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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: Monitor for Understanding: What Do You Know? [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards

A lesson plan in which students 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:ask and Answer [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

A lesson plan in which students read a text and stop periodically to write questions based on question word cards. Materials are included.

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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Monitor for Understanding: Read and Ask [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

A lesson plan in which students read a text aloud and then roll a question cube and answer the questions together with a partner. Materials are included.

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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Exp. Text Structure: Text Structure Sort [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd Standards

A lesson plan in which students read short texts and sort them according to structure: cause and effect, problem and solution, question and answer, compare and contrast, description, and sequence. Materials are included.

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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Exp. Text Structure: Projected Paragraphs

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd Standards

A lesson plan in which students read a text and highlight the most important details. Materials are included. [PDF]

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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Exp. Text Structure: Detail Delight [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd Standards

A lesson plan in which learners read a text use a graphic organizer to record the topic and supporting details. Materials are included.

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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Exp. Text Structure: Main Idea [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards

A lesson plan in which young scholars read a text and then read it again highlighting the key words and phrases that are important for understanding the text. Materials are included.

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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Expository Exploration [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd Standards

A lesson plan in which students read a text and complete a graphic organizer to identify the main idea and supporting details. Materials are included.

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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Keys to the Main Idea [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards

A lesson plan in which students read a text a complete a graphic organizer to identify the main ideas and supporting details. Materials are included.

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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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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Text to Self and Text to World Connections

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards

Students will further their reading comprehension by associating real-life events with the events of a story.

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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Teach Expository Text Structure to Facilitate Comprehension

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards

Expository text can be challenging to young readers because of the unfamiliar concepts and vocabulary it presents. Discover ways to help your students analyze expository text structures and pull apart the text to uncover the main idea...

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CPALMS

Cpalms: Stand Tall: Using Evidence to Support Your Answers

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards

This learning module has a series of screencast videos and practice exercises designed to teach students how to support their answers with details from the text.

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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: What Does the Reader Want to Know? Creating Research Questions

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards

In this instructional activity, students will change a research topic into questions that they will specifically answer while doing their research.

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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: "Sticky Note Reading" the Art of Questioning While Reading

For Teachers 3rd Standards

Third graders will learn the importance questioning has on comprehension of a text. Students will use sticky notes and an interactive reading notebook while working with an informational text.

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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Guiding Students: Expository Text With Text Feature Walks

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

Explains how to guide students in examining text features during a walkthrough of an expository text.

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Soft Schools

Soft Schools: Reading Comprehension

For Students 2nd - 5th Standards

Students are to read a fiction paragraph and answer a 10-question quiz about it.

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Soft Schools

Soft Schools: Reading Comprehension: Quiz 2

For Students 2nd - 5th Standards

Students read a fiction paragraph and answer a 10-question quiz about it.

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Beacon Learning Center

Beacon Learning Center: Get the Idea

For Students 2nd - 3rd Standards

Learn about and practice finding the main idea in short reading passages.

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Other

Super Teacher Worksheets: Reading Comprehension: Great White Sharks [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards

Read the fifth-grade reading passage entitled "Great White Sharks" by Erin Ryan and answer the comprehension questions over the selection. PDF includes an answer key with explanations.

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Other

Reading Quest: Strategies for Reading Comprehension: Summarizing

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards

Teach students to summarize nonfiction text with these lesson plans. Includes worksheets and activities that can be downloaded and printed.

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Other

Strategies for Reading Comprehension:reciprocal Teaching

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards

Use this page to understand the reciprocal teaching strategy that includes the role of the clarifier in student groups.

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Pearson

Pearson Education: Practice Reading Section

For Students 1st - 3rd Standards

This resource provides short reading selections that encourage reading comprehension. Students are challenged with questions about the selection to test their understanding.

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