ALEX Resources

Title: Listening Comprehension Read Aloud- Who Was Ruby Bridges?
Description: Listening to narrative text offers students a chance to go beyond decoding and word meaning. Listening as the teacher reads a story gives gives students an opportunity to appreciate, draw significance and meaning as well as informal practice using  story elements. Listening to read-a-louds gives the teacher the opportunity to model "close" reading skills as well as model thinking. This is a College- and Career-Ready Standards showcase lesson plan.
Standard(s):
[SS2010] LWT1 (1) 6:

Title: Funny Sequence
Description: After a discussion and work on sequence, students will apply this knowledge to sequencing comic strips through group work.
Standard(s):
[ELA2015] (3) 17:

Title: Fact or Fiction: Learning About Worms Using Diary of a Worm
Description: Students often believe that fiction writers make everything up, seldom realizing how research worms its way into entertaining writing. In this lesson, students read Diary of a Worm to find out how fact merges with fiction.
Standard(s):
[ELA2015] (2) 32:

Title: Teaching About Story Structure Using Fairy Tales
Description: From '' once upon a time'' to '' happily ever after,'' students learn to recognize story structure in fairy tales and create a logical sequence of events when writing original stories.
Standard(s):
[ELA2015] (2) 10:

Title: Catching the Bug for Reading Through Interactive Read-Alouds
Description: Students learn about story structure, new vocabulary, and a variety of reading strategies by participating in an interactive read-aloud of Miss Bindergarten Stays Home From Kindergarten by Joseph Slate.
Standard(s):
[ELA2015] (2) 32:

Title: The Frog Beyond the Fairy Tale Character: Searching Informational Texts
Description: Frogs often appear as the main character in fiction stories, but what do students really know about frogs? Students find out in this lesson in which they research real-life frogs.
Standard(s):
[ELA2015] (2) 6:

Title: Let's Build a Snowman
Description: In this lesson, students use both fiction and nonfiction texts, the Internet, and a K-W-L chart to learn about how animals survive the winter.
Standard(s):
[ELA2015] (2) 37:

Title: Teaching Audience Through Interactive Writing
Description: Through interactive writing, students work together and then independently to create invitation letters for a group of their peers and their families.
Standard(s):
[ELA2015] (2) 33:

Title: Tell Me Your Story
Description: StoryMaker is an app that allows students to create a story including text, graphics, and narration. 
Standard(s):
[TC2] (0-2) 10:

Title: Tell the Story
Description: The Storykit app allows users to create stories using their own pictures, words and text.
Standard(s):
[DLIT] (2) 6:

Title: Let's Make a Cartoon Story!
Description: Toontastic is a fun animation app on iPad which can be used for educational purposes. With Toontastic you can create your very own cartoon story. The user has total control of the character selection, setting and story arc. 
Standard(s):
[ELA2015] (2) 3: