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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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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Seven Large Lands

For Teachers 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text introducing the seven continents. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Learning About Your World

For Teachers 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about how the five senses help people learn about their world. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Light

For Teachers 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about natural and man-made things that give off light. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Unit Plan
Read Works

Read Works: How Does a Cell Phone Work?

For Teachers 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about cell phones and how they work. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Music in Your Ear

For Teachers 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about guitars. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Website
Curated OER

Mc Graw Hill: Part 2: Reading Informational Text: Ask and Answer Questions

For Students 1st - 5th Standards
Learn about questions to ask while reading a text on this site. Also, review where to look for the answers to the questions that you asked.
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Education.com

Education.com: 1st Grade Reading & Writing Resources

For Students 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This collection of first grade reading and writing resources contains lesson plans and worksheets that can be used during the research process.
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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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Activity
Goodwill

Gcf Global: Text Explorer

For Students 1st - 5th Standards
Use this Text Explorer reading comprehension activity to improve your literacy skills.
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Character Web

For Students K - 1st Standards
In this instructional activity, students will create a character web. Students will use a character from their storybook character for the web.
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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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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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Lesson Plan
CPALMS

Cpalms: It's All in the Details

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Using this comprehensive lesson plan, students will use a web graphic organizer to learn to record the main idea and details learned from informational text read aloud to them.
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Lesson Plan
Education.com

Education.com: sl.k.5 Lesson Plans

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[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.
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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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Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Monitor for Understanding: Read and Ask [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which students read a text aloud and then roll a question cube and answer the questions together with a partner. Materials are included.
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Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Classifying Info [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
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.
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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
Starfall

Starfall: Apple

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This lesson focuses on the short-vowel letter A sound. It includes a poem about apples, how to from the letter A caps and lower case, and pictures of other things beginning with an A.
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Asking and Answering Questions About Our Story

For Teachers 1st Standards
Today's instructional activity is all about asking and answering questions so we can strengthen comprehension.
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Questioning Text

For Teachers 1st Standards
Creating a product and illustrations make this lesson great for teaching about questioning. Students will ask and answer questions about a text via the assistance of a graphic organizer.
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Questioning Text

For Teachers 1st Standards
Creating a product and illustrations make this lesson great for teaching about questioning.