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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
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Character Consideration

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
A lesson plan in which students read a narrative text and complete graphic organizers to analyze a character. Materials are included. [PDF]
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Writing to Determine, "What Is a Pulgar?"

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
This lesson plan is a writing follow-up to the guided reading lesson plan, "What is a Pulgar?" It utilizes a Makes Sense Strategies Think-sheet to guide the writing.
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Lesson Plan
Tech4Learning

Tech4 Learning: Creative Educator: Character Scrapbook

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
When we read novels, authors provide details about the main character through descriptive sentences, events that directly involve the character, and what other characters think and say about the main character. To show what you know...
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Interactive
South Carolina Educational Television

Know It All: Types of Conflict

For Teachers 5th Standards
Students will learn about the four major types of conflict. They will use children's books to identify the types of conflict used, as well as create their own narratives using one of the types of conflict.
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Lesson Plan
South Carolina Educational Television

Know It All: Non Fiction Text Features

For Teachers 5th Standards
Fifth graders will use non-fiction books to identify and explain how text features help them as individual readers.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Story Add Ons

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
This is a technology-rich lesson plan which allows students to explore proper language conventions while utilizing portable keyboards for word processing.
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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.
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Handout
Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: The Narrative Essay

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Need help picking out the elements of a narrative? Check this site out from Capital Community College, and you'll see some background information, a sample essay, and directed questions to ask yourself about a text. W.9-10.3 Narrative,...
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Professional Doc
AdLit

Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Story Maps

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Story Maps are used for teaching students to work with story structure for better comprehension. This technique uses visual representations to help students organize important elements of a story. Students learn to summarize the main...
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Activity
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Color Game

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Click the buttons to get a unique starter for a descriptive piece of writing. You can make up a story, a poem, anything you like.
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Unit Plan
Beacon Learning Center

Beacon Learning Center: Web Lessons: Get the Main Idea

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
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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Website
Curated OER

Ccss Literacy E Handbook: Literature: Summarize

For Students 5th - 7th Standards
An explanation of summarizing a selection along with a link to a model summarizing activity.
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Handout
Other

Critical reading.com: Drama

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Discusses what the literary form of drama consists of in relation to its content, language, and structure.
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eBook
FableVision

Fable Vision: Peter Reynolds: The North Star: Writing Activity

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Be inspired to write your own simple story or poem by choosing a picture from this collection of child-centered illustrations.
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Interactive
Quia

Quia: Short Story Elements: Definitions

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
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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Graphic
Quia

Quia: Character Traits/descriptions

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
This reading resource provides vocabulary words with definitions. All words are related to character development and character traits. A link to associated review activities is included.
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Graphic
Quia

Quia: Narrative Structure Elements

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
This reading resource provides vocabulary words with definitions. All words are related to the elements of narratives. A link to associated review activities is included.
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Quia

Quia: Compare and Contrast Stories

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
This interactive assessment engages students in comparing and contrasting two literary text passages. Students will read two short passages and answer five questions that require students to compare and contrast the content of each story.
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Quia

Quia: Compare/contrast Character, Plot, and Setting Test

For Students 5th - 8th Standards
This interactive activity assesses students' understanding of the story elements. Students will read passages that include a short story and a brief drama; then students will answer assorted questions associated to each piece.
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Interactive
Quia

Quia: Short Story Elements: Definitions

For Students 5th Standards
Play a memory match game by uncovering each story element along with its definition.