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Better Lesson: rl.k.3 With Prompting and Support, Identify Characters, Settings,
This landing page provides different lesson plan choices on teaching RL.K.3 With prompting and support, identify characters, settings,
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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...
SMART Technologies
Smart: Identifying the Setting of a Story
In this lesson, students learn to identify the setting of a story by both where and when. A Setting quiz follows.
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Read Works: Setting Kindergarten Unit: When (Seasons, Day, or Night)
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan, based on Look! Snow! by Kathryn O. Galbraith, in which students learn how to utilize text and picture clues to determine basic time elements of setting in a story. Students follow this...
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Read Works: Setting Kindergarten Unit: Where
[Free Registration/Login Required] Use the book Gaspard at the Seashore by Anne Gutman to teach clues students can use to determine where a story takes place. The book must be provided by the teacher, but downloadable worksheets for...
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Read Works: Setting 1st Grade Unit
[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of three lesson plans designed to teach students to use pictures and word clues to determine the setting of fiction texts. Lessons are based on the books The Cow Who Wouldn't Come Down by Paul...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Setting
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart introduces setting to students using picture clues first and then using only contextual clues. Activotes are also used to check for understanding.
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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...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Annie and the Wild Animals Project
[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson contains pre- and post-reading activities for Jan Brett's Annie and the Wild Animals. Students identify setting and animal characters from the story and learn about Scandinavia (where the...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Pbs News Hour Classroom Collection
PBS NewsHour Classroom helps teachers and students identify the who, what, when, where, and why-it-matters of news stories. In partnership with PBS LearningMedia, we are proud to bring you Daily News Lessons which takes the best of the...
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Read Works: Grade 2: Two Lesson Unit: Theme
[Free Registration/Login Required] A set of two lesson plans designed to teach students to use story elements to identify theme and to match a given theme to a story. Lessons are based on the book Aesop's Fables by Jerry Pinkney....
University of South Florida
Fcat Express: Probable Passage Matrix (Pdf) [Pdf]
Printable PDF file of a Probable Passage Matrix graphic organizer. It asks students to identify the characters, setting, problem, solution, and ending of a story, and it is provided by a standardized test preparation site intended for...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Literary Elements
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart allows students to be actively engaged in identifying and describing story elements. It uses the Learning Focus lesson plan format, such as an activator, graphic organizers, modeling,...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Dragon in the Rocks
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is used as students read the story Dragon in the Rocks from the Scholastic Literacy Place series. There is a lesson on closed syllables, context clues, and identifying plot and setting.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Map It!
In this activity, students explore map making. Students' read a story, identify the locations of different places in the story, decide the distance between each set of places in the story, and create a map with a legend.
Library of Congress
Loc: Immigration and Oral History
The primary goal of this activity is to give students the genuine experience of oral history in order to appreciate the process of historiography. We identified immigrants in our community who reflect the ethnic diversity of our student...