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Reading Rockets: Strategies: Inquiry Chart

For Students 1st - 9th
This instructional strategy strategy encourages students to gather information about a topic from several sources.
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Reading Rockets: "Seven Strategies to Teach Text Comprehension" by c.r. Adler

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
In this article, "comprehension strategies" are explained. Supported by research, these strategies are divided into seven different steps, including the following: monitoring comprehension, metacognition, graphic and semantic organizers,...
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Reading Rockets: National Poetry Month

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This site offers extensive resources for teaching poetry. Find interviews with poets, ideas for poetry lessons, book lists, and ways to use poetry across the curriculum. There are also resources specifically for National Poetry Month....
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Reading Rockets: Reading Basics: Comprehension

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Provides articles, parent tips, research briefs, and a video on how to teach reading comprehension.
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Reading Rockets: Reading Basics: Fluency

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Fluency is the ability to read a text accurately, quickly, and with expression. Reading fluency is important because it provides a bridge between word recognition and comprehension. To learn more about fluency, browse the articles,...
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Reading Rockets: Reading Basics: Informal Assessment

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Administering informal assessments on a regular basis throughout the school year provides useful information that can help teachers to identify the individual strengths and weaknesses of each student and guide the next steps in...
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Reading Rockets: Reading Basics: Phonological and Phonemic Awareness

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Before children learn to read print, they need to become aware of how the sounds in words work. They must understand that words are made up of individual speech sounds, or phonemes. A child's skill in phonemic awareness is a good...
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Reading Rockets: Reading Basics: Sounds of Speech

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Sounds of speech are the sounds that make up our oral language. Children must understand how speech sounds work to be ready for instruction in reading and writing. To learn more about sounds of speech, browse the articles, parent tips,...
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Reading Rockets: Reading Basics

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Provides a wealth of basic information on how to teach kids to read. Covers print awareness, sounds of speech, phonemic awareness, phonics and decoding, fluency, vocabulary, and lots more.
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Reading Rockets: Stem Literacy

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Learn about how to strengthen literacy, inquiry, and problem-solving skills, and how to connect kids with high-quality nonfiction and informational books. Provides videos, articles for parents and for teachers, webcasts for teachers, and...
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Reading Rockets: Reading Tips for Parents (In Multiple Languages)

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Suggestions of ways for parents to read, write, and tell stories together with children from infancy to third grade. Available in multiple languages.
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Reading Rockets: Teaching Reading: Classroom Strategies

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
A collection of effective, research-based classroom strategies to help build and strengthen literacy skills in print awareness, phonological awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, and writing.
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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 Basics: Writing

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Provides articles, parent tips, research briefs, and a video on how to teach children to write.
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Reading Rockets: Reading Basics: Spelling

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Provides articles, parent tips, research briefs, and a video on how to teach spelling.
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Reading Rockets: Reading Basics: Vocabulary

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Vocabulary is key to reading comprehension. Readers cannot understand what they are reading without knowing what most of the words mean. As children learn to read more advanced texts, they must learn the meaning of new words that are not...
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Reading Rockets: Reading Basics: Print Awareness

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Print awareness is understanding that print is organized in a particular way - for example, knowing that print is read from left to right and top to bottom. It is knowing that words consist of letters and that spaces appear between...
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Reading Rockets: Onset/rime Games

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Similar to teaching beginning readers about rhyme, teaching children about onset and rime helps them recognize common chunks within words. This can help students decode new words when reading and spell words when writing. This article...
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Reading Rockets: Using Collaborative Strategic Reading

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
In this article, the Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR) technique is explained, along with research to support the use. The technique teaches students to use comprehension strategies, while working cooperatively, as they engage in the...
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Reading Rockets: Descriptive Writing

For Students 1st - 5th Standards
This is a comprehensive article about what descriptive writing including what it is, why to teach it and strategies to teach it. It also features two videos Five Senses Graphic Organizer and Writing Poems as well as an annotated list of...
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Reading Rockets: Launching Young Readers: Episode 2: Sounds and Symbols

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Hosted by Annette Bening, Sounds and Symbols focuses on how children learn the relationship between sounds, letters, and words as an initial step before being able to decode the printed word. Features children's book author and...
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Reading Rockets: Reading Tips for Parents of Kindergartners

For Students Pre-K - K
Easy and fun activities parents can do to nurture strong, confident readers. The one-page handout is available in multiple languages.
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Reading Rockets: Dyslexia: Beyond the Myth

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This article describes the most common characteristics of dyslexia and other learning disorders. The author offers suggestions about what to do if a reading problem is suspected.
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Reading Rockets: Rti & Reading: Response to Intervention in a Nutshell

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This article provides a quick overview of response to intervention (RTI) as it relates to reading. RTI is not a particular method or instructional approach, rather it is a process that aims to shift educational resources toward the...