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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Caracteristicas De Ficcion Y Noficcion

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart was written for a bilingual Grade 2 classroom and reviews the characteristics of fiction and non fiction. It is written in Spanish.
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eBook
Other

Reading Keys: Tampa Read's Grade 1 Books Online

For Students K - 1st Standards
This site offers three books written specifically with first grade vocabulary and using progressively more difficult vocabulary from book one to book three. Book one has the vowels printed in color to make the students more aware of...
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Interactive
Quia

Quia: Parts of a Book

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This is a matching game in which parts of a book are matched with their definitions. Java is required.
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Lesson Plan
Can Teach

Can Teach: Class Book Ideas: Story Frames

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This site discusses how story frames are a great way to support emergent writers in the classroom. Lots of story prompts and writing frames to use in a K-2 classroom.
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Article
Family Education

Family Education: Writing Good Book Reports

For Students 1st - 5th Standards
Advice for writing book reports.
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Website
Starfall

Starfall: It's Fun to Read: I'm Reading

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This is a collection of online reading stories for beginning readers. These collections include plays, fiction and nonfiction stories, comics, folktales, Greek myths, and Chinese fables. Many of the stories have an option for read alouds...
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Interactive
Starfall

Starfall: Things That Can Go

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This is an online story for early readers about things that can go into motion, and things that can't. It offers help for readers as they can click on a words and it will say the word aloud. It also provides a list of words used in the...
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Interactive
Starfall

Starfall: Not Too Little to Help

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This online storybook is for very early readers; the child has the option to click on a word they don't know to have it read to them. A list of words in the story are provided.
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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: w.k.2 Worksheets

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Choose from a variety of worksheets to help students practice writing to compose informative/explanatory texts.
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Website
Other

Internet4 Classrooms: ccss.ela literacy.sl.k.4 Describe Familiar People, Places

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Choose from several activities to teach the Common Core Standard of describing familiar people, places, things, and events and, with prompting and support, providing additional detail. Includes ideas for conversation starters for...
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Activity
Education.com

Education.com: Ri.1.3 Worksheets, Workbooks, Lesson Plans, and Games

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Choose from a variety of resources to teach and reinforce the common core standard of describing connections between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text.
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Lesson Plan
Education.com

Education.com: Compare and Contrast Texts on the Same Topic

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Explain that even if two texts are written about the same topic, they can have different information depending on the author's perspective or the source of the information. When we compare two texts on...