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Biographies

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students read a biography and discuss what defines a biography. Students choose a biography of their own interest to read and write a report about one of the people in the biography. Reports are shared with classmates.
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Scrapbook of Evidence

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students read three different genres of fiction. They create a story map and brainstorm possible collage inclusions. Each student prepares a minimum of two scrapbook page entries for each text or passage. Students write beside each...
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Twisting Versions of Little Red Riding Hood

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students read orally two versions of Little Red Riding Hood (Classic and Cajun) They compare and contrast the two Little Red Riding Hood versions. Students create a concept map to demonstrate the comparisons/contrasts. They could also...
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The Recess Queen

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students read, The Recess Queen and answer questions about the book.  In this story book lesson, students write stories about situations that they have gone through similar to what was in the story. 
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Virginia Department of Education

Weather Patterns and Seasonal Changes

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Get your class outside to observe their surroundings with a lesson highlighting weather patterns and seasonal changes. First, learners take a weather walk to survey how the weather affects animals, people, plants, and trees during...
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Growing Seeds (9)

For Students 2nd - 5th Standards
A seed, water, and sunlight. A seed, water, but no sunlight. A seed, sunlight, but no water. Young biologists are ask to infer what will happen to seeds given five different growing conditions. 
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KWL Chart

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students create a KWL chart on a selected nonfiction topic using a variety of strategies. They infer the answers to four questions, identify a purpose for reading, list four or more things about the topic, and list four or more answers...
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Nursery Rhymes

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students recall details of nursery rhyme read by teacher, identify main characters, and demonstrate knowledge of poem by creating concept map about story that includes title, clip art, and changes in font and color.
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Cause and Effect

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Learners identify cause and effect relationships in a short story. After reading a short story, they participate in a discussion of how one event in a story can lead to several others. Students are then paired for a matching task that...
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Feelings

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students learn how to express their feelings. In this language development lesson plan, one student reads a sentence off a sentence strip and another student responds with "I feel...". The class discusses why the student feels that way...
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What You See Is What You Get

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students practice visualization as a strategy for reading and comprehending math word problems.
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Technology-commected Folklife Lesson Plan: Fables

For Teachers K - 6th
Learners discuss ways the stories were alike and different. The teacher demonstrate how to draw a Venn diagram using Microsoft Word. They label the two circles and enter the likenesses and differences on the diagram.
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Something Fishy Going On

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students create a video animation of how Swimmy gathered his fish friends together to form a great big fish that would frighten the predator tuna away. In art class each child create a small red fish which gets displayed in the ocean...
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Alliteration

For Teachers K - 6th
Students write and illustrate a sentence which names a letter of the alphabet. The sentence should have subject, verb, describing words, and incorporate alliterative techniques.
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From Seeds to Plants

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders review the process of plant reproduction and the role of seeds in that process. The students dissect a seed, analyze their finds, collect and record data, and make predictions about seed germination and plant growth.
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Producing Heat

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students listen to "Heat Wave" by Helen Ketterman and discuss the story by creating a word web with heat as the main topic. They break into groups and conduct an experiment using a thermometer to record the temperature of melting ice...
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Old friends, New game

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students create characters from a book. In this Language arts lesson, the students act out the story by role playing.  The students learn how to articulate correctly, by working together to arrive at the same destination.
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Text Analysis: Incredible Inferences [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
A lesson plan in which students play a game to cover words on a game board by making inferences. Materials are included.