Missouri Department of Elementary
R-E-S-P-E-C-T: A Basic Skill
Imagine seventh graders developing a school wide plan to promote respect in their school. That's the vision behind the second lesson in the R-E-S-P-E-C-T series. In preparation for designing a school-wide media campaign, class members...
New York State Education Department
TASC Transition Curriculum: Workshop 5
Are video games sports? Pupils investigate this question as well as various nonfiction selections to learn more about claims and the support that defines them. All of the selections mimic the rigor on state tests and encourage close...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Questioning a Comprehension Strategy for Small Group Reading
Contains plans for three lessons about asking the right questions while reading. After the teacher explains the difference between factual and inferential questions, middle schoolers practice using them in small-group guided reading. In...
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Read Write Think: Scaffolding Comprehension Strategies Using Graphic Organizers
A three-part standards-based instructional activity in which students will use collaborative strategic reading to apply four reading strategies: preview, click and clunk, get the gist, and wrap-up. They will work in cooperative groups...
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Read Write Think: Using Comprehension Strategies With Elie Wiesel's Night
Working in small groups, students read and discuss Elie Wiesel's memoir Night and then take turns assuming the "teacher" role, as the class works with four different comprehension strategies.RI.11-12.4 Word meaning, RI.11-12.10b Text...
Hopelink
Hopelink: Reading Lesson Idea: Qar a Reading Comprehension Strategy
Brush up on your reading comprehension skills when you check out this website. It looks at a particular strategy called QAR. QAR stands for "Question-Answer Relationships." This particular strategy helps students learn to answer reading...
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Read Write Think: Guided Comprehension: Evaluating
This lesson introduces students to the comprehension strategy of evaluating. Students learn this strategy through the "meeting of the minds" technique that teaches them to act out opposing views of two or more characters.
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Read Write Think: Qa Rs to Develop Comprehension & Reflective Reading Habits
Contains plans for three lessons that use the QAR strategy to develop reading comprehension and reflective reading within students. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the...
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Read Write Think: Visualizing Using the Sketch to Stretch Strategy
Contains plans for three lessons to improve reading comprehension using a visualizing strategy called sketch-to-stretch. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as well...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Applying Word Study Strategies (English I Reading)
In this lesson, students will practice applying word study strategies to improve your reading fluency and comprehension. L.9-10.5b nuances
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Emergent Readers With and Emergent Reader
Students will sequence story events with the teacher and read an emergent reader in a guided setting. The chosen book, "Pilgrims and Wampanoag: Together They Were Better", has high use of sight words and high levels of picture support...
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Teach the Seven Strategies of Highly Effective Readers
To improve students' reading comprehension, teachers should introduce the seven cognitive strategies of effective readers: activating, inferring, monitoring-clarifying, questioning, searching-selecting, summarizing, and...
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Read Write Think: Talking About Books to Improve Comprehension
This lesson is a conversation-starter! In this lesson, students learn about striking up deep-thought conversations and staying on topic in the form of a book talk.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Lesson Plan for Nonfiction Comprehension: Skimming Text
Build comprehension by developing reading strategies for use with nonfiction text. This instructional activity focuses on teaching students to recognize text elements as clues to help them quickly locate key information in text.
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Read Write Think: Reading Informational Texts Using the 3 2 1 Strategy
Learners can count on using the 3-2-1 strategy to help them successfully comprehend and write about an informational text.
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Read Write Think: Let's Read It Again: Comprehension Strategies for Ell's
Help Spanish-speaking English-language learners unlock the mysteries of their new language by using a bilingual book to recognize unfamiliar words and construct meaning from the text.
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Read Write Think: Hoax/no Hoax? Online Comprehension and Evaluation Strategies
Learners use research-based comprehension strategies to read and evaluate websites, and practice analysis by comparing hoax and real websites and by identifying false or misleading information. SL.11-12.2 Eval&Integrate sources
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Learning How to Listen and Take Effective Notes
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, students will learn how to listen effectively, take good notes, and ask critical questions.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Building Reading Comprehension Through Think Alouds
The Think-Aloud method has be shown to improve information retention. The lesson plan contained within this site models for teachers how to model this strategy. There is a rubric included for assessment.
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Read Write Think: Qa Rs + Tables = Successful Comprehension of Math Word Problems
Contains plans for two lessons that explain how to use the question-answer relationship (QAR) strategy to make word problems easier to understand. In addition to objectives and standards, these instructional plans contain links to sites...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood: Life's Little Lessons: Mad Feelings
By using stories and videos showing familiar PBS KIDS characters working through their own mad feelings, you can provide strategies that children can build on as they grow and learn and develop the self-control needed to handle...
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Read Write Think: Using the Prediction Strategy to Set Purposes for Reading
Contains plans for three lessons that teach a reading comprehension technique called the prediction strategy, where students predict what will happen in a story before reading. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional...
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Read Write Think: Guided Comprehension: Making Connections
Lesson introduces learners to the strategy of making connections. Students learn the three types of connections using a double-entry journal. A good resource for teachers.
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Read Write Think: Exploring Disability Using Multimedia and B D a Reading Strategy
History takes on new dimensions in this interactive multimedia lesson that emphasizes the B-D-A (before-during-after reading) approach to research as students investigate the experiences of people with disabilities since the early 1800s.