5th Grade Reading Lesson Plans Resources
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Predicting Lesson
Predicting actively engages students and connects them to what they read Predicting involves thinking ahead while…Subjects:ReadingReading Instruction -
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Solving Analogies
An easy way to practice solving analogies before the big test! Analogies are a key part on many standardized tests -…Subjects:Language Arts and WritingWritingReading -
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Bloom's Taxonomy Activities
Encourage development of your students' skills with activities that follow Bloom's Taxonomy.Subjects:ReadingReading and Literature -
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"Two Travelers and the Bear": A Lesson on Aesop's Fable
Use a lesson that provides students with an opportunity to recognize cause-and-effect relationships in a fable by Aesop.SubjectsLiteratureAncient CivilizationsReading and Literature -
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Skill Builders: Word Analogy Questions, Week 1
Week 1: Word analogies to sharpen students' thinking skills and prepare them for standardized tests.Subjects:VocabularyReading ComprehensionLanguage Arts and Writing -
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Pre-Reading Activities
Use this resource containing a list of suggestions and activities to help prepare your students for reading a new book.…Subjects:ReadingReading and Literature -
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Tongue Twisters
As a fun way to practice reading and pronouncing words, try these tongue twisters with your students.SubjectsReading and LiteratureReadingPronunciation -
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Skill Builders: Word Analogy Questions, Week 19
Week 19: Word analogies to sharpen students' thinking skills and prepare them for standardized tests.Subjects:VocabularyGrammarReading Comprehension -
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Types of Poetry
Students become familiar with the different types of poetry, including clerihew, diamonte, couplet, limerick, list…Subjects:Reading and LiteratureReadingPoetry -
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A Real Santa Claus Poetry Pack
After reading the Christmas poem A Real Santa Claus by Frank Dempster Sherman, students will complete a cloze activity…Subjects:Reading and LiteratureReadingPoetry -
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"The Grasshopper and the Owl": A Fable by Aesop
Use a lesson that provides students with an opportunity to draw conclusions using one of Aesop's enjoyable fables.…SubjectsReadingReading ComprehensionLiterature -
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Exploring Comic Strips
Comic strips are a great way to encourage reading and writing and reinforce key story elements.Subjects:Reading and LiteratureReadingVisual Arts -
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Intermediate Question-Answer Relationships
Use a lesson that introduces the Question-Answer Relationship strategy to intermediate students. Students should be able…SubjectsReading ComprehensionReadingReading and Literature -
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Poetry Lessons & Worksheets: Gallery of Activities (Grades 3-5)
Poetry is an ideal way to help students with fluency and to appreciate the beauty of words. Use these activities to help…Subjects:Reading and LiteratureReadingPoetry -
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Write a Harry Potter Script
Students learn to summarize one chapter from a Harry Potter book and write a one scene script for it.SubjectsReadingReading ComprehensionLiterature -
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KWL Chart (Version 2)
This KWL Chart will help students organize what they know, want to know, and will learn by following a lesson. This…Subjects:Reading and LiteratureReadingLanguage Arts and Writing -
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Asking Questions When Reading
In this lesson, the teacher will read The Wall by Eve Bunting with the purpose of focusing on asking important…SubjectsReading and LiteratureReadingReading Comprehension -
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Skill Builders: Word Analogy Questions, Week 11
Week 11: Word analogies to sharpen students' thinking skills and prepare them for standardized tests.Subjects:VocabularyGrammarReading Comprehension -
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Woodpecker Poetry Pack
Teach students to use a KWL and a Who, What, When, Why, Where, and How Charts to extract important details about a text.Subjects:PoetryAnimals (Zoology)Reading -
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Student Guide to Web Research Lesson 3: Learning to Read on the Web
Deliver a lesson plan that will help you teach students to read on the Web, a skill that is different from reading…SubjectsReading InstructionReading ComprehensionReading -
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A Good Play Poetry Pack
In this poetry activity, students identify the characters in the poem, the setting, and the main events; and predict…Subjects:Reading and LiteratureReadingPoetry -
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Book Report Activities
Assign or suggest creative ways for students to convey their knowledge of a book they read with this resource. Using…Subjects:ReadingLanguage Arts and WritingReading and Literature -
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Achieving a Goal
Learn how to identify goals, and list steps necessary to achieve them.Subjects:Reading ComprehensionReadingReading and Literature -
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Make a Harry Potter Board Game
Students improve their reading comprehension by making and creating a board game based upon the Harry Potter books.SubjectsReading and LiteratureReadingLiterature
