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Website
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Engage in Group Reading Activities With Purpose and Understanding

For Teachers Pre-K - K Standards
Choose from a variety of lessons that meet the Kindergarten standard of engaging in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.
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Handout
Miami University

Miami University: Children's Picture Book Database (Abstracts)

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This resource offers a large database with abstracts that describe numerous children's picture books.
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Professional Doc
Other

Nsw Department of Education: Reading for a Purpose

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Short discussion of teaching students the importance of why they are reading a particular text. Also provides some commentary from a teacher who used this method and an example of some questions students wanted to answer from a...
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Professional Doc
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Essentials for Reading Success

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This site offers three cyclical flow charts of the essentials for reading success: components of reading, types of assessment, and layers of instruction.