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Fairy Tale Maps

For Teachers K
Students study direction as they listen to the stories of Little Red Riding Hood and The Jolly Postman. In this cardinal direction lesson, learners create a map to show the path Little Red Riding Hood took in the story and label the path...
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Story Mapping Abel's Island

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students are able to prioritize story elements using graphic organizers. They are able to evaluate character, setting and sequence in a non-print source. Students use visual and audio clues to help them evaluate the parts of a story.
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A Map Mystery

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders solve a map mystery. In this technology lesson plan, 2nd graders develop an awareness of maps and the symbols associated with maps as they the "Neighborhood Map Machine."
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2nd Grade - Act. 21: Me On the Map

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders read book, Me On the Map, and create map of their bedroom and of their house.
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Mapping the News

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students explore cartography.  In this map skills and map making lesson, Students work in groups to create wall size world maps including legends, compass roses, latitude and longitude, and physical features.  Students collect current...
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Write Me a Story

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders use the writing process and submit a story to www.kids.com.  In this story writing lesson, 2nd graders choose a topic for a story contest.  Students develop their stories.  Students complete a  her prewriting organizer....
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Maps and Legends by Micheal Chabon

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students read an essay to improve language skills and understanding of American culture for ESL teachers. In this American culture lesson, students read the essay 'Maps and Legends' by Michael Chabon and complete various activities to...
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What's the Real Story?

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders investigate tall tales. In this literature lesson, 2nd graders complete a story element worksheet based upon the tall tale of Paul Bunyan. Students create a PowerPoint presentation about a tall tale.
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Every Building Tells a Story

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Using the images of Robert Harris, this series of lesson plans invites high schoolers to expand their understanding of Canadian heritage by examining architectural images of Charlottetown. These lessons include activities in writing,...
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Let's Sum It Up

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Learners read the book, 'Shiloh, and, as a group, complete a story map of the first chapter. They re-read the second chapter and individually make up a story map for it. In small groups, they complete story maps of the remaining chapters.
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Rockin' Map Summaries

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students summarize a piece of text. After reviewing the correct way to read and summarize, students work in groups to summarize a piece of text assigned by the instructor. They write a summary paragraph by creating a story map and the...
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Miss Nelson is Missing! Love Two Teach

For Teachers 4th - 5th
In these reading and math skills worksheets, students complete a series of activities for the story Miss Nelson is Missing! Students create a missing poster, a Venn Diagram, a story map, activities for multiplication, addition,...
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Probable Passage Matrix

For Students 4th - 5th
In this reading worksheet, students use this graphic organizer/story map to record the important parts of a piece of literature. Students record the setting, characters, problem, solution and ending.
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Using Story Structure to Enhance Comprehension

For Teachers 4th - 5th
In these story structure worksheets, students review story structure and learn how to use story maps to help with their reading comprehension. Students review an example story map and then study three different graphic organizer versions...
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As the Kids Come and Go: Mapping a Classroom

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Map the classroom with your kids to help them understand how maps work and how to read them. The lesson starts off with a story about animals living and moving around the globe, and then kids create maps of their classroom to show how...
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Mapping Out the Story

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Discuss the reading comprehension strategy of summarization with your elementary schoolers! They read a chapter from their social studies textbook, Regions Near and Far, and create a map, or word web, for the chapter. They identify...
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Understanding a Narrative: The True Story of Balto

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Strong comprehension questions and a list of initiating events that drive the plot make this resource worth a try in your classroom. Intended for use with tools specific to the mindwing concepts reading strategy system, the outline...
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Story Map for Crime and Punishment Part I, Chapters 1-5

For Students 10th - 12th
While reading chapters one through five of Crime and Punishment, focus your readers with this guide. Eight questions are given here, encouraging the reader to study the protagonist and the struggles that ensue with the surrounding...
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A Walk Around the School: Mapping Places Near and Far

For Teachers K - 1st
After reading Pat Hutchins’ Rosie’s Walk, have your young cartographers create a map of Rosie’s walk. Then lead them on a walk around the school. When you return class members sequence the walk by making a list of how the class got from...
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Goldilocks and the Three Bears

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students analyze classic children's stories by creating story maps.  In this children's literature instructional activity, students read Goldilocks and the Three Bears, and practice retelling the story with picture cards that need to be...
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Survivor Stories

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Trace a survivor's story using a timeline, map skills, poetry and/or prose and photography, and make a visual representation of a survivor's journey through his or her life as a culminating activity for the class and the survivor.  This...
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James and the Giant Peach Plot Analysis

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
It's all about the plot, main events, and story mapping with this lesson. As the class reads the novel James and the Giant Peach, they create an excitement graph that actually charts key events and moments of excitement. After creating...
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Is Mr. Wolf Really A Bad Guy?

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Is the wolf from "The Three Little Pigs" really big and bad, or is he just misunderstood?  To analyze the effect of point of view, middle schoolers read Jon Scieszka's The True Story of the Three Little Pigs and evaluate the information...
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Introducing Literacy Elements in Nonfiction

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Explore nonfiction writing with your class. They will identify elements in nonfiction by reviewing elements of fiction. Then they use biographies, memoirs, menus, Time for Kids, and text books to identify elements of nonfiction. They...

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