Beacon Learning Center
Beacon Learning Center: Web Lessons: Get the Main Idea
This resource provides practice finding the main idea by having students read a paragraph and choose the main idea. Then it asks students to take what they have learned and apply it to a book of their choice, and then write a paragraph...
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Ccss Literacy E Handbook: Informational Text: Describe Text Structure
A short explanation of informational text structures. Follow links for more information on: chronological text structure, comparison and contrast text structure, cause and effect text structure, and problem and solution text structure....
TES Global
Blendspace: Text Structures
A thirty-part learning module on text structures including description, sequence, problem and solution, compare and contrast, and cause and effect. Lessons include links to pictures, story text, informational text, videos, charts,...
TES Global
Blendspace: Descriptive Writing
An eight-part learning module with links to websites, texts, videos, images, and charts to use while learning how to write descriptive texts.
TES Global
Blendspace: Text Features
A six-part learning module with links to videos and images to use while learning about text features in a nonfiction text.
TES Global
Blendspace: Nonfiction 2014 2015
A learning module with twenty-one links to images, websites, texts, slideshows, and videos about nonfiction and informational text reading skills.
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Prezi: Summarizing a Text
Slideshow provides an explanation of summarizing and describes how to make a good one.
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Prezi: Recalling Facts and Details
Slideshow investigates how to identify facts or details in a story.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Procedural Text: Recipe
A teacher created lesson plan to help pupils conquer how to make connections between directions in an effort to create something. This activity will have students sharing recipes and understanding why recipes should be followed in sequence.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Greek Mythology Myth Masters
Pupils will compare and contrast the written version of Pandora's Box with a video clip version. Video clip and worksheets are included.
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Teaching Made Practical: Compare and Contrast a Book and Movie Activities
The book is always better, or is it? Students will compare and contrast a book and a movie using the critical thinking questions included on this site. Also included is a list of children's books that have been made into movies as well...
Quizlet
Quizlet: 4th Grade Voc. Text Structure: Test
This interactive assessment consists of five multiple-choice questions over the types of text structure and patterns of organization.
Quizlet
Quizlet: 4th Grade Voc. Text Structure: Match
In this learning game, students match the term with the description of the types of text structures and patterns of organization.
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Quizlet: 4th Grade Voc. Text Structure: Flashcards
This set of interactive flashcards helps students learn the terms and definitions for the types of text structure and patterns of organization.
Quizlet
Quizlet: 4th Grade Story Elements and Plot Vocabulary: Flashcards
This set of interactive flashcards focuses on the terms and definitions of story elements. These terms include the following: setting, characters, conflict, rising action, falling action, exposition, protagonist, antagonist, point of...
Quizlet
Quizlet: Text Structure: Flashcards
This interactive set of flashcards helps students to learn the terms and definitions for types of text structure, organizational patterns, and keywords and graphic organizers for the types of text structures.
Quizlet
Quizlet: Text Structure: Match
In this interactive game, students match the terms for the type of text structure to their definitions.
Quizlet
Quizlet: Non Fiction Text Features 3rd Grade Match
Text feature terms (nonfiction) are included in this review "Match" game. Questions are provided for the following words: map, table of contents, index, bold words, caption, timeline, heading, and glossary. Images of each of these text...
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Quizlet: Text Structures Definitions Match Game
This interactive game of "Match" assesses students' knowledge of text structure definitions. Students will match the correct definition of a text structure to its corresponding definition.