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eBook
McGraw Hill

Mc Graw Hill Education: Grade 4: Treasures: Practice Book O [Pdf]

For Students 4th Standards
Help fourth graders reinforce their understanding of reading skills, vocabulary acquisition, fluency, and phonics with the exercises in this 230-page workbook. This workbook is designed to supplement the stories from Grade 4 Treasures.
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Study Guide
University of South Florida

Fcat Express: Teaching Strategies (Reading) [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 4th Standards
Printable, fifty-five page PDF file of a staff development manual containing strategies for teaching reading. Includes chapters on vocabulary, main ideas and supporting details, author's purpose, chronological order, plot and conflict...
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Website
US Department of Education

U.s. Dept. Of Education: Compact for Reading: Third Grade Activities (Spanish)

For Students 2nd - 4th Standards
Links to 100 third grade activities arranged by skill set and designed to improve reading and writing. All activities are in PDF format and are ready to print and use. They can be downloaded individually, according to skill set, or as...
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Website
Other

Wisconsin Educational Communication Board: Into the Book

For Students K - 1st Standards
This series of videos and interactive activities provide an excellent set of resources for teaching or learning the 8 research based reading strategies provided here. After receiving your "key" you can investigate the features inside and...
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Professional Doc
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Read Write Think

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
ReadWriteThink offers hundreds of classroom resources for teaching and learning language arts and literacy. Resources range from lesson plans to student interactives, to after-school activities, and professional development.
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Daily Book Boosts

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Find instructions, forms, and inspiration to help students to share their reading excitement with the class.
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Pingus Penguins: Writing Good Instructions

For Teachers 3rd - 4th Standards
Students use the free computer game Pingus to learn how engineers, specifically environmental engineers, use their technical writing skills to give instructions and follow the instructions of others. Students learn to write instructions...
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Unit Plan
Read Works

Read Works: Passages: The Upside of Dyslexia

For Teachers 4th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read a nonfiction text about dyslexia and the difficulties and successes it brings and answer questions about comprehension, supporting details, vocabulary, transitions, and more. The text is...
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Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Reading Fluency

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
This lesson engages students in reading fluency practice. Teachers will modeling auditorily, use timed self-assessments, and ensure partners give feedback to motivate the students.
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Website
Scholastic

Scholastic: Teachers: Fluency Resources

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Find a large collection of articles, teaching ideas, and assessment resources on fluency instruction and oral reading.
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Website
BBC

Bbc: Ks2 Bitesize English: Reading

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
This site provides activities, games, tests, and worksheets in reading areas: deduction, dictionaries, poetry, and non-fiction.
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Other

City College: Skills for Life: Reading for a Purpose

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This resource offers 11 exercises with variety of everyday reading passages such as letters, recipes, classified ads, etc. Students read the passage and answer multiple choice questions about its purpose.
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Website
Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Reading Basics

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Provides a wealth of basic information on how to teach kids to read. Covers print awareness, sounds of speech, phonemic awareness, phonics and decoding, fluency, vocabulary, and lots more.
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Professional Doc
Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Teaching Reading: Classroom Strategies

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
A collection of effective, research-based classroom strategies to help build and strengthen literacy skills in print awareness, phonological awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, and writing.
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Activity
Curated OER

Mc Graw Hill: Part 1: Reading Literature: Show Understanding of Text

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
This quick lesson from the Common Core Literacy eHandbook teaches students what questions to ask and how to answer questions to show your understanding of literature.
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Unit Plan
Curated OER

Mc Graw Hill: Part 2 Reading: Informational Text: Summarize

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
Learn how to summarize a section of a text with this site.
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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Read to Learn, Share What You Learn [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Several tips for reading to learn are provided on this page. Students will explore the BIG idea presented in a nonfiction piece.
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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Nonfiction Reading Strategy Assessment [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This inventory provides questions to determine the habits that students use when reading nonfiction pieces. This inventory may be used at the beginning of the year or prior to beginning a unit that involves the reading of nonfiction texts.
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Website
Other

Eduscapes: Themes & Literature Circles

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This site provides guidance in creating literature circles based on cross-curricular themes that will help to improve literacy. The site emphasizes both theory and practice, with lots of practical suggestions.
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Developing a Living Definition of Reading in the Elementary

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Using the guiding question, "What is reading?" students interact with a variety of texts as they uncover the skills necessary to interact with texts and develop a definition of reading.
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Technical Reading and Writing Using Board Games

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Contains plans for a game that helps teach technical reading and writing while reviewing a novel that students have read. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as...
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Guided Comprehension: Previewing

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
This lesson introduces students to the comprehension technique of previewing. Students use anticipation guides to preview and predict stories and work in small groups.
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Guided Comprehension: Making Connections

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
Lesson introduces young scholars to the strategy of making connections. Students learn the three types of connections using a double-entry journal. A good resource for teachers.
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Exploring How Section Headings Support Understanding

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
Teaching students to pay attention to headings and titles as they read? Here you'll find a practical application for using an expository text to apply the concept of using headings. Geared toward older elementary students, but lesson...