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AdLit

Ad lit.org: Sustaining Focus on Secondary School Reading: Lessons, Recommendations

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Alabama is unique in including an adolescent literacy focus in its statewide reading improvement efforts. This report from the National High School Center looks at the Alabama Reading Initiative and synopsizes 10 lessons learned in...
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Article
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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AdLit

Ad lit.org: Reading Discussion Guide: The Sacrifice by Kathleen Benner Duble

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
In the year 1692, life changes forever for ten-year-old Abigail Faulkner and her family. In Salem, Massachusetts, witches have been found, and widespread fear and panic reign mere miles from Abigail's home of Andover. When two girls are...
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: Adolescent Literacy: What's Technology Got to Do With It?

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Learn how technology tools can support struggling students and those with learning disabilities to acquire background knowledge and vocabulary, improve their reading comprehension, and increase their motivation for learning.
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: Reading Discussion Guide: Now You See Her by Jacquelyn Mitchard

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Hope Shay's life is about acting. Her parents have supported and promoted her talents since she was a little girl. From community theater, dinner theater, and commercials to auditions around the country and finally a place at a...
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: Reading Discussion Guide: The Curse of the Gloamglozer

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
In this prequel to the first three volumes, readers meet young Quint long before his sky pirating days, as he becomes the apprentice to Linius Pallitax, the Most High Academe of Sanctaphrax. Shortly after his arrival, Quint is enlisted...
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Lesson Plan
Broward Education Foundation

Broward Education Foundation: News Is Knowledge! [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The project provides teachers with ideas to create literacy centers for use in their own classrooms using student-friendly newspapers from various curricular areas. We will provide plans that can be used to adapt the materials each week....
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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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Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center

Wisconsin Rt I Center: Print Rich Environment [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Classroom teachers will learn the importance of a print rich environment. Teachers will learn how to implement a print rich environment and how to measure students' progress relative to the print rich environment.
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Student Center Activities, K 1

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
In 2004-2005, a team of teachers at FCRR reviewed current research, collected ideas, and created materials for use in kindergarten and first grade classrooms. The K-1 Student Center Activities include three books and one DVD: The first...
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Other

National Research Center on Rural Ed. Support: Targeted Reading Intervention

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
An overview of targeted reading intervention strategies and professional development activities to assist struggling readers in kindergarten and first grade.
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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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Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center

Wisconsin Rt I Center: Pals [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Classroom teachers will learn about Peer Assisted Learning/Literacy Strategies (PALS) an engaging instructional strategy for students. Teachers will learn how to implement PALS, understand how to measure progress with PALS, and find...
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: Guidelines for Teaching Students to Read and Write Well:six Features

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Building on their research in secondary classrooms, the Center on English Learning and Achievement has developed guidelines that describe six essential features of effective literacy instruction and how teachers can implement them.
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Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Text Analysis: What's the Purpose? [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
A lesson plan in which young scholars read short texts and sort them according to purpose: persuade, inform, entertain, and explain. Materials are included. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.6
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Article
Harvard University

Harvard College Writing Center: How to Do a Close Reading

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A brief explanation of the tasks involved in doing a close reading in preparation for writing. This writer breaks the process into three steps which involve annotating the text, looking for patterns, and asking questions of the text.
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Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center

Wisconsin Rt I Center: Choral Reading [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Classroom teachers will learn about choral reading, an engaging instructional strategy. Teachers will learn how to implement choral reading, understand how to measure progress with choral reading, find research that supports choral...
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Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center

Wisconsin Rt I Center: Repeated Readings [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Classroom teachers will learn about reading repeatedly, an effective instructional strategy. Teachers will learn how to implement repeated readings, understand how to measure progress with repeated readings, and find research that...
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Student Center Activities, Grades 4 5

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
In 2006-2007, FCRR reviewed current research, collected ideas, and created materials for use in fourth and fifth-grade classrooms. The 4-5 Student Center Activities include three books and one DVD. The first two books contain Activity...
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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

Depaul University: Center for Urban Education: Content Vocabulary [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This graphic organizer will assist student with learning technical words from content area reading. This graphic organizer is a copyrighted material that may be used for educational purposes.
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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Nonfict Readers Analyze Structure/views[pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This graphic organizer contains questions for students as they analyze any nonfiction text. Students will read closely to determine the text's structure, viewpoint, and tone. This graphic organizer is a copyrighted material that may be...
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Unit Plan
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

Depaul University: Center for Urban Education: Guide Nonfiction Reading

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This site contains 17 nonfiction articles that are appropriate for students with a 6th grade reading level, as measured by the Fry Formula. Questions for each passage are provided. These graphic organizers are copyrighted and may be used...
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Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Monitor for Understanding: Strategic

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which students complete a graphic organizer to record prior knowledge before reading, ask questions while reading, and summarize a text after reading. Materials are included. [PDF]
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Unit Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research:ask and Answer [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which students read a text and stop periodically to write questions based on question word cards. Materials are included.