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\nClose Reading of Bullfrog at Magnolia Circle: Main Ideas about the Bullfrog\n

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\nAs your class reaches the end of the book Bullfrog at Magnolia Circle, the seventh lesson in this literary unit helps third graders transition from reading narrative to expository writing. Scholars develop their note-taking skills...\n
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\nComprehension: Expository Text Structure, Text Feature Find\n

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\nScholars explore an expository text to answer questions about its structure. \n
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\nComprehension: Create a Summary from an Expository Text\n

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\nChildren can learn to analyze expository or informational texts at nearly any age. This scaffolded and scripted resource provides teachers with the support needed to facilitate a thoughtful lesson on summarizing informational text...\n
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\nSignal Words in Expository Text\n

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\nSignal words are one way that authors make the relationships between their ideas clear. Allow your learners the chance to investigate cause and effect in texts by identifying signal words. They locate and analyze cause-and-effect...\n
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\nWater: Narrative vs. Expository Texts\n

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\nA reading of vignettes written by Peace Corps Volunteers serving in Lesotho and Madagascar launches a study of the difference between narrative and expository texts. As final products, young writers craft both a narrative and an...\n
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\nReading for Information\n

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\nWhat should readers do to prepare for reading an informational text? What should they do during their reading? What should they do after completing such a text? Introduce your pupils to reading strategies and techniques to gain meaning...\n
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\nPut Your Habits to Work in Math\n

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\nLearning how to read an expository text is an essential skill. The questions on this two-page worksheet lead pupils to understand that the title, heading, diagrams, photographs, problems and captions all support the main idea of a...\n
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\nReading For Information\n

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\nTo help learners better comprehend informational texts, they work through a series of activities. They discuss strategies, make predictions, skim passages, focus on key words, and practice taking notes. This lesson focuses on what to do...\n
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\nNarrative vs. Expository Texts\n

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\nYoung scholars use examples of narrative and expository text to analyze and compare the two styles. Students read articles on life in Lesotho and Madagascar and use graphic organizers and discussion to compare them. Young scholars write...\n
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\nCharlotte's Web\n

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\nFourth graders focus on fluency by reading the book Charlotte's Web. In this reading strategies lesson, 4th graders partner read, do guided reading, and independent reading to increase fluency. Students use Venn Diagrams, discuss...\n
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\nShort and Sweet\n

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\nYoung scholars examine how to summarize information from expository text. They read an expository text and identify the important information from the reading. Students identify the topic sentence and write their own topic sentences.\n
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\nWhat's the Purpose Anyway?\n

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\nExamine author's purpose in newspaper articles, comic books, cookbooks, encyclopedias and other forms of written materials. Working in groups, middle and high schoolers read teacher-selected articles and write an explanation of the...\n
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\nReading Comprehension\n

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\nUsing either online worksheets or print outs, 12th graders practice expository text comprehension skills by answering multiple choice questions, completing a vocabulary matching activity, and completing a crossword puzzle. This is...\n
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\nUnderstanding a Narrative: The True Story of Balto\n

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\nStrong comprehension questions and a list of initiating events that drive the plot make this resource worth a try in your classroom. Intended for use with tools specific to the mindwing concepts reading strategy system, the outline...\n
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\nEnd-of-Year Practice Test (Grade 6 ELA/Literacy)\n

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\nWith the end of the year quickly approaching it's time to find out exactly how much your sixth graders have learned. Specifically designed for the Common Core ELA standards, this practice test gives students five reading passages,...\n
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\nPhrase Card Reading\n

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\nFourth graders, after reading and discussing the book, \"Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing,\" by Judy Bloom, complete a vocabulary worksheet and read sections from the book fluently and accurately. They utilize dictionaries and thesauruses...\n
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\nIdentifying Important Ideas in Expository Text\n

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\nStudents identify the main ideas from expository text. For this main ideas lesson, students read a piece of text and practice identifying what is most important. Students complete another sample reading with a group then discuss as a class.\n
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\nFrog Or Toad?\n

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\nIn this expository comprehension worksheet, students read a 1-page informational article about frogs and toads, answer short answer questions, and fill out a Venn diagram to compare the two amphibians.\n
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\nNarrative or Expository?\n

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\nNarrative or expository? That is the question readers face on a two-part comprehension worksheet that asks kids to read a short passage about these two different types of writing, and then to answer a series of comprehension questions...\n
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\nOnly the Facts\n

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\nPractice the strategy of summarizing to gain meaning and knowledge from an informational text. Young readers highlight supporting details and main ideas, and then they use this to summarize two articles: \"The Great Quake\" and \"What...\n
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\nFourth-Grade Text-Based Intervention\n

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\nProvide young readers with the extra support they need using this series of 10 literacy lessons. Following a repeated sequence of learning activities, these lessons engage children in expanding their vocabulary...\n
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\nReading in the Science Content Area\n

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\nHelp your students internalize scientific ideas by teaching strategies for reading in the content area.\n
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\nComprehension: Monitoring for Understanding, Simple Summary\n

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\nCan your class sum up a text in a few sentences? Help them build this skill by starting nice and slow. For this summarizing activity, the teacher marks the main ideas with sticky notes. Learners read and reread the text, pausing at the...\n
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\nBoa Constrictors\n

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\nIn this expository comprehension activity, students read a 1-page informational article about boa constrictors and then answer 3 short answer and 2 multiple choice questions.\n
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