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Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

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

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which students read a narrative text and complete graphic organizers to map the story. Materials are included.
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Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Character Connections

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd Standards
A lesson plan in which learners read a narrative text and complete graphic organizers to describe a character or compare and contrast two characters from the story. Materials are included. [PDF]
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Lesson Plan
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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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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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Narrative Paragraphs

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
Students learn to use a one-main idea Think-sheet for producing a narrative paragraph. [Requires Adobe Reader.]
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Descriptive Essay

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
Students learn to use one-main-idea think-sheets when producing simple descriptive essays.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Sounds: What We Hear!

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Students will create a descriptive writing about the sounds they hear in a favorite place. This is a good follow-up to a science unit on sound.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Class Portrait: An Anthology in Words and Pictures

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Lesson plan where students each write an autobiographical poem and illustrate it by taking pictures with a digital camera. Students' work is then complied into an anthology. (Note: Lesson procedure includes reading a book that is not...
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Professional Doc
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Arthur: Collection

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This collection foster students' interest in reading and writing, and encourage positive social skills with this collection of classroom resources from ARTHUR. Aimed at children between the ages of four and eight, these resources feature...
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Professional Doc
Scholastic

Scholastic: Teaching Tools: 6 Steps to Helping Students Set Strong Reading Goals

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This site offers six steps to helping students set strong reading goals. It all starts with inspiring your students to think about who they are as readers.
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Professional Doc
Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Guide for Determining Text Complexity

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
An educator's guide to help determine the level of text complexity.
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Activity
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: A Word Game for Kids: The Setting Game for Kids

For Students K - 1st Standards
In this game, young writers are asked to describe a place with memorable details. The main focus is to describe a setting -- time and place. If they need help with ideas, they can click the when and where buttons until they have...
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Activity
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Color Game

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Click the buttons to get a unique starter for a descriptive piece of writing. You can make up a story, a poem, anything you like.
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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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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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Unit Plan
Curated OER

Mc Graw Hill: Describe Characters

For Students 2nd Standards
This learning module focuses on reading for key ideas and details including main characters, problems, and solutions. It provides a detailed example with an explanation and a practice paragraph with questions.
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Interactive
Room Recess

Room Recess: Main Idea Millionaire

For Students 1st - 2nd Standards
Based on the television show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, this activity tests understanding of the main idea by finding the one sentence that does not belong in the paragraph.
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Lesson Plan
Other

Pbs 45 & 49:...trauma & Loss: Beginning, Middle & End

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Lesson plan for kindergarten and first grade that teaches about the beginning, middle, and end of a story along with dealing with trauma and loss by using the story "Bridgett Bunny?s Ordinary Day That Wasn?t" (link to the text included)....
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Quia

Quia: 3rd Grade Main Idea

For Students 2nd - 4th Standards
This short interactive activity assesses students' ability to identify main idea. Students will read three short passages and identify the main idea of each.
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eBook
Other

Stuart Stories: Bad Bat Stories

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This is a collection of short stories, each focusing on a specific phoneme. The focus phoneme is underlined throughout the story. They are offered in PDF (requires Adobe Reader) or Word format.
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PPT
TES Global

Tes: Onomatopoeia: Poetic Devices Activity

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This Power Point presentation provides thorough definitions and examples of onomatopoeia.
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PPT
Other

Prezi: Finding the Main Idea in 2nd Grade

For Students 2nd - 3rd Standards
By watching this slideshow, students will learn how to find the main idea in a paragraph and the supporting details. It uses the analogy of the layers of a hamburger deluxe.
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PPT
Other

Prezi: Bme Beginning Middle End

For Students 2nd - 3rd Standards
Become a better reader by learning how to identify the beginning, middle, and the end of a story. Discover what clue words will help with the identification.
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PPT
Other

Prezi: Beginning, Middle, and End

For Students 1st - 2nd Standards
Based on the story, Harry the Dirty Dog, this slideshow introduces the different elements of the beginning, middle, and end of a story.