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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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Article
AdLit

Ad lit.org: Key Literacy Component: Fluency

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Fluent readers can read text accurately, smoothly, and with good comprehension. Students who get bogged down in the mechanics of reading have trouble with this skill. With proper instruction, struggling readers can improve their fluency.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Book Reviews, Annotation, and Web Technology

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Contains plans for six lessons that ask students to write group book reviews after reading texts in literature circles. Students also learn about research and documentation as they put together their reports. In addition to objectives...
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Read Works

Read Works: Dinosaur Discovery

For Teachers 2nd
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read text, a map, and a chart about dinosaur fossils. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in comparing and contrasting.
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Handout
University of Washington

A Visual Sourcebook of Chinese Civilization [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
The goal of this "visual sourcebook" is to add to the material teachers can use to help theirstudents understand Chinese history, culture, and society. It was not designed to standalone; we assume that teachers who use it will also...
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PBS

Pbs: The Living Edens: Borneo: From Caves to Kinabalu

For Teachers 9th - 10th
View pictures, read text, and listen to information about the topography, flora, and fauna of Borneo, the world's third largest island.
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Other

Sweet Briar College: Sojourner Truth, "Ain't I a Woman?"

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site provides a very well laid out and easy to read text of Sojourner Truth's famous "Ain't I A Women" speech delivered to the Women's Convention in Akron, Ohio in 1851.
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Institute and Museum of the History of Science

Museo Galileo: Multimedia: Video: Astronomical Use of the Plane Astrolabe

For Students 9th - 10th
Invented in ancient Egypt, the plane astrolabe is a tool used by astronomers and navigators to determine time and identifying positions of the Sun, Moon, stars, and planets. Read text or view the video to understand the details of its...
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Website
Texas State Library and Archives Commission

Texas State Library and Archives Commission: Beginnings of the Movement: African American Men Get the Vote

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the ways in which the women's suffrage movement, after African-American men were given the right to vote, fell short. Read texts from this period of time.
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Website
Other

The War of 1812: The Burning of Washington

For Students K - 1st
A one minute video and two primary source accounts of the burning of Washington, D.C. during the War of 1812. Students can read text of a British soldier's account as well as a letter on the topic written by Dolley Madison to her sister.
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Other

Ask Lois Terms: Associative Property

For Students 3rd - 8th
Are you confused about the associative property? Well, just ask Lois. Set up in the "Dear Abbey," format, students can email Lois to get answers to their math questions. Easy to read text, written in "kid friendly" language with...
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Smithsonian Institution

Nat'l Portrait Gallery: Ballyhoo! Posters as Portraiture: Greatest Show on Earth

For Students 9th - 10th
See a poster advertising The Greatest Show on Earth and read text explaining why the poster was so important to advertising the circus.
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Website
Other

Arild Hauge's Runes: About the Runes

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from Arild Hauge's Runes provides an easy-to-read text about the runes and their meaning. Illustrations of rune artifacts. Although the author is from Denmark, home of the Vikings, please be aware that we could not ascertain...
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Handout
Alberta Online Encyclopedia

Alberta Online Encyclopedia: The Metis in Alberta

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the Metis Peoples in Alberta--their beginnings, the people and their communities and their culture and lifestyle. Listen to content, view pictures, read text and follow the timeline of this Aboriginal peoples of Alberta.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Connecting With Reading

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A brief slideshow that identifies and defines the ways that readers can make connections while reading a text (Text to Self, Text to Text and Text to World) and instructions about annotating while reading. Includes a worksheet that...
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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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Other

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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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Rhetorical Reading: Academic Reading Strategies

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on reading strategies including understanding your purpose, and before, during, and after reading strategies.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Identify, Compare, Write Nonfiction

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Lesson that introduces the concepts of nonfiction to elementary students. Through reading and interactive lessons, students engage the genre of nonfiction and begin to write their own examples.
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Other

Textkit: Greek and Latin Learning Tools

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is developed by lovers of ancient languages to help people of all ages learn Greek and Latin. Includes many downloadable grammar and reading texts as well as classical e-books. Tutorials are available and e-mail vocabulary...
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Website
Other

Canadian Heritage: Alberta

For Students 3rd - 5th
A brief overview of the province of Alberta. Easy to read text plus photos make this perfect for the younger researcher.
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Creating Text Sets for Whole Class Instruction

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Learn what makes a strong English language arts (ELA) curriculum by creating text sets for the whole-class instruction.
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Lesson Plan
Lumen Learning

Lumen: Critical Reading: Logic and Structure

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This instructional activity focuses on structure and logic including types and purposes of essays, organizational patterns, argumentative writing, and logic and fallacies.
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Website
Joe Landsberger

Study Guides & Strategies: How to Read an Essay

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Use this guide when reading an expository text or any type of essay, as it provides important questions you should ask yourself while you read. You can access this page in multiple languages from the English homepage.

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