Skill-Based Lesson Plans to Use with Leveled Articles

Grades 3-10

RIT 171-230

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

Grades 3-12

RIT 171-230+

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

RIT 171-220

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

RIT <171-220

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

RIT <171-220

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