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What the Book is Mainly About
Students analyze the title, text, and pictures to determine the main idea. In this language arts instructional activity, students predict the main idea by looking at various features of the book. As students listen to the story, they...
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Identifying the Problem and the Solution in a Story
Story elements: the problem and the solution. Help your youngsters identify these elements by reading Bringing Down the Moon, by Jonathan Emmett. After a class discussion and chart creation discussing problems and solutions from past...
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Identifying the Solution in a Story
Using the book My Red Balloon by Eve Bunting, Kindergartners will gain an understanding that stories often have solutions. Using Eve Bunting's book as an example the teacher will identify the solution to the story and walk the students...
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Beginning and End
Are you working onevent sequence in your kindergarten class? Use a reading activity to have your kids discuss events from the story, and put them in order. They then cut and paste them in the correct order. A great project for any story!
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Lesson 1: Actions
Action is what characters in books do or say. Little ones discuss what actions are and then examine the book David, No! to identify them. As they read through the book, they chart all of David's actions. They write a sentence and draw a...
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Identifying Facts
Students evaluate what a fact is and what the characteristics of a fact are. In this fact and opinion lesson, students read through chapters in their books and point out facts that they find that cannot be disputed.
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Form an Opinion Based on Facts
Explore fact and opinion through higher level thinking and literacy. Kids listen to the beginning of A Picture Book of Helen Keller by David A. Adler and identify facts in the text. They follow along as the teacher models how to form an...
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Historical Period
Students identify and describe ways in which life was different in the time historical period of Rosa Parks. In this historical time period lesson plan, students explain that one characteristic of a biography is that it takes place in a...
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Table of Contents and Index
Have your class investigate the use of a table of contents and index to find information. They identify characteristics of informational books and add them to a chart, then demonstrate how to use the index and table of contents by trying...
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Lesson 3: Gods and Goddesses
Exploring and characterizing myths can be fun. The class reads a version of "Pandora's Box," add to their myth chart, and discuss how gods and goddesses are commonly used in mythology. They work in groups to identify the gods and...
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Sequence Clue Words (Part 1)
Does your class know they can use sequence words such as, next, finally, after, and then to better understand the sequence of a story? First they discuss sequential order and sequence words, then they look for sequence words as they read...
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To Entertain
Second graders consider the author's purpose for writing a text. In this author's purpose lesson, 2nd graders discuss reasons why author's write a book and how it can often be for entertainment. Students read a book, provide two examples...
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Causes
What makes someone cry? Little learners read the story, Why Do You Cry?: Not a Sob Story by Kate Klise to discover a bit about crying and a bit about cause and effect. They'll fill out a cause and effect chart while they discuss and...
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Lesson 1: Explicit Information versus drawing conclusions
Second graders look at the difference between explicit information and drawing conclusions. In this drawing conclusions lesson, 2nd graders read a passage and find areas where information is given and others where they have to think to...
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Lesson 2: Distinguish Fact from Opinion in Books
An important part of reading informational text is being able to discern fact from opinion. The class reads chapter one from the book, Penguins by Lynn M. Stone. They analyze specific sections of the text to determine if what is being...
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Personification
Second graders recognize personification in texts. In this personification activity, 2nd graders discuss figurative language and how characters can be given human-like qualities. Students read a story and write down examples they have...
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Creating a Chapter Title
Second graders identify the main idea of a selection of text. In this creating a chapter title lesson, 2nd graders discuss how to find the main idea of a chapter, listen to a chapter read aloud, and create a title with explanation.
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Identifying Story Elements
Second graders explore story elements. In this language arts instructional activity, 2nd graders identifying characters, setting, and plot in familiar stories. Students listen to a story and complete a graphic organizer.
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Flashback Sequence
Second graders practice recalling the sequence of events in a story. In this sequencing lesson, 2nd graders listen to the story, A Chair for My Mother and identify each flashback that occurs in the text. Students chart the sequence of...
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Changing Setting in a Story
Second graders explore how the setting in a story changes throughout. In this language arts lesson, 2nd graders read a story and identify the setting at various points within the story. Students describe the changes in setting.
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Main and Secondary Characters
Identify main and secondary characters from a fiction story. Kindergartners do a picture walk with the teacher, and then do the identifying on their own with another book. A good assignment for groups or a whole class to complete.
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Identifying What is Different
What is the same, what is different, and what does it all mean? Introduce the concept of identifying similarities and difference to your Kinder class using the I do, we do, you do, instructional approach. You'll provide structured...
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Actions
Young scholars pair up and one of the students acts out an action while the other draws conclusions from their actions by drawing a picture of what they are doing. In this actions lesson plan, young scholars play charades and guess what...
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Opinion
An important concept for youngsters to learn is that there is a difference between facts and opinions. Use Kirsten Hall's Animal Touch to introduce the idea that an opinion is how one feels or thinks about something and that others are...