Read Works
Read Works: 1st Grade Unit: Supporting Predictions
[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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Guided Reading: If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
This lesson helps students to make predictions using the pictures and text of "If You Give A Mouse A Cookie."
Read Works
Read Works: Predicting Kindergarten Unit: Picture Clues and Repeated Text
[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...
PBS
Pbs: Multiple Methods of Reading Instruction
This article surveys three strategies to incorporate into classroom repertoire. They include guided reading, choral reading, and readers' theater.
Read Works
Read Works: Predicting Kindergarten Unit: Repeated Text
[Free Registration/Login Required] Lesson uses The Very Busy Spider by Eric Carle to teach young scholars predict the outcome of a story with textual repetition. Ideas for direct teaching, guided practice, and independent practice are...
Scholastic
Scholastic: Laura Numeroff Biography
This resource features a biography of the author Laura Numeroff. Students and teachers will benefit from this inside look at the life and work of this children's author.
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North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences: Groundhog Day 2010 [Pdf]
Designed for Grades K-8, this teaching guide is chock-full of ideas for celebrating Groundhog Day, with activities like making shadow puppets, examining weather lore and studying cloud formations.