Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Read and Write From Top to Bottom and Left to Right
Teach students to remind themselves (and train their eyes and brains) to go from top to bottom, left to right and page by page! This lesson plan includes a catchy song to the tune of Mary had a Little Lamb to help students remember this...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: The Alphabet Book [Pdf]
A ready to print and easy to use graphic organizer to help students plan alphabet books on any subject.
Education.com
Education.com: sl.k.5 Lesson Plans
[Free Registration/Login Required] Choose from four quality lesson plans to help students practice the Common Core Standard of adding drawings or other visual displays to descriptions as desired to provide additional detail.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Monitor for Understanding: Strategic
A lesson plan in which students complete a graphic organizer to record prior knowledge before reading, ask questions while reading, and summarize a text after reading. Materials are included. [PDF]
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Classifying Info [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which students read a text and complete a graphic organizer to find the main idea and supporting details. Materials are included.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Fiction and Nonfiction Sort [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which young scholars look at different books, write their titles, and sort them according to whether they are fiction or nonfiction. Materials are included.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Venn Diagram [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which young scholars read two literary texts then compare and contrast them by completing a Venn diagram. Materials are included.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Expository Text Structure: Book Look [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which learners look through a book to identify text features and complete a graphic organizer. Materials are included.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Nar Text Structure: Story Sequence Organizer [Pdf]
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.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Narrative Text Structure: Retell Ring [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which students read a narrative text and answer questions about the plot. Materials are included.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Narr. Text Structure: Picture the Character
A lesson plan in which students read a narrative text and complete a graphic organizer to illustrate and write characteristics of one of the characters. Materials are included.
Starfall
Starfall: Come Play With Me
This interactive nonfiction ebook focuses children playing. Students can choose to read independently or listen to each sentence.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Spine Labels
This is a first or second grade library skills unit, conducted by the librarian with help from the art, computer, and homeroom teachers. Students will create: their own book cover and title page containing title, author & slideshow...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Dewey Decimal Classification System Mural
Students will select a book from an assigned section in the non-fiction area of the library. After reading the books, students will write a paragraph that summarizes the content area of the book. Students will illustrate the book that...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Publishing a Book Report Using Word Processing
This lesson plan provides students with the basic steps to using word processing. Students will use word processing software to publish a final copy of a book report. Students will review the main parts of a book report. This lesson plan...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Students Write a Newspaper
For this project-based language development lesson, English Language Learners learn about the newspaper publication and create their own newspaper that covers stories about their school year. The lesson format follows the Sheltered...
Axelson Academy
Axelson Academy: The Roles of the Author and the Illustrator in Literature
This video resource explains the roles that authors and illustrators have in literature.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Over the Rainbow
Students review and conclude our color unit. Students graph their favorite colors.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Launching Young Readers: Episode 10: Toddling Toward Reading
Hosted by Reba McEntire, "Toddling Toward Reading" examines what it takes to give preschoolers the early literacy skills they need to become successful readers. Features children's book author and illustrator Sandra Boynton, whose...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Arthur: Collection
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...
Scholastic
Scholastic: Teaching Tools: 6 Steps to Helping Students Set Strong Reading Goals
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.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Guide for Determining Text Complexity
An educator's guide to help determine the level of text complexity.
Starfall
Starfall: Chicken Little
This is an interactive ebook of the folk tale "Chicken Little". Children can choose to read the book independently or click on the ear to have sentences read to them.
Starfall
Starfall: The Turnip
This is an interactive ebook of the folk tale "The Turnip". Children can choose to read the book independently or click on the ear to have sentences read to them.