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Library of Congress: Teaching With Primary Sources

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This website is an excellent resource for teaching with primary sources. This resource features Holocaust lessons, lesson plan strategies, and podcasts.
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SMART Technologies

Smart: Making Inferences

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
Inferencing is finding clues and using background knowledge to determine an explanation from facts in a passage or story. It's "reading between the lines" of a story to understand what the author doesn't state.
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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

Depaul University: Center for Urban Education: I Can Make an Inference [Pdf]

For Students 5th - 8th Standards
Students can use this graphic organizer to help them make inferences about the information in a text and then explain the rationale for each.
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Bbc Bitesize Revision: Some Purposes of Reading

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
As part of a review and close reading section of BBC Bitesize, this site presents an overview of various purposes of reading, including a five-bullet point explanation of reading purposes. Click the Next button for more information.

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