ClassFlow
Class Flow: Leads Part Ii
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will recognize different types of leads and will choose which leads best fit different pieces of writing. This is a part of the process of organizing and revising a piece of writing.
Can Teach
Can Teach: Dear Character
In this lesson plan students will demonstrate reading comprehension and writing skills by writing a letter to a character in a story. Lesson plan indicated for 3rd grade and above, but could be adapted for younger grades.
Quizlet
Quizlet: 3rd Grade: Unit 3 Reading: Main Idea: Match
In this interactive game, students match terms relating to the main idea with their definitions. These terms include the following: main idea, details, summarize, data, connecting, explicit facts, and self-monitoring.
Quizlet
Quizlet: 3rd Grade: Author's Purpose: Flashcards
This set of interactive flashcards focuses on the terms relating to author's purpose and examples of each; the purposes are to persuade, inform, and entertain.
Quizlet
Quizlet: 3rd Grade Story Elements and Plot Vocabulary: Test
This interactive assessment features 6 multiple-choice questions and 6 true-false questions over story element terms with their definitions. These terms include the following: introduction, setting, characters, conflict, rising action,...
Quizlet
Quizlet: 3rd Grade Story Elements and Plot Vocabulary: Match
In this set interactive game, students match story element terms with their definitions. These terms include the following: introduction, setting, characters, conflict, rising action, falling action, point of view, moral, plot, and...
Quizlet
Quizlet: 3rd Grade Story Elements and Plot Vocabulary: Flashcards
This set of interactive flashcards focuses on story element terms and their definitions. These terms include the following: introduction, setting, characters, conflict, rising action, falling action, point of view, moral, plot, and...
Quizlet
Quizlet: 3rd Grade History: Chapter 6 Flashcards
This set of interactive flashcards focuses on 14 history vocabulary terms and definitions.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Expository Text Structure: Super Summary [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which students read a text and then complete a graphic organizer to help them write a summary. Materials are included.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Think, Write, Read: Expository Writing
While this lesson's main focus will be centered on expository writing, it will also integrate reading, computer, and organizational skills. After reading the novel, Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, students will write an expository...
Expansion Learning
Expansion Learning: Statements and Questions
Activity provides students the practice they need to master the skill of deciding if a sentence is a statement or a question. Immediate feedback is given.
Other
Lisbon School District: Digital Book Reports and Research Projects
Students in Grades 2, 3, and 4 researched wild animals and a person in American history. They wrote and presented reports and created movies. This page presents three examples of their digital book reports in video format.
A to Z Teacher Stuff
Ato Z Teacher Stuff: Lifesaver Descriptive Writing Lesson
This site has a fun way to explore your senses. While eating a lifesaver, students observe their senses and write down what they discover. Great idea, but not many details in the lesson plan.