Read Works
Read Works: Character 3rd Grade Unit
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this three-lesson unit, students learn how to identify language within a text that describes a character, use evidence from a text to describe a character, and to use details from a text to identify...
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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Changing Our Street [Pdf]
"Changing Our Street" is a one page, realistic fiction, reading passage about how the problem of people driving too fast in a neighborhood was solved. It is followed by constructed-response questions which require students to provide...
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Why Did Mamma Change Her Mind? [Pdf]
"Why Did Mamma Change Her Mind?" is a one page, fictional, reading passage about a party. Mom said her son and daughter could each have 5 friends (5 boys and 5 girls). The girl wanted all girls so the party was cancelled. It is followed...
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: A Lesson Before Dying: Character, Tone and Theme
Ninth graders will read chapters 28- 31 of A Lesson Before Dying. They participate in a whole-class discussion about the changes that occur in the main characters and how these changes relate to lessons being learned. Students will...
Read Works
Read Works: Plot 3rd Grade Unit
[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of four lesson plans designed to teach students to predict problems and solutions in fiction text and to identify the relationship between problems and character conflicts within a story....
Can Teach
Can Teach: Introduction to Character Traits
In this lesson plan students will better understand what and how to generate the traits of a character. Lesson plan indicated for 4th grade and above.
Other
The Critical Thinking Consortium: A Teacher's Guide to Each One Special [Pdf]
Each One Special by Frieda Wishinsky and Werner Zimmermann is a story about fairness. The lessons in this teacher guide are for Grades 1-3 and lead students through critical thinking exercises about the story where they learn to evaluate...
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: My Community [Pdf]
"My Community" is a one page, fictional, reading passage about a child talking about how his community has changed since his grandmother moved into that neighborhood 50 years earlier. It is followed by constructed-response questions...
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: My Community [Pdf]
"My Community" is a one page, fictional, reading passage about a child talking about how his community has changed since his grandmother moved into that neighborhood 50 years earlier. It is followed by constructed-response questions...
LM Digital Media
Kids World Fun: Tyrone the Big Bad Bully [Pdf]
This ebook shares the story of a small dinosaur named Boland who gets picked on by the bully named Tyrone the T-Rex. Students can read to see if a character change in Tyrone ever occurs.
LM Digital Media
Kids World Fun: Tyrone the Cheater [Pdf]
This ebook shares the story of a small dinosaur named Boland who keeps being the victim of a bully named Tyrone the T-Rex. In this story, Tyrone keeps cheating in games. Can Boland and his friends devise a plan to stop the cheating?...
Purdue University
Purdue Univ: Gases, Liquids, and Solids
This site has a brief description of the differences in particles in a gas, liquid, and solid. Animated microscopic pictures demonstrate the molecular movement in each state. Information is then summarized in an easy-to-read chart.
Can Teach
Can Teach: Examining a Character's Personalities
In this lesson plan students will be able to understand the different personalities of a character by examining how they act when in contact with other characters. Lesson plan indicated for 4th grade and above.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Little Women: Becoming a Writer
Explore the conflict between Jo March and her father over writing for money, in this video excerpt [1:36] from Little Women, Masterpiece. Like Louisa May Alcott, the author of Little Women, Jo is an aspiring writer. When she receives a...