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Scholastic

Scholastic: Investigating Nonfiction Part 3: Independent and Guided Reading

For Teachers 1st - 5th Standards

This article provides tips for using nonfiction with guided reading and independent reading. The following strategies are shared: ways to help kids select "just right" nonfiction books; lessons to use with nonfiction in guided reading...

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Scholastic

Scholastic: Listen and Read: Mayor

For Students K - 1st Standards

What's it like to be a mayor? Early learners will discover how the job gets done as they listen and read along to a Hawaiian mayor's story.

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Read Works

Read Works: Genre 2nd Grade Unit: Encyclopedias

For Teachers 2nd Standards

[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson in which students use the book Children's Illustrated Encyclopedia edited by Jayne Parsons to learn to locate information and find facts about a subject in an encyclopedia. Lesson includes...

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Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Your Daily Learning Platform

For Students K - 1st Standards

An index to the Discovery Channel. Find resources for teachers, students, and even parents, from science experiments to math help, to virtual field trips.

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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Using Nonfiction for Inquiry Based Research

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards

Contains plans for lessons that help students explore the nonfiction genre by doing inquiry-based research on animals. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as well...

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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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FNO Press

From Now On: A Questioning Toolkit

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

What exactly is a "questioning tool kit"? This resource provides techniques for asking essential questions, hypothetical questions, telling questions, planning questions and organizing questions.

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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Creating Question and Answer Books Through Guided Research

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

Contains plans for five lessons that develop research skills in primary students by having them create their own question and answer books. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in...

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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Reading/writing About Whales Using Fiction and Nonfiction Texts

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

Students will have a whale of a good time in this lesson in which they use fiction and nonfiction texts to write a letter to an online scientist.

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Other

What Is Media Literacy?

For Students 1st - 5th Standards

This web quest will ask students to read and think critically about some of the media sources they are familiar with. Students will look closely at the purposes of the different kinds of media, look at the techniques used to create the...

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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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University of Houston

University of Houston: The Journalist's Desk

For Students 2nd - 5th Standards

This site includes eleven brief newspaper stories. Students must identify the main idea of each short news story.

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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Between the Lions Early Reading: Look It Up

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards

In this video segment from Between the Lions, the song "Look It Up" illustrates how words and images can provide important information. It combines an upbeat tune with kid-friendly images to motivate children to use reference materials....

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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Answer Know How [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards

A lesson plan in which students sort questions into one of four types: On My Own, Author and Me, Right There, and Think and Search. Materials are included.

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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Agree to Disagree [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards

A lesson plan in which students read statements and then use prior knowledge to agree or disagree with each statement. Materials are included.

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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Expository Text Structure: Main Idea Mania

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd Standards

A lesson plan in which students read a text and record the main ideas and supporting details on one of the graphic organizers provided. Materials are included. [PDF]

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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Exp. Text Structure: Reading the Research

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

A lesson plan in which students review reference materials looking for answers to specific questions. Materials are included.

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Education Place

Houghton Mifflin: Eduplace: Using the Web

For Students 2nd - 5th Standards

The World Wide Web is a great place to find more information about a topic. But there are a lot of sites out there - some are good and some are not so good. Here are some steps to help students use the Web to do research.

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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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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: How to Read Nonfiction Text

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

Kids love to read about real people, places, and events. Nonfiction books present real information in engaging and interesting ways. However, most kids read a lot more fiction than nonfiction, so spend some extra time helping your reader...

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Other

How to Compile a Bibliography

For Students 1st - 6th Standards

This site provides basic guidelines and examples for how to compile a bibliography. Grade levels listed 1st through 6th.

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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Students Write a Newspaper

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

For this project-based language development lesson, English Language Learners learn about the newspaper publication and create their own newspaper that covers stories about their school year. The lesson format follows the Sheltered...

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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: It's a Process. Day 1 of 5

For Students 1st - 2nd Standards

SWBAT collaborate in writing step by step directions for writing an informational paragraph.

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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Nonfiction

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

Provides advice for how to incorporate nonfiction into a reading program. Includes videos, links to downloadable 'adventure packs,' tip sheets for parent, a list of websites on nonfiction, and articles.

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