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Lesson Plan
Common Sense Media

Common Sense Media: Character Development and Relationships in Hamlet

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
A lesson plan relating to Hamlet whose objective is to able to "analyze how and why individuals, events, and ideas develop and interact over the course of a text". Lesson includes a hook, direct instruction, guided practice, and...
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Lesson Plan
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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Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Narrative Text Structure: Sequence a Story [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which students read a narrative text and write the main events of the story on sentence strips. Materials are included.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: The Grouchy Ladybug

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
The students will thoughtfully listen to a story read aloud and comprehend the sequence of events. This lesson will culminate units completed in science and math and will incorporate literature, science, and math.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: How Silk Is Made

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
This lesson focuses on sequencing using a narrative passage and Makes Sense Guided Reading Strategies.
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Using Word and Picture Clues to Make an Inference

For Teachers 1st Standards
First graders will use text evidence to make inferences about word and word phrase meanings in a text. Word and picture clues will be used to help students form inferences.
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Lesson Plan
Folger Shakespeare Library

Juliet vs Laura: Analyzing Sonnet Structure in Romeo and Juliet

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson plan asks young scholars to access their knowledge of sonnet characteristics to analyze the shared sonnet of Romeo's and Juliet's first meeting to determine the extent to which Juliet meets the Petrarchan ideal.
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Lesson Plan
Folger Shakespeare Library

A Guilty Gertrude: Performing Spoken and Silent Moments in Hamlet

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This detailed lesson plan focuses on Hamlet's mother, Gertrude. Young scholars analyze, then perform six scenes which feature Gertrude, then determine where Gertrude's loyalties lie in each scene. This deepens students' understanding of...
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Lesson Plan
Folger Shakespeare Library

Folger Shakespeare Library: Close Reading the Conspiracy in Julius Caesar, Act 2

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson plan, students create a prompt book of Act 2, Scene 1. Each group of students will focus on a specific emphasis as they edit the scene.
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Lesson Plan
South Carolina Educational Television

Know It All: Finding Theme

For Teachers 3rd Standards
The students will be able to determine the theme of a story by recalling key details that support the theme.
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Lesson Plan
South Carolina Educational Television

Know It All: Non Fiction Text Features

For Teachers 5th Standards
Fifth graders will use non-fiction books to identify and explain how text features help them as individual readers.
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Professional Doc
CPALMS

Cpalms: Lafs.7.ri.1.3

For Teachers 1st Standards
This site provides explanation of the Florida English Language Arts Standard: Analyze the interactions between individuals, events, and ideas in a text (e.g., how ideas influence individuals or events, or how individuals influence ideas...
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Professional Doc
Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Inclusive Classrooms: A Primer for Teachers

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
An inclusive classroom is a general education classroom where students with and without learning differences learn together. Inclusive classrooms are welcoming and support the diverse academic, social, emotional, and communication needs...
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Guidebooks: Accountable Talk

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This strategy helps students refine their understanding of texts to meet reading expectations, engage in group conversations to meet speaking and listening expectations, and prepare for writing about texts.
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Article
AdLit

Ad lit.org: Pre Reading Activities for El Ls

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Pre-reading activities can engage student interest, activate prior knowledge, or pre-teach potentially difficult concepts and vocabulary. They also offer a great opportunity to introduce comprehension components such as cause and effect,...
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Whiteboard
SMART Technologies

Smart: Reviewing Sequence of Events

For Teachers 5th - 7th Standards
Students will identify time-order words in order to comprehend passages, place events in sequential order on a time line, and use a flow chart to organize their thoughts for writing in this interactive SMART whiteboard activity.
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Unit Plan
Beacon Learning Center

Beacon Learning Center: Web Lessons: Get the Main Idea

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
This resource provides practice finding the main idea by having students read a paragraph and choose the main idea. Then it asks students to take what they have learned and apply it to a book of their choice, and then write a paragraph...
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Unit Plan
Curated OER

Mc Graw Hill: Describe Characters

For Students 2nd Standards
This learning module focuses on reading for key ideas and details including main characters, problems, and solutions. It provides a detailed example with an explanation and a practice paragraph with questions.
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Unit Plan
Curated OER

Mac Millan: Story Elements: Grade 6

For Students 6th Standards
This learning module focuses on analyzing story elements including the order of events, character, conflict, resolution, and plot. It provides a model story with questions and answers and then a practice story with questions.
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Interactive
Beacon Learning Center

Beacon Learning Center: Sequence of Events

For Students 1st Standards
Practice putting pictures and story events in order after reading a short text in this online learning activity.
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Website
Other

Ccss Literacy E Handbook: Informational Text: Understand Content Words

For Students 4th Standards
A short example of using context clues to determine the meaning of unfamiliar content words. Click on Practice to practice using context clues.
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Handout
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Journey North: Reading Strategies: Identify and Analyze Text Structure

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Learn how to identify the text structures of chronological/sequence, cause/effect, problem/solution, compare/contrast, description, and directions by using a list of guiding questions.
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Interactive
Quia

Quia: Main Ideas!

For Students 3rd Standards
Read a short text and determine the main idea in this Battleship style learning game.
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Interactive
Quia

Quia: Implied Main Idea

For Students 7th Standards
Read a short text and determine the main idea in this Battleship style learning game.