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Read Works

Read Works: Picking Up the Pieces

For Teachers 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the changes Katrina made in the Gulf Coast. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works

Read Works: Viking Voyages

For Teachers 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about archaeologists who studied a Viking burial site. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Draw a Story: Stepping From Pictures to Writing

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Help young students move from drawing pictures into writing simple stories. Good plan for having students put pictures in sequential order and teaching them about sequential order.
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Yale University

Yale University: Elements of the Short Story

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This unit from the Yale University on elements of the short story is designed to develop student comprehension skills, particularly making inferences and generalizing. It also involves students in reading a number of short stories to...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Sequencing With "A Big Fish for Max"

For Teachers 1st Standards
Today students practice close reading as they look for evidence in the story so they can sequence the events for the beginning, middle, and end.
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Read Works

Read Works: Children in the Shadows

For Teachers 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about a Jewish child living in hiding in Nazi occupied Belgium. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works

Read Works: Return of the Bear

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the increasing population of the endangered grizzly bear. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works

Read Works: The Life Cycle of a Frog

For Teachers 3rd
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the steps in a frog's life cycle. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Sequencing a Story

For Teachers 3rd
This single-period lesson reinforces the concept of story sequence. Teachers of this lesson will read aloud Enemy Pie, by Derek Munson, How to Make An Apple Pie and See the World by Marjorie Priceman. Then students will participate in...
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Read Works

Read Works: Sailing Into History

For Teachers 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about Michael Perham, the youngest person to sail across the Atlantic Ocean alone. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works

Read Works: The Buzz About Honey

For Teachers 2nd
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about honey and how it is made. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works

Read Works: Magellan Was First

For Teachers 3rd
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about Ferdinand Magellan, the first explorer to sail around the world. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works

Read Works: The Scientific Method

For Teachers 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text explaining the five steps of the scientific method. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works

Read Works: To the Moon!

For Teachers 3rd
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text and timeline about NASA's plans of building a base on the moon and reaching towards Mars. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works

Read Works: Madam President?

For Teachers 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text women's rights and women in high political positions. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Nar Text Structure: Story Sequence Organizer [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which students read a narrative text and complete graphic organizers to sequence the story and finally create an illustrated storyboard. Materials are included.
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Quia

Quia: Doing the Dishes

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
In this game, students are to read all nine steps to making homemade pizza and then number them in chronological order to reveal a hidden picture. Java is required.
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Read Works

Read Works: Colorful Crayons

For Teachers 2nd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text giving facts about crayons and how they are made. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in sequencing.
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Read Works

Read Works: Buttons and the Blue Glove

For Teachers 3rd
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a cat named Buttons who goes on an adventure with his little girl's blue glove. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works

Read Works: Sequence Kindergarten Unit

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of three lesson plans designed to teach students to recognize the beginning and ending of a story and use word clues to put story events into the correct sequence. Lessons are based on the...
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Read Works

Read Works: Read Aloud Lesson: Digging Up Dinosaurs

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Teachers will read "Digging Up Dinosaurs" using the close reading technique. Students will use graphic organizers to summarize the steps necessary to collect, study, and build a dinosaur skeleton.
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: 10 Free Reading Tests for Comprehension Practice

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides ten short reading comprehension quizzes. Students will be able to write a sequence of events more efficiently by using this tool. All questions are skill-based and vary in levels of readability.
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Read Works

Read Works: Pumpkins Are Popping Up Everywhere!

For Teachers 2nd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text showing how pumpkins grow. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Tie It Up With Transition Words to Write a Story!

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
Read, write, and present a digital narrative with transition words to help us put the events in order! After modeling the lesson, groups of young scholars will write narratives to recount a short sequence of events, they will include...