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Interactive
PBS

Pbs Kids: Martha Speaks: Waste Not Want Not

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Practice reading with Martha with this illustrated, read-along story about the environment and recycling.
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eBook
Scholastic

Scholastic: Listen and Read: Pediatrician

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Listen and read along as a pediatrician describes how she takes care of children in this interactive book for early learners.
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Lesson Plan
Read Works

Read Works: Grade 2: Three Lesson Unit: Author's Purpose

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of three lesson plans designed to teach learners to identify author's purpose including to entertain, to inform, and to persuade. Lessons are based on the books The Adventures of Taxi Dog by...
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Play the Dewey Decimal System Game

For Teachers 1st - 5th
This lesson introduces the 10 main categories used in the Dewey Decimal Classification System for non-fiction bookshelf arrangement. A slideshow will be presented to students to help them learn details about the Dewey Decimal...
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Handout
Scholastic

Scholastic: Biography: H. P. Newquist

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Read this biography to learn about award-winning author and H. P. Newquist who has written nonfiction books, magazine articles and even film documentaries. Links to his website and a list of his books are provided.
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Activity
University of Calgary

The Children's Literature Web Guide

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This resource is a children's literature web guide.
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EL Education

El Education: What Is a Mastodon?

For Students Pre-K - 1st
An online book entitled What is a Mastodon? by kindergarten students at Genesee Community Charter School in Rochester, New York. The book contains information mastodons including what they looked like, how they ate and drank, and how...
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EL Education

El Education: Insect Bookmarks

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
These bookmarks were created by 2nd graders at the Alice B. Beal Elementary School in Springfield, Massachusetts, as part of a two-month Learning expedition on insects. The learning expedition included field observation and collection,...
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EL Education

El Education: Insect Cards

For Teachers 1st - 5th
These local insect note cards were created by 2nd graders from the Alice B. Beal Elementary Magnet School in Springfield, Massachusetts. The project included field observation and collection, classroom experimentation and research,...
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EL Education

El Education: Tools for Sailors Ahoy, Mate!

For Teachers 1st - 4th
In this lesson students learn about sailing and contribute writing, illustrations, and photographs to a class book containing information about navigation equipment, the Beaufort Scale, knots, and the signal system of flags used by...
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Unknown Type
EL Education

El Education: Trees for Everybody Meridian Hill Park Tree Field Guide

For Students Pre-K - 1st
An online field guide entitled Trees are for Everybody by kindergarten students at the Capital City Public Charter School in Washington, D.C. The book contains student observations, photographs, and original illustrations which provide...
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Primary
Penguin Publishing

Penguin Random House: Fact Tracker: Mummies and Pyramids

For Students K - 1st
This book checks information shared in the fiction book entitled Magic Tree House #3: Mummies in the Morning by Mary Pope Osborne. Mummies and Pyramids, the nonfiction companion written by Will Osborne and Mary Pope Osborne, is the...
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EL Education

El Education: Forest Park Zoo

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This guide to the animals at the Forest Park Zoo was created by 1st grade students at the Alice B. Beal Magnet School in Springfield, Massachusetts, and was part of a Learning expedition on animals. Students, through fieldwork...
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Activity
Ohio State University

Ohio State University: Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears: Reader of the Rocks

For Teachers K - 1st
A nonfiction article where students read about Julie Codispoti, assistant curator at the United States Polar Rock Repository, located at Ohio State University's Byrd Polar Research Center. The article provides an overview of Antarctic...
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Lesson Plan
Read Works

Read Works: Main Idea 1st Grade Unit

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students learn to use titles and supporting details in both fiction and non-fiction texts in order to identify the main idea of the book in this three-lesson unit. The lessons utilize the books Animal...
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Handout
Scholastic

Scholastic: Biography: Jim Murphy

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Read this biography to learn about nonfiction Newbery Honor author Jim Murphy. Links to a list of books and additional information are provided.
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Lesson Plan
Read Works

Read Works: Explicit Information 1st Grade Unit

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A two-lesson unit in which students learn how to identify explicit information in both fiction and non-fiction texts. The lessons utilize the books Frogs by Gail Gibbons and Stellaluna by Janell Cannon....
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Interactive
Starfall

Starfall: All About Ducks

For Students K - 1st Standards
This interactive focuses on ducks including what they look like and what they do. Children can read independently or click on the ear to have sentences read to them.
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Interactive
Starfall

Starfall: Seals

For Students K - 1st
This interactive focuses seals including where they live and what they eat. Children can read independently or click on the ear to have sentences read to them.
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Interactive
Starfall

Starfall: We Saw a Hawk

For Students K - 1st
This interactive focuses a family seeing a hawk while camping. Children can read independently or click on the ear to have sentences read to them.
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Interactive
Starfall

Starfall: Things That Can Go

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This is an online story for early readers about things that can go into motion, and things that can't. It offers help for readers as they can click on a words and it will say the word aloud. It also provides a list of words used in the...

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