ClassFlow
Class Flow: Story Fairytale
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students learn the elements of a story through fairytales. These include character, setting, plot, and secret ingredient. Includes an Activote session.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Three Bears
[Free Registration/Login Required] Flipchart describes the classic story and allows children to explore this timeless classic.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Compare & Contrast Little Red Riding Hood and Lon Po Po
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will hear a retelling of Little Red Riding Hood. Students can record their retelling of Lon PoPo. There are two sites to learn more about the author of Lon PoPo, Ed Young. Students will then...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Compare and Contrast Lesson
[Free Registration/Login Required] Compare and Contrast Lesson for 1st Grade Reading in Learning Focused Format.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Graphic Organizer Compare Contrast
[Free Registration/Login Required] This graphic organizer flipchart creates a template to help students compare and contrast ideas and objects. It can be used in many different subject areas.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Graphic Organizer Compare Matrix
[Free Registration/Login Required] This graphic organizer uses a matrix to help students compare items or events. It is useful for helping students understand and analyze reading passages, historical events, and scientific experiments.
Other
Switch Zoo: Make New Animals
Students choose from many different animals to combine a head, body, and tail in order to create a new animal of their own. Facts and information on each animal type are provided, and once the animal is complete, students can add a title...
Aaron Shepherd
Aaron Shepherd: The Story Spirits
As retold in English, this tale is based on the original version published in Korea in 1920 by storyteller Mun Czang-Zun.
Aaron Shepherd
Aaron Shepard's World of Stories: Folktales, Fairy Tales, Myths, Legends, Etc.
Here are folktales, fairy tales, tall tales, myths, legends, magical tales, and sacred stories, plus original fables, humor, fantasy, and historical fiction from award-winning author Aaron Shepard. Most of the stories have been published...
LM Digital Media
Kids World Fun: Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper
The fairy tale Cinderella written in verse.
Quizlet
Quizlet: Plot 2nd Grade Match
Race against the clock to match twenty plot terms with their definitions.
Quizlet
Quizlet: Plot 2nd Grade Learn
Practice your knowledge of twenty plot terms by typing the term for each definition.
Quizlet
Quizlet: 2nd Grade: Identify the Character Trait Test
This interactive assessment features 12 multiple-choice questions requiring students to identify character traits from examples.
Quizlet
Quizlet: 2nd Grade: Character Trait Match
In this interactive game, students match character traits with examples of the traits.
Quizlet
Quizlet: 2nd Grade: Character Trait: Flashcards
This set of interactive flashcards focuses on 12 character traits and examples of each.
Quizlet
Quizlet: Plot 2nd Grade Flashcards
Twenty flashcards with plot terms with their definitions.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: A Folktale Play
Listen to folk tales from around the world, and recreate one of the stories in a play.
Starfall
Starfall: It's Fun to Read: I'm Reading
This is a collection of online reading stories for beginning readers. These collections include plays, fiction and nonfiction stories, comics, folktales, Greek myths, and Chinese fables. Many of the stories have an option for read alouds...
Other
Johnnie's Story Page: Stories and Reading Activities for Beginning Readers
Links students can follow to listen and read along with dozens of illustrated stories from different online sources. Stories are sorted into three categories: Beginning Readers, Classic Stories, and Older Readers.
Starfall
Starfall: Word Hunt
Help write a story about a rabbit in a garden by choosing words to describe the rabbit and to tell what action the rabbit likes to do. Then watch these choices come to life in the cartoon illustrations.
Education.com
Education.com: Compare and Contrast Texts on the Same Topic
[Free Registration/Login Required] Explain that even if two texts are written about the same topic, they can have different information depending on the author's perspective or the source of the information. When we compare two texts on...
HotChalk
Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Venn Diagrams
The point of this lesson is to introduce children to the idea of comparison through Venn diagrams. Children will compare two stories using the Venn diagram.