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Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Monitor for Understanding: Reading Repair

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which students read a text using different reading strategies to fix problems as they read. Materials are included. [PDF]
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Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Monitor for Understanding: Strategic

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which students complete a graphic organizer to record prior knowledge before reading, ask questions while reading, and summarize a text after reading. Materials are included. [PDF]
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Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

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

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which students read two narrative texts and complete graphic organizers to compare and contrast the texts. Materials are included.
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Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Morpheme Structures: Syllable Map It [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 7th Standards
A lesson plan in which students use phoneme-grapheme mapping with a list of words. Materials are included.
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Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Morpheme Structures: Syllable Swap [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
A lesson plan in which students build words with syllable cards. Materials are included.
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Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Variant Correspondences: Word O Matic [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
A lesson plan in which students draw phoneme cards and build as many words as possible in one minute. Materials are included.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Text to Self and Text to World Connections

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Students will further their reading comprehension by associating real-life events with the events of a story.
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Lesson Plan
Common Sense Media

Common Sense Media: Education: Story Elements Retelling

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
In this lesson plan, learners will learn to retell a story using story elements to improve their comprehension of the story. The students will actively listen to a story and complete a graphic organizer to share and discuss with a partner.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Learning About Cinquains

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
After reading/hearing Junie B. First Grader Cheater Pants by Barbara Park and discussing the concepts of cheating, following directions, and the genre of poetry, students will write cinquains and will publish a class booklet.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Clerihew Poetry

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Cooperative poetry writing assignment. Students will write and share poetry using the Clerihew style. Students will also give a group presentation of their poems.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Let's Write a Cinquain

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
During this lesson, third grade students will navigate the Internet to learn about cinquains. They will use their new knowledge to create their own cinquains while learning important word processing skills.
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Lesson Plan
Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Guidebooks: Tp Castt

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This strategy helps students refine their understanding of poetry to meet reading expectations, engage in group conversations to meet speaking and listening expectations, prepare for writing about texts, and engage in language analysis...
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Lesson Plan
Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Guidebooks: Annotating Text

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This strategy helps students refine their understanding of texts to meet reading expectations and prepare for writing about texts.
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Article
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: The Road to Representation Creating the Crunchy Life Kid's Series

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This blog focuses on a teacher's need to fill in the gaps for reading strategies and the priority to improve comprehension and overall reading development. She explains the strategies to meet the above goals.
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Primary
Josie's Poems

Josie's Poems: "All So Different"

For Students 1st - 3rd Standards
A poem about how many different types of animals there are in the world.
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Primary
Josie's Poems

Josie's Poems: "Expressing Ourselves"

For Students 2nd - 4th Standards
A poem about how animals communicate and how humans are different because of the way we can communicate.
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Primary
Josie's Poems

Josie's Poems: "Homes"

For Students 1st - 3rd Standards
A poem about the different types of things and places animals call home.
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Lesson Plan
A to Z Teacher Stuff

Ato Zteacherstuff: Dramatics With the Teaching of Poetry

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
This site from atozteacherstuff.com provides a lesson to help students develop an appreciation for poetry. This site will also will help create meaning from poetry.
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Activity
Other

New Poets Press: Writing Tips

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Provides some good, practical advice on writing poems. Written in a simple, down-to-earth style that is easily accessible. An outline at the top of the page will lead you to different sections of the page. Part of a larger poetry...
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eBook
Other

Sebastian Swan: Read a Book!

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Looking for a new way to get young students reading? This interactive reading site provides online stories and accompanying questions for students to explore.
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EL Education

El Education: Kids Book of Poetry

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
Students write acrostic name poems, sensory poems, and how-to poems and compile them into a class book of poetry.
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Unit: Reading Comprehension and Structure

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
This unit focuses on reading comprehension and structure. It includes lessons on the main idea and supporting details, theme, sequence, fact and opinion, literary devices, character, text features, inferences, organization of nonfiction,...
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Poetry Writing

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
A fifteen-part learning module with links to texts and videos about writing different types of poetry.
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Literature Circle Differention Using Web 2.0 Tools

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A fourteen-part learning module with links to websites for use with literature circles.