AdLit
Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Question the Author (Qt A)
Question the Author (QtA) is a comprehension strategy that requires students to pose queries while reading the text in order to challenge their understanding and solidify their knowledge (Beck et al., 1997).
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Multiple Texts: Multiple Opportunities for Teaching and Learning
Engaging all students in a themed study or unit is a challenge that teachers can resolve by using materials that match students' independent or instructional reading levels (Robb 1994, 2000). When students face textbooks that are above...
E Reading Worksheets
E Reading Worksheets: Text Structure: Test 3
In this text structure test, students read passages and select the correct text structure; they are sometimes asked to explain how the evidence to prove their selections.
E Reading Worksheets
E Reading Worksheets: Text Structures
A complete reading activity covering text structure with several interactive practice questions. Press the "play" button to access the material.
Other
42explore: Skimming and Scanning
Learn to tackle even the most difficult of reading assignments through skimming and scanning. This website overviews what skimming and scanning are and provides several links with techniques on becoming an effective reader.
Other
Education Atlas: Study Skills: A Strategy for Reading Textbooks
This resource presents an overview of a textbook-reading method called SQRW, survey, question, read, and write, with a paragraph of text describing each step.
TES Global
Blendspace: Reading Strategies for Complex Texts
A nine-part learning module on reading strategies including links to videos, images, websites, and activities.
TES Global
Blendspace: Runners Active Reading Process
A nine-part learning module on using the acronym RUNNERS to learn active reading strategies through text, videos, a PowerPoint, a web link and a quiz.
TES Global
Blendspace: Text Connections Pompeii in Poetry, Fiction and Nonfiction
A fourteen-part learning module with links to texts, videos, and websites that demonstrate text connections through various texts about Pompeii.
Other
Jeopardy Labs: Text Structure
Practice answering text structure questions in this Jeopardy-style learning activity.
Other
Prezi: Nonfiction Text Structures
Slideshow examines the five most common text structures used by authors to organize nonfiction writing.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Nonfiction Comprehension: Making Personal and Textual Connections
This is a lesson plan to help elementary students connect to nonfiction text as they read.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Note Taking for Social Studies
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart covers how to read a historical text and convert information into visual representations by taking notes. This strategy helps students to read a passage and determine the author's purpose.
Dartmouth College
Dartmouth College: Reading Techniques: Sq3 R Method for Thorough Study
A brief description of the SQ3R method of reading comprehension and how it can be used to improve study habits.
Mind Tools
Mind Tools: Reading Strategies
This site from Mind Tools reviews six different strategies to help you read more effectively. RI.11-12.10a Text Complexity
E Reading Worksheets
E Reading Worksheets: English Worksheets and Tests
Downloadable worksheets and tests focusing on reading, figurative language, genre, language arts, point of view, and text structure for middle grades.
Other
How to Study: Strategy for Reading Textbooks
This site gives a method, called SQRW, that can help you with your reading. It is very similar to SQ3R.
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Reading Guides
Reading Guides help students navigate reading material, especially difficult textbook chapters or technical reading. Students respond to a teacher-created written guide of prompts as they read an assigned text. Reading Guides help...
Education Development Center
Tv411: Tune in for Reading: Reading: Strategies for Better Reading
Self-checking interactive tutorial puts reading comprehension skills to work by asking learners to make inferences, predict what happens next, and identify the main ideas in a series of short reading passages. Related materials include...
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Academic Tips to Help Kids Learn to Be Effective Students
This how-to page provides tools to help students be engaged in their classes. Strategies for listening, notetaking, and planning for classes are shared.
Quizlet
Quizlet: Making Inferences (Nonfiction)
Match five words and definitions about making inferences in nonfiction texts by racing against the clock in this learning game.
Quizlet
Quizlet: Making Inferences (Nonfiction)
Build your nonfiction inference vocabulary by interacting with terms like lesson, data, schema, sources, and more. Choose to view flashcards, complete learning and spelling exercises, take a test, or play a matching or gravity game.
Quizlet
Quizlet: Middle School (8Th Grade Ela) Text Structures Test
A test with twenty matching, multiple choice, and true/false questions over text structure terms and definitions.
Quizlet
Quizlet: Middle School (8Th Grade Ela) Text Structures Match
Race against the clock to match twenty-five text structure terms and definitions.