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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: The Alphabetic Principle

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards

What are predictor's for a child's success in reading? Use this site to learn more how the knowledge of the alphabet and shapes is a factor for reading success.

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Text Project

Text Project: Fyi for Kids: Vol. 5, Issue 6: What's Your Name? [Pdf]

For Students 1st - 3rd Standards

This magazine article discusses how technology changes have added or changed meanings of words such as Internet, browser, e-mail, mailbox, and blog.

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Family Education

Family Education: Fifteen Minute Reading Activities

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards

What can you do with your child in fifteen minutes to improve their reading skills? This site has a list of reading activities.

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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Making Connections

For Students 2nd - 8th Standards

A printable graphic organizer for students to use when making text to self, text, and world connections while reading a text. Directions on how to use this type of graphic organize as well as lists of teaching ideas and related resources...

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Read Works

Read Works: Genre Studies: Informational Texts: Pictures and Photographs

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

[Free Registration/Login Required] Lesson uses All About Cats and Kittens by Emily Neye to teach students how to identify facts from photographs and pictures in informational text. Ideas for direct teaching, guided practice, and...

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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Phonics and Decoding

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards

This resource provides information and techniques for teaching phonics and decoding, which assist with early literacy.

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Read Works

Read Works: Great Ideas!

For Teachers 2nd Standards

[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about some good ideas that became inventions. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.

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Read Works

Read Works: Ideas That Pop

For Teachers 2nd Standards

[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about an invention made by a 10-year-old girl from Texas. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.

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Read Works

Read Works: Inventions: Then and Now

For Students 2nd Standards

[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about popular inventions and how they have changed throughout the year, including: the telephone, the calculator, the television, and the clock. A question sheet is available to...

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Read Works

Read Works: Our World

For Students 2nd Standards

[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text giving a little information about each of the seven continents. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.

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Read Works

Read Works: Colorful Crayons

For Teachers 2nd Standards

[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text giving facts about crayons and how they are made. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in sequencing.

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Read Works

Read Works: Steps to Inventing

For Teachers 2nd Standards

[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text listing the four steps kids can follow to become inventors. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.

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Read Works

Read Works: Genre Studies: Informational Text Kindergarten Unit: Labeled Diagrams

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards

[Free Registration/Login Required] Lesson uses Bats by Gail Gibbons to teach young scholars how to identify facts learned from labeled diagrams within an informational text. Ideas for direct teaching, guided practice, and independent...

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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Introduction of Text Features

For Students K - 1st Standards

Dr. Murphy shares a comprehensive lesson plan to support students identifying various text features in informational texts. Students will mentally and physically engage in active learning to know how to navigate through different types...

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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Digging Up Details on Worms: Using Science in an Inquiry Study

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

A lesson plan based on a study unit of earthworms, using the inquiry model to integrate scientific processes with literacy practices. Instruction plans, related resources, and standards are included.

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Read Works

Read Works: Vocabulary in Context 2nd Grade Unit: Glossary

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards

[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson in which students learn to use a glossary to determine the meanings of unfamiliar words. Lesson utilizes the book The Life Cycle of an Emperor Penguin by Robin Johnson and Bobbie Kalman and...

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Curated OER

Glenco Online: Teaching Today: Reading Comprehension and Considerate Text

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards

Learn the features of "considerate text" and ways to teach students to use these features to increase their comprehension as they read. These features generally apply to non-fiction, especially textbooks.

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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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Learning Farm

Learning Farm: Procedural Texts and Signs

For Students K - 1st Standards

Practice your skill at following written directions in a procedural text recognizing common signs. Play in game mode or test mode.

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Scholastic

Scholastic: Informational Text: Reading Response: Compare Contrast [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards

This graphic organizer can be use with students when they read an informational text. Using a Venn diagram to organize content, students will write important similarities and differences after reading an informational text and analyzing...

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Quizlet

Quizlet: Non Fiction Text Features 3rd Grade Test

For Students 2nd - 5th Standards

Text feature terms are included in this assessment. This test assesses the following text feature terms: map, table of contents, index, bold words, caption, timeline, heading, and glossary. Images of the text feature terms are included....

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Read Works

Read Works: Explore Our Solar System

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards

[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage shares facts about planets in the solar system. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes...

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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Monitor for Understanding: What Do You Know? [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards

A lesson plan in which young scholars browse a text and complete graphic organizers to help them activate prior knowledge. Materials are included.

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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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