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AdLit

Ad lit.org: Seven Strategies to Teach Students Text Comprehension

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Comprehension strategies are conscious plans - sets of steps that good readers use to make sense of text. Comprehension strategy instruction helps students become purposeful, active readers who are in control of their own reading...
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Article
AdLit

Ad lit.org: Grouping Students Who Struggle With Reading

For Teachers 9th - 10th
There are a variety of grouping formats that have been proven effective for teaching reading to students with learning disabilities: whole class, small group, pairs, and one-on-one. This article summarizes the research and implications...
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: A Critical Analysis of Eight Informal Reading Inventories

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
There are a number of current informal reading inventories - each has its strengths, limitations, and unique characteristics, which should be considered in order to best fit a teacher's needs.
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: Key Literacy Component: Text Comprehension

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Text comprehension allows readers to extract or construct meaning from the written word. Students who misread words or misinterpret their meanings are at a disadvantage. Proper instruction can boost students' skills in this key area.
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: Como Motivar a Los Adolescentes a Leer

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Si bien el hecho de que los adolescentes dispongan de solidas destrezas para la lectura es importante, a veces hacerles que lean puede convertirse en todo un desafio! He aqui algunas maneras de motivar a su adolescente a leer.
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: Effective Reading Interventions for Kids With Learning Disabilities

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Research-based information and advice for sizing up reading programs and finding the right one for your child with a learning disability.
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: Assistive Technology Tools: Reading

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Learn about assistive technology tools - from audiobooks to variable-speed tape recorders - that help students with reading.
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: Dr. Seuss for Older Students

For Teachers 9th - 10th
NEA's annual Read Across America celebration is a great opportunity for tweens and teens to both celebrate their literacy and language skills and share them in meaningful ways.
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: Be a Reading Role Model

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Your child walks like you, talks like you, and absorbs everything you do. So set the right example when it comes to reading. If you want your child to be a good reader, be one yourself!
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Scholastic

Scholastic: So That's the Reason! [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Simple, one-page printable worksheet to introduce your students to cause and effect. Gives one set example, and has space at the bottom to apply to any story you read.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Lesson Plan for Nonfiction Comprehension: Skimming Text

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Build comprehension by developing reading strategies for use with nonfiction text. This lesson focuses on teaching students to recognize text elements as clues to help them quickly locate key information in text.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Questioning the Text

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
In this magazine article originally featured in Instructor, the reading strategy called "questioning the text" is explained by the renowned literacy consultant and staff developer, Stephanie Harvey. The steps included for questioning the...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Snowball Note Making and Summarizing

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson, students will engage in this post-reading strategy for a nonfiction or a fiction piece. Each student will take notes on a four-square square graphic organizer about something they already knew, something they found...
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Vocabulary.com

The New Sat: Language of the Test List #1

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site contains a list of 25 words from the directions and the questions on the New SAT. Teachers can digitally assign this list to their students to reinforce the spellings, pronunciations, and meanings of these words.
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Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center

Wisconsin Rt I Center: Draft Multiple Reading [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Teachers will learn about the importance of using multiple readings. Teachers will learn how to implement multiple readings; measure progress with multiple readings; and find research to support multiple readings.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Sentence Scramblers

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
A great exercise to help students practice reading fluency by using sentence strips and games.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Word Form Recognition Activities

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A wonderful site full of tips for teaching Word-form recognition activities. This site has a plethora of links that provide an excellent way to practice and memorize the essential skills of recognizing words without sounding out each...
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Rick Beach

Teaching Literature to Adolescents, 2nd Edition: Teaching Reading Strategies

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
The textbook entitled Teaching Literature to Adolescents, 2nd Edition contains activities for Chapter 8 reflection. Intended for teachers, this site contains activities that will extend the content from the Chapter 8. Focus of the...
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Article
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Teaching Word Recognition [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
From the magazine, Teaching Exceptional Children, Sept/Oct 2003 issue, this article explains two different strategies for helping students with word recognition through blending and analogizing.
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Curated OER

Mc Graw Hill: Part 2 Reading: Informational Text: Understand Content Words

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
A reference page that shows you how to use context clues to figure out the meaning of unknown content words.
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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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Other

Mo Dept. Of Ed.: Life Is a Journey (The Odyssey Unit Plan)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Unit plan containing five lessons designed for ninth graders. They center around "The Odyssey" and the journey of life, and they teach reading strategies such as decoding, note taking, and summarizing. All are aligned to Missouri...
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Other

Reading Educator: Question Answer Relationships

For Teachers 2nd - 8th Standards
Based on the presumption that every teacher shares responsibility for teaching reading, this page offers a brief look at question-answer relationships, as well as suggestions for putting the strategy to use in the classroom.
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Other

Braindance: Reading Groups of Words at Each Glance

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Gives insight into improving reading speed by learning to read words in groups. There is an excercise to test your speed and suggestions on how to increase it.