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Read Works: The Disappearing Room
[Free Registration/Login Required] This literary text passage shares a short mystery. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding for vocabulary...
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Read Works: "Afternoon on a Hill"
[Free Registration/Login Required] A poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay about spending some time in nature. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Focus on Scientists
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about different types of scientists including: an inventor, a forensic scientist, an astronomer, a primatologist, and more. A question sheet is available to help students build...
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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: Grade 2: Four Lesson Unit: Drawing Conclusions
[Free Registration/Login Required] Designed to teach young scholars to identify the difference between explicit information and conclusions and to make text-to-self and text-to-text connections. Lessons are based on the provided text...
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Into the Book: Questioning
Learn the significance of questioning in the classroom to teach students how to question the text in order to better understand what they are reading.
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Read Works: Focus on Scientists
[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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Hopelink: Reading Lesson Idea: Qar a Reading Comprehension Strategy
Brush up on your reading comprehension skills when you check out this website. It looks at a particular strategy called QAR. QAR stands for "Question-Answer Relationships." This particular strategy helps students learn to answer reading...
Curated OER
Mc Graw Hill: Part 2: Reading Informational Text: Ask and Answer Questions
Learn about questions to ask while reading a text on this site. Also, review where to look for the answers to the questions that you asked.
Meadowbrook Press
Giggle Poetry: "How to Delay Your Bedtime" Poetry Theater
In "How to Delay Your Bedtime," students will participate in a poem in four voices. Adapted from the poem by Bruce Lansky in My Dog Ate My Homework, students will dramatize a poem about a child who tries to delay his bedtime.
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Rhl School: Reading Comprehension: Using Inference
A good warm-up/introduction activity for a unit on inferences. This is a simple exercise to help teachers assess prior knowledge.
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Read Works: Wonderful Trees
[Free Registration/Login Required] A poem about trees by Arin Lapa. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: The Yo Yo
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a boy named Brendan who learned that it is always better to share his toys. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
University of Victoria (Canada)
Elc Study Zone: Level 200 Reading Topics
Choose a story from seven stories to read and/or listen to. Practice reading comprehension by completing the interactive quizzes and exercises. Answer the questions, then look for your score.
Michigan State University
Michigan State University: Intervention for Reading: Story Retelling
This intervention emphasizes the importance of verbal rehearsal of a story. By retelling, students relate information from the story to their own experiences. In this way, they improve their reading comprehension and memory of story...
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Florida Center for Reading Research: Answer Know How [Pdf]
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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Medium: Helping Students Ask Better Questions by Creating a Culture of Inquiry
We want to see kids asking tons of questions. This is how students grow into creative, critical thinkers. This article by John Spencer gives multiple ways teachers can foster an environment in which students feel comfortable asking...
Education.com
Education.com: Ask Me How
[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...
Edutopia
Edutopia: Teaching Students How to Ask Productive Questions
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...
Love To Know Media
Your Dictionary: Examples of Open Ended and Closed Ended Questions
Explains the difference between open and closed questions. Gives examples and situations where each might be used.
Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media: Education: Story Elements Retelling
In this lesson plan, learners will learn to retell a story using story elements to improve their comprehension of the story. The students will actively listen to a story and complete a graphic organizer to share and discuss with a partner.
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Morningside Center: Active Listening
In this activity, students practice active listening by paraphrasing what they hear. Students will practice listening to one another and repeating what they heard. Various listening activities are included in this activity.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Listen, Look, and Learn: An Information Gathering Process
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...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Getting to Know Cendrillion: Analyzing Questions
In this BetterLesson, 2nd graders will learn to focus on details as they analyze the story of Cendrillion.