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Charlotte's Web Animal Research Projects

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students summarize information taken from the internet about animal character's from the story, "Charlotte's Web." Questions are created, answered, and entered into a book about the animal of their choice.
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Star Summarizers

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners participate in a reading literacy lesson with the goal of improving reading fluency and comprehension. They work on the skill of summarization that helps to pick out important details of a reading.
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Hallo-Wiener Lesson Plan

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students listen to the story The Hallo-Wiener by Dav Pilkey in order to learn about the "monster" character. In this reading and art lesson plan, students cut a "bun" from beige construction paper, cut out an image of the main character...
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Reading Comprehension Booklets

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Learners demonstrate understanding of a reading selection by identifying major characters, the setting of the passage, the problem of the selection and how the problem was solved.
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My Book Report

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
In this book report worksheet, students write the book title, author, and illustrator. Students also describe the characters, setting, and their favorite part.
Writing
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Printable Story Starter: Snow Leopard

For Students 3rd - 4th
This writing prompt about a hungry snow leopard provides students with the beginning of a story, including characters, a setting, and a conflict that the student can complete. The student can then compose an original middle and end of...
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Peter Pan Word Search

For Students 2nd - 3rd
For this Peter Pan word search worksheet, students read 12 names of characters or settings from the famous story. Students find these in a word search puzzle.
Organizer
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Artist's Storyboard

For Students 2nd - 5th
In this storyboard worksheet, students fill in squares on a blank storyboard: how I picture the main character, how I see the setting, problem, solution, 3 important events and ending. Worksheet is a generic graphic organizer.
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Introduce Vocabulary: The Surprise Garden

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students explore English by reading children stories in class. In this tier two vocabulary lesson, students read the book The Surprise Garden and identify the settings, plot and characters. Students define a list of vocabulary words from...
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A Weave of Woods

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Focus on vocabulary, comprehension, and analysis while reading A Weave of Woods, a colorful picture book by Robert D. San Souci. Young learners use worksheets to preview, predict, practice paraphrasing, and make comparisons. The...
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Katie Kangaroo's Leap of Courage

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students are introduced to the concept of courage. As a class, they read a book about Katie Kangaroo and her leap of courage and discuss how they can be couragous in their own life. They complete a worksheet and share their responses...
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Rainbow Fish and the Big Blue Whale

For Teachers Pre-K - 3rd Standards
If friendship were a soup, what ingredients would be in it? As part of a study of Marcus Pfister's Rainbow Fish and the Big Blue Whale, kids engage in a series of friendship-themed activities using materials contained in this richly...
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Create a Book with Student Treasures

For Teachers 1st - 6th
You can't publish a story until after it has been revised and edited! Budding authors investigate the writing process while drafting an original story. They select a topic, complete a rough draft, edit it, revise it, and finally publish...
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The Ancient Art of Shadow Puppet Plays

For Teachers 3rd
Shadow puppetry has an ancient past, it is also a great way to build oral expression and reading fluency. Young thespians research folk tales, compare and contrast reality and fantasy, then create and perform a shadow puppet play based...
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Immigration Journeys

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
Through the journey of four stories of immigration, scholars complete graphic organizers and apply knowledge to create a visual representation of their findings on a large poster. Third and fourth readers write a letter to their...
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Strategies for Reading Posters

For Teachers 3rd - 9th
Clarify, connect, evaluate, predict, question. Laminate and display these colorful posers about the classroom to remind readers of the five basic strategies for comprehending all sorts of text. 
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Exercise is Fun: Tracking Your Moves

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this exercise activity worksheet, students color a box in a row every time they exercise for 15 minutes each day of the week. Students also list their favorite activities of that week.
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Shadow Puppets

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Learners examine the role of shadow puppets. They create their own puppet and put on a play.
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Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students investigate storytelling by analyzing images in a book.  In this reading analysis lesson plan, students read and analyze the book Alexander and the Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day.  Students observe the illustrations...
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Analyzing Character Traits

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Character analysis becomes easy with a 24-page packet packed with mini-lessons, graphic organizers, and activities. A must-have for your curriculum library.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Voyagers: Challenge Activities (Theme 5)

For Teachers 3rd
Young voyagers face the challenge of the wide dark sea, travel with Yunmi and Halmoni, and even get trapped by the ice as they explore the reading selections offered in these enrichment activities designed for the Houghton...
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Common Core Technology for K-5 Learners

For Teachers K - 5th
K-5 teachers can blend fun and creativity into language arts curriculum when Common Core technology is involved.
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Artgig Studio

Mystery Math Town

For Students 1st - 6th Standards
You know you have stumbled on something interesting when you launch this app. You are suddenly taken into a world of mystery and intrigue, and of course, math-skills practice.
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Mary Pope Osborne, Classroom Adventures Program

Dinosaurs Before Dark

For Teachers 1st - 5th Standards
Young readers travel back to the time of the dinosaurs in this literature unit based on the story Dinosaurs Before Dark. Intended for use with upper-elementary special education students, this resource provides reading...

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