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Mc Graw Hill: Part 1: Reading Literature: 1st Grade Retell Stories

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

Learn how to use retelling a story to increase student's comprehension of a story.

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FableVision

Fable Vision: Peter Reynolds: Playing From the Heart

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards

Read a click-through story about rediscovering the joy of making music.

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Audiblox: Foundational Reading Skills

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards

What types of reading skills do students need to be successful? This informative site focuses on students with learning disabilities. Explore!

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Laus Dnet: Grade 1 Word Lesson Plan (Stone Soup) Pdf

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards

In this lesson plan, students use Stone Soup by Ann McGovern to generate word lists and use patterned text to assist with descriptive writing. Gives links to step sheets and samples for creating a table , a template for shared writing, a...

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Family Education

Family Education: Fifteen Minute Reading Activities

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards

What can you do with your child in fifteen minutes to improve their reading skills? This site has a list of reading activities.

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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Expository Fact Strip [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

A lesson plan in which students read a text and identify the topic and four facts presented within the text. Materials are included.

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International Reading Association

Reading Online Articles: Comprehension Instruction

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards

An article on improving reading comprehension through time-tested strategies as well as a summary of new hypotheses about effective comprehension instruction.

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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Top 10 Things to Know About Reading

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards

What are the top ten things you should know about reading?

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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Your School Age Child

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

What can you do to help your school-age child develop their reading skills?

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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Decoding and the Jabberwocky's Song

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards

What is reading? Explore this article from to find the answer to this question.

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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Family Reading Activities

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards

This site features family reading activities that will guide parents with their children's reading development.

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Read Works

Read Works: How to Draw a Map Passage & Question Set

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage explains how to draw a map. This passage reinforces essential reading comprehension skills. Opportunities for vocabulary acquisition are also included. Several questions...

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Read Works

Read Works: So Many Kinds of Food!

For Students 1st Standards

[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a little girl named Lisa who likes to eat many different kinds of foods. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.

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Read Works

Read Works: In the Night Passage & Question Set

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

[Free Registration/Login Required] This literary text passage shares a first person account of a cat and its night on the prowl. This passage reinforces essential reading comprehension skills. Opportunities for vocabulary acquisition are...

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Utah Education Network

Uen: 1st Grade Act. 24: Interactive Writing

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

In this instructional activity, young scholars will listen to nonfiction books about items that sink and float. Students will participate in filling in words to fill in a teacher-created chart that is connected to the information. Young...

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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Searching Informational Texts

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards

Online lesson allows elementary learners to use prior knowledge, make predictions, and perform research on the Internet. Labeled "The Frog Beyond the Fairy Tale Character," lesson challenges students to examine print and online texts...

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Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center

Wisconsin Rt I Center: Story Writing Frames [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards

Teachers will learn how to use story writing frames with their students. Teachers will learn how to implement story frames; measure progress with story frames; and find research to support using story frames. A reproducible story frame...

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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Introduction of Text Features

For Students K - 1st Standards

Dr. Murphy shares a comprehensive lesson plan to support students identifying various text features in informational texts. Students will mentally and physically engage in active learning to know how to navigate through different types...

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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Text Talk (Read Aloud)

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards

This online lesson supports the language development and reading comprehension of kindergarten through second graders. Through the use of an innovative "Text talk," strategy, students will explain, develop, and expand upon story ideas....

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Read Works

Read Works: Learning About Your World

For Teachers 1st Standards

[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about how the five senses help people learn about their world. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.

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Hopelink

Hopelink: Reading Lesson Idea: Qar a Reading Comprehension Strategy

For Teachers 1st - 8th Standards

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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Scholastic

Scholastic Teaching Resources: Five Finger Facts [Pdf]

For Teachers 1st - 5th Standards

From Just-Right Reading Response Activity Sheets for Young Learners, this graphic organizer can be used when students read informational texts. As responses to nonfiction, students will write the following information about their...

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Scholastic

Scholastic Teaching Resources: Informational Reading Response [Pdf]

For Teachers 1st - 9th Standards

This graphic organizer can be used with students when they read informational text. Students will write three facts they learned, two questions they still have after reading, and one interesting fact that they want to share.

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Read Works

Read Works: Helping a Friend

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards

[Free Registration/Login Required] This ReadWorks module contains a pair of literary texts that narrate teamwork-themed stories about a children's running race and a children's soccer game . Pictures, photos, and question sets are...

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