Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Using the Five Finger Rule
Students identify text features in nonfiction, as they continue to study cells' function as building blocks of organisms, and summarize the requirements for cells to live.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: W.4.2b: Develop the Topic With Facts
Links to 40 lessons and activities that build student skills in standard W.4.2b: Develop the topic with facts, definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other information and examples related to the topic.
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Eastport Elementary School: Mrs. Donahue's Site: Identifying the Main Idea
Information, examples, and practice passages to use while learning how to identify the main idea of an informational text.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts: Grade 4: Hurricanes
Fourth graders learn about hurricanes and their impact on Louisiana as well as how historical accounts reflect the culture of Louisiana and give insight into historical events. This set builds on storytelling as a way to transmit...
National Gallery of Art
National Gallery of Art: The Elements of Art: Shape
Students will be introduced to one of the basic elements of art shape by analyzing the types of shapes used in various works of art to differentiate between geometric and natural shapes. They will then create their own cut paper collage...
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Fiction teachers.com: How to Write a Mini Mystery
Use the ideas on this page to help your students create mini-mysteries.
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Ccss Literacy E Handbook: Informational Text: Use Details and Examples
A short explanation of how to use explicit details in an informational text to make inferences. Click on Model at the bottom right to see a model with examples.
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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....
Quia
Quia: Short Story Elements: Definitions
Students can choose from three different activities while practicing story elements. Flashcards give students a chance to learn the elements and their definitions. A matching game gives students an opportunity to test their new learning,...
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Katie Kazoo: The Five Essential Elements of a Story [Pdf]
Learn the five essential elements of a story.
SMART Technologies
Smart: Identifying Main Ideas & Details
This lesson operates on the Scaffold Instructional of Release model (I do, we do, you do). Students will use the main idea and supporting details to expand understanding of a variety of texts.
EL Education
El Education: Testing the Waters
Students tested water at several sites in a local creek and write a scientific paper showing their testing and results. Scientific papers include an abstract, introduction, methods, results, and discussion including recommendations...
TES Global
Blendspace: Story Elements
A twelve-part learning module with links to videos, images, and websites to use while learning about story elements and the development of a plot.
TES Global
Blendspace: Types of Plot Conflict
A six-part learning module with links to texts and videos about the six basic plot conflicts in literary texts.
TES Global
Blendspace: Creation Stories
A learning module with twenty-six links to texts, images, videos, and websites to use while learning about various creation stories from around the world.
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Prezi: Recalling Facts and Details
Slideshow investigates how to identify facts or details in a story.
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Reference: What Is the Main Idea of a Story
This reference page defines the main idea of a story and explains how it differs from topics of 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.
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Story Arts: Storytelling Activities & Plot Structure Scenarios
This collection of storytelling activities-developed by storyteller/author Heather Forest for her storytelling workshops with young scholars, teachers, and librarians-can be expanded by educators into language arts lesson plans to...
Quizlet
Quizlet: Story Elements Match
Match each story element with its example as you race against the clock in this online matching game.
Quizlet
Quizlet: 4th Grade Story Elements and Plot Vocabulary: Test
This interactive assessment features 15 multiple-choice questions over story element terms with their definitions. These terms include the following: setting, characters, conflict, rising action, falling action, exposition, protagonist,...
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: 4th Grade Q. 1: Main Ideas and Supporting Details: Test
This interactive assessment features 9 matching questions and eight multiple-choice questions over 17 terms having to do with main ideas and supporting details including types of writing and the writing process with their definitions.
Quizlet
Quizlet: 4th Grade Q. 1: Main Ideas and Supporting Details: Match
In this interactive game, students match 17 terms having to do with main ideas and supporting details including types of writing and the writing process with their definitions.