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Story Elements Powerpoint
Story Elements Powerpoint
By Emily Kissner. Revised for fall of 2010. This presentation introduces the story elements of characters, setting, conflict, plot, and theme. Pict...
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Subject: Reading Level(s): 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, Homeschooler Duration: N/A

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Cause and Effect Activity and Texts for Teaching Text Structure
Cause and Effect Activity and Texts for Teaching Text Structure
By Emily Kissner. This packet includes everything you need to introduce students to the text structure of cause and effect. New for 2012--Common Co...
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Subject: ELA Test Prep, Reading Level(s): 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, Homeschooler Duration: 1 Week

Easy to manage independent reading
Easy to manage independent reading
Looking for a way to keep track of independent reading? I created this system when I taught sixth grade in middle school. It's fairly simple. Stude...
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Subject: Reading Level(s): 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th Duration: 1 Month

Text Structure Readers Theatre
Text Structure Readers Theatre
I created these scripts to help my students understand important nonfiction text structures. Each of the 4 scripts (chronological order, cause and ...
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Subject: Expository Writing, Reading Level(s): 4th, 5th, 6th, Homeschooler Duration: N/A
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Compare and Contrast Texts for Teaching Text Structure
Compare and Contrast Texts for Teaching Text Structure
Readers often have trouble with the text structure of compare and contrast. In this file, you'll find seven texts at multiple levels to help you su...
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Subject: ELA Test Prep, Reading Level(s): 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th Duration: 1 Week
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Personal Narrative Resources
Personal Narrative Resources
By Emily Kissner. This is a unit that includes everything you need to help students write interesting personal narratives. From the writing prompt ...
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Subject: Creative Writing, ELA Test Prep Level(s): 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, Homeschooler Duration: 2 Weeks

Text Structure Card Match and Centers
Text Structure Card Match and Centers
Revised for 2012! This folder includes "Text Structure Card Match", a whole class activity suitable for reviewing text structures. In addition, you...
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Subject: Reading Level(s): 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, Homeschooler Duration: 3 Days
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Problem and Solution Texts for Teaching Text Structure
Problem and Solution Texts for Teaching Text Structure
Understanding text structure is important for understanding nonfiction text. In this resource set you'll find 5 texts at reading levels from 3-6, ...
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Subject: Reading Level(s): 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th Duration: 2 Weeks

Character Traits and Emotions: Making Inferences
Character Traits and Emotions: Making Inferences
This 27-page collection of activities includes student references, activities, and practice pages for students to use as they make inferences about...
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Subject: Reading Level(s): 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, Homeschooler Duration: 1 Week
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Persuasive Writing Unit for Grades 3 through 5
Persuasive Writing Unit for Grades 3 through 5
This unit includes everything you need to start teaching persuasive writing to intermediate writers! You'll find a Powerpoint that teaches the diff...
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Subject: Reading, Expository Writing Level(s): 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, Homeschooler Duration: 3 Weeks

Understanding Figurative Language
Understanding Figurative Language
By Emily Kissner. I created this presentation to help my fourth graders develop an understanding of figurative language, with an emphasis on simile...
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Subject: Reading Level(s): 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, Homeschooler Duration: 45 Minutes

Visualizing Powerpoint and Activities
Visualizing Powerpoint and Activities
Get the tools you need to teach visualizing! This compressed folder includes the Visualizing Powerpoint, a presentation that helps readers to under...
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Subject: Reading Level(s): 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th Duration: 1 Week

Poetry Unit for Poetic Structure, Speaker, and Rhyme Scheme
Poetry Unit for Poetic Structure, Speaker, and Rhyme Scheme
This 2-week unit plan helps students to understand poetic structure, speaker in poetry, and rhyme scheme. Included are 3 lesson plans, materials fo...
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Subject: Literature, Reading Level(s): 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th Duration: 2 Weeks

Chronological Order Texts for Teaching Text Structure
Chronological Order Texts for Teaching Text Structure
This resource pack has everything you need for teaching the text structure of chronological order. You'll receive a teaching guide with helpful tip...
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Subject: Reading Level(s): 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, Homeschooler Duration: 2 Weeks

Main Ideas and Details in Nonfiction Text
Main Ideas and Details in Nonfiction Text
This file contains everything that you need to start teaching students how to find topics and main ideas. Two Powerpoints, student-friendly workshe...
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Subject: ELA Test Prep, Reading Level(s): 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, Homeschooler Duration: 1 Week

Paraphrasing and Summarizing Lessons for Nonfiction Reading
Paraphrasing and Summarizing Lessons for Nonfiction Reading
Are you trying to help readers improve with summarizing? Here is a wide range of texts and activities that you can use to help students write polis...
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Subject: Reading Level(s): 3rd, 4th, 5th Duration: 2 Weeks

From Retelling to Summarizing
From Retelling to Summarizing
Retelling is a great tool for intermediate readers. But how is retelling different from summarizing? And how can teachers help students to bridge t...
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Subject: Reading Level(s): 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, Homeschooler Duration: 1 Week
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Introducing Informational, Narrative, Persuasive, and Poetic Text
Introducing Informational, Narrative, Persuasive, and Poetic Text
This presentation introduces students to the terms informational, narrative, persuasive, and poetic. Easy text samples and review help readers to m...
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Subject: English Language Arts Level(s): 4th, 5th, 6th Duration: 45 Minutes

Visualizing Lesson: Story and Activities
Visualizing Lesson: Story and Activities
by Emily Kissner. Written for third and fourth grade readers, this packet includes a story and activities. Your readers will learn about visualizin...
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Subject: ELA Test Prep, Reading Level(s): 3rd, 4th, 5th, Homeschooler Duration: 3 Days

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Readers Theatre for Purposes for Reading
Readers Theatre for Purposes for Reading
Teaching students about purposes for reading can be--well, a little dull. I tried to liven things up a bit with these three scripts. Each short pla...
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Subject: Reading Level(s): 4th, 5th, 6th Duration: N/A
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