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Other

Boggle's World: Creative Writing Worksheets

For Students 2nd - 8th Standards
A large collection of downloadable writing prompt worksheets to encourage students to develop their writing skills. Includes a variety of themes and some on special celebrations, such as Christmas and Halloween.
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Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Monitor for Understanding: Stop and Ask [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
A lesson plan in which students read a text stopping to answer questions as they read. Materials are included.
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Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Phrases: Phrase Speed Practice [Pdf]

For Teachers 1st - 5th Standards
A lesson plan in which students read a list of wards from a passage three times and then take turns reading the passage while focusing on speed and accuracy.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Savvy Story Structure

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
During this lesson, young scholars learn to actively engage in reading by becoming more familiar with the elements of a story. Students will be required to think at a higher level and will enhance their understanding of selected passages...
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Lesson Plan
South Carolina Educational Television

Know It All: Summarizing Texts

For Teachers 5th Standards
Fifth graders will review what a summary is and complete a worksheet for practice. They will then write their own informational text and a peer will summarize.
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Lesson Plan
South Carolina Educational Television

Know It All: Sequencing Using Comics

For Teachers 5th Standards
Fifth graders will use comics in order to discover the importance of sequence while writing narratives.
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Lesson Plan
Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Guidebooks: Shared and Interactive Writing

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
This strategy helps students refine their understanding of texts to meet the standards for reading and prepare for writing about texts by refining their writing and language skills. In early elementary, the writing that is produced can...
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Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Priorities

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This clip asks students to think about what their most valuable way is to spend their free time.
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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Revising Leads [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Revision can be a difficult step to teach in the classroom. Use this tool to help students better understand how to revise their leading sentences. [PDF]
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Activity
Cynthia J. O'Hora

Mrs. O's House: Time Capsule Show What You Know

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Students will assemble a time capsule full of tidbits of information they feel would be useful for the next class to study and learn successfully.
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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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eBook
Quia

Quia: Making Homemade Pizza (9 Steps)

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This activity aims to improve student understanding of sequencing. Students put eight actions in order to emphasize understanding and application of sequential order.
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Graphic
Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Customizable Graphic Organizers

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides a series of graphic organizers for reading students. Forms are provided for plot, character analysis, reading logs, and reading responses.
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Graphic
Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Daily Assignment Sheet

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides a daily assignment sheet. This downloadable page is applicable for short-term homework and test-preparation goals.
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Activity
Quia

Quia: Story Elements Practice

For Students 5th - 6th Standards
This series of flashcards from Quia helps students perform a quick check of their understanding of student elements, such as setting and conflict.
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Activity
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: A Left Brained Writing Prompt: Rather Unlikely Encyclopedia Entries

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
After studying encyclopedia entries for structure and writing style, create unlikely encyclopedia articles for things in your life. If you really can't think of any, press the writing prompt generator button to get a few ideas. Do your...
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Activity
Charlotte Mecklenburg Library

Story Place Pre School Library: What Color Is It?

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Students' are interactively presented with various objects and asked what color the objects are. Students' click on the correct color.
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Interactive
Other

Jeopardy Labs: Text Structure

For Students 5th - 8th Standards
Practice answering text structure questions in this Jeopardy-style learning activity.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Answering Questions in Complete Sentences

For Teachers 1st - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will create visual images to comprehend/remember what they have read. Students will answer comprehension questions in complete sentences.
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Activity
Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: The Great Kapok Tree

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
Improve students' reading fluency while providing fun and purposeful practice and performance through Reader's Theater Scripts. The focus is on reading the text with expressive voices and gestures - no memorization required! Have fun...
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Activity
Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: Happy National Pig Day

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
Improve students' reading fluency while providing fun and purposeful practice and performance through Reader's Theater Scripts. The focus is on reading the text with expressive voices and gestures - no memorization required! Have fun...
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Activity
Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: Listen Buddy

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
Improve students' reading fluency while providing fun and purposeful practice and performance through Reader's Theater Scripts. The focus is on reading the text with expressive voices and gestures - no memorization required! Have fun...
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Activity
Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: The Crazy Critters

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
Improve students' reading fluency while providing fun and purposeful practice and performance through Reader's Theater Scripts. The focus is on reading the text with expressive voices and gestures - no memorization required! Have fun...
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Activity
Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: The Stone Cutter

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
Improve students' reading fluency while providing fun and purposeful practice and performance through Reader's Theater Scripts. The focus is on reading the text with expressive voices and gestures - no memorization required! Have fun...