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A Fond Farewell
In this writing worksheet, students read a story starter about a friend who must move away out of town. Students finish the story about how this will affect the friendship.
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Stories of Freedom and Justice: Learning Resources
Pupils are introduce to the topic of nonviolence and civil rights by watching a video. In this stories of freedom lesson plan, students examine the Supreme Court's role in interpreting the U.S. Constitution. Pupils analyze how conflict...
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Five Elements of a Story
Here’s a graphic organizer that permits learners to chart the introduction, rising action, climax, falling action and resolution of a story. The PDF file can be customized to work with any narrataive.
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Telling the Blue Angels Story
Pupils use the internet to research a recent Blue Angels plane crash. As a class, they list the various ways journalists list the facts of an incident and which one is most effective given different scenerios. They write a story on this...
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Creature Inventor Team
Students design their own pretend creatures and places to live by working together as a team. They connect their imaginary creatures and habitat to invent a story about how they live or an event that could happen to them.
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Fairy Tales Unit Ideas
Learners listen to children's fairy tales and watch them on a video. Afterward, they list the heroes from each story. Students write a short paragraph about a typical day for the hero. Learners dress up like their character and give a...
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Aston Hall - Story About the Kitchen
In this history and writing worksheet, students pretend they are a scullion or a maid in the kitchen at Aston Hall. They then write a story about the kitchen on the day the king came to visit.
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Team Players
In this math word problem practice worksheet, students sharpen their skills as they read and solve 3 subtraction story problems. Students also write a subtraction story problem of their own.
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Add Tens
Learners solve six story problems about adding 10s. Provide 10-rods or objects they can group into 10s to visualize what is being asked. Two of the problems provide irrelevant information; with discussion and guidance, this is also a...
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Solve Story Problems: Sold! A Mathematics Adventure
Young mathematicians listen to the book Sold!: A Mathematics Adventure by Nathan Zimelman where they encounter ways to solve story problems. They then create and solve start unknown addition and subtraction equations. Resource builds in...
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Rapunzel
Youngsters read the story of Rapunzel and go over vocabulary and answer discussion questions. They also list qualities of characters, discuss settings, make a diorama, and more.
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Edgar Allan Poe Realty: Fun Trivia Quiz
Often these Fun Trivia quizzes are low-quality and have questionable educational merit. However, this interactive online learning exercise provides a clever way to test understanding of setting in various Edgar Allan Poe stories.
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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe
Quiz your class with a review of the short stories of Edgar Allan Poe. These reading comprehension questions cover a breadth of ideas but aren't overly detailed. Questions come from The Tell-Tale Heart, The Masque of the Red Death, The...
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The Tales and Poems of Poe
Four short stories, two poems, and biographical information about Edgar Allan Poe make up this quiz. Questions about The Cask of Amontillado, The Masque of the Red Death, The Raven, The Black Cat, Annabel Lee, and The Tell-Tale Heart...
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Fables: A Short Anthology
Explore fables with your class. Learners read a series of fables, including The Mouse and the Lion, and then match the moral to the correct story. This is a great way to end a unit on fables. This resource could also be used to explain...
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Dubliners
The Dubliners contains 15 short stories all bound in one book. The stories begin with narration by young children, and as they progress, so do the ages of the narrators. The author, James Joyce, focuses most stories on characters that...
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Making Inferences (11)
Picture this. Kids read a story starter about Josh and his dad, use details in the tale to infer what will happen next, and then draw a picture of this outcome.
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Catching the Sun: Tales from Asia
Explore the folklore of Asia and the South Pacific with this language arts lesson series. Complementing a reading of Catching the Sun: Tales from Asia by Jan M. Mike, this resource supports learners with understanding cause and...
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The Day Jace Kelly Popped
Anger can creep inside and build up in all of us. Prepare your youngsters for this feeling by reading the story of Jace Kelly through this series of storytelling printables, and discover the strategies he would eventually...
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Author Study: Cynthia Rylant
Explore the life's work of one of the great children's authors using this ten-lesson author study unit. After first performing some whole-group research into the life of Cynthia Rylant, the class goes on to read six different...
PreKinders
Duck in the Truck Flannel Board Set
If you're reading Jez Alborough's Duck in the Truck, use these cute felt pieces to act out the story. The set features a duck, several animals, a truck, a rock, and a boat.
K5 Learning
The Shoemaker and the Elves
Young readers read a short story and respond to four short answer questions, based on what they read.
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Saving the Birds
Learn about the kindness and strength of Abraham Lincoln with a reading comprehension activity. After third and fourth graders read a short story about Lincoln saving a family of robins, they answer four questions about the plot and...
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Tales of Hans Christian Andersen
Fairy tales seem like quick, fun children's stories, but asking compelling questions about characters, plot elements, and literary themes can transform them into rich and complex tales. Use a series of eight lessons on Hans Christian...
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