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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Critical Reading: Specialized Reading Strategies

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This instructional activity focuses on specialized reading strategies such as online reading, reading in math, science, etc., and reading charts and graphs. It provides text, videos, charts and graphs, graphics, and a self-check.
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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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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Evaluating Data in Tables, Graphs and Charts

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson students look at examples of graphics, tables, charts, and graphs, and learn how to interpret their data. They will be able to use this skill to enhance their...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Analyze Graphical Sources: Practice 2 (English I Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on practice exercises to understand and interpret the data in a graphic representations including pie charts, bar graphs, and line graphs.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Balanced Diet

For Teachers 2nd
For this lesson, 2nd graders will learn about the components of a balanced diet. Students will analyze charts and then self-report their own foods in categories. Several fiction and nonfiction books are listed as additional resources.
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Texas A&M University

Wtamu Virtual Math Lab: Beginning Algebra: Reading Graphs

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A good introduction to reading bar, line, and double line graphs, and drawing and reading Venn diagrams. Contains definitions and examples of these types of charts and graphs as well as practice exercises that ask you to answer questions...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Read Histograms

For Students 5th - 7th
Practice reading and interpreting histograms. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
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Read Works

Read Works: The Olympics Then and Now

For Teachers 3rd
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read two charts with information about the Olympics in ancient Greece and in modern times. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in comparing and contrasting.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Analyze Graphical Sources: Practice 2 (English Ii Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Analyze the factual, quantitative, and technical data in graphs and charts.
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National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, University of California Santa Barbara

Ucsb / Pie Graphs (Piece of Cake)

For Students 9th - 10th
This page gives an example and easy-to-understand description of a pie graph (circle graph.) Also provides an opportunity for students to test their abilities to read a pie graph.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Reading Dot Plots & Frequency Tables

For Students 5th - 7th Standards
Practice reading basic dot plots and frequency tables. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
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Read Works

Read Works: Genre Studies: Informational Text Kindergarten Unit: Labeled Diagrams

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Lesson uses Bats by Gail Gibbons to teach students how to identify facts learned from labeled diagrams within an informational text. Ideas for direct teaching, guided practice, and independent practice...
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Read Works

Read Works: The Middle Ages Feudalism in the Middle Ages

For Teachers 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about feudalism and how it provided stability during the Middle Ages. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: The Sat Reading Test: Overview

For Students 9th - 10th
This is an overview of what to expect on the SAT Reading Test. It assesses your ability to read and interpret a variety of texts similar to the reading you will find in college and your career. All of the questions on the reading test...
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Colorado State University

Colorado State Writing Center: Charts

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The use of charts and graphs can improve your presentations, whether on paper or as visual aids. Here you can read about how to create line, column, bar, pie graphs, and scatterplots. Just follow the links to their respective pages.
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Other

Super Teacher Worksheets: Reading Comprehension: Hurricanes [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 5th
Read the fifth-grade reading passages and charts about hurricanes by Erin Ryan and answer the comprehension questions over the selections. PDF includes an answer key with explanations.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Evaluate a Text for Its Graphics and Visual Appeal

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Evaluate a text for the clarity and appeal of its graphics.
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American Academy of Family Physicians

Aafp: Hypertension Treatment and the Prevention of Heart Disease in the Elderly

For Students 9th - 10th
This article from the American Family Physician journal discusses medical research on the treatment of hypertension and its role in preventing coronary heart disease. Read about how doctors are treating and preventing hypertension and...
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Read Works

Read Works: Animal Ears

For Teachers 2nd
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about four animals that have very different types of ears. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works

Read Works: Ride of the Century

For Teachers 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about the 100th birthday of New York City's subway system. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in classifying and categorizing.
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McGraw Hill

Glencoe: Self Check Quizzes 1 Circle Graphs

For Students 9th - 10th
Use Glencoe's randomly generated self-checking quiz to test your knowledge of circle graphs. Each question has a "Hint" link to help. Choose the correct answer for each problem. At the bottom of the page click the "Check It" button and...
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The Math League

The Math League: Using Data and Statistics: Pie Charts

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This introductory tutorial about statistical graphing with four examples of how pie charts (circle graphs) are constructed and read.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Analyze Graphical Sources: Practice 2 (English I Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
You will look at each of these types of graphs: bar graph, line graph, pie charts, as you work your way through the lesson.
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Read Works

Read Works:north America:comparing Data From Different Countries Around the World

For Teachers 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] A chart with land and population data from Canada, the United States of America, the United Kingdom, and Japan. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.