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Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Lesson Plan: Clouds, Rain, and Fog: A Closer Look

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
A lesson where students use the book Cloud, Rain, and Fog by Fred and Jeane Biddulph to learn about text structures and reading strategies with information texts.
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Unit Plan
Other

Thinkport.org: Monitor Comprehension

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
A resourceful site explaining, chronicling, and detailing the idea of students' monitoring their own comprehension of a task or understanding. Includes a video link, quotes from experts, links, and more.
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Professional Doc
AdLit

Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Think Alouds

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Think Alouds help students learn to monitor their thinking as they read an assigned passage. Students are directed by a series of questions which they think about and answer aloud while reading. This process reveals how much they...
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Activity
E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Nonfiction Passages and Functional Texts Worksheets

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this learning module, students will practice reading nonfiction passages. Students will also have the opportunity to answer multiple choice comprehension questions, answer short and extended response questions, and take a test. This...
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Graphic
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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Unit Plan
CommonLit

Common Lit: "Strength in Numbers" by Bird Brain Science

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
A learning module that begins with "Strength in Numbers," accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free teacher and student...
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Rl.4.10: Read and Comprehend Literature in Grades 4 and 5

For Students 4th Standards
Links to 94 lessons and activities that build student skills in standard RL.4.10: By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poetry, in the grades 4 and 5 text complexity band proficiently,...
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: W.4.9a: Apply Grade 4 Reading Standards to Literature

For Students 4th Standards
Links to 8 lessons and activities that build student skills in standard W.4.9a: Apply grade 4 reading standards to literature (e.g., Describe in depth a character, setting, or event in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the...
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Unit Plan
CommonLit

Common Lit: Text Sets

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a collection of 35 Grade-Leveled text sets (4-11). They are great for social studies teachers or for building background knowledge in reading class, CommonLit's text sets cover a range of historical, cultural, and political...
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Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Text Analysis: Inference Innovations [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
A lesson plan in which students read a text and use a graphic organizer to make inferences. Materials are included.
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Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Character Consideration

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
A lesson plan in which students read a narrative text and complete graphic organizers to analyze a character. Materials are included. [PDF]
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Using Technology in Teaching Reading

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Elementary students, while working on their basal reader story for the week, will use various forms of technology to increase comprehension and other reading skills. (Other strategies may be substituted if some of the technology...
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Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Expository Text Structure: Research Roundup

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
A lesson plan in which students complete graphic organizers as they gather research information. Materials are included.
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Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Pov Collection

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
POV (a cinema term for "point of view") is television's longest-running showcase for independent non-fiction films. POV premieres 14-16 of the best, boldest and most innovative programs every year on PBS. Since 1988, POV has presented...
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Lesson Plan
Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Guidebooks: Annotating Text

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This strategy helps students refine their understanding of texts to meet reading expectations and prepare for writing about texts.
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Article
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: The Road to Representation Creating the Crunchy Life Kid's Series

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This blog focuses on a teacher's need to fill in the gaps for reading strategies and the priority to improve comprehension and overall reading development. She explains the strategies to meet the above goals.
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Website
Other

Ccss Literacy E Handbook: Informational Text: Compare Perspectives

For Students 4th Standards
A short explanation of the difference between a firsthand account and a secondhand account.
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Unit: Informational Text: Writing

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
This unit is designed to teach students about research writing. The lessons follow the format of Writer's Workshop. Many of the lessons provide a formula for students to follow while constructing their essays to ensure struggling readers...
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Reading Strategies for Complex Texts

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
A nine-part learning module on reading strategies including links to videos, images, websites, and activities.
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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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Quizlet

Quizlet: 4th Grade Voc. Text Structure: Test

For Students 4th Standards
This interactive assessment consists of five multiple-choice questions over the types of text structure and patterns of organization.
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Activity
Quizlet

Quizlet: 4th Grade Voc. Text Structure: Match

For Students 4th Standards
In this learning game, students match the term with the description of the types of text structures and patterns of organization.
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Activity
Quizlet

Quizlet: 4th Grade Voc. Text Structure: Flashcards

For Students 4th Standards
This set of interactive flashcards helps students learn the terms and definitions for the types of text structure and patterns of organization.
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Interactive
Quizlet

Quizlet: Non Fiction Text Features 3rd Grade Match

For Students 2nd - 5th Standards
Text feature terms (nonfiction) are included in this review "Match" game. Questions are provided for the following words: map, table of contents, index, bold words, caption, timeline, heading, and glossary. Images of each of these text...