Curated OER
Quarter Coin Cookies
Students study the historical figures and symbols of U.S.
patriotism depicted on the penny, nickel, dime, and quarter coins. They explore the processes involved in making coins, and how metals canchange in consistency from the...
Curated OER
Watercolor Butterfly
Pupils identify and analyze the anatomy of an insect and create a watercolor butterfly. They identify the three body parts of a butterfly by pointing to them on the butterfly they have created and demonstrate the splatter paint...
Read Works
Read Works: Drawing Conclusions 1st Grade Unit
[Free Registration/Login Required] A three-instructional activity unit on drawing conclusions through which students learn how to use pictures and context clues to discover a missing word and to draw conclusions about a story. Students...
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Read Works: Kindergarten: Three Lesson Unit: Drawing Conclusions
[Free Registration/Login Required] Three lessons designed to introduce young learners and beginning readers to the concept of drawing conclusions based on actions performed in a charades game, on verbal cues given in a guessing game, and...
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Read Works: Drawing Conclusions Kindergarten Unit: Short Story
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan teaching students to make conclusions based on a sentences and short texts. Students use textual cues to explain how the conclusions were reached. Ideas for direct teaching, guided...
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Read Works: Lessons: Lesson 3: Short Story
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan, texts, and materials to teach kindergarten students to use clues in a story to draw and explain a conclusion.
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Read Works: The Great Gift
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage includes the story of a girl who is celebrating her birthday. This passage is intended as a guided passage. It contains questions regarding explicit information and drawing conclusions.
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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Illinois Pioneers and Prairies [Pdf]
"Illinois Pioneers and Prairies" is a one page, nonfiction, reading passage about life in the prairies of Illinois for the early settlers including their hard work, setting up governments, building schools, and making laws. It is...
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement:charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wall Paper" Writing Women
A close reading of "The Yellow Wall-paper" employing the analysis of such literary concepts as setting, narrative style, symbol, and characterization. Students will write an essay discussing what the story suggests about middle-class...
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: Stephen Crane's "The Open Boat"
In this lesson, students will examine the relationship of man and nature as portrayed in "The Open Boat," based on Crane's suffering from a shipwreck on The Commodore in which he spent thirty hours on a small boat at sea before being...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Understanding and Analysis of Literary Text: Meter and Rhyme
OnTRACK English II Reading, Module 3, Lessons 1-12, and Practice Lessons 1-3. Students understand, make inferences and draw conclusions about the structure and elements of poetry, drama, fiction, and literary non-fiction, and provide...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Goldilocks and the Three Bears
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart was created to accompany Scott Foresman's Grade 3 story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears by James Marshall. It teaches drawing conclusions and gives websites to practice this reading...
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: Esperanza Rising: Learning Not to Be Afraid to Start Over
In this lesson middle schoolers will explore some of the contrasts that Esperanza experiences when she suddenly is forced to leave the life of a wealthy landowner's daughter surrounded by servants to become a servant herself among an...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Miss Nelson Is Back
First graders tell what is happening in the story, but use words and phrases from the story to tell how they know.
Read Works
Read Works: Caught in a Lie
[Free Registration/Login Required] This short literary text passage shares the story of a girl who was caught in a lie. This passage is intended for guided practice and is designed to reinforce essential reading comprehension skills.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Compare/contrast Themes and Genres in Literary Texts
Determining the theme is not easy; you have to use the clues the author leaves to figure it out yourself. The author implies information about the story through plot points, setting, and characters. You infer and draw conclusions based...
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: Fable and Trickster Tales Around the World
The lessons presented in this website "introduce children to folk tales" and how these folktales are changed and affected by generational and cultural values. Includes several links to further related information on folktales, fables,...
Library of Congress
Loc: Nineteenth Century Women: Struggle and Triumph Lesson Plan
Journals, letters, and narratives reveal a part of America's history not revealed in textbooks, the story of women, namely the women of the 1800s. With this instructional activity, students gain understanding of women and history through...
Read Works
Read Works: Get Well Lance
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage includes the story of a girl who is writing a get well note to a classmate. This passage is intended as a guided passage. It contains questions regarding explicit information and drawing...
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Read Works: The Great Gift
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage includes the story of a girl who is celebrating her birthday. This passage is intended as a guided passage. It contains questions regarding explicit information and drawing conclusions.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts: Grade 6: If Stones Could Speak
Sixth graders will explore history and will learn that archaeologists, like detectives, work to piece together the past through investigation. Archaeological research provides us with stories of human history that help us understand the...