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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Applying Word Study Strategies (English I Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson, students will practice applying word study strategies to improve your reading fluency and comprehension. L.9-10.5b nuances
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SMART Technologies

Smart: Cafe Reading Strategies

For Teachers 1st - 6th Standards
In this SMART Exchange lesson, students will learn the CAFE reading strategies. This lesson may be used as an instructional tool for teaching and introducing the various strategies to students.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Building Reading Comprehension Through Think Alouds

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The Think-Aloud method has be shown to improve information retention. The lesson plan contained within this site models for teachers how to model this strategy. There is a rubric included for assessment.
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: Reading Comprehension Strategies for English Language Learners

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Explicit teaching of reading comprehension skills will help English Language Learners apply these strategies to all subject matter.
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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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AdLit

Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Listen Read Discuss (Lrd)

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Listen-Read-Discuss (LRD) (Manzo & Casale, 1985) is a comprehension strategy that builds students' prior knowledge before they read a text. During the first stage, students listen as you present the content of their reading through a...
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Collaborative Strategic Reading Learning Logs

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR) is a technique that teaches students to work cooperatively on a reading assignment to promote better comprehension. CSR learning logs are used to help students keep track of learning during the...
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Paragraph Shrinking

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Paragraph Shrinking is an activity developed as part of the Peer-Assisted Learning Strategies (PALS). PALS is a classwide peer tutoring program in which teachers carefully partner a student with a classmate. The Paragraph Shrinking...
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Mnemonics

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
A mnemonic is an instructional strategy designed to help students improve their memory of important information. This technique connects new learning to prior knowledge through the use of visual and/or acoustic cues. The basic types of...
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Anticipation Guides

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
An Anticipation Guide is a strategy that is used before reading to activate students' prior knowledge and build curiosity about a new topic. Before reading a selection, students respond to several statements that challenge or support...
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Concept Sorts

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
A concept sort is a strategy used to introduce students to the vocabulary of a new topic or book. Teachers provide students with a list of terms or concepts from reading material. Students place words into different categories based on...
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: First Lines

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
First Lines is a strategy in which students read the beginning sentences from assigned readings and make predictions about the content of what they're about to read. This pre-reading technique helps students focus their attention on what...
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Frayer Model

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
The Frayer Model is a strategy that uses a graphic organizer for vocabulary building. This technique requires students to (1) define the target vocabulary words or concepts, and (2) apply this information by generating examples and...
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: List Group Label

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
It provides students with a way to recognize the relationships between words and concepts using their prior knowledge about a topic. The list-group-label strategy can be used before and after students read.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Reading Strategies: Tutorial

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this slideshow tutorial, students will review different types of reading strategies to promote comprehension of text. The strategies included are the following: making predictions, visualizing, questioning the text, retelling,...
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Other

California Polytechnic State University: Listening Skill

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the California Polytechnic State University provides a concise and well done guide to listening that coveys what the instructor has to say, as well as the tasks of the listener. Good advice, easy to download as a one page...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Reading Informational Texts Using the 3 2 1 Strategy

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Learners can count on using the 3-2-1 strategy to help them successfully comprehend and write about an informational text.
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Teaching Reading 3 5: Session 3: Building Comprehension

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
This is a workshop for teachers of grades 3-5 with a focus on building reading comprehension. It includes a video demonstrating some of the strategies used as well as activities, printouts, and even tips for new teachers. [28:25]
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California State University

Reading Strategies From the University of Waterloo

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Brief and easy to read, this California State University Northridge site lists strategies for getting the most of your reading. Geared for reading texts and technical material.
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Michigan State University

Michigan State University: Intervention for Reading: Summarization Strategy

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Improve understanding of expository materials by summarizing the main ideas. The summarization strategy helps students recall the main ideas and specific facts of materials they read. There are five rules for writing summaries.
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Education Development Center

Tv411: Tune in for Reading: Reading: Strategies for Better Reading

For Students 4th - 7th Standards
Self-checking interactive tutorial puts reading comprehension skills to work by asking learners to make inferences, predict what happens next, and identify the main ideas in a series of short reading passages. Related materials include...
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Question the Author (Qt A)

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Question the Author (QtA) is a comprehension strategy that requires students to pose queries while reading the text in order to challenge their understanding and solidify their knowledge (Beck et al., 1997).
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TES Global

Blendspace: Reading Comprehension Visualizing

For Students 1st - 8th Standards
A five-part learning module with links to images and web sites to help student improve reading comprehension by visualizing.
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Austin Independent School District

Austin Independent School District: The Writing Teacher's Strategy Guide [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This comprehensive writing guide teaches writing strategies that can be used in any subject area and with any grade level. Each of the eleven chapters discusses and demonstrates a different element of good writing. Many also provide...

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