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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research:ask and Answer [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which students read a text and stop periodically to write questions based on question word cards. Materials are included.
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Professional Doc
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Questions to Guide Instruction

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This site offers questions to guide all facets of reading instruction broken down by grade level, grades K-3.
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Lesson Plan
Education.com

Education.com: Ask Me How

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, your students will become familiar with using this question word to investigate how things work. At the conclusion of this lesson, students will be able to ask and answer questions to...
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Edutopia

Edutopia: Teaching Students How to Ask Productive Questions

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This article gives insight into how to improve engagement, comprehension, and critical thinking by teaching students the process of asking insightful questions. Included is a comprehensive, metacognitive framework of questioning skills...
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Listen, Look, and Learn: An Information Gathering Process

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
This lesson models an information-gathering process for primary learners as they listen to and look at resources, seeking information pertinent to the questions on an information wheel. Guiding the listening, looking, and learning...
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Website
CPALMS

Cpalms: Lafs.2.sl.2.5

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
Choose from a variety of courses, lesson plans, and resources aligned to the Common Core standard of creating audio recordings of stories or poems.
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Asking and Answering Questions About Our Story

For Teachers 1st Standards
Today's instructional activity is all about asking and answering questions so we can strengthen comprehension.
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Questioning Text

For Teachers 1st Standards
Creating a product and illustrations make this lesson great for teaching about questioning. Students will ask and answer questions about a text via the assistance of a graphic organizer.
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Questioning Text

For Teachers 1st Standards
Creating a product and illustrations make this lesson great for teaching about questioning.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Reading Informational Text: Grades K 1

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This learning resource will show teachers how to model how to teach students to describe connections between pieces of information in a text.
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Axelson Academy

Axelson Academy: Asking and Answering Questions About Unknown Vocabulary

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this lesson, students will receive support and prompting as they listen to informational text and then determine the meaning of one of the words in context.
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Graphic
Enchanted Learning

Enchanted Learning: 5 W's Diagrams

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Enchanted Learning provides several examples of graphic organizers that can be used for gathering Who, What, Where, When, and Why information, either for reading comprehension or prewriting. These template suggestions can only be printed...
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Article
Other

Papa Jan: Five Essential Components of Reading

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Can you name the five essential components of reading? Check out this informative site from Papa Jan.com to learn more about phonemic awareness, phonics, reading fluency, vocabulary development and reading comprehension.
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US Department of Education

The Partnership for Reading: Childhood: Teaching Approaches: Fluency Instruction

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
A short explanation of why fluency instruction is important and how fluency develops in a child.
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Sensory Details

For Students K - 1st Standards
A five-part learning module with links to images and videos about sensory details and using sensory language.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Retelling the Story

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart helps to teach students how to retell main events from a story and sequence events.
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Graphic
Other

Woodward English: Questions Words

For Students K - 1st Standards
Woodward English: Questions Words uses pictures and words to answer the 5 W's and H questions.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Answering Questions in Complete Sentences

For Teachers 1st - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will create visual images to comprehend/remember what they have read. Students will answer comprehension questions in complete sentences.
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: The Rain Forest

For Students K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Read and/or listen to the following paired texts on the subject of the Rain Forest. Use the guided question set to assess students understanding of the topic. Students can write their answers, respond...
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Activity
Other

Harrington Park: Asking Questions

For Students K - 1st Standards
This is a teacher handout of questions students should ask themselves before, during, and after reading.
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Interactive
Quizlet

Quizlet: Kindergarten

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Kindergarten flash cards that have words and names with questions and some pictures on the flip sides.
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Activity
Big Learners

Biglearners.com: ccss.ela literacy.w.k.8 : Kindergarten English Language Arts

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Choose from a variety of worksheets aligned to the core standard W.K.8. A brief description is provided for each worksheet. Click on the image to view, download, or print them. All worksheets are free.
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Activity
Education.com

Education.com: W.1.8 Worksheets

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Choose from a variety of worksheets to practice the Common Core Standard of recalling information from experiences or gathering information from provided sources to answer a question.
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Other

Fusion Yearbooks: Great Ways to Encourage Students to Ask Questions

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This article contains 9 ways that teachers can maintain and develop that pre-school curiosity as our children grow older by fostering question asking in the classroom.