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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: I Can Analyze a Story or History [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This graphic organizer can be used to help students analyze a story or a historical event. Students will look closely at the story's characters or people involved in the historical event. Then they will summarize the story or event, and...
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Handout
Curated OER

Mc Graw Hill: Compare Characters' Point of View

For Students 1st - 3rd Standards
Defines and explains how to show how different characters think and feel.
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eBook
FableVision

Fable Vision: Peter Reynolds: Playing From the Heart

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Read a click-through story about rediscovering the joy of making music.
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Sequencing a Strategy to Succeed at Reading Comprehension

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
Contains plans for lessons that use the story of Paul Bunyan to teach about sequencing and order of events. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as well as...
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Using Read Aloud as a Springboard to Writing

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
Using "Thunder Rose" by Jerdine Nolen, this lesson plan explores elements of tall tales. Included in the lesson plan is an overview, practice, objectives, resources, preparation, and more.
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Quia

Quia: Sequence: Putting Things in Order

For Students 2nd - 4th Standards
Using clue words, students are asked to number a list of events in order from 1-10 and then check answers. Students have up to three attempts to solve.
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eBook
Quia

Quia: Literary Terms Quiz

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this self-scoring practice activity, students read four passages and select the main idea of each.
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Activity
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Story Starters: Powerful Sentences

For Students 2nd - 8th Standards
In this lesson, students will click a button that will help them generate ideas for story development. Students can click several times, if needed, until one of the ideas is interesting to them. [Requires Adobe Reader.]
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Exploring Before, During, After Sequencing

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
From Read-Write-Think, here is a three-day lesson plan in which a class collaborates to produce a book, focusing on carving a jack-o-lantern. The emphasis is on teaching the skill of sequencing events.
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Unit Plan
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Harcourt: School Publishers: Test Tutor: Sequence

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Students will increase their reading comprehension skills and understanding of story sequence by reading a passage of text and then answering questions about the order of events.
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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Beginning a Kindergarten Writers Workshop

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
A series of quick lessons teachers can use when setting up a Writers Workshop in their classrooms. Lessons include teaching students appropriate Writers Workshop behaviors and activities, building independence, discussion topics, and...
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Article
Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Top 10 Things to Know About Reading

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
What are the top ten things you should know about reading?
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Article
Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Your School Age Child

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
What can you do to help your school-age child develop their reading skills?
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PPT
Tom Richey

Slide Share: Why Do Writers Write?

For Students K - 1st Standards
A slide show with nine slides explaining the author's purpose to persuade, inform, or entertain.
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: My Favorite Alley Cat

For Teachers 2nd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Requires free membership. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding for vocabulary learning. It contains...
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Starting Over

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about rebuilding after a disaster. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in comparing and contrasting.
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Planet Y

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a boy named Zack who is traveling to a new planet with his family. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: The Great Escape

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This fiction story shares the story of a girl who is taking care of animals and makes a mistake. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies...
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: A Scared Tiger

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This literary text passage shares the story of a scared cat who will not come down from a tree. This passage reinforces essential reading comprehension skills. Opportunities for vocabulary acquisition...
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Lesson Plan
Read Works

Read Works: Setting Kindergarten Unit: When (Seasons, Day, or Night)

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan, based on Look! Snow! by Kathryn O. Galbraith, in which learners learn how to utilize text and picture clues to determine basic time elements of setting in a story. Students follow this...
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Lesson Plan
Read Works

Read Works: Setting Kindergarten Unit: Where and When

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Based on Knuffle Bunny by Mo Willems, a lesson plan in which students learn how to utilize text and picture clues to determine a when and where the story takes place.
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Lesson Plan
Read Works

Read Works: Kindergarten: Character: Lesson 1: Physical Attributes of a Character

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan, based on David McPhail's Lost!, in which students are introduced to literary characters and explore the various clues, such as descriptions and illustrations, that communicate a...
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Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: 1st Grade Act. 24: Interactive Writing

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
In this instructional activity, young scholars will listen to nonfiction books about items that sink and float. Students will participate in filling in words to fill in a teacher-created chart that is connected to the information. Young...
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Exploring Character Through Images

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This lesson plan explores Curious George in relation to images conveying character. Included in the lesson plan is an overview, practice, objectives, resources, preparation, and more.