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Read Works: Kindergarten: Three Lesson Unit: Drawing Conclusions
[Free Registration/Login Required] Three lessons designed to introduce young learners and beginning readers to the concept of drawing conclusions based on actions performed in a charades game, on verbal cues given in a guessing game, and...
Education Development Center
Tv411: Tune in for Reading: Reading: Strategies for Better Reading
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...
Quia
Quia: Inferences and Drawing Conclusion
Read a short text and then choose the correct inference or conclusion in this Rags to Riches style game.
Quia
Quia: Reading Detective Drawing Conclusions 7
Read a short text and then choose the correct inference or conclusion in this four question quiz.
Quia
Quia: 5th Grade Drawing Conclusions
Read a short text and then choose an appropriate inference or conclusion in this five-question quiz.
Quia
Quia: Making Inferences, Summaries, and Conclusions
Read a short text and then choose the correct inference, summary, or conclusion in this Rags to Riches style game.
Soft Schools
Soft Schools: Drawing Conclusions
Read a literary text paragraph and then answer questions that require the reader to draw conclusions from the text in this nine-question quiz.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Annotate and Analyze a Paired Passage: Practice 1
Read and annotate paired texts in order to make inferences, draw conclusions, and synthesize ideas and details using textual evidence.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Annotate and Analyze a Paired Passage: Practice 1
Read and annotate paired texts in order to make inferences, draw conclusions, and synthesize ideas and details using textual evidence.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Analyze Various Texts With Similar Themes
In this lesson, you will make inferences and draw conclusions about similar themes across various genres by finding supporting evidence within each of the texts. This task will require you to use your analytical reading skills, and it...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Annotate and Analyze a Paired Passage: Practice 2
Read and annotate paired texts in order to make inferences, draw conclusions, and synthesize ideas and details using textual evidence.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Annotate and Analyze a Paired Passage: Practice 1
Read and annotate paired texts in order to make inferences, draw conclusions, and synthesize ideas and details using textual evidence.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Annotate and Analyze a Paired Passage: Practice 2
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will read and annotate a pair of texts to make inferences, draw conclusions, and synthesize ideas and details using textual evidence.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Annotate and Analyze a Paired Passage: Practice 1
In this lesson, you will read and annotate a pair of texts to make inferences, draw conclusions, and synthesize ideas and details using textual evidence. You are going to look at two texts together to better understand them.
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: Introducing Metaphors Through Poetry
This lesson is designed to help young scholars begin to engage with metaphors on a deeper and more abstract level. The lesson will begin with a poem containing metaphors accessible at all levels, and with each poem, the lesson will...
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: Personal or Social Tragedy? Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome
This lesson will challenge students to weigh the textual evidence for and against the claim that Ethan's woes lay in staying in Starkfield-and not in the details of his personal relationships. In the process, students will close read...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Miss Nelson Is Back
First graders tell what is happening in the story, but use words and phrases from the story to tell how they know.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Annotate and Analyze a Paired Passage: Practice 1
In this lesson, students will read and annotate a pair of texts to make inferences, draw conclusions, and synthesize ideas and details using textual evidence. The two texts are side-by-side to better understand them.
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: From Courage to Freedom:frederick Douglass's 1845 Autobiography
In this 3-lesson plan unit, students will read Douglass's narrative. They will analyze Douglass's vivid first-hand accounts of the lives of slaves and the behavior of slave owners to see how he successfully contrasts reality with...
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: Stephen Crane's "The Open Boat"
In this lesson, students will examine the relationship of man and nature as portrayed in "The Open Boat," based on Crane's suffering from a shipwreck on The Commodore in which he spent thirty hours on a small boat at sea before being...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Annotate and Analyze a Paired Passage: Practice 1
In this lesson, you will read and annotate a pair of texts to make inferences, draw conclusions, and synthesize ideas and details using textual evidence. Prepare to get involved in a conversation between you and the two texts you will be...
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement:charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wall Paper" Writing Women
A close reading of "The Yellow Wall-paper" employing the analysis of such literary concepts as setting, narrative style, symbol, and characterization. Students will write an essay discussing what the story suggests about middle-class...
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: Faulkner's as I Lay Dying: Form of a Funeral
William Faulkner's self-proclaimed masterpiece, As I Lay Dying, originally published in 1930, is a fascinating exploration of the many voices found in a Southern family and community. Students will explore the use of multiple voices in...