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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Writing Reports in Kindergarten

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

Lesson which provides three types of reports for early elementary young scholars to share. These allow young students to see themselves as writers with something useful to contribute from an early age.

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Center for Media Literacy: What Is "Critical" Viewing?

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards

Understand the term "critical viewing" as it relates to visual literacy. Learn how to assess the media around you in order to become more knowledgeable and not easily manipulated by what you see.

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Center for Media Literacy: What Is "Critical" Viewing?

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards

Understand the term "critical viewing" as it relates to visual literacy. Learn how to assess the media around you in order to become more knowledgeable and not easily manipulated by what you see.

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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Some Animals Don't Do That!

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards

In this lesson plan, Dogs Don't Wear Sneakers by Laura Numeroff, is used as a mentor text for to highlight the trait of idea development. The content focus of the lesson is to highlight what topics cannot do. Students generate a list of...

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Scholastic

Scholastic Teaching Resources: Five Finger Facts [Pdf]

For Teachers 1st - 5th Standards

From Just-Right Reading Response Activity Sheets for Young Learners, this graphic organizer can be used when students read informational texts. As responses to nonfiction, students will write the following information about their...

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Scholastic

Scholastic Teaching Resources: Informational Reading Response [Pdf]

For Teachers 1st - 9th Standards

This graphic organizer can be used with students when they read informational text. Students will write three facts they learned, two questions they still have after reading, and one interesting fact that they want to share.

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Read Works

Read Works: Finding Food

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards

[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage discusses how obtaining food was challenging in the past. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes...

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McGraw Hill

Mc Graw Hill: Mastering the Common Core Accessing Complex Texts With M. Russo

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards

This professional development video is instructed by the National Reading Consultant, Marisa Russo. She provides explanations about what makes a complex text, why text complexity is important, and techniques to help student access...

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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Building World Knowledge: Informational Text

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards

Before, during, and after-reading ideas for introducing students to informational texts in the early-elementary grades in order to boost reading achievement through the upper-elementary grades.

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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Activities for Struggling Readers

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards

How can you help the struggling readers in your classroom? This site offers some insight into activities to help develop your students reading skills.

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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: The Foundations for Reading

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards

What are the foundations for reading? Come and explore this informative article to discover the answer to this question.

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Read Works

Read Works: American Symbols

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards

[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage lists and explains some of the different American symbols. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes...

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Read Works

Read Works: Where Does Food Go?

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards

[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage explains the process of food digestion. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding...

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Nclr: The Essentials of Teaching Reading

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards

Find out what the essentials are for teaching reading. This site provides vital information for teachers in developing the most successful reading program for their students.

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CPALMS

Cpalms: Buzzing Tails

For Students K - 1st Standards

This video tutorial features the character named Bobby who will assist students as they search for key details in a nonfiction text.

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BBC

Bbc: Skillswise: Types of Text

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards

How can you tell if a text is descriptive, informative, instructional or persuasive? This BBC Skillswise tutorial teaches you how with a factsheet, worksheet, quiz, and game.

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CPALMS

Cpalms: It's All in the Details

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards

Using this comprehensive lesson plan, students will use a web graphic organizer to learn to record the main idea and details learned from informational text read aloud to them.

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CPALMS

Cpalms: Lafs.1.ri.4.10

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

This website offers various resources to meet the common core standard of reading informational texts appropriately complex for grade 1. Resources include center activities, lesson plans, and a professional development article.

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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Monitor for Understanding: Strategic

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

A lesson plan in which students complete a graphic organizer to record prior knowledge before reading, ask questions while reading, and summarize a text after reading. Materials are included. [PDF]

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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Monitor for Understanding: Sum Summary! [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

A lesson plan in which young scholars read a narrative or informational text and complete graphic organizers to help them write good summaries of the texts. Materials are included.

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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Classifying Info [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

A lesson plan in which students read a text and complete a graphic organizer to find the main idea and supporting details. Materials are included.

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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Expository Text Structure: Summarizing [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

A lesson plan in which students read a text and record the main ideas and supporting details on a graphic organizer. Students then complete the organizer by writing a summary of the text. Materials are included.

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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Exp. Text Structure: Classic Classifying

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

A lesson plan in which students read a text and write main ideas and supporting details in boxes on a graphic organizer. Materials are included. [PDF]

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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Narrative Text Structure: Retell Wheel

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

A lesson plan in which students read a narrative text and then turn a question wheel to answer questions about the characters, setting, conflict, and plot. Materials are included.[PDF]

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