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Read Works: Sequence Kindergarten Unit: Order of Events
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students learn about putting events in order with a short text. Then they complete guided and independent sequencing activities with The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle. Short texts and handouts...
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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 young scholars 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...
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Read Works: A Day in Kindergarten
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a little girl named Keesha's day in kindergarten. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Viking Voyages
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about archaeologists who studied a Viking burial site. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Picking Up the Pieces
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the changes Katrina made in the Gulf Coast. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Pumpkins Are Popping Up Everywhere!
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text showing how pumpkins grow. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Children in the Shadows
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about a Jewish child living in hiding in Nazi occupied Belgium. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Sequence Kindergarten Unit: Sequence Clue Words
[Free Registration/Login Required] Teach students to identify the sequence of a story by looking at transitional words such as "first" and "then" in the book Henry and Mudge: The First Book of Their Adventures by Cynthia Rylant. Learning...
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Read Works: Grade 2: Three Lesson Unit: Sequence
[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of three lesson plans designed to teach students to retell and summarize a fiction story told in chronological order and a story told with flashback. Lessons are based on the books First Day...
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Read Works: Sailing Into History
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about Michael Perham, the youngest person to sail across the Atlantic Ocean alone. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: The Scientific Method
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text explaining the five steps of the scientific method. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: The Buzz About Honey
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about honey and how it is made. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Return of the Bear
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the increasing population of the endangered grizzly bear. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: To the Moon!
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text and timeline about NASA's plans of building a base on the moon and reaching towards Mars. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Magellan Was First
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about Ferdinand Magellan, the first explorer to sail around the world. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: The Life Cycle of a Frog
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the steps in a frog's life cycle. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Madam President?
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text women's rights and women in high political positions. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Read Aloud Lesson: Digging Up Dinosaurs
[Free Registration/Login Required] Teachers will read "Digging Up Dinosaurs" using the close reading technique. Young scholars will use graphic organizers to summarize the steps necessary to collect, study, and build a dinosaur skeleton.
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Read Works: Buttons and the Blue Glove
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a cat named Buttons who goes on an adventure with his little girl's blue glove. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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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: Colorful Crayons
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text giving facts about crayons and how they are made. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in sequencing.
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Texas State Historical Association: Depression to Prosperity [Pdf]
An activity guide where students refer to the Texas Almanac, which is free to download, for information needed to complete assigned tasks. In this lesson, they read about important events through the 20th century in Texas, answer...
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Read Works: Sequence Kindergarten Unit
[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of three lesson plans designed to teach students to recognize the beginning and ending of a story and use word clues to put story events into the correct sequence. Lessons are based on the...