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University of North Carolina

University of North Carolina Writing Center Handouts: Reading to Write

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Since students often need to write about what they read, this site offers strategies to use while reading that will make the writing much easier. These include not only reading strategies but note-taking and planning strategies as well.
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Website
Scholastic

Scholastic: Questioning the Text

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
In this magazine article originally featured in Instructor, the reading strategy called "questioning the text" is explained by the renowned literacy consultant and staff developer, Stephanie Harvey. The steps included for questioning the...
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Activity
PBS

Pbs Teachers: Reading Development

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Explore an interactive article to experience reading development firsthand. Listen in as a typical child from each grade reads aloud, and compare reading strategies and skills as children progress from kindergarten through third grade.
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Dialoguing With the Author: Tutorial

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this slideshow tutorial, students will review the reading strategy of questioning the author, also referred to as "dialoguing" with the author. The "dialoguing with author" strategy is explained, and examples of how to use the...
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Professional Doc
Other

Live Binders: Acre:snorkeling to Deep Sea Diving: Breaking Beyond Surface Reading

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
This unit from North Carolina Public Schools focuses on Common Core Standards for Reading including close reading strategies, questions teachers should ask themselves, and reading activities.
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Graphic
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Anticipation Guide

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Anticipating is an effective reading strategy for readers of all ages. Utilize this template and graphic organizer to help your students become better readers.
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Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Monitor for Understanding: Reading Repair

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which students read a text using different reading strategies to fix problems as they read. Materials are included. [PDF]
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Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Connecting With Reading

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A brief slideshow that identifies and defines the ways that readers can make connections while reading a text (Text to Self, Text to Text and Text to World) and instructions about annotating while reading. Includes a worksheet that...
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Making Connections & Applications: Tutorial

For Students 9th - 10th
In this slideshow tutorial, students will review the reading strategy of making connections. An explanation of the strategy is given, along with examples of how to make text-to-text, text-to-self, and text-to-world connections.
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Website
US Department of Education

U.s. Department of Education: Helping Your Child Become a Reader

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Help young learners become better readers with these literacy resources and ready-to-use reading strategies.
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Professional Doc
AdLit

Ad lit.org: Teaching Content Knowledge and Reading Strategies in Tandem

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Many areas of instruction can have a rippling effect for the expansion of readers' repertoire of skills, including pre-reading, predicting, testing hypotheses against the text, asking questions, summarizing, etc. Literacy-rich,...
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: What Can We Learn From Pigs?

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This thematic language arts lesson uses a variety of beginning reading books about pigs to help special education/early elementary students learn about character traits and concepts. The wide use of graphic organizers introduces...
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Lesson Plan
Scholastic

Scholastic: Lesson Plan for Nonfiction Comprehension: Skimming Text

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Build comprehension by developing reading strategies for use with nonfiction text. This lesson focuses on teaching students to recognize text elements as clues to help them quickly locate key information in text.
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Lesson Plan
Other

Mo Dept. Of Ed.: Life Is a Journey (The Odyssey Unit Plan)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Unit plan containing five lessons designed for ninth graders. They center around "The Odyssey" and the journey of life, and they teach reading strategies such as decoding, note taking, and summarizing. All are aligned to Missouri...
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Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Lesson Plan: Clouds, Rain, and Fog: A Closer Look

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
A lesson where students use the book Cloud, Rain, and Fog by Fred and Jeane Biddulph to learn about text structures and reading strategies with information texts.
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Article
Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Activities for Struggling Readers

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
How can you help the struggling readers in your classroom? This site offers some insight into activities to help develop your students reading skills.
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Professional Doc
AdLit

Ad lit.org: Teach the Seven Strategies of Highly Effective Readers

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
To improve students' reading comprehension, teachers should introduce the seven cognitive strategies of effective readers: activating, inferring, monitoring-clarifying, questioning, searching-selecting, summarizing, and...
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Professional Doc
Scholastic

Scholastic: 5 Surefire Strategies for Developing Reading Fluency

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Improve students' fluency by doing the following in the classroom: "Model Fluent Reading," "Do Repeated Readings in Class," "Promote Phrased Reading in Class," "Enlist Tutors to Help Out," and "Try a Reader's Theater in Class."
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Website
Other

Reading Educator: Question Answer Relationships

For Teachers 2nd - 8th Standards
Based on the presumption that every teacher shares responsibility for teaching reading, this page offers a brief look at question-answer relationships, as well as suggestions for putting the strategy to use in the classroom.
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Professional Doc
Auburn University

Auburn University: Developing Reading Fluency

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
How can you develop reading fluency in your students? This site offers insight into the direct and indirect approaches to teaching reading fluency. Come and check it out.
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Professional Doc
Other

Reading Skills for Academic Study

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Designed for university students in the United Kingdom but applicable to English and advanced ESL students in other countries, this tutorial provides strategies and skills for required academic reading loads.
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Website
Other

Uni Learning: Strategies for Reading Journal Articles

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Clear explanation of how journal articles tend to be structured, as well as tips for extracting information from each part. Includes sample, color-coded exercises.
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Article
Other

St. John's University: Remembering What You Read

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site from St. John's University explains some effective strategies for remembering what you read. Gives tips on creating associations that greatly increase reading memory. RI.11-12.10a & b Text Complexity
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Article
Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: The Foundations for Reading

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
What are the foundations for reading? Come and explore this informative article to discover the answer to this question.

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