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Lesson Plan
Can Teach

Can Teach: Word by Word a Story Game

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
For grades 1 to 3, this game has students write a story by focusing on the word choice.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Setting

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart introduces setting to students using picture clues first and then using only contextual clues. Activotes are also used to check for understanding.
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Handout
Other

Cyberwriter: Narrative Writing

For Students K - 1st Standards
Cyberwriter gives narrative writing activities leveled for K-3rd grades and 4th-8th grades. A brief explanation about narrative writing is also on this page. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.3
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Writing a Story

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart explores the steps for writing a story such as coming up with a title, a main idea and supporting details that keep the reader interested.
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Quizlet

Quizlet: Plot 2nd Grade Test

For Students 2nd Standards
A test with seven matching questions, seven multiple choice questions, and six true/false questions over twenty plot terms and their definitions.
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Interactive
Quizlet

Quizlet: Plot 2nd Grade Match

For Students 2nd Standards
Race against the clock to match twenty plot terms with their definitions.
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Interactive
Quizlet

Quizlet: Plot 2nd Grade Learn

For Students 2nd Standards
Practice your knowledge of twenty plot terms by typing the term for each definition.
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Interactive
Quizlet

Quizlet: Plot 2nd Grade Flashcards

For Students 2nd Standards
Twenty flashcards with plot terms with their definitions.
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Activity
Education.com

Education.com: w.k.3 Worksheets

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Choose from a variety of worksheets to reinforce the skill of writing to narrate a single event or several loosely linked events, tell about the events in the order in which they occurred, and provide a...
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Lesson Plans: Using Personal Connections to Understand Emotions

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which younger students draw on prior experiences that made them happy or sad, build two-sided masks, work with Venn diagrams, and connect personally with the emotions conveyed by poems in The Way I Feel by Janan Cain...
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Whiteboard
SMART Technologies

Smart: Sequence Putting Things in Order

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Students will practice putting things in order, learn about sequence words, and use sequence words to produce a writing assignment within this interactive SMART whiteboard lesson.
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Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Expository Text Structure: Super Summary [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd Standards
A lesson plan in which students read a text and then complete a graphic organizer to help them write a summary. Materials are included.
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Interactive
ABCya

Abc Ya: Story Maker

For Students K - 1st Standards
Create your own story using the tools on this site. You can add a title page, type your story, and illustrate it using the paint tools. The story can then be saved and printed.
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Website
Other

Katelyn Pointek: One Word Writing Prompts

For Students 1st - 8th Standards
This site offers a list of one word writing prompts perfect for free writing activities which can be used as quick write or developed into stories. With one word story prompts, you start with the word provided and use either one sentence...
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Activity
Other

Web Worksheet Wizard: Narrative and Descriptive Prompts

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
Come and check out this list of narrative and descriptive writing prompts. These can be used as springboards for your writing.