Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Technology: The Girl Who Learned to Fly
In this book, Sylvia Acevedo tells how she became a rocket scientist. Includes audio narration in English, Spanish, and Turkish with text in English.
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Community: I Am a Scientist
This book shows some of the many different types of scientists. Includes audio narration in 6 additional languages with text in English.
Read Works
Read Works: Lesson 2: First and Last Sentences (Passage)
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students comprehension will be reinforced as they reading first and last sentences of paragraphs. Direct teaching, guided practice, and independent worksheets are available for this third grade lesson.
BBC
Bbc: Skillswise: Word Grammar: Connectives
A short video introduces the concept of joining sentences using connective words. Includes three downloadable factsheets and five worksheets.
PBS
Pbs: The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything Lesson Plan
In this lesson plan, students listen carefully as their teacher reads the story "The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything" by Linda Williams. Students listen for key verbs such as clomp and wiggle throughout the story and as...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Waddle Lesson Plan
This instructional activity connects literacy, creativity and movement! Students act out different animals in the book "Waddle" as the teacher reads aloud. Students listen carefully for the animal name and the verb describing how that...
British Council
British Council: Learn English Kids: No Dogs!
After you listen to and read the story, print out the activities to practice reading comprehension skills. Work on character identification, details, and sequence of events.
British Council
British Council: Learn English Kids: The Princess and the Dragon
Listen to and read along with this story about a princess and a dragon. You can choose the ending to the story. Then print off activities to go along with the story.
British Council
British Council: Learn English Kids: Voyage of the Animal Orchestra
Use this story of the shipwrecked animals in the orchestra to focus on plot, characters, and sequence of a story. Included are assessment activities and flash cards.
British Council
British Council: Learn English Kids: The Cold Planet
Listening to a cute story about an imaginary planet helps with English comprehension and the additional activities encourage reading and writing skills.
Michigan State University
Michigan State University: Intervention for Reading: Story Grammar Training
This intervention emphasizes the importance of metacognitive or active reading strategies to improve comprehension. It directs students' attention on story structure by teaching them to ask five "wh" questions about the settings and...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Moving Through a Machine
After enjoying chapter 3 from Robert McCloskey's classic chapter book Homer Price students will work together to expand upon McCloskey's description of how the donut-making machine works. Focusing on a variety of transitions, students...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: If You Give a Student an Animal
For this lesson plan, the book If You Give a Moose a Muffin, written by Laura Numeroff, is used as a mentor text for word choice. The content focus of the lesson is to teach the students to take ownership of scientific and descriptive...
PBS
Pbs Kids: Plum Landing: Plant Inspector
Students will provide a verbal and visual description of plants that are close their homes. The pictures can be published online.
Other
Castle Technology: Compare and Contrast: A Web Quest for Grade Two
This activity for young readers includes step-by-step teacher directions, student directions, resources, and rubrics. Students read or listen to two or more versions of a fairy tale and then work in groups to update the fairy tale to a...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: History Comes Alive: Developing Fluency and Comprehension
Let the power of imagination and inference serve as a "time machine" to bring Benjamin Franklin into the classroom! History and science come to life in a dialogue with Franklin the inventor, developed through lesson activities that...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Word Study With Henry and Mudge
Contains plans for six second or third grade lessons that use "Henry and Mudge: The First Book" by Cynthia Rylant to teach high-frequency spelling words, base words, the past tense marker -ed, phonemic patterns, predicting, and...
Rock ’N Learn
Rock 'N Learn: The Man and the Dog
This printable activity from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a long /i/ reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Students will read a fill-in-the-blank paragraph and write missing words that include long /i/ words in the blanks. Students...
Rock ’N Learn
Rock 'N Learn: Silly Willy: Y
This printable -dge learning exercise from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. While using picture cues, students will unscramble words that end in -y to form the long /e/. An answer key and lesson...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Exploring a More Specific Story
In this lesson, Ralph Fletcher's Marshfield Dreams is used as a mentor text. Students will write stories about an important friendship in their life. Then students will revise and attempt to make sure their writings have stayed on topic,...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Serendipitous & Interesting Story Titles
In this lesson plan, The Paper Bag Princess, a book written by Robert Munsch, is used as a mentor text. Young scholars will reflect on how nouns can sometimes be used as interesting adjectives. Students will collect these ideas in their...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Action Packed Zoo Sentences
In this lesson, If I Ran the Zoo, written by Dr. Seuss, is used as the mentor text. Students will record their favorite adjectives from the mentor text, rank them according to their favorite, and share them. Students will also use...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Who/what/when/where: Desert Theme
For this lesson, Brooke Bessesen's picture book, Look Who Lives in the Desert!: Bouncing and Pouncing, Hiding and Gliding, Sleeping and Creeping, is used as the mentor text for its use of adverbial phrases. After several exposures to the...
Vocabulary Spelling City
Vocabulary Spelling City: Which Word? Sentences
In this free version of the game, choose from four sets of words, depending on the grade level. Students must match each word to a sentence to complete its meaning. Includes 'Spelling Test' and 'Teach Me' features.