Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Workshops: Teaching Reading 3 5
This instructional workshop provides eight sessions on teaching reading in intermediate classrooms: "Creating Contexts for Learning," "Fluency and Word Study," "Building Comprehension," "Writing," "New Literacies of the Internet,"...
IQ Site
Iq Study Activities: Grade 4 Reading 2008 Vdoe Released Items
This 35 question reading skills test asks student to read the supplied text and answer the comprehension questions about them.
Read Works
Read Works: Explicit Information 3rd Grade Unit
[Free Registration/Login Required] A two-lesson unit in which students learn how to identify explicit information in non-fiction text by creating questions and then reading the text to find answers. Students also use explicit information...
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Into the Book: Questioning
Learn the significance of questioning in the classroom to teach students how to question the text in order to better understand what they are reading.
Harvard University
Harvard College Writing Center: How to Do a Close Reading
A brief explanation of the tasks involved in doing a close reading in preparation for writing. This writer breaks the process into three steps which involve annotating the text, looking for patterns, and asking questions of the text.
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Read Works: Place in Space
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text that asks the reader to make predictions about a girl named Eva who is lifting off on a space ship. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Rephrasing the Question
This lesson explains how to rephrase reading questions into statements to improve understanding of what is being asked and provides examples. This information is offered in text and audio formats.
Other
La Rue Literacy Exercises: Reading a Map: Quiz 12
In this quiz, students are given sections of a map with locations like the school, post office, back, etc. They are asked questions about directions from one place to the other.
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Read Works: Drawing Conclusions Kindergarten Unit: Verbal Cues
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan asking students to use verbal cues in the form of yes/no questions to guess an item inside a bag. Ideas for direct teaching, guided practice, and independent practice are included....
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Directed Reading Thinking Activity (Drta)
The Directed Reading Thinking Activity (DRTA) is a strategy that guides students in asking questions about a text, making predictions, and then reading to confirm or refute their predictions. The DRTA process encourages students to be...
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Read Works: Read Aloud Lesson: Where Do Polar Bears Live?
This lesson is a close reading of "Where Do Polar Bears Live?". After reading the book to the class, students will be able to identify and recall characteristics that allow polar bears to survive in an extremely cold Arctic environment....
Constitutional Rights Foundation
Constitutional Rights Foundation: Race and Voting in the Segregated South
Article and activity in which students read and analyze the historic challenges faced by African Americans as they sought to gain an unimpeded right to vote in the segregated South followed by activity asking students to evaluate current...
InterLink Language Centers
Interlink Language Centers: Reading Exercises Science
An interactive exercise for students to use while developing an understanding of how to read scientific informational texts. The text is presented one paragraph at a time and difficult vocabulary words are defined as footnotes. Then...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Literary Text: Close Reading of Prose: Practice 2
This activity focuses on close reading, the careful, sustained reading of a text. One strategy to help you read closely is to ask yourself questions such as What is your overall impression of the passage? What mood does the passage...
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Read Works: Where Will I Live?
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text that asks the reader to make predictions about how habitat changes affect endangered animals. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Lost and Found
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text that asks the reader to make predictions about a new bird species found on the island of New Guinea. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading...
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Read Works: Traveling Turtles
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text that asks the reader to make predictions about the lives of loggerhead sea turtles. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: One Big Family
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text that asks the reader to make predictions about a filmmaker's experience working with wild elephants. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading...
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Read Works: Escape From Kiev
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text that asks the reader to make predictions throughout an interview between a Jewish survivor of the invasion of Kiev and his granddaughter. A question sheet is available to help students...
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Read Works: Juan Wants to Build
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read a story about a little boy named Juan who wants to build a toy car and asks a friend for help. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Storm Warning
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text that asks the reader to make predictions about an interview between a storm survivor and his son. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Hard Times for Honeybees
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text that asks the reader to make predictions about problems created by the decreasing bee population. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Climbing the Walls
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text that asks the reader to make predictions about a new kind of tape scientists created that people could use to climb walls. A question sheet is available to help students build...
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Read Works: Whoop It Up!
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text that asks the reader to make predictions about s scientist who work to teach cranes to migrate. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.