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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

In honor of Chinese New Year, share with your students a famous Chinese story called *The Monkey King*. Students will practice their comprehension skills as they retell the story, identifying what happens in the beginning, middle, and end. 

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Retelling of The Monkey King: A Famous Chinese Story

Understanding the big idea of a nonfiction text and being able to write a succinct summary are key fourth grade skills. This lesson focuses on summarizing a nonfiction passage in three to four sentences.

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What's the Big Idea? Summarizing Nonfiction Texts

This literature-based lesson teaches students about answering key questions and understanding a character's point of view. It'll have young readers roaring, thumping, and having tons of fun as they imitate story characters.

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Put Me in the Zoo

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

Keep it simple! Teach your students to write a summary using the Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then frame for analyzing a story.

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Simple Summaries

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?

This lesson provides teachers with an opportunity to teach students about reading stamina and assess student comprehension during independent reading.

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Increasing Reading Stamina and Comprehension

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.

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The Paper Bag Princess

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

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