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Performance Event

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students examine the media by writing a compare/contrast paragraph. In this mass communications lesson, students identify and discuss the main sources of information for Americans in today's age. Students analyze pictures of people...
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Cooperative Jigsaw Expert Report of Fables

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars research literary elements of fables. In this literature lesson plan, students analyze literary elements of fables. Young scholars work collaboratively using a jigsaw strategy to analyze literary elements.
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Using a Matrix to Compare, Contrast, and Analyze Connections

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students explore writing techniques by comparing fiction vs. non-fiction. In this literature analysis lesson, students read stories from Aesop's Fables and compare the themes and characters to stories from their own life. Students...
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Tall Tale Introduction

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students explore folk tales by completing a graphic organizer with classmates. In this tall tale lesson, students read the famous story Paul Bunyan and identify the many characteristics of a fictional tall tale story. Students complete a...
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The Main Man

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students explore visualizing stories by completing a graphic organizer. In this reading strategy lesson, students read the story Pecos Bill by Steven Kellog and identify the setting, main characters and their interpretations. Students...
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Who Was Sacagawea?

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Explore famous women in U.S. history by creating a Venn Diagram, The focus of this Sacagawea biography lesson is for students to discuss the triumphs and contributions of Sacagawea's life and compare her to an average 21st century woman....
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Writing a Friendly Letter

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students write a friendly letter using the four standard sentence. In this friendly letter lesson plan, students use correct sentence structure and punctuation in pairs.
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Lesson Five: Review Cause and Effect, Draw Conclusions, Compare and Contrast

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders review the concepts of compare and contrast, drawing conclusions, and cause and effect. In this literary elements lesson, 3rd graders write a paragraph that compares and contrasts the past to the present. They show cause...
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Reader's Theater, Get Ready

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students recognize what features make a play. In this reader's theater lesson, students read the play Master Man: A Tall Tale of Nigeria told by Aaron Shepard and determine what features make this a play and what the author's purpose was.
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Listen to Poems and Rhyme

For Teachers K - 1st
Pupils create rhymes. In this rhyming instructional activity students supply rhymes for Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain. The pupils group words according to rhyming patterns.
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Lesson Three: Strategies to Infer

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders make inferences with a text. In this inferring lesson plan, 3rd graders read Town Mouse Country Mouse by Jan Brett and they discuss the differences between city and country life. They make inferences as they read on...
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Anticipation

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Pupils predict events in Strega Nona. For this anticipation lesson, students use an anticipation guide to generate predictions about events in the story, Strega Nona. Pupils work independently to finish the guide as an assessment.
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Visualizing

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars create a radio announcement after reading Strega Nona. In this visualization instructional activity, students investigate visualization strategies. After reading Strega Nona, young scholars complete a graphic organizer and...
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Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs - Part 2

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students recognize synonyms and antonyms. In this reading strategies lesson plan, students use the book Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs by Judi Barrett to make predictions, and correctly recognize synonyms and antonyms.
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What's the Weather Forecast?

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students create a radio announcement based on the book Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. In this radio announcement lesson plan, students discuss the type of language used in other announcements and create their own.
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Deepening our Understanding and Topic Selection

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students explore writing techniques by reading a children's book with their classmates. In this topic selection lesson plan, students read the story Pancakes for Breakfast and identify the themes and topic by completing an anchor chart....
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Components of Nonfiction Text

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students locate information in a nonfiction text. For this locating information lesson plan, students locate illustrations, titles, headings, and more using an activity sheet.
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Ask Questions About a Topic

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students explore reading comprehension by completing a graphic organizer. In this journalism technique lesson, students discuss important questions they can ask about stories they read to improve comprehension. Students identify keywords...
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Food Poems and Base Words

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners identify base words to decipher new vocabulary. In this vocabulary lesson, students complete a graphic organizer while reading about food and nutrition. Learners discuss simple and complex endings when using words. 
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Let's Talk About Schema

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students make connections with texts they read and with their own schema. In this schema lesson plan, students learn that schema is background knowledge and that by connecting it to text, they can understand and relate to it better.
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Making Connections Continues

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students read the book Night in the Country independently and make connections to the story. In this making connections lesson plan, students share their connections with the class.
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Story Elements/ Setting

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students practice the story element of setting. In this setting lesson, students listen to the story Tulip Sees America by Cynthia Rylant. They discuss and describe the places that Tulip saw in the story.  
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Rock N Rhythm & Rhyme (Part One)

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students make flip books of rhyming words and match words together that are on cards. In this rhyming lesson plan, students read books and read individual words to identify rhyming words.
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Always Allow Alliteration (part 1)

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students identify letters and sound that are being alliterated in a text they are given. In this alliteration worksheet, students also create alliteration in words and sentences.

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