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Developing Friendships

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students listen to the book Friends and discuss how to make friends and the characteristics of good friends. In this friends activity, students listen to the story and practice role playing on how to make friendships.
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Worksheet
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New York State Testing Program: English/Language Arts Book 2, Grade 3 2005

For Students 3rd
This 3rd grade English/Language Arts standardized test practice instructional activity includes 28 multiple choice questions pertaining to a story that is not included. Additionally, there are two paragraphs for testers to correct.
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Middle Tennessee State University

Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? A Comparison in American Culture

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
As part of their study of the Progressive Era, class groups examine a 20th century version of "The Three Little Pigs" through a New Era lens and identify how ideals such as the value of hard work, creativity, and problem solving, etc.,...
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Scholastic

Myths, Folktales, & Fairy Tales for Grades 7-9

For Teachers 7th - 9th Standards
Here is a must-have resource for studying fairy tales, myths, and folktales with your class! It includes instructional ideas, activities, and materials to support a month-long review of these three unique genres of writing.
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Bringing Household Items to Life

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Use folk tales as inspiration for learning about and using personification in creative writing. Learners brainstorm together in order to practice personification before writing their own poems or paragraphs about a household object.
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Film Character Picture Quiz

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this film character worksheet, students are given pictures of characters in movies and they define the film. Students answer 12 multiple choice questions.
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Organizer
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ESL Holiday Lessons: National Yo-Yo Day

For Students 6th - 10th
In this language skills activity, students read an article on National Yo-Yo Day. Students respond to 6 matching questions, 29 fill in the blank questions, 30 multiple choice questions, 12 word scramble questions, 30 short...
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Language Arts: Word Recognition and Mental Images

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students read short stories containing Dolch sight words and describe the scenes and answer comprehension questions. After relating the stories to their own experiences or observations, they draw pictures illustrating a scene from the...
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Show Me That You Understood What You Just Read

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Pupils complete reading comprehension activities for the book Corduroy. After reading independently or in pairs, students answer questions orally as a class. They retell their favorite part of the story with the instructor and complete...
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Do Tigers Like Monkeys?

For Students 1st
In these reading comprehension worksheets, 1st graders read the story about a tiger and monkey. Students then answer 5 reading comprehension questions.
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Do You Have a Wish?

For Students K - 1st
In this reading worksheet, students read a short story about some children and their wishes. Students complete 5 questions about the story.
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Worksheet
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Teddy Bear Reading Comprehension/ History

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this reading comprehension and history worksheet, students read about the history of the teddy bear before answering 5 multiple choice questions.
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Scooter's Good Book

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this reading comprehension worksheet, students read a short story about a dog named Scooter. Students demonstrate understanding of the story through multiple choice and short answer questions.
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Whole Language Approach in Solving Word Problems

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Young scholars explore the concept of word problems. In this word problems instructional activity, students read a version of the Three Little Pigs. Young scholars discuss what math vocabulary words such as 'in all' and 'many more'...
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A Weekend With Wendell

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students complete activities with the story A Weekend With Wendell by Kevin Henkes. In this literature lesson, students listen to the story and answer comprehension questions. They compare this story and its characters to other ones...
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Alligator Craft Paper Bag Puppet

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students make paper bag puppets. They use the puppets as a story teller and reader. Students use the puppets to ask questions during and after reading. They assemble their own puppet. Students use the puppets to introduce new themes,...
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New York State Testing Program: English/Language Arts Book 1, Grade 6

For Students 6th
In this 6th grade English/Language Arts standardized test practice activity, students read 2 fictional selections and respond to multiple choice and open-ended questions regarding the pieces. Students also read 2 non-fictional...
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Cause and Effect with the Treasure of Green Lake

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students, after reading the book, "Holes," answer questions about the story's plot, make decisions about game play that involve cause and effect relationships and utilize problem-solving skills and hand-eye coordination to navigate a...
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Systems Working Together

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders listen as the teacher reads the book "Roxaboxen" to them. They discuss the main characters and other aspects of the story. They discuss the characteristics and properties of the soil in Roxaboxen. The discussion is applied...
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The Little Engine That Could

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Students read the story The Little Engine That Could and read companion stories, predict in a chart, work with rhyming and word families, and more. For this reading lesson plan, students take 5 days to read the book.
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When Sophie Gets Angry-Really, Really Angry

For Teachers K
Students explore feelings. In this language arts lesson, students realize that books help in talking about feelings. Students discuss how they feel during the reading of a story and listen to each other in answering various comprehension...
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Bath Time

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Young scholars strengthen reading comprehension skills with the guided reading of Bath Time. They practice literacy skills like reading a patterned sentence with the help of the teacher for scaffolding. Students also recognize the...
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Melvin's Easter Basket

For Teachers K - 1st
In this Easter reading comprehension worksheet, students read a short story about Melvin's Easter basket. Students answer 3 questions about the story.
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Sharing, caring

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students hear the story, "The Sand Castle" and answer a given set of questions. They discuss their answers and then perform a skit of the story, "The Sand Castle." Students practice and sing a new song about sharing and caring.