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Sequencing Map

For Teachers 4th - 5th
In this Language Arts worksheet, students create a sequencing map of a story or book. Students describe six scenes or ideas from their book that happen in a chain of events.
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What's Next?

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Children listen to the story, The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything, and discuss the sequence of events. They create a booklet, sequencing the events in the correct order.
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How Bear Lost His Tale: Storytelling

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
In this storytelling instructional activity, children practice re-telling the story of "How Bear Lost His Tale", review and write out the story sequence, and learn about homophones like tail/tale, sail/sale, etc. Extension activities for...
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Goldilocks Live!!!

For Teachers K - 5th
Study story elements with your young learners. Read Goldilocks and the Three Bears and discuss the order of events by making a story panel out of butcher paper. Sentences are given as suggestions for the panel, though you may...
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The Hat

For Teachers K - 1st
Honing reading and communication skills through the theme of farm animals is the focus of this lesson. Students read a book about Scandinavian farm animals and complete prediction journal activities. They complete a worksheet about the...
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Berlioz the Bear

For Teachers K - 1st
Young children read the story, Berlioz the Bear and complete various reading and writing activities. They learn about fiction and non-fiction, and complete graphing and writing activities for the story. Youngsters draw the bear and use...
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Parts of the Plot: Constructing a Plot Diagram

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders conduct a plot diagram for a short story. They identify the problem, the rising action, the climax, the falling action, and the resolution. Students are able to sequence events in a story, and identify the parts of the plot...
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Introduction to Limits

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers practice using graphing calculators and spreadsheets as they explore numeric limits using sequences and functions. They complete a sequencing worksheet, and determine which sequence corresponds to story a story called...
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Learning About Prediction

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
The skill of prediction as a reading strategy is explored. Learners are shown how to use clues within a story, along with pictures, to make predictions as to what's going to happen in the story. A clever in-class game which uses objects...
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Class Bear Book

For Teachers K
Students use the story, "Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?" to explore the concept of color, name writing, and text sequencing. A personal page is created for the class Big Bear Book.
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Gift of the Magi

For Teachers 9th - 10th
While reading O Henry's "The Gift of the Magi," your class will define and identify situational irony and allusion. Use a study guide (not included, but easy to produce) to record and discuss examples of allusion as you read. Map the...
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Annotating Poetry

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Use text marking and highlighting to explore the structure of a poem. After listening to Allan Ahlberg read "Please Mrs. Butler," learners locate stanzas and patterns on their copy of the poem using the text marking technique. Class...
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The Gift of the Magi

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Test the true meaning of giving - and irony - with this lesson plan about "The Gift of the Magi." Using textual analysis, details, and text organization, middle schoolers make predictions about future events in the story and determine...
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Elmer by David McKee

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students explore individual differences. In this literacy and self-esteem lesson, students listen to the story Elmo by David McKee, then describe what characteristics make Elmo special. Students complete a T chart showing how Elmo looked...
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May I Take Your Order, Please?

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Pupils read a story, boil down that story to 5 to 7 key events, create a sequencing quiz to go with the story and have their classmates take the quiz. They will the strategy of sequencing by reading various stories (that they are not...
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Frankenstein

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Share a classic novel with your class using this resource. After reading Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, learners answer questions involving the narrator's point of view, make and confirm predictions, and sequence events in the story.
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A Walk in the Tundra

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Discuss the environment of the Arctic tundra using this resource. The focus of this lesson is the story A Walk in the Tundra by Rebecca L. Johnson. The appealing illustrations are bound to captivate your class! After reading the...
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Juan Verdades

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Cement comprehension skills using the strategies in this activity. After reading the story, Juan Verdades by Joe Hays, learners use context clues to answer questions, identify main ideas and details, and sequence events.
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Snow Globe Family

For Teachers K
Kindergartners sequence the parts of a story using a snow globe as a setting. They will listen to Snow Globe Family and retell the parts of the story noting the beginning, the middle, and the end. Then they will make their own snow...
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Australian Aboriginal Art And Storytelling

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore Aboriginal storytelling traditions through the spoken word and through visual culture. They listen to stories of the Dreamtime told by the Aboriginal people and investigate Aboriginal storytelling in contemporary dot...
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Grade 10 ELA Module 2: Unit 1, Lesson 14

For Teachers 10th Standards
Let's see how the story unfolds. Scholars examine paragraphs of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail" to determine how King unfolds his analysis of the church. Before arriving at an answer, learners work in pairs and...
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Lesson Six: Story Elements/Inferring

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders practice the use of various story elements. In this story elements lesson, 2nd graders listen to the story All I See by Cynthia Rylant and look for the problem and solution in the story. They reread the book to create...
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Sequencing

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders practice their ability to sequence different events. Using a story, they put the events of a chapter book into order by cutting the events out and pasting them on a separate piece of paper. As a class, they repeat a...
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Three Little Pigs Story Comparison

For Teachers 1st
First graders identify the characteristics of a fairy tale and share a fairy tale they are familiar with. They are read a story that is similiar to the "Three Little Pigs" noting the differences between the original and this story. ...

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