Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Narr. Text Structure: Picture the Character
A lesson plan in which students read a narrative text and complete a graphic organizer to illustrate and write characteristics of one of the characters. Materials are included.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Revision Lesson: Re Shaping Narrative Writing
This lesson, inspired by the novel Bronx Masquerade by Nikki Grimes is a fabulous classroom mentor text that helps teach a very powerful revision strategy: rewriting an idea in a completely different genre. Grimes' book shares short...
CPALMS
Cpalms: Close Reading Exemplar: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will learn about the life of Frederick Douglass, his personal experience of the slave system, and the discrimination and prejudice he faced from those around him. This intensive lesson exemplar...
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Character Connections
A lesson plan in which young scholars read a narrative text and complete graphic organizers to describe a character or compare and contrast two characters from the story. Materials are included. [PDF]
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Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Compare a Character [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which students read a narrative text and complete graphic organizers to compare and contrast two characters from the story. Materials are included.[PDF]
Other
Literacy Design Collaborative: Partner Retelling of Narrative Text
In this lesson, the teacher reads a story aloud and learners work with a partner to retell the story using sentence starters. Includes downloadable poster.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: A Day to Celebrate Our Planet Earth
Learners will compare an informational text versus a narrative text about Earth Day. Included in this lesson are videos and pictures of the lesson in action, a printable Earth Day Venn Diagram, and a recycling activity.
CPALMS
Cpalms: Wild About Authors and Illustrators
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, students learn about the roles of authors and illustrators through games and book-writing. Students will have an opportunity to act out the roles of illustrators and authors. They will...
Austin Independent School District
Austin Independent School District:teaching Summarization to Struggling Students
A lesson designed to teach learners how to recognize an effective summary. Following the lesson, several practice fiction and nonfiction texts are available in both English and Spanish for grades 3, 4, and 5. Answer key provided. [PDF]
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Playing With Genre Through Newspapers and Short Stories
Contains plans for three lessons that ask students to compare narrative writing (short stories) to expository writing (news articles) in order to understand what makes each genre unique. In addition to objectives and standards, this...
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Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Compare a Story [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which learners read two narrative texts and complete graphic organizers to compare and contrast the texts. Materials are included.
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Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Venn Diagram [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which students read two literary texts then compare and contrast them by completing a Venn diagram. Materials are included.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Character Consideration
A lesson plan in which learners read a narrative text and complete graphic organizers to analyze a character. Materials are included. [PDF]
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts: Grade 8: The Tell Tale Heart
Eighth graders explore the role of the narrator and point of view in a text. Students will understand how the narrative voice of a text can blur the line between fact and fiction and how a story truth is often different from but relates...
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Check a Trait
A lesson plan in which students read a narrative text and complete a graphic organizer to describe the characters in the story. Materials are included. [PDF]
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Unit: Grade 1: Frogs
First graders gather information from a variety of texts to more deeply understand the connections between literary and informational texts. They build on knowledge of the seasons to focus on the life cycles of animals, specifically...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Reader Response in Hypertext: Making Personal Connections
Students write a narrative of place, a character sketch, an extended metaphor poem and a persuasive essay then link all four texts to quotations they have selected from a novel.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Character Characteristics
A lesson plan in which students read a narrative text and complete graphic organizers to analyze a character. Materials are included. [PDF]
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Collaborating, Writing, Linking: Use Wiki to Tell Stories Online
This lesson has students create stories that reflect wiki kind of reading. Students begin by reading untraditional books that use fragmented storylines, multiple perspectives, and unresolved plots. They apply these same types of...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Camping Sentences
In this instructional activity, Teaching Grammar in Context by Constance Weaver provides foundational information for this instructional activity. When I Go Camping with Grandma, a book by Marion Dane Bauer, is used as the mentor text of...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Smart Math and Writing
In this lesson, the poem "Smart" from Where the Sidewalk Ends, by Shel Silverstein, is used as the mentor text. Students will write a map of the poem and then analyze it to discover what happened when trades with money were made and...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Writing a Roundabout Story
In this lesson plan, If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, by Laura Numeroff, is used as a mentor text to highlight the trait of organization. The content focus of the lesson is to highlight that authors' story structures can be imitated. Story...
PBS
Pbs: American Masters: Lesson 2: Truman Capote: Other Voices, Other Rooms
This lesson plan is based on the PBS episode of American Masters about Truman Capote. Students will read and analyze how Truman Capote develops characters as they record their findings on worksheets included with this lesson. Then...
Other
Education Extras: Presidential Election of 1896 [Pdf]
In this lesson learners first explore the party platforms of the Republican, Democratic, Populist, and Greenback Parties. They then read informational texts and complete a graphic organizer about the readings. After students share their...