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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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E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Making Predictions Worksheets and Lessons

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
In this learning module, students will learn more about making predictions in reading. Worksheets and a leson are provided to support Tier I, Tier II, and Tier III students.
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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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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

Depaul University: Center for Urban Education: I Can Explain an Inference [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This tool can be used to help students articulate their answers about fiction pieces. Students will quote the text, provide an inference, and give a justification.
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Curated OER

Mc Graw Hill: 6th Grade Use Text Evidence

For Students 5th - 7th Standards
Learn how to use text evidence to draw inferences; click the Model button on bottom right.
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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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E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Inferences Worksheets

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
In this learning module, students will learn more about making inferences. Worksheets are provided to reinforce the skill of making inferences. This module is designed to support Tier I, Tier II, and Tier III students.
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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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Scholastic

Scholastic Teaching Resources: Nonfiction Notepads [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 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 on each notepad response:...
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Informational Text: Reading Response: Cause and Effect [Pdf]

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
This graphic organizer can be used as a reading response when working with informational text. Students will write two different effects and record multiple causes for each effect.
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CommonLit

Common Lit: Ataka

For Students 5th - 6th Standards
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...
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CommonLit

Common Lit: What Is the International Space Station

For Students 5th - 6th Standards
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...
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CommonLit

Common Lit: "Don't Hate on the Trait" by Bird Brain Science

For Students 4th - 5th Standards
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...
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Learning Farm

Learning Farm: Word Relationships

For Students 5th - 7th Standards
Learn how word relationships affect the meaning of text, and then practice this skill.
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Quizlet

Quizlet: Non Fiction Text Features 3rd Grade Test

For Students 2nd - 5th Standards
Text feature terms are included in this assessment. This test assesses the following text feature terms: map, table of contents, index, bold words, caption, timeline, heading, and glossary. Images of the text feature terms are included....
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Using the Five Finger Rule

For Teachers 4th - 8th Standards
Students identify text features in nonfiction, as they continue to study cells' function as building blocks of organisms, and summarize the requirements for cells to live.
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Other

Educeri: Compare & Contrast the Overall Structure in Two or More Texts [Pdf]

For Students 5th Standards
A 10-page handout that explains clearly what text structure is and four different types, with accompanying examples. Different types are then presented along with two pieces of informational text and a modeled analysis, then two other...
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International Literacy Association

Ila: Unlocking the Power of Informational Text With Five Creative Ideas

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Five easy ways to help unlock the power of informational text for all students.
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Other

Literacy Design Collaborative: Partner Retelling of Narrative Text

For Teachers 4th - 5th Standards
For this lesson, the teacher reads a story aloud and students work with a partner to retell the story using sentence starters. Includes downloadable poster.
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ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: Musical Inferences [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
In this instructional activity, learners will learn that inference is also present in music. They will examine music from different soundtracks to see how music is used to set the stage for events. They will describe how music gets...
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BBC

Bbc: Skillswise: Types of Texts Fact Sheets

For Students 5th - 8th Standards
Six printable fact sheets on how to understand and recognize different types of text including descriptive, informative, instructive, and persuasive.
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University of Victoria (Canada)

Study Zone: From Carrots to Renovations: Reading Comprehension

For Students 5th - 6th Standards
A reading passage with five multiple-choice questions to assess comprehension.
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South Carolina Educational Television

Know It All: Summarizing Texts

For Teachers 5th Standards
Fifth graders will review what a summary is and complete a worksheet for practice. They will then write their own informational text and a peer will summarize.
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South Carolina Educational Television

Know It All: Non Fiction Text Features

For Teachers 5th Standards
Fifth graders will use non-fiction books to identify and explain how text features help them as individual readers.