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Your students have been working hard on their narrative writing skills! Use this writing assessment to evaluate their abilities to develop and describe characters in their narrative writing texts.

Narrative Writing: Describe Characters

Are some predictions better than others? In this worksheet, students identify the event most likely to happen and use details from the story to explain their thinking.

The Best Prediction

Want to teach your first grader all about adjectives? These words that describe nouns are great for adding rich details to sentences and stories.

Get into Grammar: Descriptive Words #1

This lesson plan teaches students about Jean-Michel Basquiat and his life as a child. First, students will listen to a story and figure out the main topic and details. Next, students will be asked to think deeply about what it means to be an artist and some of the types of art they like to create. Perfect for first graders and second graders, the lesson Black Artists: Basquiat highlights reading informational texts and building vocabulary.

Black Artists: Basquiat

We all want to learn new skills! This worksheet engages students in thinking about what they’d like to learn to do or make, all while learning about nonfiction texts.

Teach Me How To...

Students learn to retell familiar stories by sharing about one of their favorite books. Students will share important details from the beginning, middle, and end of the story.

Tell Me About Your Favorite Book

Your students will hone their creative writing skills as they design their own fictional characters. Use this lesson to introduce the concept of using key details and descriptive language during the prewriting phase of storytelling.

Writing: Create a Character

Use this activity to assess your first graders’ abilities to write procedural texts. Students are prompted to write step-by-step instructions for how to do or make something of their choosing.

Procedural Writing

As students write stories, encourage them to add dialogue to their writing with this fun worksheet. Students practice both correctly punctuating dialogue and adding details to make their writing pop!

Make That Dialogue Pop!

This  Cinderella  story map is ready to keep the details of a classic and beloved fairy tale in order. As your child thinks of who is in the story, and&hellip;

Cinderella Story Map

Familiarity with different types of texts is an important part of the first grade reading curriculum. In this worksheet, kids read Christina Rossetti's famous poem, "Caterpillar" and then answer questions about what they read.

Caterpillar

What makes a poem a poem? And what makes a story a story? In this lesson, students learn to distinguish between different types of texts while analyzing the sentences and words they encounter.

Story vs. Poem

Help your students prepare to write an argumentative piece with this writing prompt activity. This worksheet will jumpstart the writing process by having students articulate an opinion and come up with supporting evidence and details.

Support Your Opinion

Get ready to read! Set students up for success by showing them how to preview texts before reading. Young readers are challenged to predict what the book is about using the title and illustrations before diving into the story.

Book Preview

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. 

What Happened?

It’s more fun to revise with a partner! After writing personal narratives, have students share their writing with a partner. Partners should identify at least three parts in the narrative where three descriptive details could be added.

Peer Review: Adjectives

Want students to add more pizazz to their narratives? Encourage them to use descriptive details! Have students read over their writing and identify how many adjectives they used. Then challenge them to add in at least five more adjectives.

Adjective Inventory

After writing a draft of an informational piece, have students revise their writing with this handy checklist. Students will work to improve their sentences and add more details and descriptions that will take their writing to the next level.

Revise Your Informational Writing

Revision is an important skill for writers, but it can be tricky to develop. In this activity, students will practice their revision skills by adding details to make a story come to life and then rewriting their new and improved story.

Review and Revise

This checklist can be be used when revising all types of writing! Have students use this handy writing tool to help them make their writing as strong as can be as they check for correct spelling, use of details, neatness, and more!

Revision Checklist

This engaging activity helps students practice retelling stories by recounting the details of a favorite story, movie, or TV show. Students are asked to write a paragraph about the beginning, middle, and end of the story, as well as illustrate one of the

(Re) Tell About It

In this classic fable by Aesop, the tortoise learns an important lesson when he catches a ride into the sky with a duck. Exposing kids to classic texts like "The Tortoise and the Duck" is a great way to give them important reading practice.

The Tortoise and the Ducks

In this lesson, students will practice "reading" pictures. They will look at the details in pictures in order to make predictions about what happens in a text. This lesson can be used alone or with the Predicting Pictures lesson plan.

Reading Pictures

Thanksgiving dinner can be filled with fun and memorable interactions between family members. This holiday, why not memorialize some of those details and events with a family poem? You can create a lasting memory in the form of a poem with contributions f

Write a Thanksgiving Day Poem

In this lesson, students will learn how to get information from pictures in texts. They will describe pictures with a partner and see if their descriptions match the words in the text. This lesson can be used alone or as a support lesson.

Reading Picture Clues

Provide students with an opportunity to closely examine the difference between a topic and main idea in a nonfiction text. Use as a stand-alone activity or a support for the Finding the Main Idea and Details in a Nonfiction Text lesson. 

Main Idea or Topic? You Decide!

Want to engage students in reading? Give them books that they want to read! This lesson will give you a chance to learn about your readers so that you can best support them to become fluent readers. 

Reading Inventories

How well do you know the Rumpelstiltskin story? Hone comprehension skills with this fun fairy tale mix up.

Rumpelstiltskin Story

This lesson plan teaches students about Dorothy Pitman Hughes, a black human rights activist, feminist, and child-care advocate. First, students will read a short passage, and then they will answer questions about important details from the text. Created for first graders and second graders, this engaging lesson helps build students' vocabulary and informational writing skills.

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