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Students read an excerpt adapted from L. Frank Baum’s short story “The Girl Who Owned a Bear” and answer reading comprehension questions about the text.

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Reading Comprehension: The Girl Who Owned a Bear

First, students will read a biography of Amelia Boynton Robinson, and then respond to comprehension questions, using text evidence.

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Biography: Amelia Boynton Robinson 

Young readers will love this story-filled reading comprehension lesson. It&#39;s packed with engaging exercises designed to help students become better at looking for details and annotating passages of text.

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Reading Closely

Every great reader and writer knows that syntax matters. During this lesson, students will use the close reading strategy to focus on word choice, and use their understanding of syntax to develop theories about patterns in the text.

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Close Reading Through Word Choice

Children learn about the environmental activist and women's rights advocate Wangari Maathai. Students will read a biography about the first African woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize and answer nonfiction comprehension questions about the text.

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Biography of Wangari Maathai

Martin Luther King Jr. is honored as one of the key leaders in the civil rights movement. Students will read his biography and find text evidence to support or refute some statements before completing a short writing activity.

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Who Was Martin Luther King Jr.?

Frederick Douglass was an influential black man in U.S. history. In this lesson, the historical context is set for students so that they can conduct their own research on Frederick Douglass, using a graphic organizer and multiple sources, before writing an informational essay on him. Ideal for fourth and fifth grade students, this lesson plan not only gives students practice in research and essay-writing skills, it also has them exploring a fascinating part of our country's history.

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Researching and Writing about Frederick Douglass

This worksheet teaches students to locate key ideas, provide evidence, and make connections in nonfiction texts.

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Connections, Evidence, Oh My!

Allow your students to explore how stories may change depending on the perspectives from which they're told. Interesting texts and a creative writing assignment make this quite the engaging lesson.

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Whose Side of the Story?

Practice strategic reading and allow children to monitor their own thinking and make connections between texts and life.

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Making Connections Part 2: Literary Response

Help your kindergarten students learn about comparing and contrasting nonfiction texts using this helpful Venn diagram.

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Nonfiction Compare & Contrast

This worksheet helps students identify and make connections between key ideas in nonfiction readings.

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Idea Connector

Use this reading and writing worksheet to help second and third graders learn about the inspiring work of Jane Goodall, famous scientist and conservationist.

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All About Jane Goodall

Will visitors see leprechauns while visiting in Dublin? Tell your researching students to find out with this travel brochure activity!

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Make a Travel Brochure for Dublin

After reading Jim Murphy&rsquo;s The Great Fire, help learners make connections between the book and their community with this engaging extension activity.

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Book Study: The Great Fire: Natural Disaster Research Project

Kindergarten ELs will love practicing their writing skills as they learn all about homes around the world in this fun hands-on lesson plan! It can be used on its own or as support for the What's in Your Community? lesson plan.

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Describing Our Homes

After reading the first few chapters of Pam Mu&ntilde;oz Ryan&rsquo;s novel Esperanza Rising, engage your students in a discussion with this two-page novel study guide!

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Novel Study: Esperanza Rising: Discussion Guide #1

Use this resource with your students to practice one of the core reading strategies: activating prior knowledge.

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Reading Strategies: Activate Prior Knowledge

Your students will find cause and effect relationships as they read about the night the Titanic sank.

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Cause and Effect: The Titanic

Introduce readers to the poem &ldquo;We Wear the Mask&rdquo; by Paul Laurence Dunbar with this poetry analysis worksheet! 
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Analyzing Poetry: “We Wear the Mask” by Paul Laurence Dunbar

What's the best way to get to know a city? Play tourist! In this activity, students create a travel brochure on the 2008 Olympic host city, Beijing.

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Make a Travel Brochure for Beijing

When in Rome, what should visitors do? Let your students become a tour guide to Rome, the historic city in Italy, with this travel brochure activity.

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Make a Travel Brochure for Rome

Your students will be amazed to learn about different types of fungus in this nonfiction reading exercise!

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The Fungus Among Us

Your students will pick their favorite information and create a travel brochure all about Amsterdam, complete with a map!

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Make a Travel Brochure for Amsterdam

In this lesson, you will read the heartwarming story of Bun Bun Button by Patricia Polacco to your class. Students will then use their own reading skills to describe the two main characters in the story.

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Bun Bun Button Character Traits

Use this nonfiction comprehension worksheet to help second and third graders learn all about Misty Copeland, the first African American woman to become a principal dancer at the American Ballet Theatre.

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All About Misty Copeland

Katherine Johnson was an African American physicist and mathematician who worked to create the first calculations to send humans into space. Learn more about this inspiring woman with this nonfiction reading comprehension worksheet.

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Who is Katherine Johnson?

Expand your reader&rsquo;s knowledge of world folklore with this unique and engaging reading comprehension worksheet!&nbsp;

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Extended Reading Comprehension: The Boatbuilders of Fiji

This discussion guide helps readers reflect on chapters 1&ndash;5 of Lois Lowry&rsquo;s The Giver.&nbsp;

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Novel Study: The Giver: Discussion Guide #1

Use this discussion guide to help readers reflect on chapters 12&ndash;17 of Lois Lowry&rsquo;s The Giver.&nbsp;

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