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Worksheet Plus: Give and Get
Read a short literary text called "Give and Get," and then choose the correct answer for comprehension questions at the end of the selection.
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Prezi: Bme Beginning Middle End
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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Prezi: Beginning, Middle, and End
Based on the story, Harry the Dirty Dog, this slideshow introduces the different elements of the beginning, middle, and end of a story.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Summarizing 5 K With Poetry
[Free Registration/Login Required] Using Poetry with Young Writers: This flipchart is a poetry unit for the Early Childhood classroom that reviews the 5K year. Students are introduced to writing poetry, both from the heart and through...
Courseware Solutions
Worksheetsplus: 1st and 2nd Grade Sight Word Reading Comprehension: Hot Spell
Read a short literary text titled "Hot Spell," and answer the multiple choice reading comprehension questions that follow.
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Worksheetsplus: 2nd Grade Reading Comprehension: Bad Hair Day
Read a short literary text titled "Bad Hair Day," and answer the multiple choice reading comprehension questions that follow.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Dolphins
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart integrates a science and reading lesson on dolphins. The lesson includes wonderful interactive activities for the students activating prior knowledge and what they learn in the chart.
PBS
Pbs Teacher Source: Reading and Language Arts
PBS TeacherSource provides lesson plans and activities for all grade levels in the subject area of reading and language arts.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Writing Development
Tour a portfolio of writing samples by one child from babyhood to third grade that help illustrate how writing develops naturally as well as the relationship between reading and writing. Consider literacy signposts at each level.
Starfall
Starfall: It's Fun to Read: Poetry
Read along and listen to four different poems including "If I Could Touch the Sky" and "My Hiding Place" by Natasha Josefowitz, "My Shadow" by Robert Louis Stevenson, and "Who Has Seen the Wind?" by Christina Georgina Rosetti.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Getting Started With Poetry
Great ideas for introducting poetry to first grade or kindergarden students! These real teachers share what they do in their classrooms.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Essentials for Reading Success
This site offers three cyclical flow charts of the essentials for reading success: components of reading, types of assessment, and layers of instruction.
Starfall
Starfall: If I Could Touch the Sky
Read and listen to this illustrated children's poem about what could happen if I could touch the sky.
Starfall
Starfall: Who Has Seen the Wind?
The illustrated poem "Who Has Seen the Wind?" by Christina Georgina Rosetti tells about how we know the wind is there even if we can't see the wind itself.
Starfall
Starfall: My Hiding Place
Listen and read along with the illustrated poem "My Hiding Place" by Natasha Josefowitz, about a little girl who makes a hiding place with a blanket where she be anything she wants to be.
Education.com
Education.com: Rl.2.5 Worksheets
[Free Registration/Login Required] The following worksheets can help students practice the Common Core State Standards skill of describing the overall structure of a story.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Teaching Tools: Teach Poetry in Less Than 10 Minutes Per Day
This teaching tool focuses on teaching poetry in less than 10 minutes per day. Turn your students into poetry pros with a quick structured poetry analysis. Focus Poetry is a technique of shared reading that provides multiple...