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Read Works: Saving Hawaiian Monk Seals
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the decreasing population of the Hawaiian monk seals. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: The Lottery
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a girl named Maya who misunderstood when her mother said she won the lottery. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Little Red Wagon
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a boy named Clay who thought about all the fun times he had in the red wagon he was preparing to sell. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading...
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Read Works: Grown Up
[Free Registration/Login Required] A poem about a child who is not so eager to grow up. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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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.
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Read Works: The Wise Choice
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a boy named Peter whose wise decision earned a reward from the queen. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Jenny's Move
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a girl named Sarah who was very upset that her friend Jenny was moving away. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: The Strength of Three
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a father who taught his three sons that they would be stronger if they learned to work together. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Jenna and the Black Cat
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a girl named Jenna who was very superstitious. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: What's in a Name?
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a boy who didn't like his name and an ironic twist when he tried to change it. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Main Idea 3rd Grade Unit
[Free Registration/Login Required] A three-lesson unit teaching young scholars to use the first and last sentence to identify the main idea of a paragraph and the first and last sentence in each paragraph to identify the main idea of a...
Tom Richey
Slide Share: Finding Themes in Literature
A slide show with forty slides with explanations, examples, and information on how to determine the theme of a text. RL.9-10.2 and RL.11-12.2 Analyzing Theme.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Analyzing the Author
A slideshow with ten slides that discusses the difference between a subject and a theme and gives several examples of each found within a variety of popular classical and modern texts.
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Read Works: Theme 3rd Grade Unit
[Free Registration/Login Required] This site provides a series of three lesson plans designed to teach young scholars to identify and support the theme of a fable and a fiction selection based on main idea and supporting details. Lessons...
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Read Works: Grade 2: Two Lesson Unit: Theme
[Free Registration/Login Required] A set of two lesson plans designed to teach students to use story elements to identify theme and to match a given theme to a story. Lessons are based on the book Aesop's Fables by Jerry Pinkney....
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Read Works: Main Idea 4th Grade Unit
[Free Registration/Login Required] A two-lesson unit on main idea and details through which students use the topic sentence to identify the main idea of a paragraph and categorize details as main idea or supporting. With free login,...
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Read Works: Fourth Grade: Two Lesson Unit: Theme
[Free Registration/Login Required] A two-lesson unit on theme where students use the books Indian Children's Favourite Stories by Ranjan Somaiah and Filipino Children's Favorite Stories by Joanne de Leon to examine universal themes...
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Read Works: Main Idea 1st Grade Unit
[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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Ad lit.org: Pairing Texts With Movies to Promote Comprehension and Discussion
Thematic pairings of novels/short stories with movies can help students access difficult texts and can lead to deeper comprehension and lively classroom discussion. This article suggests pairings for some commonly assigned middle and...
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De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: The Red Apples [Pdf]
"The Red Apples" is a one-page, fictional, reading passage about a little girl who wants to buy an apple for her sick mother but has no money. She returns a wallet when a man dropped it; he gives her a dollar. The store owner gave her an...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Compare/contrast Themes and Genres in Literary Texts
You will learn how to analyze, make inferences, and draw conclusions about theme and genre in different cultural, historical, and contemporary contexts and provide evidence from the text to support your understanding.
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Texas Gateway: Analyze Various Texts With Similar Themes (English I Reading)
You will learn how to make inferences and draw conclusions about similar themes in various texts by finding supporting evidence within the texts.
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Texas Gateway: Compare and Contrast Similar Themes Across Time Periods
Compare and contrast similar themes from different genres and different time periods.
University of Houston
University of Houston: The Journalist's Desk
This site includes eleven brief newspaper stories. Students must identify the main idea of each short news story.