New Zealand Ministry of Education
Te Kete Ipurangi: Thinking and Reading Comprehension
Julie Cowan from Willowbank School explains how she supports students to become strategic, reflective, and metacognitive readers and thinkers.
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Learn Zillion: Determine the Meaning of Words Using Text and Text Features
In this lesson, you will learn how to understand the meaning of words by using definitions, sentences, and illustrations in the text. Login gives access to a slideshow and a student handout. [7:19]
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Learn Zillion: Consider an Author's Choices and Purpose Using Text Structure
In this lesson, you will learn how to think about the choices an author made by asking "Why did the author choose to write it this way instead of that way?" [2:41]
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Learn Zillion: Use Text Structure to Understand Author's Purpose
In this lesson, you will learn how to understand an author's purpose by thinking about why the author chose a particular text structure. [2:32]
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Learn Zillion: Video: Make Connections Between Key Events Using Text Structure
In this lesson, you will learn to describe how key events in the story are connected by asking questions about the text structure. [8:54]
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Learn Zillion: Determine the Meaning of Words to Understand Contrast
In this lesson, you will learn how an author creates a contrast by determining the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text. [7:22]
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Learn Zillion: Identify the Main Idea of a Nonfiction Text
In this lesson students will learn how to determine the main idea of an entire nonfiction text by synthesizing the main ideas of each section of the text. Login gives access to a slideshow and a student handout. [6:23]
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Cult of Pedagogy (You Tube): Teaching Text Structures for Non Fiction Reading
This video from Jennifer Gonzalez's Cult of Pedagogy provides step-by-step instructions for guiding students to understand how to determine text structures.
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Pbs: Wyoming Voices: Wyoming Day (Grades K 5)
Students will learn about Wyoming's territorial history, statehood, constitution, and women's rights, in celebration of Wyoming Day.
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Pbs: Rounding Up the Rhymes
In this video, effective for engaging students with significant cognitive disabilities, the teacher reads text to identify pairs of rhyming words within the story.
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Pbs: Setting a Purpose for Reading Story Map, Part 3
This video, effective for engaging students with significant cognitive disabilities, demonstrates how to set a purpose then listen to see if you can find the solution.
PBS
Pbs: How Do We Know What the Character Is Feeling
This video, effective for engaging students with significant cognitive disabilities, demonstrates how to identify how the character feels in a story.
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Pbs: Setting a Purpose for Reading Story Map, Part 2
In this video, effective for engaging students with significant cognitive disabilities, students are asked to identify the story elements, specifically the problem in the story.
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Pbs Learning Media: Tea Mology: Helping and Learning From Mistakes
TEAMology characters Harper and Paco lend a little assistance at the local library! Learning to read and learning from mistakes is packaged with fun. [4:57]