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Read Write Think: Using Web Based Bookmarks to Conduct Internet Research
The important thing about this lesson is that it connects literature and science. The Important Book by Margaret Wise Brown provides a model for original student poems about a content area topic. Web-based bookmarks guide young scholars...
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Austin Independent School District: Guided Reading [Pdf]
Learn what guided reading is and how it to use it in the classroom to increase literacy skills. Discover guided reading strategies to use before, during, and after reading. Then follow-up with information on how to create right questions...
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Do History: Using Primary Sources
This site explains the difference between a primary and secondary source. It also provides students with questions to ask when gathering evidence about a primary source document.
Library and Archives Canada
Nlc: Defining Primary and Secondary Sources
Libraries and archives hold documents and books that can be used for your research projects. Learn how to divide and identify them into primary and secondary sources in this tutorial.
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Read Write Think: Research Building Blocks: "Cite Those Sources!"
Contains plans for two lessons about the research process. Learners discuss plagiarism, practice paraphrasing, and cite sources. In addition to objectives and standards, these instructional plans contain links to sites used in the...
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Read Write Think: Research Building Blocks: Notes, Quotes, and Fact Fragments
Contains plans for a lesson on taking notes that is part of a larger unit on researching a state symbol. It works on skills like figuring out what information is relevant and irrelevant, using a variety of sources, and paraphrasing. In...
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Read Works: Great Ideas!
[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: Ideas That Pop
[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: Learning New Things
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a little boy named Billy who learned that spending time at the Senior Center could be more fun than he thought. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in...
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Read Works: Flip It
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read a story about a boy named Jack who helps his dad make pancakes for breakfast. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Starting Over
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about rebuilding after a disaster. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in comparing and contrasting.
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Read Works: Inventions: Then and Now
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about how the telephone, calculator, television, and clock have changed since they were invented. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in comparing and contrasting.
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Read Works: Our World
[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: Heading West
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about every-day life for American pioneers. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in comparing and contrasting.
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Read Works: Heading West: Learn About a Pioneer's Life
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about what life was like for pioneers. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Growing Up Long Ago
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text telling what it was like to be a child 200 years ago. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Money Matters
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about how paper money is printed, held, and delivered. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Let's Explore Caves
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about caves and some of the animals that call them home. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Wild Waves
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about Cortes Bank, a site in California with some of the biggest waves in the world. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Learn Mandarin!
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text showing how to count to five in Mandarin. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: What Is a Rock?
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the elements that rocks are made of. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: How Plastic Is Recycled
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text explaining how plastic is recycled. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Steps to Inventing
[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: Oral Histories
[Free Registration/Login Required] Intended to support elementary students' reading comprehension, students will learn about jobs that require them to conduct interviews to collect oral histories. Questions that assess multiple reading...