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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Inferences About Information Quick Guide

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Some questions in the Reading Comprehension section will ask you to make an inference about information in the passage. The answer may not be explicitly stated in the passage, but it will be supported by the content of the passage. In...
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Kidsource OnLine

Kid Source on Line: Helping Your Child Learn to Read

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Not only does this article tell you why parents should work with their children to encourage and improve their reading, it also gives practical suggestions about how they can do that. It addresses reading activities for parents and...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 5.nbt Placing Thousandths on the Number Line

For Teachers 5th Standards
This task asks students to order decimal numbers to the thousandths on a number line between 0 and 0.1. Aligns with 5.NBT.A.3.
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: The Art of the Metaphor

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
How do metaphors help us better understand the world? What makes a good metaphor? Explore these questions in this video with writers like Langston Hughes and Carl Sandburg, who have mastered the art of bringing a scene or emotion to...
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: What Makes a Hero?

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
What trials unite not only Harry Potter and Frodo Baggins but many of literature's most interesting heroes? What do ordinary people have in common with these literary heroes? Matthew Winkler takes us step-by-step through the crucial...
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SMART Technologies

Smart: Making Inferences

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
Inferencing is finding clues and using background knowledge to determine an explanation from facts in a passage or story. It's "reading between the lines" of a story to understand what the author doesn't state.