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LD Online

Ld Online: Beginning Reading and Phonological Awareness

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This site from the LD OnLine focuses on beginning reading and phonological awareness for students with learning disabilities. Check out the information presented in this informative article.
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TES Global

Blendspace: Reading Comprehension Visualizing

For Students 1st - 8th Standards
A five-part learning module with links to images and web sites to help student improve reading comprehension by visualizing.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Word Recognition Strategies Using Nursery Rhymes

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This activity is a great way to teach learners about rhymes and word recognition. This plan includes suggest nursery rhymes for you to use, and several supplementary sites to help you out.
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Conversations in Literature

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
A research based workshop by Judith Langer on bringing the joy of reading literature to your class. An excellent professional development resource, with eight videos on demand. Topics include Responding as Readers, Objectifying the Text,...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Emergent Readers With and Emergent Reader

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Students will sequence story events with the teacher and read an emergent reader in a guided setting. The chosen book, "Pilgrims and Wampanoag: Together They Were Better", has high use of sight words and high levels of picture support...
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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Building Background Knowledge

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
The importance of background knowledge is especially salient in the age of Common Core. This article offers practical classroom strategies to build background knowledge such as using contrasts and comparisons and encouraging...
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Other

Strategies for Reading Comprehension:reciprocal Teaching

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Use this page to understand the reciprocal teaching strategy that includes the role of the clarifier in student groups.
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Cooperative Learning: Great Grouping Strategies

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides a flexible grouping strategy. An explanation is provided that explains how to use tongue depressers to divide students into cooperative learning groups.
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Other

Jl Resource: The Reading Room

For Students K - 1st Standards
Find creative ways to help students learn to read. Links to online stories and activities.
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Hopelink

Hopelink: Reading Lesson Idea: Fact or Opinion?

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this lesson, students must learn to recognize the differences between fact and opinion.
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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Phonemic Activities

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Come and learn more about these awesome phonemic activities for the preschool or elementary classroom.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Word Form Recognition Activities

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A wonderful site full of tips for teaching Word-form recognition activities. This site has a plethora of links that provide an excellent way to practice and memorize the essential skills of recognizing words without sounding out each...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Searching Informational Texts

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Online lesson allows elementary students 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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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Teaching Reading: Expert Interviews

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Learn from nationally known researchers and experts in literacy and early education. Topics include phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, spelling, comprehension, writing, summer learning, early childhood education, dyslexia, and more.
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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Reading 101: A Guide to Teaching Reading and Writing

For Teachers K - 1st
Reading 101 is a self-paced professional development course for K-3 teachers. It presents some of the core information that teachers need to help young children learn to read and write well and to support the children who struggle. The...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Education: Reading Rockets: Topics a to Z

For Students K - 1st
Teaching reading is a complex process that draws upon an extensive knowledge base and repertoire of strategies. Find out more about best practices in reading instruction and how best to prepare teachers for today's classrooms.
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: Tips for Reading Tutors

For Teachers K - 1st
The U.S. Department of Education developed this brief guide for reading tutors. It lists ways that tutoring helps both the learner and the tutor, and provides practical tips that can help tutors be more effective in their work.
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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Audio Assisted Reading

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A resource for teachers to understand how to effectively use audio books in their reading programs. Includes links to teaching materials.
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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Content Area Literacy

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Content area lessons require specific techniques and knowledge that help students navigate different types of texts. Here you will find articles, videos, teaching strategies, webcasts, and research reports.
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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Writing

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
A collection of videos, articles for parents and for teachers, teaching strategies, webcasts for teachers, and research briefs on helping children develop their writing skills.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Depend on the Text! How to Create Text Dependent Questions

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This strategy guide focuses on writing text-dependent questions which require the student to reread the text to support their answers. It offers a list of what to do to create these questions that progress from establishing general...
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Auburn University

Auburn University: Using Decodable Text

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
How can you use decodable text in your classroom? This site offers insight into this necessary part of the reading process. Come and learn more.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Book Review Template

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Use this book review template to help students communicate what they have read in a more efficient manner. Other ideas for its use are provided.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Molly of Denali: Party Moose Lesson Plan

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This lesson, using the animated story "Party Moose" from the series Molly of Denali, shows the importance of paying attention to meaning while reading and using strategies, such as rereading, when something doesn't make sense. Molly and...

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