Read Works
Read Works: The United States of America
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage discusses what it means to be an American. This passage reinforces essential reading comprehension skills. Opportunities for vocabulary acquisition are also included. Several...
Read Works
Read Works: Finding Food
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage discusses how obtaining food was challenging in the past. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: rl.k.3 With Prompting and Support, Identify Characters, Settings,
This landing page provides different lesson plan choices on teaching RL.K.3 With prompting and support, identify characters, settings,
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: rl.k.2 With Prompting and Support, Retell Familiar Stories
This landing page offers a variety of lesson plans that instruct students on RL.K.2 With prompting and support, retell familiar stories, etc.
CPALMS
Cpalms: Buzzing Tails
This video tutorial features the character named Bobby who will assist students as they search for key details in a nonfiction text.
English for Everyone
English for Everyone: Sentence Completion 19 [Pdf]
English for Everyone provides a printable quiz to assess the understanding of words associated with jobs, actions, and places.
English for Everyone
English for Everyone: Sentence Completion 9 [Pdf]
English for Everyone provides a printable quiz to assess the words associated with family relationships, jobs, places, and actions.
English for Everyone
English for Everyone: Sentence Completion 6 [Pdf]
English for Everyone provides a printable quiz to assess the words associated with family relationships. Descriptive vocabulary words are also assessed on this quiz.
PBS
Pbs Kids: Martha Speaks: Games
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...
Education Place
Houghton Mifflin: Eduplace: Fantastic Pictures
Check out this interdisciplinary lesson plan. Young scholars have an opportunity to draw a card with an adjective word and another card with a noun word and then make a drawing of the object.
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: Word Meaning: Inside Information
A lesson plan in which learners create flip books by defining a word, writing a sentence, and giving examples. Materials are included.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Word Meaning: Semantic Map
A lesson plan in which students complete a graphic organizer to learn a new word. Materials are included.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Monitor for Understanding: Sum Summary! [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which young scholars read a narrative or informational text and complete graphic organizers to help them write good summaries of the texts. Materials are included.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Expository Text Structure: Summarizing [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which students read a text and record the main ideas and supporting details on a graphic organizer. Students then complete the organizer by writing a summary of the text. 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.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Adjectives Around Us
Students will make a photo story book using Flickr pictures.
Education.com
Education.com: Draw the Story
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will use their imagination to complete the story. How will it begin? How will it end? Great lesson for practicing sequencing.
Starfall
Starfall: Things That Can Go
This interactive nonfiction ebook focuses on things that can go. Children can choose to read independently or listen to each sentence read to them.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: The Grouchy Ladybug
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.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Sounds: What We Hear!
Students will create a descriptive writing about the sounds they hear in a favorite place. This is a good follow-up to a science unit on sound.
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...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Funny Sequence
After a discussion and work on sequence, young scholars will apply this knowledge to sequencing comic strips through group work.
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...