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Application Magazine

Aplicaciones: Redaccion Interactiva

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Here you will find eighteen different set of exercises so you can test your reading comprehension.
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Tom Richey

Slide Share: Poetry Analysis Tpcastt

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
11 slides demonstrating poetry analysis using the TPCASTT format: Title, Paraphrase, Connotation, Attitude, Shift, Title, Theme.
Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Reading Strategies for Complex Texts

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
A nine-part learning module on reading strategies including links to videos, images, websites, and activities.
Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Poetry in the Classroom

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An eighteen-part learning module with links to images, videos, websites, and slides about poetry, writing poems, and students presenting original poems.
Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Reading Comprehension Visualizing

For Students 1st - 8th Standards
A five-part learning module with links to images and web sites to help student improve reading comprehension by visualizing.
Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Text Connections Pompeii in Poetry, Fiction and Nonfiction

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
A fourteen-part learning module with links to texts, videos, and websites that demonstrate text connections through various texts about Pompeii.
Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Drama

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
A learning module with eighteen links to web sites, videos, images, and texts about reading and writing dramas.
Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Poetry Writing

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
A fifteen-part learning module with links to texts and videos about writing different types of poetry.
Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Literature Circle Differention Using Web 2.0 Tools

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A fourteen-part learning module with links to websites for use with literature circles.
Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Poetry Power

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
A learning module with fifteen links to a slideshow, videos, texts, and websites on elements of poetry, figurative language, and different types of poetry.
Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Poetry

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
A learning module with twenty-one links to videos, images, and websites on poetry including information on poetry, figurative language, poetic devices, famous poems and poets, and more.
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Note Taking for Social Studies

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart covers how to read a historical text and convert information into visual representations by taking notes. This strategy helps students to read a passage and determine the author's purpose.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Poetry

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart provides an introduction to poetry terms, examples, and web links.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Poetry Cinquains

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flip chart explores the elements of Cinquain poetry. Students analyze the structure and create original Cinquains.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Poetry Diamond

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart introduces the diamante poem, gives the elements and provides examples.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Quatrains

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this flipchart students will learn what a quatrain is, and how to write one. There are web links and an Activote session.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Poetry Introduction

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart introduces several types of poetry, gives the elements and examples of each type. The types of poetry include color poetry, limericks, free verse, and couplets.
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Can Teach

Can Teach: Dear Character

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
In this lesson plan students will demonstrate reading comprehension and writing skills by writing a letter to a character in a story. Lesson plan indicated for 3rd grade and above, but could be adapted for younger grades.
Lesson Plan
Can Teach

Can Teach: Different Perspectives a Graphic Organizer

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
In this lesson plan students will read a text from a number of different perspectives which will result in a greater understanding of it. This is a good strategy to use to guide students through multiple readings of a text. Lesson plan...
Website
Application Magazine

Aplicaciones: Poesias Para Los Pequenos Y Para Los Mayores

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
On this website you will find 40 poems for elementary students and 40 poems for middle school age students. At the end of each one there is a quiz to test the comprehension.
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Education Development Center

Tv411: Tune in for Reading: Reading: Strategies for Better Reading

For Students 4th - 7th Standards
Self-checking interactive tutorial puts reading comprehension skills to work by asking learners to make inferences, predict what happens next, and identify the main ideas in a series of short reading passages. Related materials include...
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Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: Crossing Bok Chitto

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
Improve students' reading fluency while providing fun and purposeful practice and performance through Reader's Theater Scripts. The focus is on reading the text with expressive voices and gestures - no memorization required! Have fun...
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Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: The Great Kapok Tree

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
Improve students' reading fluency while providing fun and purposeful practice and performance through Reader's Theater Scripts. The focus is on reading the text with expressive voices and gestures - no memorization required! Have fun...
Activity
Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: Worry Warts

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
Improve students' reading fluency while providing fun and purposeful practice and performance through Reader's Theater Scripts. The focus is on reading the text with expressive voices and gestures - no memorization required! Have fun...