The 41 slides in a professional development seminar model how to use close reading techniques to examine the many layers of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. In addition to passages from the novel, slides provide biographical...

How can opinions slant facts? Workshop participants learn how to examine primary and secondary sources and identify the author's point of view. They also examine how visual art impacts the meaning and rhetoric of sources. Full of...

A small group activity. Each group receives a Graph the Sound page (link included on site). The teacher holds up a picture and the group must graph each sound they hear when they pronounce the word.

This lesson focuses on practice exercises to understand and interpret the data in a graphic representations including pie charts, bar graphs, and line graphs.

This lesson 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.

This lesson is designed to give students practice creating and reading bar graphs as well as understanding how to accurately represent a graph with appropriate units.

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...

[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...

Synthesize information that you find in charts and graphs.

In this lesson, you will learn how to understand the data found in charts and graphs, and at the end of the lesson, you will practice what you have learned.

Contains plans for four 50-minute interdisciplinary lessons that ask students to interview people and graph significant life events in order to write about those events. In addition to student objectives and standards, these...

A comprehensive guide for learning all about line graphs with definitions, their sections, how to read and create graphs, solved examples, and practice questions.

Read and interpret a double bar graphs. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints. CCSS.Math.Content.3.MD.B.3 Draw a scaled picture graph and a scaled bar...

You will look at each of these types of graphs: bar graph, line graph, pie charts, as you work your way through the lesson.

Interpret picture graphs to answer questions about a context. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.

Interpret bar graphs to answer questions about a context. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.

This article explains that graphs, charts, and diagrams are used to display information visually. The choice of what type of graph or chart to use depends on the information to be displayed. Software programs make these much easier to...

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Read and interpret circle graphs.

[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Analyze the factual, quantitative, and technical data in graphs and charts.

Practice reading and analyzing graphs of proportional relationships. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.

Read and interpret bar graphs. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.

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.

Student use simple data to line up in a living bar graph activity when they respond to simple questions in this lesson plan. They physically and visually represent the data. CCSS.Math.Content.3.MD.B.3 Draw a scaled picture graph and a...

Lots of good materials for teaching about tally marks and bar graphs.