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De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Guided Reading/listening Ques: Nonfiction[pdf]

For Students 5th - 9th Standards

This graphic organizer will assist students with taking notes connected nonfiction content. After taking notes with the graphic organizer, students will ask guiding questions listed on the sheet.

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De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: I Can Identify and Infer Character Traits[pdf]

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards

A poster offers guiding questions to help students with identifying character traits. Guiding questions are also provided to help them support their inferences about the character traits.

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De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: City Mouse a Fable [Pdf]

For Students 5th - 7th

"City Mouse: A Fable" is a one- page fable about a city mouse and a country mouse. The city mouse visits the country mouse where food is limited. The country mouse visits the city where the food is great, but there is constant danger. It...

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De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Identify/infer Character Traits [Pdf]

For Students 4th - 8th Standards

This page contains links for three graphic organizers. Students will use graphic organizers to identify character traits, infer character traits, and support inferences with text evidence.

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De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: I Can Classify and Infer When I Read [Pdf]

For Students 5th - 8th Standards

This site contains links to two graphic organizers to guide and assess the understanding of nonfiction text in science and social studies.

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De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Compare and Contrast Graphic Organizers [Pdf]

For Students 6th - 8th

This learning module contains postable questions to show when students will compare and contast content and points of view.

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Depaul University: Center for Urban Education: Dramatize a Situation [Pdf]

For Students 4th - 9th Standards

This graphic organizer will help students plan a drama that is based on a story or a historical event. Students will complete a graphic organizer, answer guiding questions, and write a play based on the content.

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Depaul University: Center for Urban Education: Evaluate Information [Pdf]

For Students 5th - 9th Standards

Links to graphic organizers, provided in English and Spanish, are provided to assist students as they work with nonfiction information. A nonfiction graphic organizer is available to help students evaluate decisions of people. Another...

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Depaul University: Center for Urban Education: Classify Facts and Opinions [Pdf]

For Students 5th - 8th Standards

Students will find three lessons about facts and opinions in this learning module. The following topics are linked in the module: contrast and evaluate fact and opinion; classify facts and opinions; and locate and classify facts.

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De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: I Can Draw Conclusions: History Analysis [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

Students can use these guiding questions as they complete two graphic organizers about a historical event. Students will then ask guiding questions about the historical event to draw conclusions about the historical event.

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De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Identify Important Info When I Read [Pdf]

For Students 4th - 8th Standards

Links to self-assessment activities for content area fluency activities are found on this resource. Students will read, time themselves, and record facts. Students will improve their reading rates and levels of comprehension.

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Depaul University: Center for Urban Education: Make/explain an Inference [Pdf]

For Students 6th - 8th

In this learning module, students will find links to five graphic organizers. Students will be able to use the resources to help them make inferences...

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De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: I Like Plants [Pdf]

For Students 4th - 5th Standards

"I Like Plants" is a one page, realistic fiction, reading passage about a person who loves plants and became a botanist; now she teaches her college students about plants and ecology. It is followed by constructed-response questions...

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De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Making Progress [Pdf]

For Students 4th - 5th Standards

"Making Progress" is a one page, fictional, reading passage about students clearing the trash from a vacant lot near the school and planting a garden to beautify the neighborhood and show they care. It is followed by constructed-response...

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De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Mama's Happy Christmas [Pdf]

For Students 4th - 5th Standards

"Mama's Happy Christmas" is a one page, fictional, reading passage about children creating a play for their sick mother on Christmas day. It is followed by constructed-response questions which require students to provide evidence from...

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De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: More Trees [Pdf]

For Students 4th - 5th Standards

"More Trees" is a one page, fictional, reading passage about a student and his mother getting trees from the city and planting them in their neighborhood. It is followed by constructed-response questions which require students to provide...

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De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: My Job [Pdf]

For Students 4th - 5th Standards

"My Job" is a one page, fictional, reading passage about the job as department of streets and sanitation worker including the work involved. It is followed by constructed-response questions which require learners to provide evidence from...

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De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: My New Brother [Pdf]

For Students 4th - 5th Standards

"My New Brother" is a one page, fictional, reading passage about child whose mother has just had new baby boy. It is followed by constructed-response questions which require students to provide evidence from the story; it includes:...

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De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Nature's Violet Children [Pdf]

For Students 4th - 5th Standards

"Nature's Violet Children" is a one page, folktale about violets who were sad because a little girl picked them and took them home. It is followed by open-ended questions which require learners to provide evidence from the story; it...

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

For Students 5th Standards

"Potawatomi Prairie" is a one page, fictional, reading passage about the Potawatomi tribe and what their life may have been like during the different seasons of the year. It is followed by questions which require students to provide...

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De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: The Cloud [Pdf]

For Students 4th - 5th Standards

"The Cloud" is a one-page, folktale about a cloud who moved closer to the earth, despite warnings that it would die, to save the drought-stricken plants and animals. It is followed by questions which require students to provide evidence...

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De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: The Difficult Journey [Pdf]

For Students 4th - 5th

"The Difficult Journey" is a one page, fictional, reading passage about the hardships of a family moving west in a wagon train. It is followed by constructed-response questions which require students to provide evidence from the story;...

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De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: The Gulls of Salt Lake [Pdf]

For Students 4th - 5th Standards

"The Gulls of Salt Lake" is a one page, fictional, reading passage about a group of early settlers who had endured the hardships of traveling west and planted crops in the fertile soid, only to be invaded by swarms of crickets. Just when...

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De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: The Chicago Journey [Pdf]

For Students 4th - 5th

"The Chicago Journey" is a one page, fictional passage about a clild and his mother hurrying to catch a train to hear an acceptance speech from an election (Obama). It is followed by questions which require students to provide evidence...

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