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Read Works: 3rd Grade: Lesson 1: Visualizing a Setting
[Free Registration/Login Required] In the course of this lesson plan, 3rd graders will learn to determine the setting of what they read by using context clues and visualization.
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Read Write Think: Solving Word Meanings: Engaging Strategies for Vocabulary Dev.
A 5-lesson unit where learners learn to use context clues and semantic gradients together to determine the meanings of unfamiliar words.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Rhetorical Reading: Putting It Together: Rhetorical Reading
This is a summary of the previous lessons having to do with rhetorical reading including rhetorical context, previewing text, actively reading, using context clues, and reading voraciously.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Critical Reading: Vocabulary
This lesson focuses on increasing your vocabulary including using context clues, dictionaries, and your working vocabulary. It also offers two videos with strategies for enhancing your vocabulary.
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Read Works: Grade 2: Four Lesson Unit: Vocabulary in Context
[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of four lesson plans designed to develop young scholars' vocabulary skills including understanding prefixes, using context clues, and using a glossary and a dictionary. Lessons are based on the...
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Read Works: Drawing Conclusions 1st Grade Unit
[Free Registration/Login Required] A three-lesson unit on drawing conclusions through which students learn how to use pictures and context clues to discover a missing word and to draw conclusions about a story. Students also use...
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Read Write Think: Acquiring New Vocabulary
This lesson teaches elementary students new vocabulary terms through book discussion groups. Students use context clues, prior knowledge, and print and online resources for vocabulary understanding in their discussion.
US National Archives
Docsteach: Celebrating America's Bicentennial in 1976
In this activity, students will learn how the Declaration of Independence has been made available so that Americans can still read this important document. They will follow the steps that were involved in printing copies of the...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Learning to Recognize and Use Strong Verbs
In this lesson plan, students will listen to stories and determine the meaning of the word by using sentence-level context clues. They will think about the verbs that are used and think about how that verb appeals to their senses, giving...
Student Achievement Partners
Achieve the Core: "Words We Live By: Your Annotated Guide to the Constitution"
Lesson plan explores the meaning of the words in the Preamble to the Constitution.
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Read Works: Grade 2: Two Lesson Unit: Setting
[Free Registration/Login Required] A set of two lesson plans designed to teach students to use context clues to identify the setting and changes within it. Lessons are based on the books Bigmama's by Donald Crews and The Stories Julian...
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Read Works: A Wrinkle in Time 6th Grade Unit
[Free Registration/Login Required] This ReadWorks Unit engages students in a deep study of Madeleine L'Engle's science fiction work, A Wrinkle in Time. Students will investigate the following topics: the book's theme, the science fiction...
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Better Lesson: Learning About Subheadings and Bold Words
In this lesson, learners will use several strategies to learn the meaning of new words they encounter in text. The students will learn specific strategies so when they encounter new words, they can figure out the meaning of those words...
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Wisewire: Grade 3 Playlist: Identifying Real Life Connections Between Words
Often, without even realizing it, readers are connecting the words they read to their everyday lives. The human brain is moving so fast that even while reading, behind the scenes, readers are making connections to their real lives and to...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Molly of Denali: Bird in Hand Lesson Plan
This in-depth lesson, based on the 11-minute story "Bird in Hand" from the PBS Kids series Molly of Denali, helps children use strategies, such as examining the parts of unfamiliar words to figure out their meaning.
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Read Works: Vocabulary in Context 1st Grade Unit
[Free Registration/Login Required] This website provides a series of three lesson plans designed to teach students to use visual, meaning, and structure clues separately and together to determine the meaning of unknown words. Lessons are...
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Read Works: Grade 1: Three Lesson Unit: Character: Actions, Feelings, Looks
[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of three lesson plans, based on David Shannon's books No, David!, David Gets in Trouble, and David Goes to School. Students learn how to utilize text and picture clues to determine and describe...
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Read Write Think: Internalization of Vocabulary Through the Use of a Word Map
Students practice with words and develop both denotative and contextual knowledge through two agents-purposeful sequencing of steps and collaboration with peers.
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Read Works: Sequence Kindergarten Unit: Sequence Clue Words
[Free Registration/Login Required] Teach students to identify the sequence of a story by looking at transitional words such as "first" and "then" in the book Henry and Mudge: The First Book of Their Adventures by Cynthia Rylant. Learning...
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Read Works: Vocabulary in Context Kindergarten Unit: Using Sound and Picture Cues
[Free Registration/Login Required] Lesson uses Growing Vegetable Soup by Lois Ehlert to teach learners to use picture cues and initial word sounds to identify unknown words. Ideas for direct teaching, guided practice, and independent...
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Read Works: Vocabulary in Context 3rd Grade Unit: Dictionary
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson in which students learn to use a dictionary to determine the meanings of unfamiliar words. Lesson utilizes the book The Life Cycle of a Beetle by Bobbie Kalman and Molly Aloian and includes...
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Read Works: Vocabulary in Context 3rd Grade Unit: Contrasting Statements
[Free Registration/Login Required] A instructional activity in which young scholars learn to use contrasting statements within a sentences to determine the meanings of unfamiliar words. Lesson includes directions for direct teaching,...
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Read Works: Vocabulary in Context 3rd Grade Unit: Appositives
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson in which learners learn to use information within appositives to determine the meanings of unfamiliar words. Lesson utilizes the book The Life Cycle of a Beetle by Bobbie Kalman and Molly...
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Read Works: Vocabulary in Context 2nd Grade Unit: Glossary
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan in which learners learn to use a glossary to determine the meanings of unfamiliar words. Lesson utilizes the book The Life Cycle of an Emperor Penguin by Robin Johnson and Bobbie Kalman...
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