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Smekens: Integrate Information Across Diverse Media Formats

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards

Read about strategies to help students integrate information across diverse media formats. Includes video. [4:18]

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Say, Mean, Matter [Pdf]

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards

This rereading strategy has students answer three questions: What does it say? What does it mean? and What does it matter? The strategy is called by the short title of 'Say, Mean, Matter.' It gives students a way to question a text, look...

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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Developing Academic Language: Got Words?

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards

This is a research-based article concerning how to best teach academic vocabulary. Research finds that most teachers assign and mention vocabulary, but to be effective, instruction must be direct and meaningful. Recommendations for...

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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Activities for Struggling Readers

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards

How can you help the struggling readers in your classroom? This site offers some insight into activities to help develop your students reading skills.

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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: The Foundations for Reading

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards

What are the foundations for reading? Come and explore this informative article to discover the answer to this question.

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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Applying Word Strategies: Multiple Choice Review: Practice 1

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

Lessons on roots and affixes, denotation and connotation, context clues, origins and meanings of foreign words, cognates, and reference materials help determine word meanings. These lessons told you HOW to use these word discovery tools....

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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Context Clues and Analogies (English Ii Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson focuses on strategies for using context clues and analogies to determine the meaning of words, sentences, and paragraphs.

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Starfall

Starfall: Make a Word: Ip

For Students Pre-K - 1st

Play interactive game building IP words. Also practice identifying initial sounds and matching pictures. Short I words: zip, rip, dip, sip.

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ICT Games

Ict Games: Tell a T Rex

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards

Read these silly sentences and decide which ones make sense. Perfect practice for reading for comprehension.

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Kidsource OnLine

Phonemic Awareness: Important Early Step to Reading

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards

This site features an article that looks at the importance of phonemic awareness as an early step to learning to read. Teachers will benefit from the information presented within this article.

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Kidsource OnLine

Kid Source: Beginning Reading and Phonological Awareness

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards

Key to learning how to read is the ability to identify the different sounds that make words and to associate these sounds with written words. There are 44 phonemes in the English language, including letter combinations such as /th/,...

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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Strategies for Every Child to Read

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards

What are some strategies for achieving the goal of every child reading? This site features several activities to achieve this goal with your readers.

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Auburn University

Auburn University: Help Beginners With Oral Reading

For Students 1st - 5th Standards

This helpful overview for teachers recommends strategies that aid young readers with oral reading.

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Auburn University

Auburn University: Developing Reading Fluency

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards

How can you develop reading fluency in your students? This site offers insight into the direct and indirect approaches to teaching reading fluency. Come and check it out.

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Nclr: The Essentials of Teaching Reading

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards

Find out what the essentials are for teaching reading. This site provides vital information for teachers in developing the most successful reading program for their students.

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PBS

Pbs: American Masters: Lesson 2: Truman Capote: Other Voices, Other Rooms

For Teachers 9th - 10th

This lesson plan is based on the PBS episode of American Masters about Truman Capote. Young scholars will read and analyze how Truman Capote develops characters as they record their findings on worksheets included with this lesson. Then...

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CommonLit

Common Lit: Book Pairings: "Wide Sargasso Sea" by Jean Rhys

For Students 9th - 10th

Selected (10) reading passages (grades 8-12) to pair with "Wide Sargasso Sea" by Jean Rhys. Written as a prequel to Jane Eyre, "Wide Sargasso Sea" follows the life of Antoinette Cosway from her tumultuous childhood in Jamaica following...

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Common Lit: Book Pairings: "A Streetcar Named Desire" by Tennessee Williams

For Students 9th - 10th

Selected (6) reading passages (grades 8-12) to pair with "A Streetcar Named Desire" by Tennessee Williams. After losing her family estate to creditors, Blanche DuBois moves in with her younger sister, Stella, and her working class...

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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Journey North: Reading Strategies: Use Context Clues to Decipher Words

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

This reading resource discusses the strategy of using context clues to decipher new words. A list of guiding questions is provided to help students as they use context clues to understand new words.

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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Monitor for Understanding: Question Creation [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards

A lesson plan in which students read a text and create questions using the words provided on word cards. Materials are included.

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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Monitor for Understanding: Reading Repair

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

A lesson plan in which students read a text using different reading strategies to fix problems as they read. Materials are included. [PDF]

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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Monitor for Understanding: What Do You Know? [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards

A lesson plan in which students browse a text and complete graphic organizers to help them activate prior knowledge. Materials are included.

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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Monitor for Understanding: Strategic

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

A lesson plan in which students complete a graphic organizer to record prior knowledge before reading, ask questions while reading, and summarize a text after reading. Materials are included. [PDF]

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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Monitor for Understanding: Sum Summary! [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

A lesson plan in which young scholars read a narrative or informational text and complete graphic organizers to help them write good summaries of the texts. Materials are included.

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