Reading comprehension lessons on retelling, key details, and main idea; supplemental posters and visual aids; graphic organizers; and other materials for your Kindergarten or first grade students!

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This reading comprehension strategies unit is designed to teach students retelling, story elements, characters, and main idea. The lessons use real literature, and you can select books from a list of many different suggestions.

Through minilessons that gradually release responsibility, your students will learn to:

- Identify the character, setting, problem, and solution of a story

- Retell the beginning, middle, and end of a story

- Describe the the traits of a story's characters

- Identify the main idea or lesson of a story

- Identify the reasons an author gives to support a point in the text

- Tell the main topic of a nonfiction text

- Retell the most important details from a nonfiction text

This unit contains:

- 25 clear minilessons that will last for about 5-6 weeks

- Printable posters and visual aids

- Graphic organizers to go with the lesson plans

- Tips for setting up the reading workshop and conferring with students

- Planning and organizing templates

- Common Core alignment and clear goals

- Checklists and rubrics

- Differentiation materials for Kindergarten and first grade

- Real photographs of sample anchor charts

- List of suggested texts for use with the unit (you can use the books you already have in your classroom - the lessons do not require that you use one specific text)

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By: Learning At The Primary Pond