FreeReading is an open source instructional program that helps educators teach early literacy. Because it is open source, it represents the collective wisdom of a wide community of teachers and researchers. FreeReading contains Comprehension Activities, a page of activities to address important comprehension skills and strategies.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan, Reading, Teaching/Learning Strategy
Given a book, students will be able to identify the details that support its main idea.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan
Given a Bingo Board, students will expand their knowledge of prefixes, suffixes, and root words by playing bingo.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Game, Lesson Plan
In Sounding Out activities, students take a regular word, such as sat, produce the letter-sound pattern "sssaaat," and blend to produce the word sat. This is a crucial development in learning to read, bringing together skills that students have spent many weeks working on and providing the first excitement of reading unaided. Being able to sound out regular words also provides students with a self-teaching capability: they can decode unaided words they do not yet recognize on sight.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Full Course, Game, Lesson Plan, Reading, Teaching/Learning Strategy
The attached lesson plan is designed for 3rd grade English Language Arts students. Students will analyze informational text to determine the main ideas for a report, apply the concepts of the writing process, and communicate their research through an oral presentation to their classroom peers. This lesson plan addresses the following NDE Standards: NE LA 3.1.6.e, NE LA 3.2.1.a,c,d,e,j, NE LA 3.3.1.aIt is expected that this lesson plan will take five one-hour sessions to complete.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
This seminar will introduce three of eight types of figurative language (alliteration, onomatopoeia, and idiom). Through mainly fictional texts( tongue twisters, comics, songs, etc.), you will identify these types of figurative language, determine their meanings, and formulate project-based activities to prove your understanding of these common figurative language types.StandardsCC.1.2.5.F Determine the meaning of words and phrase as they are used in grade-level text, including interpretation of figurative language.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
An Excel booklist created by Multnomah County Library to support the Ethnic Studies Integrated 2021 Social Science Standards. The file is organized with tabs for Japanese American Internment, Holocaust, Indigenous Peoples, Genocides, Prejudice, Refugees, Misinformation, and Cultural Diversity.
Material Type: Reading
Supporting inquiry-based research projects, the Animal Inquiry interactive invites elementary students to explore animal facts and habitats using writing prompts to guide and record their findings.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Interactive
Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo, Discussion Task
Material Type: Homework/Assignment
This exemplar text is designed to give students the opportunity to use the reading and writing habits they’ve been practicing on a regular basis to absorb deep lessons from Kate DiCamillo’s story. By reading and rereading the passage closely and focusing their reading through a series of questions and discussion about the text, students will identify how and why the three main characters became friends. * This text is extracted from a close reading exemplar produced and published by Student Achievement Partners
Material Type: Reading
Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo, Vocabulary Task
Material Type: Homework/Assignment
Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo, Instructional Exemplar (Day 1)
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo, Explanatory Writing Assignment (Day 2)
Material Type: Homework/Assignment
Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo, Writing Task
Material Type: Homework/Assignment
This outlines the 2-day close reading exemplar developed by Student Achievement Partners.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Completion of this seminar will allow you to understand and use the R.A.C.E.S. strategy for answering text dependent analysis questions. This is a well-known strategy to use in the second paragraph of a TDA response. You will read, answer questions, and learn how to communicate effectively by writing and citing evidence about a story called Because of Winn Dixie.StandardsC.C. 1.2.3B Ask and answer questions about the text and make inferences about the text. Refer to the text to support your answers.C.C.1.3.5 B Cite textual evidence by quoting accurately from the text to explain what the text says explicitly and make inferences.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
This article provides ideas and resources for writing science-themed poetry in the elementary classroom. NCTE/IRA Standards alignments are included for each lesson.
Material Type: Reading
Ekphrastic poetry is inpired by art. This lesson includes a teacher plan and slides to engage students in exploring and writing this type of poetry. With a link to the Washington Superintendent's High School Art Show, students can view the creativity of other teenagers to write their poems.
Material Type: Lesson
Students shape up their reading, writing, and listening skills in this lesson by creating original diamante, acrostic, and shape poems about science.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan
10-lesson third grade unit to build classroom culture focused on identity, diversity and community.
Material Type: Lesson, Lesson Plan, Unit of Study
