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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Monitor for Understanding: Background Check [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
A lesson plan in which young scholars browse a text and complete a graphic organizer to show prior knowledge. Materials are included.
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Monitor for Understanding: Reading Repair

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which students read a text using different reading strategies to fix problems as they read. Materials are included. [PDF]
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Monitor for Understanding: What Do You Know? [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
A lesson plan in which young scholars browse a text and complete graphic organizers to help them activate prior knowledge. Materials are included.
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Monitor for Understanding: Strategic

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which students complete a graphic organizer to record prior knowledge before reading, ask questions while reading, and summarize a text after reading. Materials are included. [PDF]
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Monitor for Understanding: Sum Summary! [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which students read a narrative or informational text and complete graphic organizers to help them write good summaries of the texts. Materials are included.
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Text Analysis: What's the Purpose? [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
A lesson plan in which students read short texts and sort them according to purpose: persuade, inform, entertain, and explain. Materials are included. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.6
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Text Analysis: Inference Innovations [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
A lesson plan in which students read a text and use a graphic organizer to make inferences. Materials are included.
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research:ask and Answer [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which students read a text and stop periodically to write questions based on question word cards. Materials are included.
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Text Analysis: Incredible Inferences [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
A lesson plan in which students play a game to cover words on a game board by making inferences. Materials are included.
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Text Analysis: Matter of Fact or Opinion [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
A lesson plan in which students work with a partner to write facts and opinions on different word cards. Materials are included.
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Monitor for Understanding: Read and Ask [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which students read a text aloud and then roll a question cube and answer the questions together with a partner. Materials are included.
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Text Analysis: Fact or Opinion Game [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
A lesson plan in which students play a game where they move around a board by determining if statements are facts or opinions. Materials are included.
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Classifying Info [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which students read a text and complete a graphic organizer to find the main idea and supporting details. Materials are included.
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Monitor for Understand: Background Knowledge [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd Standards
A lesson plan in which students preview a text and complete a graphic organizer to activate prior knowledge. Materials are included.
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Text Analysis: Persuade, Inform, Entertain Sort

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
A lesson plan in which learners read short texts and sort them according to the author's purpose: to persuade, to inform, or to entertain. Materials are included. [PDF]
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Monitor for Understanding: K W L [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which students complete a KWL chart before during and after reading a text. Materials are included.
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Exp. Text Structure: Text Structure Sort [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd Standards
A lesson plan in which students read short texts and sort them according to structure: cause and effect, problem and solution, question and answer, compare and contrast, description, and sequence. Materials are included.
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Text Analysis: Incredible Inferences [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd Standards
A lesson plan in which students play a game by covering places on a board while making inferences. Materials are included.
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Text Analysis: Compare and Contrast [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which students use graphic organizers to compare and contrast topics within a text. Materials are included.
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Text Analysis: Fact or Opinion Football [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd Standards
A lesson plan in which learners play a football card game by determining if sentences are facts or opinions. Materials are included.
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Fiction and Nonfiction Sort [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which learners look at different books, write their titles, and sort them according to whether they are fiction or nonfiction. Materials are included.
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Expository Text Structure: Summarizing [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which students read a text and record the main ideas and supporting details on a graphic organizer. Students then complete the organizer by writing a summary of the text. Materials are included.
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Expository Text Structure: Main Idea Mania

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd Standards
A lesson plan in which students read a text and record the main ideas and supporting details on one of the graphic organizers provided. Materials are included. [PDF]
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Exp. Text Structure: Reading the Research

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which young scholars review reference materials looking for answers to specific questions. Materials are included.