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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: The Disappearing Room

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
[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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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: "Afternoon on a Hill"

For Students 2nd Standards
[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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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Focus on Scientists

For Students 2nd Standards
[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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Activity
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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Lesson Plan
Read Works

Read Works: Grade 2: Four Lesson Unit: Drawing Conclusions

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
[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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Unit Plan
Other

Into the Book: Questioning

For Students K - 1st Standards
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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Activity
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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Lesson Plan
Hopelink

Hopelink: Reading Lesson Idea: Qar a Reading Comprehension Strategy

For Teachers 1st - 8th Standards
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...
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Website
Curated OER

Mc Graw Hill: Part 2: Reading Informational Text: Ask and Answer Questions

For Students 1st - 5th Standards
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.
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Activity
Meadowbrook Press

Giggle Poetry: "How to Delay Your Bedtime" Poetry Theater

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
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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Other

Rhl School: Reading Comprehension: Using Inference

For Students 2nd - 5th Standards
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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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Wonderful Trees

For Teachers 2nd Standards
[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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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: The Yo Yo

For Teachers 2nd Standards
[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.
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Unit Plan
University of Victoria (Canada)

Elc Study Zone: Level 200 Reading Topics

For Students 2nd - 5th Standards
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.
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Lesson Plan
Michigan State University

Michigan State University: Intervention for Reading: Story Retelling

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
This intervention emphasizes the importance of verbal rehearsal of a story. By retelling, learners 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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Lesson Plan
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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Professional Doc
Other

Medium: Helping Students Ask Better Questions by Creating a Culture of Inquiry

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
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...
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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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Professional Doc
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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Handout
Love To Know Media

Your Dictionary: Examples of Open Ended and Closed Ended Questions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Explains the difference between open and closed questions. Gives examples and situations where each might be used.
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Lesson Plan
Common Sense Media

Common Sense Media: Education: Story Elements Retelling

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
In this lesson, students 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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Lesson Plan
Other

Morningside Center: Active Listening

For Teachers 2nd - 6th Standards
In this lesson, 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 lesson.
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

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

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
This instructional activity 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...
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Getting to Know Cendrillion: Analyzing Questions

For Teachers 2nd Standards
In this BetterLesson, 2nd graders will learn to focus on details as they analyze the story of Cendrillion.