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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: "Lamb to the Slaughter" Study Guide [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a two-page study guide for "Lamb to the Slaughter" by Roald Dahl. It focuses on characters. point of view, exposition, theme, tone, and comprehension.
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Free Reading

Free Reading

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This free reading intervention site is geared toward students grade K-3, with literacy activities and lessons/ideas links. The site includes teaching tools and activities. See the link at the bottom to "About FreeReading" for a list of...
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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

Depaul University: Center for Urban Education: Biography Questions [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This graphic organizer contains questions for students to answer as they read a biography. This graphic organizer is a copyrighted material that may be used for educational purposes.
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PBS

Pbs: Misunderstood Minds: Reading Resources

For Students 9th - 10th
PBS presents this comprehensive site outlining common causes of reading difficulties. Strategies and suggestions for solving these issues are discussed here.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Visualizing Using the Sketch to Stretch Strategy

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Contains plans for three lessons to improve reading comprehension using a visualizing strategy called sketch-to-stretch. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as well...
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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: One Page Nonfiction Readings: Grade 6

For Teachers 6th Standards
This site contains 17 nonfiction articles that are appropriate for students with a 6th grade reading level, as measured by the Fry Formula. Questions for each passage are provided. Graphic organizers are available for these copyrighted...
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Amplify Education, Inc.: Introduce Reading Connected Text

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
An exciting introduction to reading! The instructor writes a simple, one-line story on the board from literature, and the students learn to sound out the words.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Come Along Daisy

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Students will engage in discussions about story details and write an informational piece about the events in the story "Come Along Daisy".
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Introduction to Accountable Talk

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this instructional activity, students will take a more active role in their learning by discussing a read aloud with their partners. The teacher will become more of a facilitator in the instructional activity and allow the children to...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Pumpkins and Apples, Oh My!

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Students will be able to compare and contrast two non-fiction books with a similar theme - in this case, plant life cycles. Extensive resources included such as worksheets, samples of student work, assessment ideas, extension activities,...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Analyzing Text Complexity of Non Fiction Sources

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
This lesson will help students read and comprehend nonfiction, specifically biographies, through determining criteria for text complexity. Included is a PDF and Smart Notebook titled Determining Text Complexity, and an example of a...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Reading to Learn Academy, Grade 5 Additional Resources

For Students 5th
This website provides links to teacher resources to effectively teach reading to learn skills. These include topics for all learners and ESL learners. Learning resources for Word Study and Recognition, Fluency, Vocabulary, Comprehension,...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Reading to Learn Academy, Grade 4 Additional Resources

For Teachers 4th
This website provides links to teacher resources to effectively teach reading to learn skills. These include topics for all learners and ESL learners. Learning resources for Word Study and Recognition, Fluency, Vocabulary, Comprehension,...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Literacy Achievement Academy, Grade 3: Additional Resources

For Teachers 3rd
This website provides links to teacher resources to effectively teach reading to learn skills. These include topics for all learners and ESL learners. Learning resources for Word Study and Recognition, Fluency, Vocabulary, Comprehension,...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Literacy Achievement Academy, Grade 2: Additional Resources

For Teachers 2nd
This is a collection of links to teacher resources for teaching literacy to 2nd graders. It includes reading comprehension, word recognition, vocabulary, fluency, differentiated instruction, and using assessment data.
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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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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: The Fox and the Grapes Moral

For Teachers K - 1st
Students will get exposure to a folktale and work to understand the moral. This instructional activity uses two fables "The Fox and the Grapes" and "The Fox and the Hen". The instructional activity involves guided practice where the...
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Reading Rockets

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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The Balanced Literacy Diet

The Balanced Literacy Diet: Interactive Story Retelling

For Teachers Pre-K - K Standards
The goal of Interactive Story Retelling: Encouraging Retelling with Picture Supports is to build early comprehension skills and promote oral expression by having students sequence the events in a story using pictures and then retell the...
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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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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Spanish Action Verbs Lesson Plan

For Teachers K - 1st
In this interactive lesson, students learn about Spanish action verbs while exercising!
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Marvin K. Mooney Lesson Plan

For Teachers K - 1st
In this lesson students get to combine the world of literacy and physical movement! As the teacher reads the book "Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now" by Dr. Seuss, students listen carefully and safely jump up out of their chairs...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Memory Lane Fitness Lesson Plan

For Teachers K - 1st
With this lesson, young scholars get a brain and body workout! Students work in pairs as the teacher calls out physical tasks such as high fives and tunnel tens. As the teacher is calling out these partner exercises, young scholars must...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Waddle Lesson Plan

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This instructional activity connects literacy, creativity and movement! Students act out different animals in the book "Waddle" as the teacher reads aloud. Students listen carefully for the animal name and the verb describing how that...