Skill-Based Lesson Plans to Use with Leveled Articles – For the Teachers

Skill-Based Lesson Plans to Use with Leveled Articles

Cause and Effect Matrix

Grades 3-10

RIT 171-230

Literature, Information Text: Cause and Effect

Match events to their outcomes
Can be used many times throughout the year with different texts

Cause & Effect Lesson Plan

Cause & Effect Matrix

Cause & Effect Path

Fact vs. Opinion

Grades 3-12

RIT 171-230+

Informational Text: Fact, Opinion, Drawing Conclusions

Students identify facts and write a fact-based summary of an article that includes or evokes strong opinions

Fact vs. Opinion Lesson Plan

Fact vs. Opinion Chart

Main Idea Outline

Grades 2-10

RIT 171-220

Informational Text: Main Ideas, Supporting Details

Identify the most important ideas in a piece of text and the details that point to those ideas
Summarize

Main Idea Lesson Plan

Main Idea Chart with Labels

Main Idea Chart with Questions

Plot Diagram Sequencing

Grades 3, 6-8

RIT <171-220

Literature/Informational: Sequence Events

Students identify and defend the beginning, middle and end events in a story or article
Fiction or nonfiction

Plot Sequence Lesson Plan

Simple Plot Diagram

Plot Curve Diagram

Idea for Use: Penguin Movie — Idea for Use

Story Strips Sequencing

Grades 3, 6-8

RIT <171-220

Literature: Sequence Events

Students line up strips of paper with events from a story
(Could be modified for nonfiction also)

Story Strips Lesson Plan

Sentence Strips Example for S. E. Hinton's The Outsiders — Sentence Strips Example for S. E. Hinton’s The Outsiders

Skill-Based Lesson Plans to Use with Leveled Articles

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