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Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Text Analysis: Incredible Inferences [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
A lesson plan in which students play a game to cover words on a game board by making inferences. Materials are included.
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Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Monitor for Understanding: K W L [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which learners complete a KWL chart before during and after reading a text. Materials are included.
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Professional Doc
Scholastic

Scholastic: A Not So Glorious Victory

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
After reading "A Not-So-Glorious," Victory, which is included on this page, have your students practice identifying cause and effect using the printable worksheet.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Interactive Reading Project

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this lesson plan, students are motivated to read and learn how to discuss literature by discussing books they are reading via e-mail.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: What Can We Learn From Pigs?

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This thematic language arts lesson uses a variety of beginning reading books about pigs to help special education/early elementary students learn about character traits and concepts. The wide use of graphic organizers introduces...
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: What Is the Pulgar?

For Teachers 4th - 6th
This is a lesson for students in grades 4-6 to learn visualization, prediction, and sequencing.
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Interactive
ABCya

Ab Cya: Alphabet Bubble

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Alphabet Bubble is a fun educational game that helps develop phonemic awareness. Children pop bubbles to match letters with words that start with the correct letter sound. Once a match is completed children are shown a picture of the word.
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Asking and Answering Questions About Our Story

For Teachers 1st Standards
Today's instructional activity is all about asking and answering questions so we can strengthen comprehension.
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Questioning Text

For Teachers 1st Standards
Creating a product and illustrations make this lesson great for teaching about questioning. Students will ask and answer questions about a text via the assistance of a graphic organizer.
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: "Sticky Note Reading" the Art of Questioning While Reading

For Teachers 3rd Standards
Third graders will learn the importance questioning has on comprehension of a text. Students will use sticky notes and an interactive reading notebook while working with an informational text.
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Handout
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Main Point Quick Guide

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The first question in most Reading Comprehension sets will ask you to identify the statement that best expresses the central idea or the main point that the passage as a whole is designed to convey.
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Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Active Reading Strategies Part 2: Rephrase and Predict

For Students 9th - 10th
A powerful reading strategy designed to encourage you to trust yourself while working through the SAT Reading Test. If you know what you want before you start looking, you are a LOT less likely to make a bad choice..
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Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Active Reading Strategies Part 1: Sq3 R

For Students 9th - 10th
This Khan Academy Resource is an article about Active Reading Strategies Part 1: SQ3R.
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Website
Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Launching Young Readers: Episode 10: Toddling Toward Reading

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Hosted by Reba McEntire, "Toddling Toward Reading" examines what it takes to give preschoolers the early literacy skills they need to become successful readers. Features children's book author and illustrator Sandra Boynton, whose...
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Website
Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Launching Young Readers: Episode 1: Roots of Reading

For Teachers K - 1st
Hosted by Fred Rogers, The Roots of Reading looks at the earliest stages of literacy in such locations as a baby speech lab and a Head Start center. The program examines how parents, childcare providers, and kindergarten teachers can get...
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Molly of Denali: Party Moose Lesson Plan

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This lesson, using the animated story "Party Moose" from the series Molly of Denali, shows the importance of paying attention to meaning while reading and using strategies, such as rereading, when something doesn't make sense. Molly and...
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Lesson Plan
Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Guidebooks: Notice and Note Signposts

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A reading routine which provides students with look fors as they are reading and encourages them to reread a portion of a text to answer a question about the meaning of the text.
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Lesson Plan
Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Guidebooks: Annotating Text

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This strategy helps students refine their understanding of texts to meet reading expectations and prepare for writing about texts.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: The Relatives Came by Cynthia Rylant

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This is a first grade reading comprehension lesson to teach students how to make text-to-self connections while reading.
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Article
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: The Road to Representation Creating the Crunchy Life Kid's Series

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This blog focuses on a teacher's need to fill in the gaps for reading strategies and the priority to improve comprehension and overall reading development. She explains the strategies to meet the above goals.
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Activity
McGraw Hill

Read: Does Technology Make Us Lazy?

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Compare these two passages for some interesting ideas about how technology affects our lives. The questions that follow ask you to identify the main idea from either direct statement or inference.
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Professional Doc
AdLit

Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Sq3 R: Survey Question Read Recite Review

For Teachers 9th - 10th
SQ3R is a comprehension strategy that helps students think about the text they are reading while they're reading. Often categorized as a study strategy, SQ3R helps students "get it" the first time they read a text by teaching students...
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Professional Doc
AdLit

Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Question the Author (Qt A)

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
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).
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Professional Doc
AdLit

Ad lit.org: Hooking Reluctant Ell Readers

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this excerpt from her essay "Literacy Development for Latino Students," published in The Best for Our Children: Critical Perspectives on Literacy for Latino Students, Teacher's College Press, the author describes the reading program...