In this lesson, students will record events and evidence from the story "Frog and Toad Are Friends" so they can use that evidence to answer comprehension questions.
In this BetterLesson, students will learn to focus on details as they analyze the story of Cendrillion.
Shadows are all around us. During this lesson, with teacher guidance, students will answer text dependent questions and draw conclusions about the book Bear Shadow.
In this lesson, students will take a more active role in their learning by discussing a read aloud with their partners. The teacher will become more of a facilitator in the lesson and allow the children to "wrangle" with the content.
SWBAT collaborate in writing step by step directions for writing an informational paragraph.
A teacher created lesson plan to help students conquer how to make connections between directions in an effort to create something. This activity will have students sharing recipes and understanding why recipes should be followed in sequence.
Creating a product and illustrations make this lesson great for teaching about questioning. Students will ask and answer questions about a text via the assistance of a graphic organizer.
Creating a product and illustrations make this lesson great for teaching about questioning.
Links to 25 lessons that focus on skills within third grade reading standard RL.3.10.
Links to 94 lessons and activities that build student skills in standard RL.4.10: By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poetry, in the grades 4 and 5 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
Students will review the color red with a GROUCHY visitor!
Teachers will engage young learners to understand how one story can be shared more than one way. This lesson demonstrates an historical interpretation of the story about Pocahontas and John Smith with the Disney movie. Several resources for instruction are included.
Students will get exposure to a folktale and work to understand the moral. This lesson uses two fables "The Fox and the Grapes" and "The Fox and the Hen". The lesson involves guided practice where the students write notes on the left side of a piece of paper after they read the text. Then after discussion students come up with a message or moral.
Reading is revamped in this lesson in which students use a multimedia approach to study the books by Seymour Simon.
Students utilize their reading and writing skills as they think critically in order to sort books in multiple ways.
Students learn components of think-alouds and type-of-text interactions through teacher modeling. In the process, students develop the ability to use think-alouds to aid in reading comprehension tasks.
In this lesson plan students will demonstrate reading comprehension and writing skills by writing a letter to a character in a story. Lesson plan indicated for 3rd grade and above, but could be adapted for younger grades.
Students will read "Casey at the Bat" and "Mighty Jackie: The Strikeout Queen" in order to compare and contrast the themes of these texts. Detailed lesson and Venn Diagram worksheet included.
Students learn that what you read in books can really add up when they analyze literary texts for economic concepts.
Students will really warm up to this lesson about global warming as they study multimedia materials and use a variety of comprehension strategies.