Read Works
Read Works: Casey Saves the Play
[Free Registration/Login Required] This literary text passage shares the story of a person who fills in at the last minute to fill a role in a play. This passage reinforces essential reading comprehension skills. Opportunities for...
Read Works
Read Works: Accident Prone
[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...
Read Works
Read Works: The Great Escape
[Free Registration/Login Required] This fiction story shares the story of a girl who is taking care of animals and makes a mistake. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies...
Read Works
Read Works: The Shortcut
[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.
Read Works
Read Works: About You How Music Affects Your Mood
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction piece discusses how music influences mood. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding for...
Read Works
Read Works: Character 3rd Grade Unit
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this three-lesson unit, young scholars learn how to identify language within a text that describes a character, use evidence from a text to describe a character, and to use details from a text to...
Birmingham Grid for Learning (UK)
Birmingham Grid for Learning: Story Telling: Cinderella
Click through a book to read and view illustrations of the story "Cinderella." Click the links below the book to open word documents with additional activities focusing on the characters, setting, sequencing, illustrations, line...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Characters
Learn about the different types of characters in Cinderella, and determine which traits belong to the hero and villain. Click on the "Character" button.
CommonLit
Common Lit: Walking for My Life
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...
CommonLit
Common Lit: Everella's Want
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...
CommonLit
Common Lit: Getting Even
A learning module that begins with the story "Getting Even" by Deb Westgate-Silva, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free...
CommonLit
Common Lit: The Poetry Quilt
A learning module that begins with the story "The Poetry Quilt" by Deirdre Mundy, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free...
CommonLit
Common Lit: My Favorite Things
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...
Other
Literacy Design Collaborative: Partner Retelling of Narrative Text
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.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Rl.4.10: Read and Comprehend Literature in Grades 4 and 5
Links to 94 lessons and activities that build student skills in standard RL.4.10: By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poetry, in the grades 4 and 5 text complexity band proficiently,...
Education.com
Education.com: Rl.4.5 Worksheets: Explain Major Differences Between Poems, Drama
[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...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: W.4.3b: Use Dialogue and Description to Develop Experiences/events
Links to 12 lessons and activities that build student skills in standard W.4.3b: Use dialogue and description to develop experiences and events to show the responses of characters to situations.
Education.com
Education.com: W.4.9.b Worksheets: Apply Grade 4 Reading Standards to Info Texts
[Free Registration/Login Required] A site with links to 4 worksheets that can be downloaded and printed for student use while building skills with standard W.4.9.B: Apply grade 4 reading standards to information texts (e.g., Explain how...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: W.4.9a: Apply Grade 4 Reading Standards to Literature
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...
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Personal Storytelling With Accordion Books [Pdf]
In this lesson plan, young scholars use the structure of an accordion book to identify parts of an essay: introduction, three supporting details, and conclusion. They then compose a personal story using events from the past school year...
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Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Narrative Text Structure: Summary Step Up [Pdf]
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.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Check a Trait
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]
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Character Consideration
A lesson plan in which students read a narrative text and complete graphic organizers to analyze a character. Materials are included. [PDF]
Other
Jefferson County Schools: Print a Prompt
Check out this resourceful site featuring "Print a prompt." Students can choose from several different titles and prompts and they are provided with a printed copy.