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Digging through the mess to find the treasure
Students summarize a text selection of their choice. After a brief, written demonstration of summarizing, students read a selection of their choice. With a partner, they summarize what they have read in their own words and create a...
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Children's Books
Students explore daily dilemmas students face. They write and illustrate a story book dealing with one dilemma. Students write reviews of their books. They read their books to second grade students. Additional cross curriculum activities...
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The Secret School: chapter 11
Fourth graders read chapter 11 of The Secret School and answer discussion questions as they read. For this reading lesson plan, 4th graders also write a summary of what they read and complete a crossword puzzle..
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It's Raining Meatballs
Students observe and demonstrate the process of summarization using the book "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs" by Judi Barrett. They silently read the story, and as a class discuss the five W's. Students then write a short summary of...
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Summarization Mapping
Students observe and demonstrate the strategy of summarizing the main idea. They discuss six rules of summarizing, and observe the teacher summarizing the first chapter of the novel "The Incredible Journey." Students then read chapter...
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Sensational Summarization!
Students observe and demonstrate a variety of summarization strategies. They silently read an article from National Geographic Kids, and as a class write a summary that includes the main idea and details and the five W's. Students then...
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"Jessica" by Kevin Henkes
Learners listed to the story Jessica by Kevin Henkes. They make their own imaginary friend using craft supplies. They then participate in an individual story theater in which they retell the story. Finally, they dictate stories about an...
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Message in a Bottle
Students respond to a story by writing a message in a bottle. In this message in a bottle lesson plan, students use a soda bottle to send their message to someone else.
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Movie titles
In this movie title worksheet, students read a summary of the movie and try to guess the title. Students read and guess 8 movie titles.
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Positive Guidance Techniques
Students study different guidance techniques for Students. They apply their knowledge by creating a roller-box story to share with the class.
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INTERNET ASSIGNMENT: THE DAY DIZZY DUCKLING GOT LOST
In this reading / writing learning exercise, students use the Internet to read a story about ducks. They then summarize what they have read under each related illustration. Seven story elements are provided, along with one summarizing...
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Transitioning Between Scenes
Learners create a chart to reference when writing new scenes in fiction stories. In this fiction writing lesson, students are exposed to various ways to transition between scenes in their writing. There is a Word document to download...
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Face to Face Summary!
Students, while in the computer lab visiting the National Geographic Kids website, fill out a checklist of unimportant/redundant information, look for important events and ideas and search for the author's main idea and supporting...
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Can You Hear a Story?
Learners listen to, analyze, and describe music. They explain relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.
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Is the Media Part of the Story?
Students discuss the role of the media in public opinion. They use the internet to research when the media has had an impact on war. They write an essay about their research and any conclusions they have made.
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An Author Study of Jan Brett
Jan Brett, the author of many beloved children's books, is well worth a study. Try out this winter-themed unit, which covers areas of language arts as well as art, math, science, and social studies.
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Story Writing
Second graders review the basic elements of a story. Individually, they write their own original story as they use a software program to help them map out their ideas. With a partner, they exchange papers and read them for grammatical...
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Exercise for Writing a Summary Paragraph
Learners examine how to write article summaries of abstracts. In this writing skills lesson, students edit the noted sections of an abstract that is already written on the Old Testament Abstracts.
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Identifying and Describing Story Elements
First graders examine how to identify the different elements of a story and how they fit in a definite sequence. The use of comprehension skills is essential to retell the story as desired within the instructional activity.
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Seeing is Understanding
Third graders practice visualizing elements from a story. They discuss the transition from picture books to chapter books. While reading a passage aloud, the instructor models what they see as they read the passage. Students draw a...
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A Holocaust Story With A Happy Ending
In this social studies worksheet, students read the biography story of a Holocaust survivor. Then they could write a summary of the story.
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The Minister's Black Veil by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Students explore "The Minister's Veil" by Nathaniel Hawthorne. In this short story instructional activity, students read a summary of the short story and answer prediction questions. Students then read the story and write a short story...
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Water World Story
Fourth graders write a story about how a drop of water may have traveled to school. They design a presentation on the water cycle.
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The Eiserloh Story
Students read "The Eiserloh Story" and evaluate decisions made by the government in time of war. They determine if the government violated the rights of innocent civilians. They identify the Bill of Rights and analyze each Right.
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