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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Expository Text Structure: Summarizing [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

A lesson plan in which students read a text and record the main ideas and supporting details on a graphic organizer. Students then complete the organizer by writing a summary of the text. Materials are included.

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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Exp. Text Structure: Classic Classifying

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

A lesson plan in which students read a text and write main ideas and supporting details in boxes on a graphic organizer. Materials are included. [PDF]

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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Narrative Text Structure: Retell Wheel

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

A lesson plan in which students read a narrative text and then turn a question wheel to answer questions about the characters, setting, conflict, and plot. Materials are included.[PDF]

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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Venn Diagram [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

A lesson plan in which students read two literary texts then compare and contrast them by completing a Venn diagram. Materials are included.

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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Compare a Story [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

A lesson plan in which students read two narrative texts and complete graphic organizers to compare and contrast the texts. Materials are included.

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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Nar Text Structure: Story Sequence Organizer [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

A lesson plan in which students read a narrative text and complete graphic organizers to sequence the story and finally create an illustrated storyboard. Materials are included.

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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Narrative Text Structure: Retell a Story [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

A lesson plan in which students read a narrative text and complete graphic organizers to map the story. Materials are included.

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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Narrative Text Structure: Sequence a Story [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

A lesson plan in which students read a narrative text and write the main events of the story on sentence strips. Materials are included.

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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Narrative Text Structure: Retell Ring [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

A lesson plan in which students read a narrative text and answer questions about the plot. Materials are included.

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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Compare a Character [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

A lesson plan in which students read a narrative text and complete graphic organizers to compare and contrast two characters from the story. Materials are included.[PDF]

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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Student Center Activities, K 1

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards

In 2004-2005, a team of teachers at FCRR reviewed current research, collected ideas, and created materials for use in kindergarten and first grade classrooms. The K-1 Student Center Activities include three books and one DVD: The first...

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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Text to Self and Text to World Connections

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards

Students will further their reading comprehension by associating real-life events with the events of a story.

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TES Global

Blendspace: Compare Two Texts

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

This instructional activity will allow students to identify similarities and differences between two texts on the same topic. Includes a video on comparing and contrasting, printable charts, activities, and an assessment question.

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CPALMS

Cpalms: lafs.k.ri.1.3

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

Choose from a variety of lesson plans, resources, center activities, and a formative assessment that meets the standard of describing the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text.

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Education.com

Education.com: Draw the Story

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will use their imagination to complete the story. How will it begin? How will it end? Great lesson for practicing sequencing.

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Scholastic

Scholastic: Pre Reading Activities: Signs and Symbols

For Teachers Pre-K - K Standards

As young children begin keying into symbols, they are making a huge conceptual leap: they're learning that a picture can convey a message. The following anecdotes track practical applications of children's interactions with...

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Starfall

Starfall: Things That Can Go

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards

This interactive nonfiction ebook focuses on things that can go. Children can choose to read independently or listen to each sentence read to them.

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Starfall

Starfall: Let's Play

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards

This interactive focuses on short sentences that include picture words.

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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Friendly Controversy

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

How do I convince others to understand my side of the story? Second grade students conducted shared research activities and participated in a Socratic Seminar practicing the techniques of persuasive reasoning.

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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Points of Informational Text Main Idea and Details

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

This lesson uses the book Explorers of North America - A True Book by Brendan January to teach students how to identify the main topic of a multi-paragraph informational text and specific paragraphs within the text. Students are guided...

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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Point to Main Idea/point of View in Literature

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

This lesson uses the story Corduroy by Don Freeman to teach the main idea and supporting details of a story, as well as what we mean by the character's point of view. The lesson is done using print materials and a whiteboard with...

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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: The Grouchy Ladybug

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards

The students will thoughtfully listen to a story read aloud and comprehend the sequence of events. This lesson will culminate units completed in science and math and will incorporate literature, science, and math.

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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Funny Sequence

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards

After a discussion and work on sequence, students will apply this knowledge to sequencing comic strips through group work.

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Axelson Academy

Axelson Academy:types of Texts

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards

This professional resource will help teachers understand the different types of texts that early childhood students need to know.

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