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Read Works: Predicting Kindergarten Unit: Picture Clues and Repeated Text

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Lesson uses The Grouchy Ladybug by Eric Carle to teach students predict the outcome of a story by using clues provided in pictures and in repeated texts. Ideas for direct teaching, guided practice, and...
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Read Write Think: Literature Circles With Primary Students, Self Selected Reading

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Students respond to self-selected books in journals and talk about their books daily in small groups. The teacher guides students by offering suggestions and writing with them in dialogue journals.
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Read Works: Genre 1st Grade Unit: Identifying Information in Nonfiction

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A instructional activity in which students use the books Nature's Food Chains: What Polar Animals Eat by Joanne Mattern, Life Cycle of a Frog by Angela Royston, and Froggy Goes to School by Jonathan...
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Read Works: Point of View Unit

For Teachers 1st - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of three lesson plans designed to teach students first and third person point of view and the differences between them. Lessons are based on the books White Socks Only by Evelyn Coleman, Where...
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Read Works: Predicting 1st Grade Unit

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] A two-instructional activity unit designed to teach students to make predictions and support them with details from the text. Lessons are based on the books Wemberly Worried by Kevin Henkes and No Roses...
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Read Works: Compare and Contrast Kindergarten Unit: Identifying What Is the Same

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson in which students learn to recognize similarities between two pictures. Ideas for teaching, guided practice, and independent practice are included. Pictures for the lesson are available to...
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Read Works: Classify and Categorize Kindergarten Unit: Adding to Sorted Groups

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson using the book My Big Animal Book by Roger Priddy in which students learn to sort items into predetermined categories. Ideas for teaching, guided practice, and independent practice are...
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Read Works: Genre Studies: Biography Kindergarten Unit: Important Person

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] Lesson uses A Picture Book of George Washington by David A. Adler to teach students what biography is and why the subjects of biographies are important people. Ideas for direct teaching, guided...
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Read Works: 1st Grade Unit: Supporting Predictions

For Teachers 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson utilizing the book No Roses for Harry! by Gene Zionin in which students make a prediction and then support it with details from the text. Ideas for direct teaching, guided practice, and...
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Read Works: Grade 2: Three Lesson Unit: Plot

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of three lesson plans designed to teach learners to identify story elements, retell a story using story elements, and see how characters affect the plot. Lessons are based on the books Dog...
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Read Works: Sequence 2nd Grade Unit: Flashback Sequence

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson plan helps students identify the sequence of events in a story with flashback. The lesson plan includes ideas for direct teaching, guided practice, and independent practice and utilizes the...
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Read Works: Vocabulary in Context 2nd Grade Unit: Dictionary

For Teachers 1st - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This website provides a lesson plan in which learners learn to use a dictionary to determine the meanings of unfamiliar words. The lesson plan utilizes the book The Mitten by Jan Brett and includes...
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Read Works: Grade 2: Three Lesson Unit: Figurative Language

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of three lesson plans designed to teach students to identify and explain the meaning of figurative language including personification and idiom. Lessons are based on the books Once in a Blue...
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Read Works: Grade 2: Two Lesson Unit: Setting

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A set of two lesson plans designed to teach students to use context clues to identify the setting and changes within it. Lessons are based on the books Bigmama's by Donald Crews and The Stories Julian...
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Read Works: Explicit Information Kindergarten Unit: Identifying Information

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Use Animal Taste by Kirsten Hall to teach students to find explicit information inside informational texts. Includes ideas for teaching, guided practice, and independent practice. Although the book is...
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Read Works: Vocabulary in Context 2nd Grade Unit: Context Clues

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a activity in which students learn to use context clues in surrounding sentences to determine the meanings of unfamiliar words. The activity utilizes the book The Life Cycle of an Emperor...
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Read Works: Sequence Kindergarten Unit: Beginning and End

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This webiste provides a lesson in which students identify and describe the beginning and end of a fiction story. Lesson includes ideas for direct teaching, guided practice, and independent practice and...
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Read Write Think: Listen, Look, and Learn: An Information Gathering Process

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
This instructional activity models an information-gathering process for primary learners as they listen to and look at resources, seeking information pertinent to the questions on an information wheel. Guiding the listening, looking, and...
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Read Write Think: Using Web Based Bookmarks to Conduct Internet Research

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
The important thing about this lesson is that it connects literature and science. The Important Book by Margaret Wise Brown provides a model for original student poems about a content area topic. Web-based bookmarks guide students to...
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Read Works: Plot 1st Grade Unit

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of three lesson plans designed to teach young scholars to identify problems and solutions in fiction text and to retell a story's problem and solution in sequence. Students learn to identify...
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Read Works: Grade 2: Three Lesson Unit: Genre

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of three lesson plans designed to teach students to compare and contrast fiction and non-fiction, identify the characteristics of non-fiction, and use guide words to locate topics in an...
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Scholastic: Discussion Guide: Horrible Harry and the Christmas Surprise

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Scholastic presents this discussion guide of "Horrible Harry and the Christmas Surprise" by Suzy Kline. The guide includes discussion questions, extension activities, and more.
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Scholastic: Discussion Guide: Each Peach Pear Plum

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Scholastic presents this discussion guide of "Each Peach Pear Plum" by Allan Ahlberg. The guide includes discussion questions, extension activities, and more.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Read Well Letter Chant Podcast

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This lesson guides students through creating a Podcast that provides video and audio of the Read Well Letter Chant. Students take pictures of the cards and record the chant to go along with the cards.

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