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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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Professional Doc
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Student Center Activities, K 1

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
In 2004-2005, a team of teachers at FCRR reviewed current research, collected ideas, and created materials for use in kindergarten and first grade classrooms. The K-1 Student Center Activities include three books and one DVD: The first...
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Professional Doc
Other

Medium: Helping Students Ask Better Questions by Creating a Culture of Inquiry

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
We want to see kids asking tons of questions. This is how students grow into creative, critical thinkers. This article by John Spencer gives multiple ways teachers can foster an environment in which students feel comfortable asking...
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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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Professional Doc
Edutopia

Edutopia: Teaching Students How to Ask Productive Questions

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This article gives insight into how to improve engagement, comprehension, and critical thinking by teaching students the process of asking insightful questions. Included is a comprehensive, metacognitive framework of questioning skills...
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Lesson Plan
Common Sense Media

Common Sense Media: Education: Story Elements Retelling

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
In this lesson plan, learners will learn to retell a story using story elements to improve their comprehension of the story. The students will actively listen to a story and complete a graphic organizer to share and discuss with a partner.
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Unit Plan
CPALMS

Cpalms: Building Meaning

For Students K - 1st Standards
In this tutorial, students will acquire tools from Handy Hal that will help them answer questions about unknown words in a text. Students will learn about word parts, picture clues, and context clues to help them with vocabulary...
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Interactive
Starfall

Starfall: Let's Play

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This interactive focuses on short sentences that include picture words.
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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.
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Professional Doc
Axelson Academy

Axelson Academy:types of Texts

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This professional resource will help teachers understand the different types of texts that early childhood students need to know.
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Using Word and Picture Clues to Make an Inference

For Teachers 1st Standards
First graders will use text evidence to make inferences about word and word phrase meanings in a text. Word and picture clues will be used to help students form inferences.
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Professional Doc
CPALMS

Cpalms: Lafs.7.ri.1.3

For Teachers 1st Standards
This site provides explanation of the Florida English Language Arts Standard: Analyze the interactions between individuals, events, and ideas in a text (e.g., how ideas influence individuals or events, or how individuals influence ideas...
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Article
Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Guiding Students: Expository Text With Text Feature Walks

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Explains how to guide students in examining text features during a walkthrough of an expository text.
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Lesson Plan
ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: Dr. Seuss Is on the Loose [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
The rhythmic and melodic elements of Theodor Geisel's children's literature provide many opportunities for knowledge of language, vocabulary acquisition and use, and creative expression and communication in music. Students work with two...
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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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Professional Doc
Axelson Academy

Axelson Academy: Asking and Answering Questions About Unknown Vocabulary

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this lesson, students will receive support and prompting as they listen to informational text and then determine the meaning of one of the words in context.
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Handout
Curated OER

Mc Graw Hill: Words That Describe Feelings

For Students 1st - 2nd Standards
Read the poem to learn about words that describe the senses and feelings then complete the practice page for extra review.
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Graphic
Enchanted Learning

Enchanted Learning: 5 W's Diagrams

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Enchanted Learning provides several examples of graphic organizers that can be used for gathering Who, What, Where, When, and Why information, either for reading comprehension or prewriting. These template suggestions can only be printed...
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Pearson

Pearson Education: Practice Reading Section

For Students 1st - 3rd Standards
This resource provides short reading selections that encourage reading comprehension. Students are challenged with questions about the selection to test their understanding.
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Article
Other

Papa Jan: Five Essential Components of Reading

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Can you name the five essential components of reading? Check out this informative site from Papa Jan.com to learn more about phonemic awareness, phonics, reading fluency, vocabulary development and reading comprehension.
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Sensory Details

For Students K - 1st Standards
A five-part learning module with links to images and videos about sensory details and using sensory language.
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Graphic
Other

Woodward English: Questions Words

For Students K - 1st Standards
Woodward English: Questions Words uses pictures and words to answer the 5 W's and H questions.