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Lesson Plan
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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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
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Creating State Brochures

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Learners will work in pairs to research online and/or in print a chosen state and create a travel brochure incorporating the information gathered.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Better Living Through Science

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
This lesson involves research on scientists whose accomplishments have impacted areas of nutrition, sanitation, or health care. Students will research an area of their choice, record information on a graphic organizer, and use the...
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Graphic
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: I Can Classify and Summarize Information [Pdf]

For Students 2nd - 8th Standards
A graphic organizer is provided to help students classify information in a nonfiction piece. Then students will write a summary of the information contained in the graphic organizer.
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Interactive
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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Lesson Plan
McREL International

Mid Continent Research for Education and Learning: Deconstructing Media Messages

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
This brief lesson focuses on the roles that many different people play in the creation of media messages and advertising.
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Article
Other

How to Study: Good Listening in Class

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Eight tips on how to improve your listening skills in the classroom so that you gain more from lectures and discussions.
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Main Idea

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
A learning module that includes six links to videos, images, and websites that reinforce the reading skill of finding the main idea.
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Nonfiction 2014 2015

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
A learning module with twenty-one links to images, websites, texts, slideshows, and videos about nonfiction and informational text reading skills.
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TES Global

Tes: My Reading Record

For Students 1st - 6th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This collection of blank reading records will help with the assessment of reading comprehension. Students write about what they have read during a teacher-determined period of time. The reading record...
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PPT
Tom Richey

Slide Share: Fact and Opinion

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
A slide show with sixteen slides with definitions, examples, and practice activities to use while learning about the difference between fact and opinion.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Features of a Newspaper

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A flipchart that examines the way in which newspapers and articles are constructed. The end of the flipchart focuses specifically on the battle of Glencoe, but the majority of the flipchart has much...
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Unit Plan
North Central Regional Educational Laboratory

Ncrel Anticipation: Reaction Guide

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A model of a quick survey to give students to help them activate their prior knowledge of subject matter. Alter this survey to suit your particular subject.
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Activity
BBC

Bbc Bitesize Revision: Some Purposes of Reading

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
As part of a review and close reading section of BBC Bitesize, this site presents an overview of various purposes of reading, including a five-bullet point explanation of reading purposes. Click the Next button for more information.
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Professional Doc
Other

Nsw Dept. Of Ed.: Retelling [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
PDF page from the New South Wales, Australia, Department of Education and Training that contains suggestions for helping students retell things they have read or seen. It includes some suggestions for how to achieve this as well as a...