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Read Works: Spiders and a Balanced Diet

For Teachers 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about how spiders choose to eat a balanced diet. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in drawing conclusions.
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Read Works: All Split Up

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text article presents both sides of the issue of coeducational classes. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and...
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Read Works: Finger Food

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage is sharing information about the implementation of finger scanning technology in a school cafeteria. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills...
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Read Works: Robo Helpers

For Teachers 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about new robots that learn to walk like humans. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in drawing conclusions.
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Read Works: Space Vacation

For Teachers 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about tourists paying for vacation trips to the space station with astronauts. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in drawing conclusions.
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Read Works: Green Machines

For Teachers 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about low-cost laptop computers improving education for children in need around the world. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in drawing conclusions.
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Read Works: Star Spangled Relic

For Teachers 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about how on important historical relic was found. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in drawing conclusions.
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Read Works: In Memory of Dr. King

For Teachers 3rd
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding for vocabulary learning. It contains questions and teacher guides and...
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Read Works: Caught in a Lie

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This short literary text passage shares the story of a girl who was caught in a lie. This passage is intended for guided practice and is designed to reinforce essential reading comprehension skills.
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Read Works: Grade 2: Four Lesson Unit: Drawing Conclusions

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Designed to teach students to identify the difference between explicit information and conclusions and to make text-to-self and text-to-text connections. Lessons are based on the provided text "The...
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Read Works: Drawing Conclusions 3rd Grade Unit

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] A two-lesson unit on drawing conclusions through which students learn how to recognize the difference between implicit information and drawing conclusions. Students also learn to draw conclusions in...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Judging and Reacting: Tutorial

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this slideshow tutorial, students will review the critical reading techniques of making judgments and forming reactions about what they read. Explanations are given about drawing conclusions, responding to literature, and making...
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Read Works: Drawing Conclusions Kindergarten Unit: Verbal Cues

For Teachers 2nd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan asking students to use verbal cues in the form of yes/no questions to guess an item inside a bag. Ideas for direct teaching, guided practice, and independent practice are included....
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Read Works: Drawing Conclusions Kindergarten Unit: Actions

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan asking students to use action cues while playing a game of Charades. Ideas for direct teaching, guided practice, and independent practice are included. Independent practice worksheets are...
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Read Works: Drawing Conclusions 1st Grade Unit

For Teachers 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A three-lesson unit on drawing conclusions through which students learn how to use pictures and context clues to discover a missing word and to draw conclusions about a story. Students also use...
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Discovering Psychology: Research Methods

For Students 9th - 10th
In this activity, you will explore how psychologists draw solid conclusions from the complex and often ambiguous phenomena they study -- how you think, feel, and behave.
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Read Works: Drawing Conclusions Kindergarten Unit: Short Story

For Teachers K Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan teaching students to make conclusions based on a sentences and short texts. Students use textual cues to explain how the conclusions were reached. Ideas for direct teaching, guided...
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Read Works: Kindergarten: Three Lesson Unit: Drawing Conclusions

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Three lessons designed to introduce young learners and beginning readers to the concept of drawing conclusions based on actions performed in a charades game, on verbal cues given in a guessing game, and...
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Read Works: Fourth Grade: One Lesson Unit: Drawing Conclusions

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students are guided through a lesson to understand the difference between explicit information and conclusions drawn from a text. With free login, users have access to passages used in this lesson.
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Pennsylvania Doe: Lesson Plan: Making Inferences and Drawing Conclusions

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
In this lesson the teacher uses modeling and questioning strategies to walk young scholars through making inferences in various texts and then using those inferences to draw conclusions.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Literary Nonfiction

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Analyze literary nonfiction, particularly speeches, by making inferences and drawing conclusions based on evidence in the text.
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Read Works: A Museum of Their Own

For Teachers 5th - 7th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This infomrationa text piece discusses the accomplishments of several African-American baseball players from the days of segregation and the museum that has been built to honor their accomplishments....
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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Illinois Pioneers and Prairies [Pdf]

For Teachers 4th
"Illinois Pioneers and Prairies" is a one page, nonfiction, reading passage about life in the prairies of Illinois for the early settlers including their hard work, setting up governments, building schools, and making laws. It is...
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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

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

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
"Prairie Farmers" is a one page, historical fiction, journal describing life for farmers in the prairie throughout the year. It shows the difficulties including bad weather and fires. It requires students to closely read the journal and...