Read Works
Read Works: How to Have an Adventure
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a boy named Kurt and his adventure with bees. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Reading Response Activities for Geronimo Stilton Book Series
Practice reading and comprehensions skills using the Geronimo Stilton book series. Choose activities from areas such as character studies, analysis of words and pictures, plot and making predictions. Reproducibles are included.
Education.com
Education.com: Llama Llama Help Us Learn
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will read the Llama Llama books and compare and contrast the stories. Teaching strategies, worksheets, and activities are provided.
Read Works
Read Works: Starting Over
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about rebuilding after a disaster. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in comparing and contrasting.
Read Works
Read Works: Planet Y
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a boy named Zack who is traveling to a new planet with his family. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Other
Lil' Fingers Storybooks
An interactive resource for children which features several online storybooks. Toddlers and children can read along, listen and learn as each story develops.
Read Works
Read Works: Compare and Contrast 3rd Grade Unit
[Free Registration/Login Required] A three-lesson plan unit on comparing and contrasting through which students learn how to compare two items using key terms, compare and contrast two non-fiction texts on similar topics, and compare and...
Birmingham Grid for Learning (UK)
Birmingham Grid for Learning: Story Telling: Cinderella
Click through a book to read and view illustrations of the story "Cinderella." Click the links below the book to open word documents with additional activities focusing on the characters, setting, sequencing, illustrations, line...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Characters
Learn about the different types of characters in Cinderella, and determine which traits belong to the hero and villain. Click on the "Character" button.
Read Works
Read Works: Grade 2: Two Lesson Unit: Theme
[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....
Read Works
Read Works: Fourth Grade: Three Lesson Unit: Compare and Contrast
[Free Registration/Login Required] A three-lesson plan unit on comparing and contrasting through which young scholars compare and contrast two non-fiction articles and two editorials, and write a compare and contrast essay. With free...
E Reading Worksheets
E Reading Worksheets: Types of Conflict Worksheets
This learning module provides remediation and extra practice with identifying types of conflict in stories. Reinforcement with identifying types of conflict in story excerpts is provided with detailed notes, four different worksheets,...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Powerful Writing Description in Creating Monster Trading Cards
Contains plans for two lessons that teach about descriptive writing by asking young scholars to create their own monster trading cards with vivid descriptions. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: W.3.3.b: Use Dialogue and Descriptions of Actions
Links to 2 lessons and activities that build student skills in standard W.3.3.b: Write Narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.
Education.com
Education.com: W.3.3 B Worksheets: Use Dialogue and Descriptions
[Free Registration/Login Required] A site with links to 30 worksheets that can be downloaded and printed for student use while building skills with standard W.3.3B: Write Narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using...
Education.com
Education.com: W.3.3 Worksheets: Write Narratives to Develop Real or Imagined
[Free Registration/Login Required] A site with links to 30 worksheets that can be downloaded and printed for student use while building skills with standard W.3.3: Write Narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: W.3.3: Write Narratives to Develop Real or Imagined Experiences
Links to 47 lessons and activities that build student skills in standard W.3.3: Write Narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.
Success Link
Success Link: Characters, Setting, Plot, Conclusion, and Summarizing a Story
This lesson plan offers a step-by-step procedure for teaching young scholars how to identify story elements and to summarize a story. It explains how to use a "Who Am I" activity, as well as a linkage activity in identifying characters...
CommonLit
Common Lit: Themes: Man vs. Nature: Who's in Control: Man or Nature?
This is a collection of Grade-Leveled texts (3-12) to address the question, "Who's in control: man or nature?" Select a grade level and a collection of on grade-level reading passages on the topic comes up. [Free account registration...
CommonLit
Common Lit: Themes
This is a collection of Grade-Leveled texts (3-12) based on your choice of 26 different themes such as America, Beauty and Happiness, Community, Death, War, etc. [Free account registration required for specific tools.]
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Character Connections
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]
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Compare a Character [Pdf]
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]
Other
Jefferson County Schools: Print a Prompt
Check out this resourceful site featuring "Print a prompt." Students can choose from several different titles and prompts and they are provided with a printed copy.
South Carolina Educational Television
Know It All: Finding Theme
The students will be able to determine the theme of a story by recalling key details that support the theme.