Lesson Plan
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.
Lesson Plan
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.
Lesson Plan
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.
Lesson Plan
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.
Lesson Plan
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.
Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Narrative Text Structure: Character Compare [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which young scholars read a narrative text and complete a graphic organizer to compare two characters. Materials are included.
Lesson Plan
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]
Professional Doc
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...
Lesson Plan
Common Sense Media

Common Sense Media: Education: Story Elements Retelling

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
In this lesson plan, students will learn to retell a story using story elements to improve their comprehension of the story. The students will actively listen to a story and complete a graphic organizer to share and discuss with a partner.
Lesson Plan
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.
Website
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.
Activity
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.
Lesson Plan
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...
Lesson Plan
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...
Lesson Plan
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.
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Sounds: What We Hear!

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Students will create a descriptive writing about the sounds they hear in a favorite place. This is a good follow-up to a science unit on sound.
Lesson Plan
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.
Professional Doc
CPALMS

Cpalms: Lafs.7.ri.1.3

For Teachers 1st Standards
This site provides explanation of the Florida English Language Arts Standard: Analyze the interactions between individuals, events, and ideas in a text (e.g., how ideas influence individuals or events, or how individuals influence ideas...
Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs: A World of Stories: The Boo Hag

For Students K - 1st Standards
North Carolina-based storyteller Donna Washington tells a scary tale from the Gullah culture about a man and his beautiful wife-who is not what she seems to be. The story explains the Gullah tradition of painting doors and windows blue...
Interactive
Beacon Learning Center

Beacon Learning Center: Sequence of Events

For Students 1st Standards
Practice putting pictures and story events in order after reading a short text in this online learning activity.
Interactive
Room Recess

Room Recess: Main Idea Millionaire

For Students 1st - 2nd Standards
Based on the television show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, this activity tests understanding of the main idea by finding the one sentence that does not belong in the paragraph.
Interactive
Room Recess

Room Recess: Main Idea Storm Cloud

For Students 1st - 2nd Standards
In this self-scoring activity, read the story in the storm cloud then choose the tree that contains the main idea.
Activity
Scholastic

Scholastic: Informational Text: Reading Response: Compare and Contrast

For Students 1st - 5th Standards
A brief graphic organizer to help students visualize the similarities and differences in a piece of informational text.
PPT
Other

Prezi: Beginning, Middle, and End

For Students 1st - 2nd Standards
Based on the story, Harry the Dirty Dog, this slideshow introduces the different elements of the beginning, middle, and end of a story.