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Read Works: Lessons: Go, Dog. Go!
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan and materials to teach kindergarten students to identify and describe a fiction text.
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[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan and materials to teach kindergarten students to identify and describe a nonfiction text.
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Read Works: Lessons: Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan and materials to teach kindergarten students how to tell the difference between fiction and nonfiction.
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Read Works: Lessons: A Picture Book of Amelia Earhart
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan and materials to teach kindergarten students that a biography tells the story of a person's life.
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Read Works: Little Red Riding Hood
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan and materials to teach kindergarten students about fairy tales and fantasy details.
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Read Works: Lessons: A Picture Book of George Washington
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan and materials to teach kindergarten students that biographies tell stories about real people who are famous or important.
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Read Works: Lessons: The Story of Ruby Bridges
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan and materials to teach kindergarten students that biographies tell stories about real people and give information about their lives.
British Library
British Library: Teaching Resources: Measure for Measure: A Problem Play?
What is Measure for Measure's problem? The play confronts us with questions about sex, morality, and power, which challenge us as readers and audiences. In these activities, young scholars will debate why the play is so problematic,...
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Read Works: 1st Grade Lesson: Classifying Texts
[Free Registration/Login Required] A instructional activity in which students use the books Froggy Goes to School by Jonathan London and Life Cycle of a Frog by Angela Royston to learn to classify texts as fiction or nonfiction. Lesson...
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Read Works: 3rd Grade Lesson: Science Fiction
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson in which students use the book Commander Toad and the Intergalactic Spy by Jane Yolen to learn about the characteristics that define science fiction. Lesson includes direct teaching, guided...
TES Global
Tes: Schemes of Work: Prose. Ghost Stories
[Free Registration/Login Required] This series of 13 lessons explores the horror/ghost film genre. Students will culminate the study by writing their own ghost stories.
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Tes: Analyzing & Comparing Non Fiction
[Free Registration/Login Required] Resource notes to aid students as they analyze different types of nonfiction. The GAP (genre, audience, and purpose) acronym is provided to use when comparing nonfiction texts.
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Read Works: 1st Grade Lesson: Purposes for Reading
[Free Registration/Login Required] A instructional activity in which students use the books Nature's Food Chains: What Polar Animals Eat by Joanne Mattern, Life Cycle of a Frog by Angela Royston, and Froggy Goes to School by Jonathan...
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Urban Education: Exchange: Read Works: 3rd Grade Lesson: Fantasy
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson in which young scholars use the book Zathura by Chris Van Allsburg and fantasy texts from the classroom library to learn about the characteristics that define fantasy. Lesson includes direct...
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Better Lesson: The Leprechaun Companion
In this lesson, 5th graders will explain the meaning of a text and its genre, summarize it, and draw conclusions. They work with a book called The Leprechaun Companion which is a cross between informational and literary text.
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Read Works: 3rd Grade Lesson: Realistic Fiction
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson in which students use the book Allie's Basketball Dream by Barbara E. Barber to learn about the characteristics that define realistic fiction. Lesson includes direct teaching, guided practice,...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Revision Lesson: Re Shaping Narrative Writing
This lesson, inspired by the novel Bronx Masquerade by Nikki Grimes is a fabulous classroom mentor text that helps teach a very powerful revision strategy: rewriting an idea in a completely different genre. Grimes' book shares short...
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Read Write Think: What's in a Mystery? Exploring and Identifying Mystery Elements
Contains plans for seven lessons that teach young scholars about the plot structure, character, and setting of the mystery genre. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the...
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Education Oasis: Memoir: The Stuff of Our Lives Unit
A six to eight week unit about the genre of memoir. Students will see that writers write about the ordinary happenings of their lives and will be encouraged to reflect upon the significance of remembered events. Students will keep a...
CommonLit
Common Lit: Units: 8th Grade Argumentative Writing Unit: Improving Society
Complete teaching unit for 8th Grade Argumentative Writing Unit: "Improving Society." Students will read six texts about problems in society. Throughout the unit, 8th graders will gather information from their readings in a graphic...
New Zealand Ministry of Education
Nz Ministry of Education: Logging Up Reading Mileage
Young scholars will select and enjoy their own range of contemporary and historical texts, display a knowledge of different genre and their particular content, and identify literary aspects of chosen texts for sustained silent reading....
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Read Works: Lessons: Real and Make Believe
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan and materials to teach kindergarten students classify and categorize based on real and make-believe.
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Better Lesson: Many Parts
Preparation for reading complex informational texts starts in K and First grade. Knowing the features of the genre, and how to navigate through it is one of the necessary stepping stones. This instructional activity introduces the...
British Library
British Library: 19th Century Non Fiction Texts: Work & Welfare
This thematic collection will allow students to read and understand 19th-century non-fiction texts, and support them in identifying key features for a range of genres, audiences, and purposes. Each source is accompanied by original...
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