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This comprehensive overview of story elements will definitely leave students with a better understanding of author's purpose, character traits, sequence, and main idea. It features the acclaimed Leo the Late Bloomer by Robert Kraus.

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Craft Stick Story Elements

Your students will enjoy reading the classic story “The Ugly Duckling,” written about a very lovable duck! This reading lesson also includes a fun partner activity to help your students practice comprehension.

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Read and Retell a Classic Story

With some help from The Little Red Hen, young readers will have fun enhancing their reading skills while learning about the value of hard work.

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The Little Red Hen: Story Patterns

Help your students' story telling abilities grow with this lesson that helps them recount what happened in a story and has them point out key details. 

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What Happened?

In this lesson, your students will explore reading with technology with "Goldilocks and the Three Bears." Students will use a graphic organizer to reflect on this story.

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Goldilocks and the Three Bears: Key Details

Let your class act out! Students will reenact Goldilocks and the Three Bears while learning about narratives and story plots.

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Goldilocks and the Beginning, Middle, and End

It's time-telling time with this fun lesson featuring Trudy Harris' 'The Clock Struck One.' Students will learning about time with a short story and hands-on practice with analog clocks.

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The Clock Struck What?

It's all about me! In this lesson, students will identify character traits in a story and decide if they have the same traits. This lesson incorporates literature, writing, comparison skills, and social skills.

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All About Me: Character Traits

This math lesson is filled with fun hands-on non-standard measurement activities! The lesson begins with an interactive story then has students explore measurement using several different objects as their tools!

measurement madness

Measurement Madness

Take your students to a magical place by having them read stories such as "The Ugly Duckling" and "Rumpelstiltskin." They can read these magical stories and figure out the main idea and details in them!

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Main Ideas and Details

Merging art, creativity, and literature, this lesson is sure to be a crowd favorite. Students will practice their puppetry as they create plays to retell stories in this drama-filled lesson.

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Play It Again

Do you have students who are constantly asking what, who, where, why, how, and when? It's your turn to ask now! Have them read various stories and ask them to answer these questions in this lesson.

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Who, When, What, Where, Why, and How?

Sometimes students struggle with comprehension, and it can be difficult to pinpoint where the breakdown occurs. Help your students make visual summaries on sticky notes in this lesson!

sticky reading comprehension

Sticky Reading Comprehension

Your kids will love learning about setting, characters and events as they listen to a classic tale and play a simple game. This lesson helps students improve their reading comprehension skills while they have fun.

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Setting, Characters, and Events in Goldilocks and the Three Bears

Good readers ask questions before, during, and after reading. This lesson, which incorporates two wonderful activities and some practice with the 5 Ws, is sure to get your students ready to dive into literature.

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Questions for Comprehension

Help your students' understand the English language with this lesson that teaches them that there are word "twins" that look and sound the same but have different meanings.

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Multiple Meaning Motivation

With some help from Dr. Seuss' *Horton Hears a Who*, your kids will go on a fun scavenger hunt and discover different sounds.

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Can You Hear a Who?

Your students are probably used to answering questions. Give them a chance to ask their own with this imaginative lesson on reading comprehension and the ways one can use who, what, when, where, and why.

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Who? What? When? Where? Why?

In this lesson, students will practice listening comprehension skills after reading “The Paper Bag Princess” together as a class. Afterward, students will role-play, make inferences, and use summarization to strengthen literacy skills.

the paper bag princess

The Paper Bag Princess

Your students will “eat up” this salad of sight words! In this lesson, your students will practice recognizing words that are tricky to spell.

sight word salad

Sight Word Salad

Combine the power of poetry and storytelling to teach your first graders about sensory language in this exciting lesson. 

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Sensory Language: Writing a Five Senses Poem

Your students become masters at character analysis as they learn how to describe fictional characters by identifying traits and providing concrete evidence to support their thinking. 

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How to Analyze a Character

This lesson will make solving subtraction word problems fun for students. It includes music and interaction to grab your students' attention.

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Getting Wordy with Subtraction

Your students will have loads of fun discovering new words and using them describe the feelings of different characters. Featuring No, David! by David Shannon, this lesson will help kids practice reading and writing.

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Mad, Sad, Happy, Glad: Character Feelings

Students blend sounds all the time when they speak, but a whole new level of *ssshhh* is possible through selected literature and picture sorts!

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SSSHHHH….

This bear-y fun lesson will help your students understand addition and subtraction and reward their efforts with a sweet treat!

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Math With Bears

Get your students excited about adding by introducing them to word problems with three addends! 

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Adding Three is a Breeze!

Students will use the classroom word wall to read and spell tricky sight words.

wowza word walls

Wowza Word Walls!

Let’s get reading and writing! In this lesson, students learn to form and recognize regular plural nouns. But the fun doesn’t stop there. Students will work with counting collections to write sentences about the objects they count.

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More Than One

Drawing on various problem solving techniques, students will challenge themselves to solve word problems involving three whole numbers. Problem solving, critical thinking, and real life applications? This lesson has it all. 

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