Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Writing From Mythological Narratives

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Young scholars compose a short piece of creative writing based on a painting depicting a mythological narrative. In this creative writing lesson, students create a short piece of writing and then learn more about the mythological scene...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Adding Details Using Rainbow Writing

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students use the rainbow technique to add details to their writing. For this writing lesson plan, students practice showing not telling to add visualization to their writing.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Narrative Literature Response Letters

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders write endings to a story that has already been written. They offer alternative endings in their version. The lesson includes a rubric that is to be given to the students in order that they know the requirements.
Unit Plan
Curated OER

The "Write" Stuff: Third Grade Strategies and Conventions

For Teachers 3rd
Students analyze the writing process through the ten lessons of this unit. The expository lessons address topic and detail sentences, paragraph organization and development, note taking, reports and letter writing.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Writing Own Tale

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders read The First Strawberries and complete a character chart. In this writing a tale instructional activity, 3rd graders discuss viewpoints and identify character traits. Students complete character charts and write...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Nudging Questions

For Teachers 3rd - 11th
Students choose one topic to write about. They brainstorm ideas about their topic or incident. They use sensory details to visualize their topic. They answer a variety of teacher directored nudging question to help them describe their...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Controlled Narrative Writing

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students examine a short story and add possible adjectives. They re-read the story and add adverbs. They also add other information to make the story interesting.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Lesson Plan 5: Creating a Supporting Character

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
As a class, young writers learn how to develop a strong supporting character. They think and discuss a good friend they know, they use that friend as a basis for a potential supporting character. They create a supporting character as a...
Printables
Homeschool Share

Flap Books and Other Lapbook Templates

For Teachers K - 5th
Lapbooks, flap books, pop-up books. Kids create their own with the help of the many templates provided by this resource.
Lesson Plan
Scholastic

Connecting with Ruby Bridges

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
When Ruby Bridges entered an all-white school in New Orleans in 1960, she also entered history. Scholars consider what the experience must have been like for the young girl using two books that document her experience as well as a double...
Worksheet
Scholastic

Developing a Main Character

For Students 3rd - 7th
Asking kids to craft their own stories? Get them starting with a character planning sheet that asks them to identify the character's likes and dislikes, his or her strengths and fears, a goal the character wants to achieve, and...
Organizer
Curated OER

Shelling a Pecan

For Students 3rd
In this pecans learning exercise, 3rd graders fill out a graphing organizer sequencing how someone shells a pecan. Students also draw someone shelling a pecan and write a story about it.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

What Makes a Fable?

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders explore fables. In this fables lesson, 3rd graders use Venn Diagrams to organize information about 2 fables they will read. Students work in groups to fill out the diagrams and share their results with the class. Students...
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Animal Classification

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Present information about the classification of animals. After participating in the teacher-led discussion about scientific names, small groups devise their own way of classifying everyday objects present in the classroom, developing...
Worksheet
Curated OER

The Bell Has Rung

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this phonics practice learning exercise, learners read a story and fill in the 5 blanks in the story with the -ung ending words from the word bank. Students also write more sentences to complete the story on the provided lines.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Telling a Story

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Writers explore storytelling and focus in on verb tenses. They will work with a partner to generate a story and then switch partners and retell the story. They also complete past perfect continuous and past continuous verb tense worksheets.
Unit Plan
Syracuse City School District

Summary of Fiction and Non-Fiction Text

For Students 3rd - 6th
Somebody Wanted But So Then (SWBST)? Yes! Here's a great strategy for teaching young readers how to summarize narrative text. In addition, the packet includes exercises that show kids how to summarize nonfiction text using the classic...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Weather or Not!

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Young pupils will be sure to love this series of four lessons which deal with the winter season. These cross-curricular lessons cover visual art, science, math, writing, literature, and movement. Absolutely fantastic! The images of...
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K12 Reader

Adverbs of Frequency II

For Students 2nd - 3rd Standards
Describe your daily activities with adverbs of frequency. Kids recall which things they seldom do, they rarely do, they frequently do, and the things that they never do. 
Writing
abcteach

My Memory Book

For Students 2nd - 5th
Look back on the school year by spending a few days putting together books that learners can reflect on in the coming years. Learners note down personal information and their favorite things, respond to questions with goals, stories, and...
Unit Plan
National Center for Families Learning

The Summer Fun Summer Learning Poetry Unit

For Teachers 1st - 8th Standards
Focus on poetry this summer to enhance those comprehension, fluency, and language skills with a set of resources intended to explore different types of poetry, specifically lyric poetry. The daily activities contain differentiation ideas...
Organizer
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Curriculum Corner

Fiction Graphic Organizers

For Students 3rd Standards
Analyze a fictional text with a four-page packet that explores a story's main character and moral, challenges scholars to ask and answer questions about the text, and to create a story map. 
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Name the Constellation

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students read stories about constellations. They create constellations by filling in the letters of their names on a test bubble sheet and tracing the design onto white paper. They make up stories about their name constellations.
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Systems Every "Body" Needs to Know

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Through an informative WebQuest and group work, learners explore the human body and cell structure. They create a cell diagram, research a disease, write a letter explaining the causes of human disease, and work in small groups to create...

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