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EngageNY

TASC Transition Curriculum: Workshop 12

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
How can opinions slant facts? Workshop participants learn how to examine primary and secondary sources and identify the author's point of view. They also examine how visual art impacts the meaning and rhetoric of sources. Full of...
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Quia

Quia: Reading Charts and Graphs Quiz

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This 25-question quiz asks students to read various kinds of charts and graphs and to select the correct answers to the questions. Immediate feedback is provided after each question. Java is required.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Analyze Graphical Sources: Practice 2 (English I Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on practice exercises to understand and interpret the data in a graphic representations including pie charts, bar graphs, and line graphs.
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Education Development Center

Tune in to Learning: Reading Charts and Graphs

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Practice graph reading skills with these exercises and companion tutorials.
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McGraw Hill

Glencoe: Self Check Quizzes 1 Circle Graphs

For Students 9th - 10th
Use Glencoe's randomly generated self-checking quiz to test your knowledge of circle graphs. Each question has a "Hint" link to help. Choose the correct answer for each problem. At the bottom of the page click the "Check It" button and...
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Other

The Topic: Charts and Graphs

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Brief descriptions of charts and graphs, followed by links to larger sites on the same subject.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Evaluating Data in Tables, Graphs and Charts

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson students look at examples of graphics, tables, charts, and graphs, and learn how to interpret their data. They will be able to use this skill to enhance their...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Synthesize Information in Charts and Graphs (English Ii Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Synthesize information that you find in charts and graphs.
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Critical Reading: Specialized Reading Strategies

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on specialized reading strategies such as online reading, reading in math, science, etc., and reading charts and graphs. It provides text, videos, charts and graphs, graphics, and a self-check.
Handout
Grammarly

Grammarly Handbook: Visuals: Graphs, Charts, and Diagrams

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This article explains that graphs, charts, and diagrams are used to display information visually. The choice of what type of graph or chart to use depends on the information to be displayed. Software programs make these much easier to...
Activity
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Analyze Graphical Sources: Practice 2 (English I Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
You will look at each of these types of graphs: bar graph, line graph, pie charts, as you work your way through the lesson.
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Read Works

Read Works: The Olympics Then and Now

For Teachers 3rd
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read two charts with information about the Olympics in ancient Greece and in modern times. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in comparing and contrasting.
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Read Works

Read Works: Genre Studies: Informational Text Kindergarten Unit: Labeled Diagrams

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Lesson uses Bats by Gail Gibbons to teach students how to identify facts learned from labeled diagrams within an informational text. Ideas for direct teaching, guided practice, and independent practice...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Read Histograms

For Students 5th - 7th
Practice reading and interpreting histograms. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Reading Circle Graphs

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students are asked to figure out the size of the shaded portions of a circle graph. They then complete a chart showing the fraction, decimal, and percentage equivalents.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Informational Text: Synthesize Information in Charts and Graphs

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson, you will learn how to understand the data found in charts and graphs, and at the end of the lesson, you will practice what you have learned.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Analyze Graphical Sources: Practice 2 (English Ii Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Analyze the factual, quantitative, and technical data in graphs and charts.
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Other

Super Teacher Worksheets: Reading Comprehension: Hurricanes [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 5th
Read the fifth-grade reading passages and charts about hurricanes by Erin Ryan and answer the comprehension questions over the selections. PDF includes an answer key with explanations.
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Exp. Text Structure: Text Feature Find

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd Standards
A lesson plan in which students look through a book to find various text features including: a table of contents, sequence and format, charts/graphs/maps, diagrams/graphics/illustrations, print variations, an index, and a glossary....
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Colorado State University

Colorado State Writing Center: Charts

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The use of charts and graphs can improve your presentations, whether on paper or as visual aids. Here you can read about how to create line, column, bar, pie graphs, and scatterplots. Just follow the links to their respective pages.
Activity
Read Works

Read Works:north America:comparing Data From Different Countries Around the World

For Teachers 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] A chart with land and population data from Canada, the United States of America, the United Kingdom, and Japan. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Reading Dot Plots & Frequency Tables

For Students 5th - 7th Standards
Practice reading basic dot plots and frequency tables. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: 1st Grade Act. 14: Who's in Your Family

For Teachers 1st
This lesson engages students in reading comprehension strategies related to Carol A. Johnson's book, Who's in Your Family. Students will create a classroom graph with the titles of their family members afterward.
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National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, University of California Santa Barbara

Ucsb / Pie Graphs (Piece of Cake)

For Students 9th - 10th
This page gives an example and easy-to-understand description of a pie graph (circle graph.) Also provides an opportunity for students to test their abilities to read a pie graph.