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PBS

Reading Adventure Pack: Oceans

For Parents 1st Standards
Flotsam by David Wiesner and The Magic School Bus on the Ocean Floor by Joanna Cole, illustrated by Bruce Degen, begin a reading adventure pack focusing on oceans. With story listening and thoughtful discussion, scholars complete several...
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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Close Reading: The Introduction to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

For Teachers 5th Standards
As part of a group of lessons, your class will return to the primary text for this unit, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Key vocabulary as well as close reading strategies continue to be the focus skills; however, this lesson...
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Unit Plan
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Person to Person: Extra Support Lessons (Theme 4)

For Teachers 5th Standards
Authors use many strategies when writing stories. A series of extra support lessons breaks down those strategies, as well as key grammatical and phonics-based concepts to support struggling learners. The last of three lessons offers...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Paradise Lost: Bloom’s Taxonomy of Thinking Processes

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Chapter II of John Milton's Paradise Lost provides the text for a series of comprehension questions crafted using Bloom's Taxonomy.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Maniac Magee: The Cloze Procedure

For Teachers 4th - 8th Standards
Fill in the blanks with a Cloze activity based on Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli. After listening to a passage read out loud, kids complete the worksheet by using their memories and context clues.
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Unit Plan
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Odell Education

Reading Closely for Textual Details: Grade 7

For Teachers 7th Standards
Enhance the reading experience with a set of lessons designed to improve textual analysis. Seventh graders use guiding questions to read both informational text and literature closely in the first part of the unit. Next, they work on...
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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Final Performance Task: Fishbowl Discussion about Editorial Essay

For Teachers 5th Standards
Using the resource, learners share their essay revisions with a partner. Afterward, they participate in a Fishbowl discussion, receiving peer feedback about their editorial essays. 
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Text Clues and Prior Knowledge

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
Explore making predictions as a reading strategy. As a class, read "Blue Light, Green Light," stopping to make a prediction. After recording a prediction on the graphic organizer, discuss the thoughts behind your idea. Then, continue...
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PPT
Curated OER

Multiplication Word Problems

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
You can use this resource to introduce younger learners to word problems involving multiplication. The concept is described, and example is provided, and then they can practice by solving each of the three practice problems provided. The...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Dogs: Comprehension Strategies

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this comprehension strategies worksheet, students read the story Dogs and then complete comprehension strategies for the story. Students complete activities on cause and effect, main idea and details, inferences, details, and drawing...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Exploring Literacy in Cyberspace

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students explore a variety of reading comprehension strategies and apply these strategies to both online articles and printed text. They compare and contrast the effectiveness of each strategy with each medium.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Reading Comprehension: Jamaica Louise James

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this reading comprehension worksheet, students cut out 5 bookmarks. Each bookmark focuses on a story element in the book Jamaica Louise James by Amy Hest. Students answer the questions on the bookmarks. Included are: making...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

What is effective communication?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students practice a series of communicaton activities. In this communication skills lesson, students role play listening and active listening strategies to improve communication. Students write a set of guidelines for improving...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Coca -- Cola Unveils New Global Ad Strategy

For Students 4th - 6th
In this English learning exercise, students complete a variety of exercises involving news generated about the soft drink Coke. Students read an article, work on 6 warm-ups and answer 8 statements as true or false. Students match up 10...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Reading and Responding -- Lesson 10

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders work individually or in a small group to (1) read a fictional passage, (2) practice test-taking strategies, and (3) practice using context clues to increase their vocabulary. Reading passage and comprehension questions...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Reading and Responding -- Lesson 15

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders work independently or in a small group to (1) read a poem, (2) identify unfamiliar words, (3) connect text to real-life situations, and (4) respond to poetry. Reading passage, comprehension questions, and teacher script...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Piano

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders read The Piano and become familiar with racial discrimination.  In this racial discrimination book lesson, 2nd graders answer comprehension question to focus on the importance of the book.  Students discuss the reader's...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Comprehension: "The Great Ball Game"

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this reading comprehension learning exercise, students cut out 5 bookmarks. Each has a skill- focused question about The Great Ball Game by Joseph Bruchac. Students answer the question on each bookmark.
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Worksheet
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K12 Reader

Repeated Subtraction Is Division

For Students 2nd - 3rd Standards
Here's a reading comprehension worksheet that not only provides a skill building opportunity but also introduces readers to the idea of repeated subtraction.
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Worksheet
K5 Learning

Susie and Rover

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Reinforce reading comprehension skills with a two-page instructional activity offering a story about a young girl, her dog, and an important life lesson. Scholars read the text then show what they know through four short-answer questions. 
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Worksheet
K5 Learning

The Bee

For Students 1st Standards
Early readers follow along as Lucy and her mother discuss why a bee is stuck in a flower then answer four reading comprehension questions. 
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Worksheet
K5 Learning

Bruce and the Spider

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
After reading the story of, Bruce and the Spider, scholars answer four short answer questions to boost comprehension skills.  
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Teaching Listening to Advanced Learners

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students provide input on listening tasks and provide practice in listening for specific information in an exam type format.
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PPT
Curated OER

Finding the Main Idea

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Being able to identify the main idea in a text is an essential comprehension skill. After the term is defined, viewers examine a series of paragraphs and are asked to identify the main idea and the supporting details.

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