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3rd grade short stories unit plans for Microsoft Word
Chrysanthemum! Teaching the Elements of a Short Story
This unit provides lesson plans for teaching the elements of a short story using Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes as a model. Several graphic organizers are included as well.
Topics covered: setting, characters, conflict, rising and falling action, climax, resolution, and theme.
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Grades:
3rd - 8th
VIPER Reading Planning - The Tiger Who Came To Tea
7 week, VIPER reading planning for the book Can’t you sleep, little bear? Written by Judith Kerr. Year 1 and Year 2 Planning to support the VIPER skills. Vocabulary. Inference. Prediction. Explanation. Retrieval. Each skill is broken down into a set of questions linked to the book. 7 weeks worth of planning over 4 lessons a week.
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1st - 3rd
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VIPER Reading Planning - The Owl Who Was Afraid Of The Dark
5 week, VIPER reading planning for the book The owl who was afraid of the dark Written by Jill Tomlinson. Year 1 and Year 2 Planning to support the VIPER skills. Vocabulary. Inference. Prediction. Explanation. Retrieval. Each skill is broken down into a set of questions linked to the book. 5 weeks worth of planning over 4 lessons a week.
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1st - 3rd
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VIPER Reading Planning - Can't you sleep, little bear?
6 week, VIPER reading planning for the book Can’t you sleep, little bear? Written by Martin Waddell. Year 1 and Year 2 Planning to support the VIPER skills. Vocabulary. Inference. Prediction. Explanation. Retrieval. Each skill is broken down into a set of questions linked to the book. 6 weeks worth of planning over 4 lessons a week.
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1st - 3rd
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VIPER Planning Where The Wild Things Are
6 week, VIPER reading planning for the book Where The Wild Things Are Written by Maurice Sendak. Year 1 and Year 2 Planning to support the VIPER skills. Vocabulary. Inference. Prediction. Explanation. Retrieval. Each skill is broken down into a set of questions linked to the book. 6 weeks worth of planning over 4 lessons a week.
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1st - 3rd
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VIPER Reading Planning Lost and Found by Oliver Jeffers
6 week, VIPER reading planning for the book Lost and Found Written by Oliver Jeffers. Year 1 and Year 2 Planning to support the VIPER skills. Vocabulary. Inference. Prediction. Explanation. Retrieval. Each skill is broken down into a set of questions linked to the book. 6 weeks worth of planning over 4 lessons a week.
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1st - 3rd
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Fairy Tale and Fable Unit
Fairy Tale and Fable Unit from Lessons by Natasha
This unit includes everything you need to walk right through the land of dreams! There are 12 lessons in the fairy tale section and 11 lessons in the fable section. This would work great for an instructional para or it could be used in a regular sized classroom as well.
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3rd - 6th
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4th Grade Imagine It! Unit 5 supplemental materials
Looking for additional materials to go with your Imagine It! program. These are documents I created for my fourth graders to challenge their comprehension and spice up the unit, instead of using the supplemental materials that came with the program. This set is for unit 4 which includes the text:The Golden Spike, The Dust Bowl, Immigrant Children, Pop's Bridge, and John Henry Races the Steam Drill. For each story there is an Anticipation Guide, Study Guide, Comprehension Check, Vocabulary quiz,
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3rd - 5th
Annie and the Old One Literature Unit
This 9 day unit contains 2 worksheets for student use while reading Annie and the Old One by Miska Miles, along with an 8 day schedule for reading the book. Each day suggests the number of pages to be read as well as a class activity (or more) that corresponds with the pages read that day.
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2nd - 5th
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Character Analysis unit integrating reading, writing, and the arts-Common Core
This unit corelates directly with the common core standards and it allows the student to analyze the traits of various characters, compare and contrast characters across texts, and evaluate their own character traits. It builds on making TTT,TTS, and TTW connections as well as character point of views or perspectives. As you follow the task anaysis, you will successfully integrate reading, language, and the arts into your lessons.
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3rd - 5th
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A Day's Work 5 Day Common Core Unit with Standards Based Assessment and Handouts
This is a 5 day unit over the book A Day's Work by Eve Bunting. This unit includes 5 days of lessons, activities, websites, handouts, a standards-based assessment, and a learner's profile for standards-based tracking. It provides the students opportunities for research, analysis, and reflections.
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2nd - 5th
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Index of Free Books for Complete Beginners
Books are beneficial for language teachers for a variety of reasons. You can find a large selection of free picture books for Japanese learners here: https://tadoku.org/japanese/en/free-books-en/This index organizes 20 of those books from easiest to more difficult. Even within level 0, there is a wide range of necessary Japanese ability, so this index focuses on books appropriate for Complete Beginners - Early Beginners. Vocabulary, grammar, and cultural references used in each book are also inc
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3rd - 6th
Also included in: Reading Resources for Japanese Beginners
Fairy Tale and Fable Unit
Fairy Tale and Fable Unit from Lessons by Natasha
This unit includes everything you need to walk right through the land of dreams! There are 12 lessons in the fairy tale section and 11 lessons in the fable section. This would work great for an instructional para or it could be used in a regular sized classroom as well.
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3rd - 6th
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Reading and Analyzing Folktales
This is a 12 day folktale unit aligned to the common core standards in 3rd grade. In this unit, students will learn about the key elements of a folktale, identify character traits and character change, summarize folktales, compare and contrast and identify the lesson/moral in the story. While reading many of these folktales, students will also recognize the cultural clues in many of the folktales as well.
Resources (folktales, pre/post assessments, links) are available on a separate TPT list
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3rd
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Lon Po Po Short Story Excerpt Fairy Tales Close Reading Analysis
Close Reading Story Analysis of "Lon Po Po" a Red Riding Hood picture book short story by Ed Young. Analyzing any text is an art. How do you get better at it? Practice. Here is an easy way to teach close reading with self-guided questions that help the student gain understanding of breaking down lines of text.Altered fairy tales offer a chance for students to compare and contrast similar story themes with differing aspects. This story pairs well with using other fairy-tale-themed poems, short s
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2nd - 8th
Death By Scrabble: By Charlie Fish
Looking for a short story for your literature circle?
Charlie Fish has written a short story that will have readers talking! Who knew Scrabble could be a deadly game?
This story can be used to teach many literary elements.
Don't take my word for it.
Take the time to get familiar with Charlie Fish's "Death By Scrabble". You are sure to love it.
Grades:
3rd - 12th
The Four Seasons: A Dance & Literacy Unit
The four seasons is an age appropriate concept that will allow students who have already begun their dance training and have begun to be introduced to the LMA (Laban Movement Analysis) vocabulary to continue their exploration in the dance world. It is also a simple entryway for those without any training. It provides a simple premise that can allow various classes and ages to explore the meaning of each season and what it means to them in ways that allow them to connect and feel each season.
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K - 3rd
Editable - Weekly Guided Reading Planner - 5 Reading Groups
An efficient, user friendly Weekly Guided Reading Planner including a space to record:
- English Syllabus Outcome
- Literacy Continuum Thread
- Literacy Continuum Cluster
- Literacy Continuum Marker
- Focus Strategy
- Text Type
- Text Name & Level
- Follow-Up Activities
A completed, sample planner has been included as a guide.
Non-editable version also available from my tpt store.
4 Reading Group version also available from my tpt store.
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Grades:
K - 8th
Hottest, Coldest, Highest, Deepest, Scotts Foresman 3rd
Hottest, Coldest, Highest, Deepest, Scotts Foresman 3rd Grade Unit 4 story 2 plans. Original plans adapted to Scott Foresman Grade 3 program. Ideas for the story involved and how to make them real and fun and more interactive for the students, as well as a compare and contrast activity, geared toward Indiana, but could be changed for any state to use.
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3rd
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How Little John Joined Robin Hood Lesson Plan
A complete lesson plan on the a-z story, How Little John Joined Robin Hood.
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3rd - 4th
Esio Trot Program
Here is a planning program for Esio Trot by Roald Dahl. Written for the Australian Curriculum but can be used and adapted for the UK curriculum too.In this mini unit, the students will listen and respond to the story “Esio Trot” by Roald Dahl. They will complete Reading, Writing and Talking and Listening tasks based on the text. Some of the reading tasks include illustrating and describing the main characters in the story, identifying true and false statements, a cloze passage and text reconstru
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2nd - 5th
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Narrative for Year 3 NAPLAN - Activities, Planning Worksheet and Stimulus
A comprehensive guide of how to teach Year 3 students the skills required to tackle the narrative writing task in NAPLAN. This document provides a two page description of activities and useful resources, a planning worksheet and an original practice narrative stimulus. Tried and tested in the classroom, containing fun activities and a simple, easy to remember planning acronym that students can use in the test.
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3rd
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A LOVING HOME FOR MAYA LESSON PLAN
This is a moving story about a puppy that sought to rescue her master, but ended up being kidnapped, and how she escapes and finds her way back home. Students will learn the meaning of determination as they read this emotional story.
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2nd - 3rd
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Jungle Unit Book List
This book list gives you a variety of books for a Jungle unit. In this list there is a variety of reading levels as well as grade levels.
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PreK - 6th
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