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Take the mystery out of comprehending nonfiction by becoming a text feature detective! Find clues before reading to get your brain ready to learn! 

be a nonfiction detective

Be a Nonfiction Detective!

Ever wondered how to explain what an index is to a 6 year old? Look no further! Use this engaging lesson to help your students become text feature experts.

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What's in a Text Feature?

Help students learn the crucial reading strategy of visualizing. Visualizing is a key component of learning to infer from a text. Kids will love using their imagination and drawing pictures of their visualizations.

use your mind and visualize

Use Your Mind and Visualize!

As students re-read nonfiction texts, have them classify visual features and record learnings from the captions.

classifying nonfiction details

Classifying Nonfiction Details

Your students will deepen their understanding and build their vocabulary through reading nonfiction texts and identifying unknown words.

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New Words, New Ideas: Reading Nonfiction

Engage students in reading grade-level texts by making and testing predictions. Your students will be excited to read on to find out if their predictions are correct!

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Predict It

Get ready to develop important comprehension skills! Students will read different informational passages and learn to identify the main idea. They will then use their knowledge of main ideas to write their own informational passages. 

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How to Find the Main Idea

Teach students to be stronger readers before they even begin reading! All they need is a book, their mind, and some sticky notes!


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Preview with Post-Its!

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

As students reread nonfiction, have them draw or write new information they learn. Students then share these new learnings with reading partners.


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Nonfiction Reading: Learning and Recording New Information

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?

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

Learning from others is a huge part of getting better at something, including writing! In this lesson, students will study works by nonfiction authors to enhance their own nonfiction writing.

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Studying Authors: Nonfiction Writing

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

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?

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

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

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?

Being a fluent reader means being able to use different strategies to figure out unknown words. In this lesson, students learn how to use pictures and context clues. 

master decoders

Master Decoders

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

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

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 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

Smaller dictionaries that are totally relevant to the material being read? In this lesson, students will learn that these miraculously really do exist and go by the name of glossaries! 

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Mini Dictionaries!

Have students “cook” the right blends to make a fantastic word dish with beginning, middle, and ending letter sounds. In this lesson, your students will practice recognizing common CVC words.

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Cooking Up Blends

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….

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

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

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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