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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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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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Handout
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Journey North: Reading Strategies: Identify Author's Viewpoint

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
This reading resource discusses the strategy of identifying an author's viewpoint. A list of guiding questions is provided to help students as they analyze the author's viewpoint.
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Handout
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Journey North: Reading Strategies: Compare and Contrast Ideas

For Students 6th - 9th Standards
This reading resource discusses the strategy of comparing and contrasting ideas. Students will learn definitions and explanations for similes, metaphors, and analogies. A list of guiding questions is provided to help students as they...
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Unit Plan
Education Development Center

Tv411: Tune in for Reading: Reading: Strategies for Better Reading

For Students 4th - 7th Standards
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...
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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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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Imagining & Visualizing: Tutorial

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this slideshow tutorial, students will review the reading strategies of imagining and visualizing to assist with interpreting stories' characters, events, and settings. Students are given an explanation of the strategies and examples...
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Lesson Plan
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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Article
Mind Tools

Mind Tools: Reading Strategies

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site from Mind Tools reviews six different strategies to help you read more effectively. RI.11-12.10a Text Complexity
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PPT
Tom Richey

Slide Share: Prediction and Inference: A Reading Strategy

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
This downloadable slideshow focuses on prediction and inference including the similarities and differences between them, when the reader does each, and questions to ask as you are reading.
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Lesson Plan
Lumen Learning

Lumen: Rhetorical Reading: Strategies for Active Reading

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on strategies for active reading such as annotating your texts, reading multiple times, and using your prior knowledge.
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Exploring Disability Using Multimedia and B D a Reading Strategy

For Teachers 9th - 10th
History takes on new dimensions in this interactive multimedia instructional activity that emphasizes the B-D-A (before-during-after reading) approach to research as learners investigate the experiences of people with disabilities since...
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Character Cards

For Students 9th - 10th
This video lesson focuses on using character cards as a reading strategy. It defines and gives the purpose of character cards, explains the type of information to put on the front and the back of the card and how to maintain the card. It...
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California State University

Reading Strategies From the University of Waterloo

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Brief and easy to read, this California State University Northridge site lists strategies for getting the most of your reading. Geared for reading texts and technical material.
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Website
Other

Reading Quest: Making Sense of Social Studies

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Teaching students to read well in areas other than language arts requires teaching and reinforcing the kinds of reading strategies taught here. There are 27 strategies, ranging from brainstorming to word mapping. The site includes PDF...
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Website
Other

Wisconsin Educational Communication Board: Into the Book

For Students K - 1st Standards
This series of videos and interactive activities provide an excellent set of resources for teaching or learning the 8 research based reading strategies provided here. After receiving your "key" you can investigate the features inside and...
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Reflecting on Reading

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson explains the reading strategy of reflecting on reading. This tutorial lesson shares a short slideshow with the lesson's content.
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Interactive
Quizlet

Quizlet: Explicit, Implicit, Imply, Infer, Inferences Match

For Students 6th - 9th Standards
This interactive game of "Match" assesses students' knowledge of definitions associated with names of reading strategies. Students will match the correct reading strategy [explicit, implicit, imply, infer, inferences] to their...
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Quizlet

Quizlet: Explicit, Implicit, Imply, Infer, Inferences Test

For Students 6th - 9th
Reading strategy terms are included in this review exercise. An assessment is provided for the following words: explicit, implicit, imply, infer, and inferences. Five multiple choice questions are provided on this assessment.
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Lesson Plan
Free Reading

Free Reading: Amplify Education, Inc.: Introduce Reading Connected Text

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
An exciting introduction to reading! The instructor writes a simple, one-line story on the board from literature, and the students learn to sound out the words.
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Article
Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: 103 Things to Do Before/during/after Reading

For Students K - 1st Standards
The highly-respected Reading Rockets program offers both teachers and students a toolkit of ways to connect more actively with the materials they read. Some of these techniques are specifically for fiction-reading, others are designed...
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Qa Rs to Develop Comprehension & Reflective Reading Habits

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Contains plans for three lessons that use the QAR strategy to develop reading comprehension and reflective reading within students. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the...
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Using Thieves to Preview Nonfiction Texts

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Contains plans for three lessons that introduce a nonfiction prereading strategy with the acronym THIEVES, which stands for Title, Headings, Introduction, Every first sentence, Visuals and vocabulary, End Questions, and Summary. In...
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Study Guide
University of South Florida

Fcat Express: Story Mapping

For Students 2nd - 5th Standards
Site provides extensive assistance in preparing 4th grade students for Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test. This section focuses on story mapping, which helps students put events of a story in sequential order.

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