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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Weather: A Journey in Nonfiction

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Questions about weather clear up when students use what they learned from their books to create a presentation to share with the rest of the class.
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Interactive
Other

Bubbl.us: Brainstorming Made Simple

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Bubbl.us is a free online application that allows users to brainstorm online then save them, email them and share with friends.
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Unit Plan
Read Works

Read Works: Helping a Friend

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This ReadWorks module contains a pair of literary texts that narrate teamwork-themed stories about a children's running race and a children's soccer game . Pictures, photos, and question sets are...
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Unit Plan
Read Works

Read Works: Singing Time

For Students K Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] ReadWorks provides texts for pre-fluent and fluent readers. This resource is a short poem about joyful mornings.
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works:lesson 2: Humorous Solutions Kindergarten Tell Tales

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will learn that tall tales are stories with funny solutions to a problem and how to learn unknown words.
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Rl.1.1 Ask and Answer Questions About Key Details in a Text.

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This landing page offers different lessons related to the standard RL.1.1 Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
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Article
Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: The Foundations for Reading

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
What are the foundations for reading? Come and explore this informative article to discover the answer to this question.
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Interactive
PBS

Pbs Kids: Martha Speaks: Games

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Sixteen games containing characters from the show Martha Speaks that introduce new vocabulary through play, presenting words in proper context and providing definitions. Parents and teachers can print a list of the vocabulary words used...
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Professional Doc
Other

Axelson Academy(you Tube:)asking and Answering Questions About Unknown Vocabulary

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This video provides teachers an example of how to support critical thinking skills in relation to vocabulary development in kindergarten. [2:45]
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Lesson Plan
Read Works

Read Works: Paired Text Questions: "We Are Americans" and "Whoever You Are"

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Students will compare information from the non-fiction book "We are Americans" and the book "Whoever You Are" to write or speak more knowledgeably about what large groups of people have in common.
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Batty Questions

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
In this lesson, students will be able to recognize and ask questions using standard question words while learning about bats. Included in this lesson are samples of student work, and pictures of the lesson in action.
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Unit Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research:ask and Answer [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which students read a text and stop periodically to write questions based on question word cards. Materials are included.
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Professional Doc
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Questions to Guide Instruction

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This site offers questions to guide all facets of reading instruction broken down by grade level, grades K-3.
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Lesson Plan
Education.com

Education.com: Ask Me How

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, your students will become familiar with using this question word to investigate how things work. At the conclusion of this lesson, students will be able to ask and answer questions to...
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Interactive
Love To Know Media

Your Dictionary: Grammar Games

For Students K - 1st Standards
This is a list of 23 links to grammar games including word scrambles, charades, word puzzles, and other games.
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Unit Plan
CPALMS

Cpalms: Building Meaning

For Students K - 1st Standards
In this tutorial, students will acquire tools from Handy Hal that will help them answer questions about unknown words in a text. Students will learn about word parts, picture clues, and context clues to help them with vocabulary...
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Interactive
Starfall

Starfall: At School

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this learning game, children click and drag pictures and words into boxes to create sentences, and then click on the apple to read or listen to sentences containing words and pictures.
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Professional Doc
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Arthur: Collection

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This collection foster students' interest in reading and writing, and encourage positive social skills with this collection of classroom resources from ARTHUR. Aimed at children between the ages of four and eight, these resources feature...
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Professional Doc
Scholastic

Scholastic: Teaching Tools: 6 Steps to Helping Students Set Strong Reading Goals

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This site offers six steps to helping students set strong reading goals. It all starts with inspiring your students to think about who they are as readers.
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Interactive
ABCya

Ab Cya: Keyboarding Zoo 2

For Students K - 1st Standards
The keyboarding zoo is back! This fun and educational activity will focus on uppercase and lowercase letters, as well as typing words and making short sentences using the period key and spacebar.
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Professional Doc
Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Guide for Determining Text Complexity

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
An educator's guide to help determine the level of text complexity.
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Professional Doc
Axelson Academy

Axelson Academy: Asking and Answering Questions About Unknown Vocabulary

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this lesson, students will receive support and prompting as they listen to informational text and then determine the meaning of one of the words in context.
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Other

Dorling Kindersley: Question Words [Pdf]

For Students K - 1st Standards
This worksheet helps students understand the words we use to ask questions. [PDF]
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Website
Other

Jl Resource: The Reading Room

For Students K - 1st Standards
Find creative ways to help students learn to read. Links to online stories and activities.