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Literacy Design Collaborative: Partner Retelling of Narrative Text
For this lesson, the teacher reads a story aloud and learners work with a partner to retell the story using sentence starters. Includes downloadable poster.
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Realizing the Power of Your Own Creativity [Pdf]
In this lesson, students interpret a poem called 'The Little Blue Engine' by adding music, movement, visual art, and drama. After performing their creation, they will discuss any mathematical and/or scientific connections that have a...
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Personal Storytelling With Accordion Books [Pdf]
In this lesson, students use the structure of an accordion book to identify parts of an essay: introduction, three supporting details, and conclusion. They then compose a personal story using events from the past school year and plan the...
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Poetry in Motion [Pdf]
In this lesson, students learn about and create sequences and patterns as they move and dance.
University of Victoria (Canada)
Study Zone: Nasreddin and the Smell of Soup: Reading Comprehension
A reading passage with eight multiple-choice questions to assess reading comprehension.
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Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Morpheme Structures: Syllable Map It [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which students use phoneme-grapheme mapping with a list of words. Materials are included.
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Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Morpheme Structures: Syllable Swap [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which students build words with syllable cards. Materials are included.
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Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Variant Correspondences: Word O Matic [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which students draw phoneme cards and build as many words as possible in one minute. Materials are included.
Starfall
Starfall: Dune Buggy
Learn the long U sound in English while paging through this read-aloud story about a day at the dunes. Great graphics, unlimited repetition, and learner controlled.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Text to Self and Text to World Connections
Students will further their reading comprehension by associating real-life events with the events of a story.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Learning About Cinquains
After reading/hearing Junie B. First Grader Cheater Pants by Barbara Park and discussing the concepts of cheating, following directions, and the genre of poetry, young scholars will write cinquains and will publish a class booklet.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Clerihew Poetry
Cooperative poetry writing assignment. Students will write and share poetry using the Clerihew style. Students will also give a group presentation of their poems.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Let's Write a Cinquain
During this lesson plan, third grade students will navigate the Internet to learn about cinquains. They will use their new knowledge to create their own cinquains while learning important word processing skills.
South Carolina Educational Television
Know It All: Sequencing Using Comics
Fifth graders will use comics in order to discover the importance of sequence while writing narratives.
South Carolina Educational Television
Know It All: Non Fiction Text Features
Fifth graders will use non-fiction books to identify and explain how text features help them as individual readers.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Guidebooks: Tp Castt
This strategy helps students refine their understanding of poetry to meet reading expectations, engage in group conversations to meet speaking and listening expectations, prepare for writing about texts, and engage in language analysis...
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Guidebooks: Annotating Text
This strategy helps learners refine their understanding of texts to meet reading expectations and prepare for writing about texts.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: The Road to Representation Creating the Crunchy Life Kid's Series
This blog focuses on a teacher's need to fill in the gaps for reading strategies and the priority to improve comprehension and overall reading development. She explains the strategies to meet the above goals.
A to Z Teacher Stuff
Ato Zteacherstuff: Dramatics With the Teaching of Poetry
This site from atozteacherstuff.com provides a lesson to help young scholars develop an appreciation for poetry. This site will also will help create meaning from poetry.
Other
Critical reading.com: Drama
Discusses what the literary form of drama consists of in relation to its content, language, and structure.
Other
New Poets Press: Writing Tips
Provides some good, practical advice on writing poems. Written in a simple, down-to-earth style that is easily accessible. An outline at the top of the page will lead you to different sections of the page. Part of a larger poetry...
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Customizable Graphic Organizers
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides a series of graphic organizers for reading students. Forms are provided for plot, character analysis, reading logs, and reading responses.
EL Education
El Education: A Book of Poetry
This is a book of poetry written by a 6th grade class. They worked with their English teacher and their visual art teacher to create watercolors on which they superimposed their poems to create this book.
TES Global
Blendspace: Poetry
A six-part learning module with links to texts and videos on figurative language in poetry.