Common Core Reading Lessons: Main Idea
The big idea in a text that tells what the text is mostly about. Main Idea Lessons – Covers kindergarten through sixth grade. Examples: Identify and describe what a book is mainly about using the...
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The perspective from which a story is told to the reader (i.e. first person). Point of View Lessons – Covers kindergarten through sixth grade. Examples: Identify and describe the differences between...
View ArticleCommon Core Reading Lessons: Theme
The underlying message or lesson that the author is trying to convey to the reader. These often include universal values dealing with life, society or human nature. Theme Lessons – Covers second...
View ArticleCommon Core Reading Lessons: Voice
An author’s tone or attitude toward a subject in a text. Voice Lessons – Covers second through sixth grade. Examples: Identify and describe the author’s voice (feelings) in a poem using the title and...
View ArticleCommon Core Reading Lessons: Comprehension Units
Comprehension Units – These research-based units facilitate close reading, precise questioning based on evidence in the text, and focused discussion to enable comprehension of the entire text....
View Article5th and 6th Grade Novel Study Units
5th and 6th Grade Novel Study Units – These are longer units organized around a single chapter book. These units do not focus on a teaching students any one reading comprehension skill but provide an...
View ArticleReading Lessons: K-5
Reading Lessons – From Scholastic. Covering kindergarten through sixth grade. Thousands of free lesson plans, unit plans, discussion guides, and extension activities. Covers many Common Core...
View ArticleReading Comprehension Strategies – Student Lesson and Online Activity
Reading Comprehension Strategies – Online video with a student lesson and student activities to improve their reading comprehension and to improve student’s ability to think and learn across the...
View ArticleAnimated Reading Comprehension Lesson and Activity – Second & Third Grade
Prefixes and Suffixes – You’ll love this fun and free vocabulary lesson! Children play a balloon game and make new words by adding prefixes and suffixes to root words. Specific feedback combined with...
View ArticleCompare and Contrast Story Elements
Compare and Contrast Story Elements – Free printable worksheets which allow students to record similarities and differences of story elements by completing a graphic organizer. Craft and Structure:...
View ArticleReading Comprehension – Online Passages & Quizzes
Read Theory – Sign up for free and gain access to over 1,000 reading comprehension exercises. The program teaches students to think critically, draw inferences, understand scope and global concepts,...
View ArticleCommon Core Reading Lessons: Character
The looks, traits, thoughts, and relationships of a person, animal or object with life-like qualities in a text. Character Lessons – Covers kindergarten through sixth grade. From describing physical...
View ArticleCommon Core Reading Lessons: Figurative Language
Language enriched by word images and figures of speech. Figurative Language – Covers kindergarten through sixth grade. Examples: Identify and describe onomatopoeia in literature. Identify and describe...
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