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Storytelling to Assess Speaking and Listening
An effective use of rubrics that encourages the student storyteller how to determine if his/her audience is listening. Learn about the different listening skill rubrics, storytelling rubrics and a self-assessment guide that asks the...
University of Houston
University of Houston: The Journalist's Desk
This site includes eleven brief newspaper stories. Students must identify the main idea of each short news story.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Compare and Contrast Informational Text
This third grade lesson plan engages students in comparing and contrasting paired informational text passages about frogs. Students will use a Venn Diagram to keep track of the information.
CommonLit
Common Lit: The Scientific Method
A learning module that begins with "What Is a Rocket" by NASA, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free teacher and student...
CommonLit
Common Lit: Eating in Silence
A learning module that begins with "Eating in Silence" by Pamela Huber, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free teacher and...
CommonLit
Common Lit: Soccer Speaks Many Languages
A learning module that begins with "Soccer Speaks Many Languages" by Dianna Greers, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free...
CommonLit
Common Lit: Dreams and Musical Feet
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...
CommonLit
Common Lit: A Slick Little Robot
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...
CommonLit
Common Lit: Ataka
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...
CommonLit
Common Lit: What Is the International Space Station
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...
CommonLit
Common Lit: Amphibians
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...
CommonLit
Common Lit: Art on an Egg
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...
CommonLit
Common Lit: "Don't Hate on the Trait" by Bird Brain Science
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...
Teachers.net
Teachers.net: Journal Writing Ideas
This site is filled with several journal writing ideas. Students and teachers can benefit from this comprehensive list of journal writing suggestions.
Love To Know Media
Your Dictionary: Journal Writing Exercises for Kids
This article focuses on journal writing including the benefits, goals for parents and teachers, materials needed, journal exercises, and teaching kids how to keep a journal.
Learning Farm
Learning Farm: Word Relationships
Learn how word relationships affect the meaning of text, and then practice this skill.
Other
Ncsall: Relationship Between Reading and Speaking
The interview discusses the relationship between reading and speaking.
Quizlet
Quizlet: Main Idea, Main Idea Flashcards
Terms related to main idea are included in this review exercise. Interactive vocabulary flashcards are provided for the following words: main idea, central idea, interesting detail, subject, topic, support, supporting detail, theme, and...
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Educeri: Compare & Contrast the Overall Structure in Two or More Texts [Pdf]
A 10-page handout that explains clearly what text structure is and four different types, with accompanying examples. Different types are then presented along with two pieces of informational text and a modeled analysis, then two other...
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Smekens: Integrate Information Across Diverse Media Formats
Read about strategies to help students integrate information across diverse media formats. Includes video. [4:18]
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Teaching Expository & Persuasive Texts: Writing Expository Essays
In an expository essay, a type of informational text, the writer clarifies or explains something by using facts, details, and examples in a clear and concise way. To write an effective expository essay, students need a basic...
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Literacy Design Collaborative: Partner Retelling of Narrative Text
In this lesson plan, the teacher reads a story aloud and young scholars work with a partner to retell the story using sentence starters. Includes downloadable poster.
BBC
Bbc: Skillswise: Types of Texts Fact Sheets
Six printable fact sheets on how to understand and recognize different types of text including descriptive, informative, instructive, and persuasive.
University of Victoria (Canada)
Study Zone: From Carrots to Renovations: Reading Comprehension
A reading passage with five multiple-choice questions to assess comprehension.