New York State Education Department
TASC Transition Curriculum: Workshop 4
Why is it important to use precise language? Participants explore this question in the fourth activity in a series of 15 on effective instruction. Perfect for all content areas, the activity promotes appropriate language choice through...
New York State Education Department
TASC Transition Curriculum: Workshop 10
How have educational standards evolved? Educators of adults examine expectations in the 10th workshop out of 15 to better determine how standards have grown. Participants respond to a variety of sample questions to determine how they...
Transforming Education
Self-Management Strategies
What self-management techniques help scholars achieve their goals? Readers review a list of strategies for managing stress, increasing motivation, and setting goals. They discover how to monitor their emotions, create checklists to stay...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Summarize Informational/expository Text
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] You will learn how to summarize main ideas, supporting details, and relationships among ideas within expository text.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Reading Comprehension and Classroom Discussions
This tutorial focuses on active reading comprehension strategies including reading aloud, taking notes, summarizing, and writing in the margins of books to improve retention and class discussion. It includes two Flickr videos on active...
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NWT Literacy Council
Nwt Literacy Council: April Raintree: A Multi Level Novel Study [Pdf]
"April Raintree" was written by Beatrice Culleton Mosionier. This novel study is intended for adult learners at several stages in their acquisition of reading skills. The novel is about the experiences of a First Nations Metis child....
American Institutes for Research
Center on Response to Intervention: Progress Monitoring: Study Group Content
The purpose of the Progress Monitoring: Study Group Content module is to provide participants with an introduction to procedures for progress monitoring using Curriculum-Based Measurement (CBM). The module outlines the steps required to...
Education Development Center
Tune in to Learning: Summarizing
Series of interactive activities for practicing skills in summarizing information, in identifying main points and ideas, and in sorting lists into meaningful categories.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Summarizing a Source
Information that can be read or listened to that discusses two methods of how to write effective summaries as well as how to avoid plagiarism when summarizing informational texts. Finally, examples of literary summaries are provided....
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Discussing "Goldilocks and the Three Bears"
Today we are picking apart this story and discussing it in great detail so that we can set the foundation for our comparing and contrasting activity on our Day 3 lesson.
Curated OER
Mc Graw Hill: Part 1 Reading: Literature: Summarize
Summarizing is a key skill needed in reading comprehension. This page describes how to summarize main ideas in a text. Click on Model button for a model with explanation and then click on Practice (Bottom Right)
Other
Brandeis University: How Planning and Reflection Develop Young Children's Thinking Skills
Young children ages three to six are capable of making thoughtful decisions about their behavior and keen observations about their environment. We can promote the development of thinking and reasoning in young children in the early years...
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Effects of Intensive Reading Intervention of Decoding Skills
This article summarizes a study that evaluated the effectiveness of intensive instruction in the Word Identification Strategy, a learning strategy for decoding multi-syllabic words. Results indicate that intense strategy instruction...
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Recommendations for Improving Adolescent Literacy
In its practice guide Improving Adolescent Literacy: Effective Classroom and Intervention Practices, the Dept. of Education offers five recommendations for increasing the reading ability of adolescents. Those recommendations are...
Other
Cincinnati Shakespeare Company: Henry Iv Discussion Guide [Pdf]
This discussion guide for the study of Shakespeare's Henry IV, Parts 1 & 2 not only provides a synopsis of the play, and analysis of its main characters, and themes, but also summarizes the real history of the English kings that...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Principles of Relative Dating Study Guide
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This study guide summarizes key principles used in relative dating. Includes a few questions to check for understanding.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Telescopes Study Guide
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This study guide summarizes key points about electromagnetic radiation and the different types of telescopes that rely on various forms of it. Includes a few...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Surface Ocean Currents Study Guide
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This study guide summarizes key points about surface currents on the ocean. Includes a few questions to check for understanding.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Sedimentary Rock Classification Study Guide
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This study guide summarizes key points about how sedimentary rocks are classified. Includes a few questions to check for understanding.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Roles in an Ecosystem Study Guide
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This study guide summarizes key points about ecological roles and relationships. Includes a few questions to check for understanding.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Experiments and Hypotheses Study Guide
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This study guide summarizes key points about the scientific method and hypotheses.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Soil Study Guide
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This study guide summarizes key points about the characteristics of soil, factors in soil formation, and soil horizons and profiles. Includes a few questions to...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Reducing Greenhouse Gas Pollution Study Guide
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This study guide summarizes key points about global efforts to reduce greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Includes a few questions to check for understanding.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Reducing Air Pollution Study Guide
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This study guide summarizes key points about efforts to reduce air pollution. Includes a few questions to check for understanding.