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Read Works: Grade 2: Two Lesson Unit: Theme

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

[Free Registration/Login Required] A set of two lesson plans designed to teach students to use story elements to identify theme and to match a given theme to a story. Lessons are based on the book Aesop's Fables by Jerry Pinkney....

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Read Works: Compare and Contrast Kindergarten Unit: Identifying What Is the Same

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards

[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson in which young scholars learn to recognize similarities between two pictures. Ideas for teaching, guided practice, and independent practice are included. Pictures for the lesson are available...

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Read Works: Compare and Contrast Kindergarten Unit: Identifying What Is Different

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards

[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson in which students learn to recognize differences between two pictures. Ideas for teaching, guided practice, and independent practice are included. Pictures for the lesson are available to...

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Read Works: Compare/contrast Kindergarten Unit: Similarities/differences in Text

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards

[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson using the book Long Ago and Today by Rozanne Lanczak Williamsin in which students learn to recognize similarities and differences within a text. Ideas for teaching, guided practice, and...

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Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center

Wisconsin Rt I Center: Story Writing Frames [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards

Teachers will learn how to use story writing frames with their students. Teachers will learn how to implement story frames; measure progress with story frames; and find research to support using story frames. A reproducible story frame...

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Read Works: Telephones: Then and Now

For Teachers 1st - 2nd Standards

[Free Registration/Login Required] This short literary text passage is about how telephones have changed over the years. This passage is intended for guided practice and is designed to reinforce essential reading comprehension skills...

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Read Write Think: Using Curiosity for Descriptive Writing

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards

Lesson plan which allows kindergartners to combine their experiences and curiosity into developing beginning descriptions. Students use memories and illustrations in writing.

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Uen: The Cinderella Projects

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards

Students will compare and contrast various versions of Cinderella in the mini-unit. Students will engage in shared readings, an art project, and dramatic play during the unit.

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Read Works: Alyssa Wears a Bow Tie

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards

[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage is a fictional narrative about a girl who chooses to show her creativity by wearing a bow tie on the first day of school. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces...

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Read Works: The Yo Yo

For Teachers 2nd Standards

[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a boy named Brendan who learned that it is always better to share his toys. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.

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Abcteach: Fairy Tale Printouts: Abc teach.com

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards

[Free Registration/Login Required] This fairy tale resource features activities, bar graphs, word searches, crossword puzzles and more. Teachers can print out many of these materials quickly and easily.

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Better Lesson: rl.k.9

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

Written by Master Teachers, BetterLesson provides lesson plans for all core subjects. This site provides 15 lessons for RL.K.9: With prompting and support, compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in familiar...

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Quizlet

Quizlet: Story Elements (1St Grade) Match

For Students 1st - 3rd Standards

This interactive game of "Match" assesses students' knowledge of story element definitions. Students will match the correct definition of a story element to its corresponding definition. Picture cues are provided on this review resource.

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Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: A Lesson on Comparing & Contrasting Using Cinderella

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards

In this lesson, students will learn to compare and contrast 2 different versions of "Cinderella." Students will use a Venn diagram and make predictions.

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Michigan State University: Intervention for Reading: Story Retelling

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards

This intervention emphasizes the importance of verbal rehearsal of a story. By retelling, students relate information from the story to their own experiences. In this way, they improve their reading comprehension and memory of story...

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Read Works: Paired Text Questions: "We Are Americans" and "Whoever You Are"

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

Students will compare information from the non-fiction book "We are Americans" and the book "Whoever You Are" to write or speak more knowledgeably about what large groups of people have in common.

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Better Lesson: But, Are They Really That Different?

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

Students cannot compare and contrast adventures and experiences in stories or explain differences between books without first understanding how to compare. For this lesson, students will learn how to use a Venn Diagram to compare two...

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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Exp. Text Structure: Text Structure Sort [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd Standards

A lesson plan in which students read short texts and sort them according to structure: cause and effect, problem and solution, question and answer, compare and contrast, description, and sequence. Materials are included.

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Florida Center for Reading Research: Text Analysis: Compare and Contrast [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

A lesson plan in which students use graphic organizers to compare and contrast topics within a text. Materials are included.

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Florida Center for Reading Research: Expository Text Structure: Main Idea Mania

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd Standards

A lesson plan in which students read a text and record the main ideas and supporting details on one of the graphic organizers provided. Materials are included. [PDF]

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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Compare a Story [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

A lesson plan in which students read two narrative texts and complete graphic organizers to compare and contrast the texts. Materials are included.

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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Character Connections

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd Standards

A lesson plan in which students 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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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Compare a Character [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

A lesson plan in which students read a narrative text and complete graphic organizers to compare and contrast two characters from the story. Materials are included.[PDF]

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Starfall: Chinese Fables

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards

Six short stories based on Chinese fables to read online. The stories are at about a Grade 2 reading level.

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