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Using Wordless Comics To Help Create Meaning in Reading

For Teachers K - 2nd
Use picture cues as a tool in order to create meaning along with text. With a wordless comic, young illustrators discuss the main idea and character traits, and independently write a summary for a page of a wordless comic. This strategy...
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Go to Sleep, Gecko

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd Standards
Use this multidisciplinary lesson to delve into these subjects: English language arts, math, science, drama, and character education. After reading, discussing, and making interpretations about Go To Sleep, Gecko!: A Balinese Folktale by...
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Gathering Information about Screen Time: Assessing and Reading Internet Sources, Day 2

For Teachers 7th Standards
Calling all researchers! Using the resource, scholars continue conducting independent Internet research about a chosen research question. As they browse the web in search of articles to answer their questions, pupils paraphrase their...
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Close Reading and Viewing: Nunavut Iron Ore Mine Approval

For Teachers 5th Standards
Using the thought-provoking resource, scholars continue researching opposing points of view about the Mary River Project proposal. They read an informational text, watch a video, and record the gist of the text and video in their journals. 
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Free Reading Chart

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students read library books daily for ten to fifteen minutes, log information on Free Reading Chart, giving a brief summary of what they just read, and write brief reactionary response to the reading.
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Reading and Responding

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders read and respond to a poem. In this reading and responding lesson plan, 8th graders read a poem as a class and respond to questions about it.
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Free Reading Project

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students participate in a free reading project to improve their reading skills. In this reading project lesson, students spend 30 minutes reading each day and complete journal entries for the lesson. Students complete a short in-class...
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You Are What You Read

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders select a prose, poetry, or nonfiction excerpt from a book of their choice and share it by reading aloud to their classmates, who identify the genre and respond to related questions in their journals.
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Independent Reading Responses

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Young scholars participate in independent reading activities by reading a book at their independent reading level and selecting activities to complete after reading. Activities are broken up into C Level, B Level, and A Level activities.
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Promoting Reading Posters

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
Young scholars create a series of large posters to encourage reading on the campus. In this reading posters lesson, students use a camera to take pictures of young scholars reading in order to promote reading on their campus. Students...
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Reading for Meaning

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Learners answer questions to a worksheet called Connect with Cultural Connections in order to read for meaning. In this read for meaning lesson plan, students read and answer 5 comprehension questions.
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Read Aloud/ Narrative Analysis

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders read passages of Koya's Cousin Del before answering questions in a discussion setting. They listen to a variety of musical pieces before detailing how the music makes them feel in a short piece of writing. They share their...
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Successful Reading Strategies for ELL Students

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students improve their reading comprehension through predicting, connecting with text and summarizing. Students should have already read the book Seedfolks and made predictions based upon what they had seen from the cover and pictures...
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Applying Reading Strategies to Aid Comprehension

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Learners practice their reading skills. In this reading comprehension lesson, students read articles about fast food topics using the wordstorming strategy described to prepare for reading the text.
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Reading About the Journey: The Odyssey

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students practice their reading skills. In this reading fluency and comprehension lesson, students read instructor-selected passages from The Odyssey following the provided steps for the reading class activity that requires them to...
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During Reading Strategies (Prediction, Self-Question, and Correct)

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students practice their reading skills. In this reading fluency and comprehension lesson, students read instructor-selected passages and use metacognitive skills to predict, self-question, and correct.
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Reading Log

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders, after reading books in Language Arts, complete a database to assist them with book reports.
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Read and Review

For Teachers K - 4th
Students create presentations to discuss a book they've read using a video format. For this reading and speech lesson, students video tape a presentation about a book they've written a summary for. Students then produce an in-house...
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Race into Reading

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Students create a career exploration experience for elementary students. In this career exploration lesson, students select a career field d to read about to elementary children. Students then present the Career Exploration Day to the...
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6 Traits: Sentence Fluency

For Teachers Pre-K - 4th
Students practice writing with sentence fluency in order to make the story more enjoyable for the reader. In this sentence fluency lesson plan, students focus on rhythm and flow.
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During Reading Strategies (Inferring)

For Teachers 8th - 11th
Students practice their reading skills. In this reading fluency and comprehension lesson, students read instructor-selected passages and use metacognitive skills to make inferences based on the selections. 
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Comprehending Through Questioning

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Elementary schoolers observe and apply a variety of reading comprehension strategies. They silently read a passage out of their science textbook, and discuss answering the who, what, where, when, and how of the text. In small groups they...
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The Classroom Library

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Youngsters visit the classroom library to complete various reading activities, pushing their motivation to read! They will discuss different library books and read two specific books that use "Building Block" reading skills. They also...
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Making and Using a Graphic Organizer for Solving a Mystery

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students create tables in a word processing program which helps them organize their text clues when reading a mystery story. They develop reading comprehension strategies while using a computer based graphic organizer in order to solve...

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