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eBook
Unite for Literacy

Unite for Literacy: Community: I Am a Scientist

For Students K - 1st Standards
This book shows some of the many different types of scientists. Includes audio narration in 6 additional languages with text in English.
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eBook
Unite for Literacy

Unite for Literacy: Know and Learn: Where Do You See Letters?

For Students K - 1st Standards
A book about letters in the world around us. Includes audio narration in 7 additional languages with text in English.
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eBook
Unite for Literacy

Unite for Literacy: Know and Learn: School Tools

For Students Pre-K - K Standards
Each page of this book has a picture of something children use at school followed by the word that names it. Includes audio narration in 9 additional languages with text in English.
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eBook
Unite for Literacy

Unite for Literacy: Know and Learn: What Is Blue?

For Students Pre-K - K Standards
A book about things that are blue. Includes audio narration in 22 additional languages with text in English.
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eBook
Unite for Literacy

Unite for Literacy: Earth and Sky: Show Me a Shadow

For Students K - 1st Standards
A picture book about shadows. Book includes audio narration in 16 additional languages with text in English.
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Professional Doc
Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center

Wisconsin Rt I Center: Reading Resources [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This site provides a collection of reading strategy teaching resources. Strategies are arranged according to the ELA Common Core Curriculum Standards and grade level bands.
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Professional Doc
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Reading Instruction: Content Area Reading Instruction

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This website offers a free download of the Research-Based Content Area Reading Instruction booklet. The purpose of this booklet is to provide teachers with research-based and classroom-tested information about each of these aspects of...
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Interactive
CPALMS

Cpalms: The Magical Library

For Students K - 1st Standards
In this tutorial, students will take a virtual trip to a library and learn how to identify the genre, author, and illustrator of a book. After listening to short segments from a magical wizard, students will identify books that are story...
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Go, Dog, Go!

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Students will read the story and describe the picture details of the illustrations in relation to the text and write about one of the story events. "Go, Dog, Go!" contains illustrations that are very elaborate and crazy while the text is...
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Pictures and Text Work Together Too!

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
The class will read the informational text "Together They Were Better". As the teacher reads the book aloud, she/he will use the illustrations from each page to give students clues as to the text on the page, helping them to see the...
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Other

Abrams Books: Picture Day Perfection: A Common Core State Standards Aligned

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This activity and discussion guide uses the book "Picture Day Perfect" to teach multiple common core state standards for language arts. Included in this lesson are discussion questions, a craft project, printable worksheets, and an...
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Identifying the Difference Between Informational and Literary Text

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Students will learn the difference between books that tell stories and books that give information. Multiple videos of different level reading groups engaged in this lesson, along with a printable activity sheet are included.
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Work Out Together

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Students will read an article and determine the author's point and identify the reasons the author gives to support his or her point. This lesson requires analysis by the students and a great deal of higher-order thinking as they...
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Writing Our Sloppy Copies and Peer Editing Day 4 Honeybees

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
You mean I have to write my story again, have someone check to make sure it's right, and fix my mistakes? For this lesson, students will peer edit each other's writing. They will use their five-star checklists (included) to make sure...
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Lesson Plan
CPALMS

Cpalms: What Do You Do With a Tail Like This?

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this instructional activity, students will use What Do You Do With A Tail Like This? by Steve Jenkins and Robin Page to identify the main topic and key details using the illustrations and text....
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Lesson Plan
CPALMS

Cpalms: Wild About Authors and Illustrators

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, students learn about the roles of authors and illustrators through games and book-writing. Students will have an opportunity to act out the roles of illustrators and authors. They will...
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Website
Other

Story Jumper

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Students can create their own storybooks using this website. They can add backgrounds, props, characters, personal photos or artwork, text, and their own voices. Free registration is required in order to save their work. There is a cost...
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Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Literacy

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Multiple resources such as videos and interactive games from Sesame Street that can be used to build literacy skills.
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Unit Plan
abcteach

Abcteach: Book Report Forms

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Teachers will find several blackline masters for primary, elementary and middle school students for use when doing various types of book reports such as fiction, biography, fairy tales, historical...
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Website
Curated OER

Mc Graw Hill: Part 1: Reading Literature: Use Illustrations and Details

For Students K - 1st Standards
Learn how drawing characters, settings, and events can help with reading comprehension.
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Lesson Plan
Other

Laus Dnet: Grade 1 Word Lesson Plan (Stone Soup) Pdf

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this lesson plan, students use Stone Soup by Ann McGovern to generate word lists and use patterned text to assist with descriptive writing. Gives links to step sheets and samples for creating a table , a template for shared writing, a...
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Article
Family Education

Family Education: Fifteen Minute Reading Activities

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
What can you do with your child in fifteen minutes to improve their reading skills? This site has a list of reading activities.
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Graphic
Austin Independent School District

Austin Independent School District: A Taxonomy of Literary Genre [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
A series of graphic organizers shows the progression of learning about literary genre, beginning in kindergarten and building through to fifth grade.
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Unit Plan
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Houghton Mifflin Books: Zathura by Chris Van Allsburg

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This comprehensive teacher's guide for the book "Zathura" by Chris Van Allsburg provides us with an opportunity to examine how writers blend scientific information with a fictional story.