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Amelia's Road: Teacher's Guide
Young scholars complete pre reading, writing, during reading, and interdisciplinary activities for the book Amelia's Road. For this reading lesson plan, students complete journal entries, answer short answer questions, have discussions,...
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The Jones Family Express
Students complete pre reading, writing, during reading, and interdisciplinary activities for the book The Jones Family Express. In this reading lesson plan, students complete journal entries, answer short answer questions, have...
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Bein' With You This Way
Students complete pre reading, writing, during reading, and interdisciplinary activities for the book Bein' With You This Way. In this reading lesson plan, students complete journal entries, answer short answer questions, have...
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Rainbow Joe and Me
Students complete pre reading, writing, during reading, and interdisciplinary activities for the book Rainbow Joe and Me. In this reading lesson plan, students complete journal entries, answer short answer questions, have discussions,...
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Children of Long Ago
Students complete pre reading, writing, during reading, and interdisciplinary activities for the book Children of Long Ago. In this reading lesson plan, students complete journal entries, answer short answer questions, have discussions,...
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Meat Pies: Teacher's Guide
Students complete pre reading, writing, during reading, and interdisciplinary activities for the book Amelia's Road. In this reading lesson plan, students complete journal entries, answer short answer questions, have discussions, and more.
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Pre Reading Strategies
Young scholars use their journals in order to predict what will happen in a text for a prereading strategy. In this prereading lesson plan, students list the 5 strategies they learn and use them before they read.
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Wild Children II: Pre-Reading Prediction Exercise
In this pre-reading worksheet, students complete a prediction activity by identifying the famous character in the picture and finding how he relates to Romulus and Remus.
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Hamlet on the Ramparts: A Pre-reading Activity
Students explore the first act of Hamlet. In this Shakespeare lesson, students pantomime important events from Hamlet in a pre-reading activity. Classmates observe the performances and write reviews.
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Winter Picture Matching
In this picture matching worksheet, students draw lines to connect matching pictures. Pictures are of a scarf, snowmen, snowflake, ice skates, and a cloud.
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Alphabet Letter A
A is for apple! That's what this learning exercise says. Early readers will trace and write the letter "Aa" 5 times. This learning exercise would work well as a page in a class alphabet book.
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Pre-Reading Activity
In this Language Arts learning exercise, students complete a pre-reading activity by answering questions about a novel. For example, "What does the cover show?"
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Reading Contract
For this reading contract worksheet, students write the title of a book they will read, how many pages they will read each day and how they will share what they've read. Both the teacher and student sign this agreement. Two reading...
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Reading Contract
In this reading worksheet, students write the title of a book they plan on reading and how they will share what they have read once they are finished. Both teacher and student sign the agreement.
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Prereading
Fourth graders participate in think-pair-share reading strategy in this lesson. They identify their purpose for reading as well as purposes for reading fiction/nonfiction. They list and discuss several prereading activities, and then...
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Scaffolding a Reading/Writing Lesson
Students explore pre-reading activities. Through looking at titles, and observing pictures, students predict what will happen in a story. They listen to a part of the story and then write their own conclusion. Students complete the story...
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Strategies for pre reading, during reading, & after reading
Fourth graders participate in a lesson using the whole reading of text. They work on skills like prediction and summary. The predictions in particular are analyzed and changed as needed when summarizing.
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Storybooks and Games
Students explore stories, games and coloring pages on an interactive website. In this pre-reading activity, students have free access to stories, coloring pages and simple games at the Lil' Fingers website.
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The House on Mango Street
Students discuss identity and what they consider their identities to be. In this The House on Mango Street lesson, students participate in a pre-reading activity before reading The House on Mango Street. Students preview the text and...
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Causes of Floods: Pre-Reading Exercise
In this "Causes of Floods" pre-reading worksheet, students are given a list of vocabulary words that they will encounter in their reading. Students must match each word with the best synonym or definition.
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Reading Comprehension Strategy Ideas
Students participate in pre-reading activities, journal keeping, vocabulary lists and other reading comprehension boosters. These activities can be applied to many genres.