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The story map is a road map and combined with mind mapping it helps the author navigate off the main road, finding new plot points, keeping the main story goal intact.

Story development can be easily taught to elementary students through the use of a story map.

Learn how to create and use anchor charts to help English language learners become better readers. Strategies help ESL students improve decoding and comprehension skills.

Use the book The Runaway Pumpkin to help students identify examples of patterned text and use them to compare and contrast story elements such as characters and events.

Retelling of a story is one of the functions of the Go Chart graphic organizer. A Go Chart allows students to organize the beginning, middle, and end of a story.

Students compare and contrast two trade book versions of a Bengali trickster folk tale: The Old Woman and the Red Pumpkin (Betsy Bang) and No Dinner! (Jessica Souhami).

Teachers can use The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg as the theme for an elementary bulletin board, story map lesson, North Pole research project, and pajama party.

Extension activities for reading can help reinforce student comprehension and other skills taught during small group instruction time.

For a St. Patrick's Day reading lesson plan, use Mary Calhoun's Irish folk tale The Hungry Leprechaun to teach text structure and how to identify the genre of a folk tale

Studying authors' lives and works helps students read with better understanding, write with more purpose, and realize that inspiration for both comes from daily life.

The best Christmas books for primary kids include The Polar Express, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, If You Take a Mouse to the Movies, and The Night Before Christmas.

Children become more engaged in stories when they are encouraged to respond to them in a variety of ways. Use these activities to activate comprehension in K-6 students.

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Elementary kids learn the answer to the question, "What is snow?" and write snowman observations in journals during a winter themed language arts and science unit.

Teachers can help high school students write effective narrative essays for exit level tests by following this lesson plan.

Use the books Ollie and The Golden Egg Book in an egg theme unit elementary reading lesson plan about theme and an elementary science lesson plan about how eggs hatch.