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Read Works: Genre 1st Grade Unit: Identifying Information in Nonfiction
[Free Registration/Login Required] A instructional activity in which students use the books Nature's Food Chains: What Polar Animals Eat by Joanne Mattern, Life Cycle of a Frog by Angela Royston, and Froggy Goes to School by Jonathan...
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Read Works: Genre 4th Grade Unit: Historical Fiction
[Free Registration/Login Required] A unit of instruction in which young scholars use the book Meet Addy: An American Girl by Connie Porter to learn about the characteristics that define historical fiction. Lesson includes direct...
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Read Works: Point of View Unit
[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of three lesson plans designed to teach students first and third person point of view and the differences between them. Lessons are based on the books White Socks Only by Evelyn Coleman, Where...
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Read Works: Predicting 1st Grade Unit
[Free Registration/Login Required] A two-lesson unit designed to teach students to make predictions and support them with details from the text. Lessons are based on the books Wemberly Worried by Kevin Henkes and No Roses for Harry! by...
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Read Works: Compare and Contrast Kindergarten Unit: Identifying What Is the Same
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson in which students learn to recognize similarities between two pictures. Ideas for teaching, guided practice, and independent practice are included. Pictures for the lesson are available to...
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Read Works: Classify and Categorize Kindergarten Unit: Adding to Sorted Groups
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson using the book My Big Animal Book by Roger Priddy in which students learn to sort items into predetermined categories. Ideas for teaching, guided practice, and independent practice are...
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Read Works: Genre Studies: Biography Kindergarten Unit: Important Person
[Free Registration/Login Required] Lesson uses A Picture Book of George Washington by David A. Adler to teach students what biography is and why the subjects of biographies are important people. Ideas for direct teaching, guided...
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Read Works: 1st Grade Unit: Supporting Predictions
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson utilizing the book No Roses for Harry! by Gene Zionin in which students make a prediction and then support it with details from the text. Ideas for direct teaching, guided practice, and...
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Read Works: Fact and Opinion Kindergarten Unit: Opinion
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson using Animal Touch by Kirsten Hall to teach students to form opinions based on information found within informational texts. Includes ideas for teaching, guided practice, and independent...
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Read Works: Explicit Information Kindergarten Unit: Identifying Information
[Free Registration/Login Required] Use Animal Taste by Kirsten Hall to teach students to find explicit information inside informational texts. Includes ideas for teaching, guided practice, and independent practice. Although the book is...
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Read Works: Grade 2: Three Lesson Unit: Plot
[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of three lesson plans designed to teach students to identify story elements, retell a story using story elements, and see how characters affect the plot. Lessons are based on the books Dog...
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Read Works: 4th Grade Lesson: Similes and Metaphors
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson in which students use the book Poetry for Young People: Langston Hughes edited by David Roessel and Arnold Rampersad to learn to identify and understand the use of simile and metaphor in...
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Read Works: Plot 1st Grade Unit
[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of three lesson plans designed to teach students to identify problems and solutions in fiction text and to retell a story's problem and solution in sequence. Students learn to identify the plot...
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Read Works: Predicting 3rd Grade Unit
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a lesson designed to teach students to make predictions based on relationships between characters. The lesson is based on the book Soupy Saturdays with the Pain and the Great One by Judy Blume....
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Read Works: Sequence 3rd Grade Unit
[Free Registration/Login Required] This website provides a series of two lesson plans designed to teach students to create a graphic organizer showing the sequence of events in a fiction text. The lessons include ideas for direct...
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Read Works: Sequence 2nd Grade Unit: Flashback Sequence
[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson plan helps students identify the sequence of events in a story with flashback. The lesson includes ideas for direct teaching, guided practice, and independent practice and utilizes the book...
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Read Works: Vocabulary in Context 2nd Grade Unit: Dictionary
[Free Registration/Login Required] This website provides a instructional activity in which students learn to use a dictionary to determine the meanings of unfamiliar words. The instructional activity utilizes the book The Mitten by Jan...
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Read Works: Grade 2: Three Lesson Unit: Figurative Language
[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of three lesson plans designed to teach students to identify and explain the meaning of figurative language including personification and idiom. Lessons are based on the books Once in a Blue...
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Read Works: Grade 2: Two Lesson Unit: Setting
[Free Registration/Login Required] A set of two lesson plans designed to teach students to use context clues to identify the setting and changes within it. Lessons are based on the books Bigmama's by Donald Crews and The Stories Julian...
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Read Works: Vocabulary in Context 2nd Grade Unit: Context Clues
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a instructional activity in which students learn to use context clues in surrounding sentences to determine the meanings of unfamiliar words. The instructional activity utilizes the book The...
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Read Works: Sequence Kindergarten Unit: Beginning and End
[Free Registration/Login Required] This webiste provides a instructional activity in which students identify and describe the beginning and end of a fiction story. Lesson includes ideas for direct teaching, guided practice, and...
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Read Works: Grade 2: Three Lesson Unit: Genre
[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of three lesson plans designed to teach students to compare and contrast fiction and non-fiction, identify the characteristics of non-fiction, and use guide words to locate topics in an...
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Read Works: Genre 2nd Grade Unit: Encyclopedias
[Free Registration/Login Required] A activity in which students use the book Children's Illustrated Encyclopedia edited by Jayne Parsons to learn to locate information and find facts about a subject in an encyclopedia. Lesson includes...
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Common Lit: Yeshi's Luck by Naomi C. Rose
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see the...