short story genre in comic strips. Students then create their own...
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???The Hell of Mirrors??? by Edogawa Rampo
Learners read and analyze the story "The Hell of Mirrors," by Edogawa Rampo. They watch a video excerpt, answer discussion questions, construct a periscope, complete handouts, define key vocabulary terms, take a quiz, and write a book...
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Jokes And Riddles
In this writing worksheet, students first select a collection of jokes and riddles to read. Students complete 4 activities: illustrating jokes, making a matching game with riddles and answers, making a comic strip, and telling a joke...
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Author Activities
In this author activity worksheet, learners read a variety of books and discuss ideas that go along with the themes of the books. Students read Ruby Rogers books, Stink books, and also Troll Trouble books. After reading the books the...
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The Relatives Came Family Read-Along
Third graders brainstorm on what they believe they do on their summer vacation. They explore how family and relatives are important in their lives. They read along with their teacher a book about relatives.
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Familial Relationships in Great Expectations: The Search for Identity
Learners read the novel "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens. In groups, they use the text to identify and describe family relationships in the book. Using this information, they compare and contrast how these relationships are...
Khaled Hosseini Found
Lesson One: Exploration of The Kite Runner Graphic Novel
What is a graphic novel? How does it differ from a traditional novel? These questions launch a discussion of Fabio Celoni and Mirka Andolfo's graphic novel adaptation of The Kite Runner. Through a series of literature circle discussions,...
Education World
Every Day Edit - Ezra Jack Keats
In this everyday editing learning exercise, learners correct grammatical errors in a short paragraph about Ezra Jack Keats. The errors range from punctuation, capitalization, grammar, and spelling.
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An Elephant's Life
Here is an interesting worksheet that's all about elephants. In it, learners answer ten true-or-false questions about elephants, then respond to ten questions that come from a story about Daisy, the circus elephant. The questions should...