Interactive
Mr. Nussbaum

Civil War

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
Test scholars' reading comprehension skills with a practice that focuses on the Civil War. Participants read an informational text then answer 10 questions.
Article
Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD)

Ascd: Building Literacy in Social Studies: Ch 1: Reading Social Studies Texts

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Article provides excellent tips and strategies for building comprehension and critical thinking skills in Social Studies. It describes some of the challenges students have with reading and understanding their textbooks.
Unit Plan
E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Making Predictions Worksheets and Lessons

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
In this learning module, students will learn more about making predictions in reading. Worksheets and a leson are provided to support Tier I, Tier II, and Tier III students.
Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Graphic Organizers Bring About Good Science Read/writing

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
This lesson uses graphic organizers to engage students in reading comprehension strategies for informational text in science. Venn Diagram, Hierarchy, Time Line, Cluster Diagram, and Flow Chart reproducible pages are included with the...
Interactive
Quizlet

Quizlet: Explicit, Implicit, Imply, Infer, Inferences Match

For Students 6th - 9th Standards
This interactive game of "Match" assesses students' knowledge of definitions associated with names of reading strategies. Students will match the correct reading strategy [explicit, implicit, imply, infer, inferences] to their...
Lesson Plan
Hopelink

Hopelink: Reading Lesson Idea: Qar a Reading Comprehension Strategy

For Teachers 1st - 8th Standards
Brush up on your reading comprehension skills when you check out this website. It looks at a particular strategy called QAR. QAR stands for "Question-Answer Relationships." This particular strategy helps students learn to answer reading...
Article
Other

Gcc: Reading Better and Faster

For Students 6th - 8th
Tutorial site for students that teaches them strategies so they can read faster. This then makes the student a more effective reader.
Unit Plan
E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Inferences Worksheets

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
In this learning module, students will learn more about making inferences. Worksheets are provided to reinforce the skill of making inferences. This module is designed to support Tier I, Tier II, and Tier III students.
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Interactive Reading Project

For Teachers 6th - 8th
For this lesson plan, young scholars are motivated to read and learn how to discuss literature by discussing books they are reading via e-mail.
Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Solving Word Meanings: Engaging Strategies for Vocabulary Dev.

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
A 5-lesson unit where students learn to use context clues and semantic gradients together to determine the meanings of unfamiliar words.
Graphic
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Concept Map

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This concept map is a way for you to show relationships between words and concepts. An arrow connecting two words shows that those words are related in some way. When you're finished, you can group words that go together with a circle or...
Activity
Read Works

Read Works: The Descendants

For Teachers 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage discusses the roles of paleoanthropologists and how they determine whether the remains of a prehistoric species is a direct ancestor or not. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece...
PPT
Tom Richey

Slide Share: Making Connections

For Students 3rd - 7th Standards
A slide show with thirty-two slides explaining how to use text to self, text to text, and text to world connections to improve reading comprehension.
Interactive
Education Development Center

Tv411: Strategies for Better Reading: Activities 3 of 3

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Use these eight multiple choice passages to practice summarizing the main idea of a paragraph.
Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Assessing Theme

For Teachers 6th Standards
This is an introductory lesson on the concept of theme. Students choose two words that sum up the theme of the novel "So B. It" by Sarah Weeks. They then analyze a passage to find evidence of their choices and create a theme map. They...
eBook
University of South Florida

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Lit2 Go: P. C. Asbjornsen: Folk Tales

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This resource presents text of two folk tales collected by Norwegian writer, Peter Christian Asbjornsen. The tales are "The Greedy Youngster," and "Hans, Who Made the Princess Laugh." The text can be read online or downloaded in MP3 or...
Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Lunar Language

For Teachers 6th
This lesson engages students in listening and viewing comprehension strategies to help them learn about the phases of the moon. Students will use a specialized graphic organizer to draw and describe observed moon phases. A sheet with ABC...
Lesson Plan
Library of Congress

Loc: Teachers: Personal Stories and Primary Sources

For Teachers 2nd - 8th Standards
Students will explore the value of personal stories and first-hand accounts when exploring history, in this case, the events of the early twentieth century, which included World War I and the Great Depression. Through this five-unit...
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Writing to Determine, "What Is a Pulgar?"

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
This lesson plan is a writing follow-up to the guided reading lesson plan, "What is a Pulgar?" It utilizes a Makes Sense Strategies Think-sheet to guide the writing.
Lesson Plan
Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Academic Tips to Help Kids Learn to Be Effective Students

For Teachers 1st - 9th Standards
A teaching resource with information and downloadable handouts on various study skills including the following: Coming to Class Prepared, Student Planers, Good Listening in Class, Taking Notes in Class, Using Acronyms to Remember...
Lesson Plan
Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Academic Tips to Help Kids Learn to Be Effective Students

For Students 1st - 9th Standards
A teaching resource with information and downloadable handouts on various study skills including the following: Coming to Class Prepared, Student Planers, Good Listening in Class, Taking Notes in Class, Using Acronyms to Remember...

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