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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: The Foundations for Reading

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards

What are the foundations for reading? Come and explore this informative article to discover the answer to this question.

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Read Works

Read Works: American Symbols

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards

[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage lists and explains some of the different American symbols. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes...

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Nclr: The Essentials of Teaching Reading

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards

Find out what the essentials are for teaching reading. This site provides vital information for teachers in developing the most successful reading program for their students.

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BBC

Bbc: Skillswise: Types of Text

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards

How can you tell if a text is descriptive, informative, instructional or persuasive? This BBC Skillswise tutorial teaches you how with a factsheet, worksheet, quiz, and game.

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CPALMS

Cpalms: It's All in the Details

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards

Using this comprehensive lesson plan, students will use a web graphic organizer to learn to record the main idea and details learned from informational text read aloud to them.

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CPALMS

Cpalms: Lafs.1.ri.4.10

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

This website offers various resources to meet the common core standard of reading informational texts appropriately complex for grade 1. Resources include center activities, lesson plans, and a professional development article.

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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: 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: 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: 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: Book Look [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

A lesson plan in which students look through a book to identify text features and complete a graphic organizer. Materials are included.

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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Instructional Routines

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

This site offers PDF grade-specific lesson plans for teaching various reading skills for grades K-3. These include phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension.

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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Questions to Guide Instruction

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

This site offers questions to guide all facets of reading instruction broken down by grade level, grades K-3.

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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Text to Self and Text to World Connections

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards

Students will further their reading comprehension by associating real-life events with the events of a story.

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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: How to Read Nonfiction Text

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

Kids love to read about real people, places, and events. Nonfiction books present real information in engaging and interesting ways. However, most kids read a lot more fiction than nonfiction, so spend some extra time helping your reader...

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CPALMS

Cpalms: lafs.k.ri.1.3

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

Choose from a variety of lesson plans, resources, center activities, and a formative assessment that meets the standard of describing the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text.

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Starfall

Starfall: Come Play With Me

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards

This interactive nonfiction ebook focuses children playing. Students can choose to read independently or listen to each sentence.

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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: What Can We Learn From Pigs?

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards

This thematic language arts lesson plan uses a variety of beginning reading books about pigs to help special education/early elementary students learn about character traits and concepts. The wide use of graphic organizers introduces...

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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Questioning Text

For Teachers 1st Standards

Creating a product and illustrations make this lesson great for teaching about questioning. Students will ask and answer questions about a text via the assistance of a graphic organizer.

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Axelson Academy

Axelson Academy:types of Texts

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards

This professional resource will help teachers understand the different types of texts that early childhood students need to know.

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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Reading Informational Text: Grades K 1

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

This learning resource will show teachers how to model how to teach students to describe connections between pieces of information in a text.

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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Guiding Students: Expository Text With Text Feature Walks

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

Explains how to guide students in examining text features during a walkthrough of an expository text.

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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Nonfiction

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

Provides advice for how to incorporate nonfiction into a reading program. Includes videos, links to downloadable 'adventure packs,' tip sheets for parent, a list of websites on nonfiction, and articles.

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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Arthur: Collection

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards

This collection foster students' interest in reading and writing, and encourage positive social skills with this collection of classroom resources from ARTHUR. Aimed at children between the ages of four and eight, these resources feature...

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