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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Summarize Informational/expository Text (English 6 Reading)

For Students 5th - 7th Standards

[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Learn how to summarize the main ideas and supporting details in text and understand that a summary does not include opinions.

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Media Smarts

Media Smarts:teaching Tv: Critically Evaluating Tv Lesson

For Students 1st - 6th Standards

MediaSmarts provides digital and media literacy lessons for students. In this lesson, students will learn to watch and listen to a television with a critical lense

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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Evaluating and Interpreting Media

For Students 5th - 9th Standards

[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] When people talk about media literacy, they are talking about learning to understand what these messages really mean. This lesson will help you take a closer look at a few...

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National Science Teachers Association

Nsta: Science & Engineering Practices: Obtaining, Evaluating, Communication

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards

This site from NSTA includes a progression of the Science and Engineering Practice for obtaining, evaluating, and communicating information. In addition, thereare performance expectations that make use science and engineering practices.

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Nsw Department of Education and Training: Picture This [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards

Reading unit plan focusing on picture books. It contains ten days worth of teaching suggestions that use a variety of reading strategies including modeled as well as independent reading and writing. Also includes five printable...

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Curated OER

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

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards

Learn how to summarize a text based on the main idea and supporting details you found.

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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: Classify and Summarize Information [Pdf]

For Students 2nd - 8th Standards

This learning module contains a link to graphic organizers that will help students categorize content and comprehend short and extended texts. The graphic organizers are designed to be applied to reading nonfiction passages in science...

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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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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

Depaul University: Center for Urban Education: Interpreta La Historia [Pdf]

For Students 5th - 9th Standards

Students will read about a historical event and then illustrate their interpretations. Questions are included to extend the students' comprehension of the events. This activity is written in Spanish.

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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

Depaul University: Center for Urban Education: Interpet History [Pdf]

For Students 5th - 9th Standards

Students will read about a historical event and then illustrate their interpretations. Questions are included to extend the students' comprehension of the events.

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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Expand Story or History Text Based Dialog[pdf]

For Students 5th - 8th Standards

Students will use graphic organizers to help them make inferences about historical figures' feeings and motives. Students will summarize the information during an extension activity.

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Education Development Center

Tv411: Summarizing

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards

This activity asks students to read short paragraphs and select the statement that best summarizes each paragraph. It is part of a larger reading unit.

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Cable News Network, Inc.: Learning Resources: Story Archives

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards

Links to various new stories sorted alphabetically by title and by category. Each story is available in full story, abridged story, or story outline format.

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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Guided Reading/listening Ques: Nonfiction[pdf]

For Students 5th - 9th Standards

This graphic organizer will assist students with taking notes connected nonfiction content. After taking notes with the graphic organizer, students will ask guiding questions listed on the sheet.

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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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New Zealand Ministry of Education

Nz Ministry of Education: Extra! Extra!

For Teachers 4th - 7th Standards

In this instructional activity students will learn about newspapers including the parts of a newspaper, purpose, and structure of articles. They will gather, record and present information from a variety of sources, using different...

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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: I Can Classify and Infer When I Read [Pdf]

For Students 5th - 8th Standards

This site contains links to two graphic organizers to guide and assess the understanding of nonfiction text in science and social studies.

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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Identify Important Info When I Read [Pdf]

For Students 4th - 8th Standards

Links to self-assessment activities for content area fluency activities are found on this resource. Students will read, time themselves, and record facts. Students will improve their reading rates and levels of comprehension.

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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Things That We Read

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards

This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides ways to motivate middle school students to read. A link is provided that contains 25 graphic organizers related to reading and note-taking.

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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Guided Comprehension: Summarizing

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards

Lesson that introduces students to the comprehension technique of summarizing. Students learn using the QuIP (questions into paragraphs) method which involves organizing information and putting it in writing.

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TES Global

Tes: The Media: Understanding Key Media Areas

For Teachers 4th - 9th Standards

[Free Registration/Login Required] During this unit of study, students will analyze several types of advertisements. Students will analyze how authors pay attention to the language and visuals to appeal to their audiences.

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TES Global

Tes: Guided Reading Resources: Nonfiction

For Teachers 2nd - 7th Standards

[Free Registration/Login Required] This learning module contains several guided reading resources. Students will be able to use the charts to guide themselves as they discuss informational texts and persuasive texts. Teachers can monitor...

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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Write On!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards

In this activity, students create a book, newspaper or other published work to communicate what they have learned about engineering and the environment.

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