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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Expository Text Structure: Just the Facts

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

A lesson plan in which students read a text and complete a graphic organizer to identify the topic and supporting details or facts. Materials are included.

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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Narrative Text Structure: Sequence a Story [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

A lesson plan in which students read a narrative text and write the main events of the story on sentence strips. Materials are included.

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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Narrative Text Structure: Retell Ring [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

A lesson plan in which students read a narrative text and answer questions about the plot. Materials are included.

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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Narrative Text Structure: Character Compare [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

A lesson plan in which learners read a narrative text and complete a graphic organizer to compare two characters. Materials are included.

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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Narr. Text Structure: Picture the Character

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

A lesson plan in which students read a narrative text and complete a graphic organizer to illustrate and write characteristics of one of the characters. Materials are included.

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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Character Characteristics

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

A lesson plan in which students read a narrative text and complete graphic organizers to analyze a character. Materials are included. [PDF]

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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Instructional Routines

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

This site offers PDF grade-specific lesson plans for teaching various reading skills for grades K-3. These include phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension.

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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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Crayons and Cuties in Kindergarten: Launching Persuasive Writing in Kindergarten

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards

A kindergarten teacher shares how she introduced persuasive writing in her classroom. After a discussion about "problems" that need to be fixed in their school, the class decided they wanted to write the principal a persuasive letter...

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Read Works

Readworks: Reading Lesson 3: To Persuade

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

This instructional activity focuses on identifying text evidence that shows that the author's purpose is to persuade. Draw a conclusion about what the author is trying to persuade the reader to do or think. Text, worksheet, and chart are...

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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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Axelson Academy

Axelson Academy: The Roles of the Author and the Illustrator in Literature

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards

This video resource explains the roles that authors and illustrators have in literature.

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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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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Reading Informational Text: Grades K 1

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

This learning resource will show teachers how to model how to teach students to describe connections between pieces of information in a text.

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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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Beacon Learning Center

Beacon Learning Center: Get the Idea

For Students K - 1st Standards

In this reading comprehension exercise, young readers will learn to identify main ideas in paragraphs. Includes multiple choice options with hints.

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Curated OER

Mc Graw Hill: Identify the Main Topic and Key Details

For Students 1st - 2nd Standards

This is a practice exercise to help teach how to find the main topic of a passage by looking at key details. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.2

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Lesson Plan: Decoding: Context Activity

For Teachers 1st - 6th Standards

What does it mean to decode words in a context activity? Explore this lesson plan to find the answer to this question and more.

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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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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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TES Global

Blendspace: Authors Purpose

For Students K - 1st Standards

A five-part learning module with links to videos and an image on author's purpose.

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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Paragraphs

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards

[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will write simple, non-chronological reports from known information (e.g., from own experience or from existing text), using notes made to organize and present ideas. Students will learn to...

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Room Recess

Room Recess: Author's Purpose

For Students K - 1st Standards

Read short texts and determine whether their purpose is to inform, entertain, or persuade in order to move around the board in this online learning game. Click on video lessons for an understanding of author's purposes including types of...

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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Cause and Effect

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards

[Free Registration/Login Required] Cause and Effect Lesson for 1st Grade Reading, written in Learning Focused Format.

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