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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Expository Exploration [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd Standards

A lesson plan in which students read a text and complete a graphic organizer to identify the main idea and supporting details. Materials are included.

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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Keys to the Main Idea [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards

A lesson plan in which students read a text a complete a graphic organizer to identify the main ideas and supporting details. Materials are included.

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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Expository Text Structure: Just the Facts

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

A lesson plan in which learners read a text and complete a graphic organizer to identify the topic and supporting details or facts. Materials are included.

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Florida Center for Reading Research

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

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

A lesson plan in which students look through a book to identify text features and complete a graphic organizer. 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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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Teach Expository Text Structure to Facilitate Comprehension

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards

Expository text can be challenging to young readers because of the unfamiliar concepts and vocabulary it presents. Discover ways to help your students analyze expository text structures and pull apart the text to uncover the main idea...

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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: How to Write a Descriptive Essay

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards

The students will learn to write a descriptive essay about a three-day space camp experience at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center. Students will then produce a multimedia slideshow about the experience.

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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Descriptive Essay

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards

Students learn to use one-main-idea think-sheets when producing simple descriptive essays.

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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Hershey Kiss Descriptive Essay

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards

This is a fun lesson to demonstrate the power of words to describe a simple chocolate treat prior to writing a five-paragraph descriptive essay.

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South Carolina Educational Television

Know It All: Finding Theme

For Teachers 3rd Standards

The students will be able to determine the theme of a story by recalling key details that support the theme.

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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Expository Text Structure: Research Roundup

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards

A lesson plan in which students complete graphic organizers as they gather research information. Materials are included.

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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Guidebooks: Summarizing

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards

This strategy helps students refine their understanding of texts to meet reading expectations and prepare for writing about texts.

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abcteach

Abcteach: Student Writing Checklist

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards

Excellent printable writing checklist that helps students proofread their pieces and pay attention to elements of strong writing.

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Beacon Learning Center

Beacon Learning Center: Web Lessons: Get the Main Idea

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards

This resource provides practice finding the main idea by having students read a paragraph and choose the main idea. Then it asks students to take what they have learned and apply it to a book of their choice, and then write a paragraph...

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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

Depaul University: Center for Urban Education: Compara Y Contrasta [Pdf]

For Students 2nd - 8th Standards

Students will compare and contrast information with the aid of this Venn Diagram that has been translated into Spanish. Students will answer a guiding question to help them summarize the content of the diagram.

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Beacon Learning Center

Beacon Learning Center: Get the Idea

For Students 2nd - 3rd Standards

Learn about and practice finding the main idea in short reading passages.

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C.a.s.t.l.e. Technology: Student Page: Compare and Contrast

For Students 2nd - 4th Standards

A lesson plan requiring students to work in groups to create a modern version of a popular nursery rhyme and then compare and contrast the original version with the one they have created.

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Quia

Quia: Metaphor Quiz

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards

Read five short paragraphs and choose the main idea of each. Check the answers when finished to see how many were right.

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Quia

Quia: 3rd Grade Main Idea

For Students 2nd - 4th Standards

This short interactive activity assesses students' ability to identify main idea. Students will read three short passages and identify the main idea of each.

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Quia

Quia: Compare and Contrast Stories

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards

This interactive assessment engages students in comparing and contrasting two literary text passages. Students will read two short passages and answer five questions that require students to compare and contrast the content of each story.

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