CPALMS
Cpalms: Buzzing Tails
This video tutorial features the character named Bobby who will assist students as they search for key details in a nonfiction text.
Love To Know Media
Your Dictionary: Lessons and Activities on Main Ideas for First Grade
This site offers links to several lesson plans for teaching main ideas to first and second graders; it also provides and explains some activities for teaching the main idea to first graders.
Read Works
Read Works: Paired Text Questions: "We Are Americans" and "Whoever You Are"
Students will compare information from the non-fiction book "We are Americans" and the book "Whoever You Are" to write or speak more knowledgeably about what large groups of people have in common.
![Florida Center for Reading Research:ask and Answer [Pdf] Unit Plan](https://content.lessonplanet.com/knovation/original/509091-3b197a566336bf3b326298f2bb8dbb48.jpg?1661786987 "Florida Center for Reading Research:ask and Answer [Pdf] Unit Plan")
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research:ask and Answer [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which students read a text and stop periodically to write questions based on question word cards. Materials are included.
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Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Text Analysis: Compare and Contrast [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which students use graphic organizers to compare and contrast topics within a text. Materials are included.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Exp. Text Structure: Projected Paragraphs
A lesson plan in which learners read a text and highlight the most important details. Materials are included. [PDF]
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Exp. Text Structure: Classic Classifying
A lesson plan in which students read a text and write main ideas and supporting details in boxes on a graphic organizer. Materials are included. [PDF]
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Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Exp. Text Structure: Detail Delight [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which students read a text use a graphic organizer to record the topic and supporting details. Materials are included.
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Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Exp. Text Structure: Main Idea [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which young scholars read a text and then read it again highlighting the key words and phrases that are important for understanding the text. Materials are included.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Exp. Text Structure: Text Feature Find
A lesson plan in which students look through a book to find various text features including: a table of contents, sequence and format, charts/graphs/maps, diagrams/graphics/illustrations, print variations, an index, and a glossary....
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Engage in Group Reading Activities With Purpose and Understanding
Choose from a variety of lessons that meet the Kindergarten standard of engaging in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Asking and Answering Questions About Our Story
Today's lesson is all about asking and answering questions so we can strengthen comprehension.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: /C/ Like Columbus
A historical figure helps students recognize a specific initial sound, the hard /c/.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Miss Nelson Is Missing Key Details
Where did Miss Nelson go? We look at the key details in the text to determine what is happening throughout the story.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Discussing "Goldilocks and the Three Bears"
Today we are picking apart this story and discussing it in great detail so that we can set the foundation for our comparing and contrasting activity on our Day 3 lesson.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Math With Maples
Patterns in division and multiplication can be found in nature, and an understanding of these patterns enables scientists to conduct systematic research.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Discussing "The True Story of the Three Little Pigs"
In this lesson, 1st graders will work with "The True Story of the Three Little Pigs" Jon Scieszkaby. They will describe the characters, setting, and key details in the story and help the teacher record the details on a circle map.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Frog and Toad Are Friends the Lost Button
In this lesson, students will record events and evidence from the story "Frog and Toad Are Friends" so they can use that evidence to answer comprehension questions.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Introduction to Making Predictions and Inferences
First graders will engage in a shared reading of "Mr. C's Dinner" so that we can build a foundation for understanding what it takes to make good predictions and inferences.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Using Word and Picture Clues to Make an Inference
First graders will use text evidence to make inferences about word and word phrase meanings in a text. Word and picture clues will be used to help students form inferences.
Curated OER
Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in Ri: Site of Battle of Rhode Island
Site of the 1778 Battle of Rhode Island, a successful defense of Aquidneck Island by British forces in the American Revolutionary War.
Curated OER
Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in Ri: Bellevue Avenue Historic District
Mansions, many exemplary of period styles, built here by summer vacationers in late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Curated OER
Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in Ri: University Hall, Brown University
This first building on the Brown University campus, built in 1770.
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Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in Ri: Ocean Drive Historic District
Long road along southern shore of Newport dotted with later, smaller summer homes and seaside views.