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1st - 5th Grade Common Core Reading Comprehension Resources : Page 60

Give your class a deeper understanding of theme with this art and poetry-focused lesson plan about theme. By the end of the lesson, students will understand what theme is and how to determine theme in a piece of writing, such as a poem.

Determining the Theme of a Poem

Graphic novels, animated stories, and storytelling videos pop with enhanced  meaning, tone and beauty. Use this lesson plan with a mentor text to teach your students to note how such features contribute to the reader’s experience. 

Multimedia Elements of Fiction: Beginning to End

Knock, knock! It’s the U.S. Census Bureau! In this lesson plan, students analyze primary sources in the form of census data to do research that helps them answer questions about famous people and the time period during which they lived.

Researching the Past Using Primary Sources

What makes a story, a story? In this lesson, students examine the elements of stories. They learn to use pre-planning strategies to set their own stories up for success... before they even start writing!

Dissecting Stories: Analyzing Story Elements

ELs will gain valuable practice learning about text features as they practice close reading and communication skills during a nonfiction picture walk. Use on its own or as a support for the Classifying Nonfiction Text Features lesson plan. 

Going on a Nonfiction Picture Walk

Second grade students will step into the author’s shoes as they hunt for evidence to determine what a nonfiction author’s purpose might be.

Why I Write

Roll up your sleeves and get out the magnifying glasses! In this lesson, your students will practice finding supportive details and examples in informational texts.

Detective Reading

Whoa, weather! Using technology as an aid, students will put their research skills to the test while learning about hurricanes.

Southeast and Gulf State Weather

All fictional stories have story elements but they sure can differ between stories. In this lesson, students will compare and contrast the story elements of two fictional stories and document their findings in a graphic organizer.   

Using Story Elements to Compare and Contrast Fiction Texts

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

Through this lesson, your students will use academic vocabulary to discuss character traits, author's purpose, and the sequence of events in a story.

Learn Story Elements

Use pantomime performance to drive your students to predict, question, and cite main ideas. With this dramatic lesson plan, your class will craftily capture information on a graphic organizer to boost their reading comprehension!

Picture Walk: A Preview

Use a student-friendly glossary and sentence frames to learn about wild weather!  Scaffolds will help your students answer text-dependent questions.  This lesson can be paired with the main Informational Text: Close Reading lesson.

Informational Text: Close Reading

Use this lesson to help your ELs quickly find information on a specific topic by looking for a noun and its pronouns in a nonfiction text. It can be a stand-alone lesson or used as support for the lesson Ecosystems Explained.

Information from Multiple Sources

Got facts? Got opinions? Use this lesson plan to teach your students to evaluate texts for facts and opinions. Students will use a non-fiction text selection to collect quotes as proof. 

Find ‘Em and Quote ‘Em! Facts and Opinions

Charts, graphs, and diagrams are complex text features for students to decipher. Use this lesson to familiarize students with these features. It can be taught on its own or before the lesson Charts and Graphs and Diagrams, Oh My!

Introduction to Charts and Diagrams

In this lesson, ask students to compare and contrast two important African-American historical figures. Students will write an informational paragraph on the similarities and differences between W.E.B. Du Bois and George Washington Carver.

Compare and Contrast W.E.B. Du Bois and George Washington Carver

When kids answer the who, what, where, when, and why of a subject, their writing becomes complete. Teach them about the 5 W's with this easy-to-sing song.

5 W's Song: Who, What, Where, When, Why?

Norman doesn't like change, but learns that it is often for the best. Teach kids this important lesson (and irregular verbs) with this sweet interactive story. 

Norman the Caterpillar

Jack grew a magical beanstalk that changed his life! Introduce kids to the classic fairy tale with this interactive story, featuring three reading modes. 

Jack and the Beanstalk

The goby fish and pistol shrimp help each other out deep in the ocean. Learn about them and other symbiotic relationships in this nonfiction story.

Symbiotic Relationships

Teach kids about the importance of story perspective with this interactive version of Jack and the Beanstalk, retold from the Giant's point of view.

Ogg and the Beanstalk

What do ostriches and penguins have in common? In this text, kids compare and contrast facts about these two kinds of flightless birds.

Flightless Birds

Kids learn about reaping rewards from hard work in this classic fairy tale.

The Little Red Hen

Practice reading fluency and nonfiction comprehension in this short story full of facts about giant pandas.

Giant Pandas Story

Frank stars in a story about overcoming Back to School jitters.

Frank's First Day at School

After completing Jim Murphy&rsquo;s book The Great Fire, give students a chance to reflect on the major themes and events of the story with these response prompts.

Book Study: The Great Fire: Post-Reading Response Prompts

Prepare students for reading The Great Fire by facilitating a picture walk through the first chapters&rsquo; images, pictures, and maps.

Book Study: The Great Fire: Pre-Reading Activity

Encourage critical thinking and support literacy development by asking questions as students begin reading&nbsp;The Great Fire.

Book Study: The Great Fire: Discussion Guide #1

Dig into main ideas and details as you read about salsa gardens in this engaging worksheet!

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