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Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Narrative Text Structure: Character Compare [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which learners read a narrative text and complete a graphic organizer to compare two characters. Materials are included.
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Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Character Consideration

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
A lesson plan in which students read a narrative text and complete graphic organizers to analyze a character. Materials are included. [PDF]
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Lesson Plan
Scholastic

Scholastic Instructor: Puzzled Over Paragraphs?

For Teachers 1st - 5th Standards
Here is an excellent list of ideas for teachers to utilize in their classroom to accompany paragraph writing skills. These creative and exciting activities will sharpen your student's writing abilities.
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Professional Doc
Axelson Academy

Axelson Academy:types of Texts

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This professional resource will help teachers understand the different types of texts that early childhood students need to know.
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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

Folger Shakespeare Library: Close Reading Shakespeare's Sonnets

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson plan teaches students to consider diction, syntax, literary devices, and rhetorical strategies in doing a close reading of Shakespeare's sonnets.
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Lesson Plan
South Carolina Educational Television

Know It All: Summarizing Texts

For Teachers 5th Standards
Fifth graders will review what a summary is and complete a worksheet for practice. They will then write their own informational text and a peer will summarize.
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Study Guide
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Match Structure Quick Guide

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A quick guide to approaching LSAT test questions that ask you to match the structure of an argument in one of the answer choices to the structure of the argument in a passage.
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Unit Plan
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Match Structure Learn More

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
"Match the structure" questions on the LSAT test your ability to determine how an argument goes. It begins with an argument in the stimulus and then asks you to choose another argument from among the choices that is structurally the...
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Unit Plan
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Identify the Role Learn More

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Some questions ask you to describe the individual role that a statement is playing in a larger argument. These questions require you to understand the statement in question, but even more important is your understanding of its context...
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Handout
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Organizing Information Quick Guide

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Organizing information questions ask you to understand and analyze how a passage works to make an argument. What is the progression of ideas in the passage? or What is the purpose of a specific paragraph?
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Article
AdLit

Ad lit.org: Previewing Texts in Content Classrooms

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Textbook previewing strategies focus not only on the structure of the text - such as the table of contents, index, chapter introductions, and so forth - but on a content overview, which focuses on the concepts and questions covered in...
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Activity
ACT360 Media

Writing Den

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The WritingDEN includes feature articles with associated words, sentences, and paragraphs to aid in the writing process. Interactive features include pronunciation guides and content quizzes. The Tips-o-matic section offers grammar...
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Handout
Other

Noodle Tools: Basic Language Literacy: Writing: Paragraph Art

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
When you create a coherent paragraph, it can be represented by any number of visual images. This page shows examples of how that might work to help writers understand the idea of coherence.
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Interactive
Quia

Quia: Text Structure Practice Part #1

For Students 7th - 8th Standards
After reading key words and phrases, determine the correct text structure in this Rags to Riches style game.
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Unit Plan
Other

Reading Quest: Strategies for Reading Comprehension: Summarizing

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
Teach students to summarize nonfiction text with these lesson plans. Includes worksheets and activities that can be downloaded and printed.
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Professional Doc
AdLit

Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Summarizing

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Summarizing teaches students how to take a large selection of text and reduce it to the main points for a more concise understanding. Upon reading a passage, summarizing helps students learn to determine essential ideas and consolidate...
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Unit: Reading Comprehension and Structure

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
This unit focuses on reading comprehension and structure. It includes lessons on the main idea and supporting details, theme, sequence, fact and opinion, literary devices, character, text features, inferences, organization of nonfiction,...
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Expository Writing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A twelve-part learning module with links to images, texts, slides, a video, and a quiz about expository writing, text structures, conjunctive adverbs, and more.
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Text Structure & Author's Purpose

For Students 2nd - 8th Standards
A ten-part learning module with links to videos, images, and websites to use while learning about text structure and author's purpose.
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Grammar Pre Learner Week 1 Paragraphing

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
A six-part learning module with links to images, videos, and websites about writing a paragraph.
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Interactive
Road to Grammar

Road to Grammar: Using Complete Sentences

For Students K - 1st Standards
This interactive focuses on complete sentences; it provides notes explaining what makes a complete sentence and two practices identifying complete sentences.
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PPT
Other

Prezi: Bme Beginning Middle End

For Students 2nd - 3rd Standards
Become a better reader by learning how to identify the beginning, middle, and the end of a story. Discover what clue words will help with the identification.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Paragraph Structure

For Teachers 3rd - 9th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson was designed to help students to analyze how individual paragraphs are structured in writing.