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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: What Does the Reader Want to Know? Creating Research Questions

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
In this lesson, students will change a research topic into questions that they will specifically answer while doing their research.
Lesson Plan
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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Books in the Classroom

Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site: Lyddie

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
What do you know about the characters and setting of "Lyddie," by Carol Hurst? Gain insight into the characters through the discussion questions found a this site.
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Other

Heartland Area Education Agency: Copyright Brief Notes for Students

For Students 9th - 10th
A four-page handout on copyright and fair use, beginning with frequently asked questions and continuing with summaries of parts of copyright law, tips on asking permission to use copyrighted materials, and guidelines on acceptable use of...
Professional Doc
AdLit

Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Directed Reading Thinking Activity (Drta)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The Directed Reading Thinking Activity (DRTA) is a strategy that guides students in asking questions about a text, making predictions, and then reading to confirm or refute their predictions. The DRTA process encourages students to be...
Professional Doc
AdLit

Ad lit.org: Teaching Content Knowledge and Reading Strategies in Tandem

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Many areas of instruction can have a rippling effect for the expansion of readers' repertoire of skills, including pre-reading, predicting, testing hypotheses against the text, asking questions, summarizing, etc. Literacy-rich,...
Handout
WebMD

Medicine Net: Tetanus

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from MedicineNet.com provide the reader with great information on the fatal disease of the nervous system known as tetanus. Links are provided throughout for additional information on related subject. The article is fairly...
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National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

The Math Forum: Ask Dr. Math: Quadratic Function (Changing Coefficients)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The Dr. gives information about a method for deciding how changing the coefficients of a quadratic function affects a graph. The page also leaves some questions for the reader to ponder.
Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Frog and Toad Are Friends

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this lesson for early readers, young scholars will describe the major events in the plot, describe the characters, and ask and answer questions about the first chapter in Frog and Toad Are Friends---Spring.
Lesson Plan
Lumen Learning

Lumen: Rhetorical Reading: Rhetorical Context

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This instructional activity focuses on rhetorical context including defining it, questions to ask to understand it, and how it can be useful to the reader and responder.
Graphic
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Ace: Writing Mathematics [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this graphic organizer, steps for solving word problems are included. Questions for students to ask themselves for what to do to "answer" [A], "computer" [C], "check" [C], and "explain" [E] are included. [Requires Adobe Reader.]
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Virginia Tech

Jacob Have I Loved: Review

For Students 9th - 10th
How does the vision of self come into play in the novel "Jacob Have I Loved," by Katherine Paterson? Find out more when you visit this online resource.
Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: History Comes Alive: Developing Fluency and Comprehension

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
Let the power of imagination and inference serve as a "time machine" to bring Benjamin Franklin into the classroom! History and science come to life in a dialogue with Franklin the inventor, developed through instructional activity...
Interactive
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Literature: Analyzing Theme

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Article explains how to find the theme in a piece of literature by asking yourself a series of questions as you read. RL.9-10.1 Analyzing Theme. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.2
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Local Editing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This slideshow lesson focuses on local editing; it defines the term and explains what to look for: clarity, mechanics, and grammar, word choice, sentence structure, paragraph structure, and impact on the reader. It discusses each and...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Using Fragments Wisely

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on the intentional use of sentence fragments. It offers a YouTube video asking the viewer to spot the fragments, and a PowerPoint presentation listing 5 appropriate uses of fragments: to get the reader's attention, to...
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Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Using Commas With Introductory Phrases

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This online quiz from the Capital Community College is tightly focused on commas and introductory phrases. Ten questions ask the reader to insert commas where necessary, then check the sentence against the website's version. Vocabulary...
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Curated OER

Mc Graw Hill: Part 1: Reading Literature

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Learn how asking and answering questions can help readers understand literature better. Site includes a model and an example of how to use this system.
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Read Works

Read Works: Eruption!

For Teachers 3rd
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text that asks the reader to make predictions about the eruption of the Colima Volcano in Mexico. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works

Read Works: Storm Warning

For Teachers 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text that asks the reader to make predictions about an interview between a storm survivor and his son. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works

Read Works: Where Will I Live?

For Teachers 2nd
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text that asks the reader to make predictions about how habitat changes affect endangered animals. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works

Read Works: Lost and Found

For Teachers 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text that asks the reader to make predictions about a new bird species found on the island of New Guinea. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading...
Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Hard Times for Honeybees

For Teachers 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text that asks the reader to make predictions about problems created by the decreasing bee population. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works

Read Works: Meet the Emperors

For Teachers 2nd
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text that asks the reader to make predictions about emperor penguins. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.