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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: How to Have an Adventure

For Teachers 3rd Standards
[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.
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Lesson Plan
Scholastic

Scholastic: Reading Response Activities for Geronimo Stilton Book Series

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
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.
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Lesson Plan
Education.com

Education.com: Llama Llama Help Us Learn

For Teachers 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will read the Llama Llama books and compare and contrast the stories. Teaching strategies, worksheets, and activities are provided.
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Starting Over

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd Standards
[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.
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Planet Y

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
[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.
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Website
Other

Lil' Fingers Storybooks

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
An interactive resource for children which features several online storybooks. Toddlers and children can read along, listen and learn as each story develops.
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Lesson Plan
Read Works

Read Works: Compare and Contrast 3rd Grade Unit

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
[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...
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eBook
Birmingham Grid for Learning (UK)

Birmingham Grid for Learning: Story Telling: Cinderella

For Students 2nd - 5th Standards
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...
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Interactive
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Characters

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Learn about the different types of characters in Cinderella, and determine which traits belong to the hero and villain. Click on the "Character" button.
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Lesson Plan
Read Works

Read Works: Grade 2: Two Lesson Unit: Theme

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[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....
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Lesson Plan
Read Works

Read Works: Fourth Grade: Three Lesson Unit: Compare and Contrast

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
[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...
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Unit Plan
E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Types of Conflict Worksheets

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
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,...
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Powerful Writing Description in Creating Monster Trading Cards

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
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...
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: W.3.3.b: Use Dialogue and Descriptions of Actions

For Students 3rd Standards
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.
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Education.com

Education.com: W.3.3 B Worksheets: Use Dialogue and Descriptions

For Students 3rd Standards
[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...
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Unknown Type
Education.com

Education.com: W.3.3 Worksheets: Write Narratives to Develop Real or Imagined

For Students 3rd Standards
[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...
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: W.3.3: Write Narratives to Develop Real or Imagined Experiences

For Students 3rd Standards
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.
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Lesson Plan
Success Link

Success Link: Characters, Setting, Plot, Conclusion, and Summarizing a Story

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
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...
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Unit Plan
CommonLit

Common Lit: Themes: Man vs. Nature: Who's in Control: Man or Nature?

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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...
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Handout
CommonLit

Common Lit: Themes

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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.]
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Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Character Connections

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd Standards
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]
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Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Compare a Character [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
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]
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Activity
Other

Jefferson County Schools: Print a Prompt

For Students 3rd - 7th Standards
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.
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Lesson Plan
South Carolina Educational Television

Know It All: Finding Theme

For Teachers 3rd Standards
The students will be able to determine the theme of a story by recalling key details that support the theme.