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Reading Quest: Strategies for Reading Comp.: History Frames: Story Maps
This activity will help you teach students chronological order as well as identifying key people and events. Printable worksheets.
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Read Write Think: Using Comprehension Strategies With Elie Wiesel's Night
Working in small groups, students read and discuss Elie Wiesel's memoir Night and then take turns assuming the "teacher" role, as the class works with four different comprehension strategies.RI.11-12.4 Word meaning, RI.11-12.10b Text...
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Read Write Think: Hoax/no Hoax? Online Comprehension and Evaluation Strategies
Students use research-based comprehension strategies to read and evaluate websites, and practice analysis by comparing hoax and real websites and by identifying false or misleading information. SL.11-12.2 Eval&Integrate sources
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Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Partner Reading
Partner Reading is a cooperative learning strategy in which two students work together to read an assigned text. This strategy is often used as part of the Peer-Assisted Learning Strategies (PALS). PALS is a classwide peer tutoring...
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Ad lit.org: Why Students Think They Understand When They Don't
Students often think they understand a body of material and, believing that they know it, stop trying to learn more. But come test time, it turns out they really don't know the material very well at all. Can cognitive science tell us...
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Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Directed Reading Thinking Activity (Drta)
The Directed Reading Thinking Activity (DRTA) is a strategy that guides students in asking questions about a text, making predictions, and then reading to confirm or refute their predictions. The DRTA process encourages students to be...
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Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Jigsaw
Jigsaw is a strategy that emphasizes cooperative learning by providing students an opportunity to actively help each other build comprehension. Use this technique to assign students to reading groups composed of varying skill levels....
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Texas Gateway: Applying Word Study Strategies (English I Reading)
Apply previous lessons, (1) Linguistic Roots and Affixes, (2) Denotation and Connotation, (3) Origins and Meanings of Foreign Words, (4) Cognates, and (5) Reference Materials, to improve fluency and comprehension.
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Texas Gateway: Applying Word Strategies: Multiple Choice Review: Practice 1
Apply content from lessons 1-6 to improve reading fluency and comprehension.
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Ad lit.org: Direct, Explicit Comprehension Strategy Instruction
Comprehension strategies are routines and procedures that readers use to help them make sense of texts. Struggling adolescent readers need direct, explicit instruction in comprehension strategies to improve their reading comprehension.
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Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Prediction Relay
Prediction Relay is an activity that was developed as part of the Peer-Assisted Learning Strategies (PALS). PALS is a classwide peer tutoring program in which teachers carefully partner a student with a classmate. The Prediction Relay...
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How to Study: Good Listening in Class
Eight tips on how to improve your listening skills in the classroom so that you gain more from lectures and discussions.
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Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Sq3 R: Survey Question Read Recite Review
SQ3R is a comprehension strategy that helps students think about the text they are reading while they're reading. Often categorized as a study strategy, SQ3R helps students "get it" the first time they read a text by teaching students...
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Reading Skills for Academic Study
Designed for university students in the United Kingdom but applicable to English and advanced ESL students in other countries, this tutorial provides strategies and skills for required academic reading loads.
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Mc Graw Hill: Carol's Classroom: Speaking and Listening: Prepare for Discussions
This video lesson [4:11] focuses on clear communication and active listening, essential social-emotional skills, that help lay the foundation of positive learning environments. They can develop these skills and take responsibility for...
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Texas Gateway: Reading Comprehension Across Genres: Annotate for Meaning
This lesson focuses on Annotation, a "writing-to-learn" strategy. It consists of writing explanatory notes and critical (analytical) commentary to yourself. Annotating text consists of two steps: (1) underlining, highlighting, circling,...
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Smart: Runners Reading Strategy
This file will help you teach your students the "RUNNERS" reading strategy. I am a music teacher but I developed this file to help tutor some students and increase their reading scores on the EOG. Under each shape is the reading...
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Middle Tennessee St. Univ.: Listening Well to Take Notes
Quick list of ten bad listening habits, followed by seven principles to enhance classroom listening.
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Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Reading Guides
Reading Guides help students navigate reading material, especially difficult textbook chapters or technical reading. Students respond to a teacher-created written guide of prompts as they read an assigned text. Reading Guides help...
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University of Minnesota: Student Handbook: Listening Skills
This short list of listening strategies from the University of Minnesota Duluth is designed to help every student become a better listener.
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Reading Quest: Strategies for Reading Comprehension: Power Thinking
Looking for an alternative to formal outline instruction? Power Thinking teaches the concept of outlining but on a somewhat simplified level. The site is good for basic note-taking from a text.
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Increased Comprehension With the Use of Imagery
Designed for adult learners, this literacy lesson could easily be used in the high school or middle school classroom. Some handouts are included, but some material must be found in a newspaper or magazine.
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Read Write Think: Exploring Disability Using Multimedia and B D a Reading Strategy
History takes on new dimensions in this interactive multimedia lesson plan that emphasizes the B-D-A (before-during-after reading) approach to research as learners investigate the experiences of people with disabilities since the early...
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Study Guides & Strategies: Sq3 R Reading Method
For students, the SQ3R Reading Method provides a method for how to read and comprehend a reading assignment.
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