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The End
Students listen as the teacher reads a story. Pictures are displayed as the teacher reads the story. Students jot down ideas for the story ending, and create an illustration to compliment their story. Student story endings and...
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Novel Study Night of the Twisters
In this reading worksheet, learners use this graphic organizer to map the beginning, middle and end of The Night of the Twisters. Students use this "plot pie" to write a few sentences to summarize the story. The graphic organizer is...
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Folktale Unit: The Princess and the Golden Shoes
Students study variations of classic folktales while deciding why the tales were so popular many years ago. They write a letter to an author.
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Storytelling
Learners explore, as a basis for their poem, their own personal observations and understandings of a specific person's character which might include exploits, actions, mannerisms and personality. They write a brief poem that tells a story.
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Story Conflict and Conclusion
In this conflict and conclusion activity, students describe a problem or conflict of a story, then tell how the conflict was resolved and the story ended.
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Look at What I Did at School!
Third graders use an outline to write a letter to their parents sharing their week at school.
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Drafting
Students use transitions to connect the beginning, middle and end of their writing. In this instructional activity on drafting a story, students use a graphic organizer sandwich to put pictures back together and recognize a specific order.
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Swimmy
Students explore the themes of the book Swimmy by Leo Lionni. In this literacy lesson plan, students dramatize a character from Swimmy and identify common themes such as cooperation and caring. Students create a new ending to the story.
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Glass Slipper Bullies
Students identify bullying behaviors through this cross curricular music and character education lesson. Learners read the story Cinderella and discuss how the stepsisters demonstrated bully behavior. Students create a new ending for the...
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Have You the Time of Day?
Young scholars read a story about a day in the life of a farmer. They practice reading and writing time. They write a picture story about his or her day. They draw clock faces showing what time of day each of the events occurred.
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You Decide: Roanoke the Lost Colony
Students develop an idea about what happened at the Lost Colony of Roanoke. In this Roanoke Colony lesson, students examine associated vocabulary before listening to Roanoke The Lost Colony, An Unsolved Mystery from History by Jane...
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Wordless Picture Books
Students use wordless picture books to examine elements regarding a story, the plot, and characters. In this wordless picture books lesson, students select a book to creatively discuss. Students then listen to the teacher read the story...
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Do They Agree?
Fifth graders review and practice subject-verb agreement by cutting and pasting, and by writing a simple paragraph in which the subjects and verbs agree. They utilize worksheets imbedded in this plan to practice subject-verb agreement.
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Featuring Fairy Tales
In this writing activity, students investigate a fairy tale by selecting one from the school library and completing the 7 writing activities.
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Amazing Animal Alliteration Book
Students understand the meaning of alliteration. For this alliteration lesson, students write sentences using alliteration and recognize how it changes the writing in a story.
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Spider Body Parts
Students identify spider body parts. In this arachnid lesson, students review the story Amazing World of Spiders and discuss the various spider body parts. Students fill in the correct body parts on a copy of a blank spider diagram....
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Whale in the Sky
Learners gain a greater understanding of Native Americans and why they build totem poles. They listen to a story and then create a similar story of their own.
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Chart Your Course
Students explore change represented in graphs comparing distance and time. They exchange and share their graphs. Students interpret and create distance versus time line-graphs, and write stories based on these graphs. They interpret a...
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"Ivan the Fool" Lesson 1
Students in an ESL class read "Ivan the Fool", a folktale from Russia. In groups, they work with their partner to read the material and discuss what they have read. They write down any vocabulary they are unfamiliar with and write a...
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Confusable Letter Pairs
Students practice distinguishing between pairs of similar-looking lowercase letters, such as b and d, p and b, m and w, n and m. They distinguish between easily-confused letter pairs by reading and listening to a story that highlights...
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Blanket the Plains
Students discuss vivid imagery in a story. In this figurative language instructional activity, students read samples of sensory language and then discuss the meaning of a piece of figurative language. Students provide examples.
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The Grandparent/Elder Project
Students interview a grandparent/elder to as part of a history and writing project. For this grandparent/elder project lesson, students record an interview of an older person who is willing to share their past. They look at pictures and...
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Creature Feature
Students work in pairs to create a creature and its habitat out of construction paper. Then students write a narrative to describe the animal and its habitat.
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Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad
Students examine Harriet Tubman's contribution to the Underground Railroad. They read and discuss an excerpt from the book "The Tamarack Tree," listen to the CD for the book "Follow the Drinking Gourd," and write a journal response from...