Reading Comprehension Centers Teaching Resources :: 961

Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Exp. Text Structure: Classic Classifying

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

A lesson plan in which students read a text and write main ideas and supporting details in boxes on a graphic organizer. Materials are included. [PDF]

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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Exp. Text Structure: Detail Delight [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd Standards

A lesson plan in which students read a text use a graphic organizer to record the topic and supporting details. Materials are included.

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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Expository Exploration [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd Standards

A lesson plan in which students read a text and complete a graphic organizer to identify the main idea and supporting details. Materials are included.

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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Narrative Text Structure: Retell Wheel

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

A lesson plan in which learners read a narrative text and then turn a question wheel to answer questions about the characters, setting, conflict, and plot. Materials are included.[PDF]

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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Narrative Text Structure: Summary Step Up [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards

A lesson plan in which students read a narrative text and complete a graphic organizer to show the plot elements of the story. Materials are included.

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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Keys to the Main Idea [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards

A lesson plan in which students read a text a complete a graphic organizer to identify the main ideas and supporting details. Materials are included.

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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Venn Diagram [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

A lesson plan in which students read two literary texts then compare and contrast them by completing a Venn diagram. Materials are included.

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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Narrative Text Structure: Sequence a Story [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

A lesson plan in which young scholars read a narrative text and write the main events of the story on sentence strips. Materials are included.

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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Narrative Text Structure: Retell Ring [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

A lesson plan in which students read a narrative text and answer questions about the plot. Materials are included.

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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Sentence Meaning: Name That Rhyme [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

A lesson plan in which students read match the title with the last line of a common nursery rhyme. Materials are included.

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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Native Americans Potawatomi [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 5th

"Native Americans--Potawatomi" is a one page, nonfiction, reading passage about what the prairie looked like during each of the seasons when the Potawatomi lived there. It is followed by questions which require students to provide...

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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

Depaul University: Center for Urban Education: Compare and Contrast [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th

This Center for Urban Education resource provides a downloadable graphic organizer designed for comparing and contrasting fiction or nonfiction characteristics.

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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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Read Works

Read Works: Helping Hands

For Students 4th Standards

[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text written by ten-year-old Rose Brooks about her trip to the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in understanding...

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Gallaudet University: Reading and Mapping

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

Learn strategies for reading and mapping. This link offers important tips on improving test taking skills. Includes a PDF (requires Adobe Reader).

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AdLit

Ad lit.org: The Enhanced Reading Opportunities Study

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards

While much has been learned about literacy in the elementary grades, less is known about programmatic approaches that help struggling adolescent readers acquire the skills they need to succeed in high school. The Enhanced Reading...

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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

Depaul University: Center for Urban Education: Nonfiction Passage Questions[pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards

This site contains questions for each passage are provided. Graphic organizers are available for these copyrighted materials that may be used for educational purposes.

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InterLink Language Centers

Interlink Language Center: Reading #6

For Students 9th - 10th

This is a reading adapted from Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs followed by a cloze-style, 15-question quiz. Selected words have been removed from the passage and replaced with numbers referring to the quiz. Students select...

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InterLink Language Centers

Interlink Language Center: Reading #4

For Students 9th - 10th

This is a reading adapted from The Myth of Narcissus followed by a cloze-style, 15-question quiz. Selected words have been removed from the passage and replaced with numbers referring to the quiz. Students select each of the missing...

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InterLink Language Centers

Interlink Learning Center: Reading #2

For Students 9th - 10th

This is a mini story adapted from "Dreams" by Jerome K. Jerome is followed by a cloze-style quiz. Words from the story have been removed and replaced by a number which refers to a quiz question. Students select the missing words from 4...

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InterLink Language Centers

Interlink Language Center: Reading #5

For Students 9th - 10th

This is a reading adapted from "Legend of Sleepy Hollow" by Washington Irving followed by a cloze-style, 15-question quiz. Selected words have been removed from the passage and replaced with numbers referring to the quiz. Students select...

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InterLink Language Centers

Interlink Language Center: Reading #7

For Students 9th - 10th

This is a reading adapted from A Treatise on Parents and Children by George Bernard Shaw followed by a cloze-style, 15-question quiz. Selected words have been removed from the passage and replaced with numbers referring to the quiz....

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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Simple Things Principals Can Do to Help All Children Read Well

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards

Explore a list of simple things that principals can do to help all children learn to read. Come and learn more about the collaboration process with school administrators, teachers and staff.

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Read Works

Read Works: Canine Courage

For Teachers 6th

[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about rescue dogs and how they are better equipped than humans for situations like the World Trade Center collapse on September 11, 2001. A question sheet is available to help...

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