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Interactive
Starfall

Starfall: The Turnip

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
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.
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Interactive
Starfall

Starfall: Let's Be Pals

For Students K - 1st Standards
This interactive focuses on short sentences that include picture words.
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Interactive
Starfall

Starfall: Giving

For Students K - 1st Standards
This interactive focuses on giving to others. Children can read independently or click on the ear to have sentences read to them.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: The Relatives Came by Cynthia Rylant

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This is a first grade reading comprehension lesson to teach students how to make text-to-self connections while reading.
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Handout
Curated OER

Mc Graw Hill: Setting

For Students 1st - 2nd Standards
Resource helps with understanding the setting of a story through the use of details.
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Interactive
Beacon Learning Center

Beacon Learning Center: Sequence of Events

For Students 1st Standards
Practice putting pictures and story events in order after reading a short text in this online learning activity.
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abcteach

Abcteach: Picture Sentences

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Reproducible worksheets with colorful pictures that help early readers to practice their comprehension by choosing the correct sentence.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Retelling the Story

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart helps to teach students how to retell main events from a story and sequence events.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: There Was an Old Lady

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is to be used with the There Was an Old Lady series of books. Use with ordinal numbers and retelling the story. The students can vote on their favorite book and use a Venn Diagram to...
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Three Little Pigs

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Using copying and pasting, a flipchart retelling the traditional tale. Use the reveal blind and spotlight to highlight text, and pictures to stimulate discussion.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Dolphins

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart integrates a science and reading lesson on dolphins. The lesson includes wonderful interactive activities for the students activating prior knowledge and what they learn in the chart.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Kindergarten Sequencing Lesson

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Sequencing lesson for Kindergarten in Learning Focused format.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Setting

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart introduces setting to students using picture clues first and then using only contextual clues. Activotes are also used to check for understanding.
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Activity
Other

Resource Room: What's the Big Idea?

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This exercise can be used to help students develop understanding of main idea and supporting details. Students are given a list of words to analyze, decide the theme and write a common subject that defines the group.
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Activity
PBS

Pbs Teachers: A Folktale Play

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Listen to folk tales from around the world, and recreate one of the stories in a play.
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Activity
Other

Goodnight Stories: The Walk

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A combination of words and pictures creates a story about a little girl who takes a walk and ends up making friends with a little bird.
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eBook
Starfall

Starfall: A House in a Tree

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This is an online children's picture book for early readers. It includes story word list.
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Website
Other

Johnnie's Story Page: Stories and Reading Activities for Beginning Readers

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Links students can follow to listen and read along with dozens of illustrated stories from different online sources. Stories are sorted into three categories: Beginning Readers, Classic Stories, and Older Readers.
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Activity
Education.com

Education.com: rl.k.7 Worksheets

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Choose from a variety of worksheets that help students practice the following Common Core State Standards skill: With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the story...
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Activity
Education.com

Education.com: Rl.1.2 Worksheets

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Choose from a variety of worksheets for students to practice the common core skill of understanding a central message or lesson.
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Article
Other

The Digital Scoop: Drawing and Writing Fun With Abc Ya Story Maker

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This article describes how to use the Story Maker app on the ABCYa website. A sample of student writing about making a snowman is provided.