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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Your School Age Child

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
What can you do to help your school-age child develop their reading skills?
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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Family Reading Activities

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This site features family reading activities that will guide parents with their children's reading development.
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Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Teaching resources, lesson plans, study guides, and other resources cataloged for easy access by language arts teachers. The majority of resources deal with reading and literature, although there are also sections on grammar, writing,...
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Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Teaching resources, lesson plans, study guides, and other resources cataloged for easy access by language arts teachers. The majority of resources deal with reading and literature, although there are also sections on grammar, writing,...
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Read Works

Read Works: About Your Bones

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage discusses the skeletonThis passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding for vocabulary learning....
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Read Works

Read Works: So Many Kinds of Food!

For Students 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a little girl named Lisa who likes to eat many different kinds of foods. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works

Read Works: Genre 1st Grade Unit: Identifying Information in Nonfiction

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A activity in which young scholars use the books Nature's Food Chains: What Polar Animals Eat by Joanne Mattern, Life Cycle of a Frog by Angela Royston, and Froggy Goes to School by Jonathan London to...
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Read Works

Read Works: 1st Grade Lesson: Purposes for Reading

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan in which students use the books Nature's Food Chains: What Polar Animals Eat by Joanne Mattern, Life Cycle of a Frog by Angela Royston, and Froggy Goes to School by Jonathan London to...
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US Department of Education

U.s. Department of Education: Helping Your Child Become a Reader

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Help young learners become better readers with these literacy resources and ready-to-use reading strategies.
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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
The national literacy initiative, Reading Rockets, provides information and resources on how students learn to read, why so many struggle, and how educators can help.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Predicting and Gathering Information With Nonfiction Texts

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Contains plans for eight short lessons that introduce nonfiction texts to second grade students. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as well as assessment and...
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University of Oregon

Big Ideas in Beginning Reading

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
The goal for teachers from the academic content standards is every child to be reading by 3rd grade. This site will help teachers to teach the "big ideas" in reading: phonemic awareness, alphabetic principle, fluency with text,...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Text Talk (Read Aloud)

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This online lesson supports the language development and reading comprehension of kindergarten through second graders. Through the use of an innovative "Text talk," strategy, students will explain, develop, and expand upon story ideas....
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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: 25 Activities for Reading/writing Fun

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Discover these exciting 25 activities that develop reading and writing skills while having fun. The activities are split for two different age groups.
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Read Works

Read Works: Explore the Seashore

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage gives facts about different types of ocean life. 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: Focus on Scientists

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction article shares information about different types of scientists. 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: The Four Seasons

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage shares information about the four seasons of the year. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and...
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Read Works

Read Works: Learning About Your World

For Teachers 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about how the five senses help people learn about their world. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works

Read Works: Light

For Teachers 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about natural and man-made things that give off light. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works

Read Works: A Sticky Idea

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage shares the history of Band-Aids. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding for vocabulary learning....
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Other

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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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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Education.com

Education.com: 1st Grade Reading & Writing Resources

For Students 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This collection of first grade reading and writing resources contains lesson plans and worksheets that can be used during the research process.
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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...