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Read Works

Read Works: After the Floods

For Teachers 4th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage shares information about a horrific flood that devastated parts of Pakistan in 2010. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading...
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Experiments

For Teachers 4th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This literary text passage shares the story of a family who attempts to not waste any food. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and...
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Up in the Air

For Teachers 4th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a boy named Kurt and his first trip on an airplane. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works

Read Works: Tossing Around Dodgeball

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage shares the pros and cons associated with the game of dodgeball. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes...
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Earth 2072

For Teachers 4th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text describing what school might be like in the future. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: An Upset

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This narrative passage tells the story of an "upset" in a sporting event. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes...
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Accident Prone

For Teachers 4th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This story is an example of fiction and assesses students' understanding of plot. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes...
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: The Shortcut

For Teachers 4th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about two friends who learn that a short cut isn't always the best choice. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Graphic
Scholastic

Scholastic: Informational Text: Reading Response: Compare Contrast [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
This graphic organizer can be used as a response to informational texts. Students will write two topics from their informational text as a during or post-reading activity. Under each topic, students will list similarities and differences...
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Graphic
Scholastic

Scholastic: Informational Text: Reading Response: Compare Contrast [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
This graphic organizer can be use with students when they read an informational text. Using a Venn diagram to organize content, students will write important similarities and differences after reading an informational text and analyzing...
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Unit Plan
CommonLit

Common Lit: My Favorite Things

For Students 3rd - 4th Standards
A learning module that begins with the story "My Favorite Things" by Joy Cowley, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free...
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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
Other

Literacy Design Collaborative: Partner Retelling of Narrative Text

For Teachers 4th - 5th Standards
For this lesson, the teacher reads a story aloud and students work with a partner to retell the story using sentence starters. Includes downloadable poster.
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Education.com

Education.com: Rl.4.5 Worksheets: Explain Major Differences Between Poems, Drama

For Students 4th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A site with links to 8 worksheets that can be downloaded and printed for student use while building skills with standard RL.4.5: Explain major differences between poems, drama, and prose, and refer to...
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: W.4.9a: Apply Grade 4 Reading Standards to Literature

For Students 4th Standards
Links to 8 lessons and activities that build student skills in standard W.4.9a: Apply grade 4 reading standards to literature (e.g., Describe in depth a character, setting, or event in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the...
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Sl.4.5: Add Audio Recordings and Visual Displays to Presentations

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Links to 31 lessons and activities that build student skills in standard SL.4.5: Add audio recordings and visual displays to presentations when appropriate to enhance to development of main ideas or themes.
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Sl.4.4: Orally Report on a Topic or Text

For Students 4th Standards
Links to 75 lessons and activities that build student skills in standard SL.4.4: Report on a topic or text, tell a story, or recount an experience in an organized manner, using appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details to...
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Education.com

Education.com: Sl.4.4 Worksheets: Orally Report on a Topic or Text

For Students 4th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A site with links to 2 worksheets and 6 lessons that can be downloaded and printed for student use while building skills with standard SL.4.4: Report on a topic or text, tell a story, or recount an...
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Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Narrative Text Structure: Summary Step Up [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
A lesson plan in which students read a narrative text and complete a graphic organizer to show the plot elements of the story. Materials are included.
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Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Check a Trait

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
A lesson plan in which young scholars read a narrative text and complete a graphic organizer to describe the characters in the story. Materials are included. [PDF]
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Math + Arts: Stage Props, Blocking, and Graphs

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
In this lesson, learners will block a scene on a graph and act out the scene. Media resources and teacher materials are included.
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Professional Doc
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Arthur: Collection

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This collection foster students' interest in reading and writing, and encourage positive social skills with this collection of classroom resources from ARTHUR. Aimed at children between the ages of four and eight, these resources feature...
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Professional Doc
Scholastic

Scholastic: Teaching Tools: 6 Steps to Helping Students Set Strong Reading Goals

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This site offers six steps to helping students set strong reading goals. It all starts with inspiring your students to think about who they are as readers.
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Professional Doc
Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Guide for Determining Text Complexity

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
An educator's guide to help determine the level of text complexity.