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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Teaching Reading: Classroom Strategies

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
A collection of effective, research-based classroom strategies to help build and strengthen literacy skills in print awareness, phonological awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, and writing.
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Teach Hub: Teaching Strategies to Keep Students Engaged in Learning

For Teachers 1st - 8th
Through different teaching strategies like project-based learning and the flipped classroom, new techniques have changed the way teachers teach and learners learn. Here are a few more teaching strategies that are guaranteed to keep your...
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Ad lit.org: Critical Thinking: Why Is It So Hard to Teach?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Learning critical thinking skills can only take a student so far. Critical thinking depends on knowing relevant content very well and thinking about it, repeatedly. Here are five strategies, consistent with the research, to help bring...
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: The Mind Mapping Teaching Strategy

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides an efficient learning strategy. Explanataions are provided about how graphic organizers can serve as mind mapping tools.
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Smekens Educational Solutions: Expose K 2 Readers to Annotation Strategies

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This article discusses how to begin teaching students in K-2 to record their ideas about text using highlighters, colored pens, large graphic organizers, and sticky notes. Students can retell a story with a storyboard, use a web to find...
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Social Thinking: Teaching Students About Their Learning Strengths and Weaknesses

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This lesson is about teaching our students and adults how to understand their social learning challenges in the context of their overall abilities and then how they can use their strengths to learn more strategies related to their...
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Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Monitoring/clarifying

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
The Monitoring/Clarifying strategy teaches students to recognize when they don't understand parts of a text and to take necessary steps to restore meaning. This technique is a component of the Reciprocal Teaching model in which teachers...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Once Upon a Fairy Tale Teaching Revision as a Concept

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Contains plans for five lessons that teach the difference between revision and editing using fractured fairy tales. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as well as...
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Achieving Group Diversity

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides a cooperative grouping strategy. Students will learn communication skills in ethnically and culturally diverse groups.
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New Zealand Government: Te Kete Ipurangi: Teaching Technological Systems

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Two teachers approached the technological systems component of the curriculum through a "simple is best" strategy. By the end of the unit, their students had used simple circuits to develop their understanding of technological systems...
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Literature Circles Resource Center: Teaching Students How to Discuss

For Teachers 1st - 8th Standards
Teachers are given strategies and hands-on approaches to help students prepare for a discussion and participate as active members of it.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Teaching Adolescents Who Struggle With Literacy

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
There are five components of reading instruction for struggling adolescent readers: Word identification/decoding, Vocabulary, Comprehension, Fluency, and Engagement/motivation. These components are discussed and a video of middle school...
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Ad lit.org: For Teens, Phonics Isn't Enough

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Schools often struggle to find appropriate materials and approaches to support adolescent literacy. Strategies that work for children can ignore teens' existing skills, knowledge, and life experience, and exclude them from the critical...
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Your Dictionary: Teaching Spelling in 5th Grade

For Teachers 5th Standards
This article focuses on teaching spelling to 5th graders including resources for creating spelling lists, strategies for learning spelling words, more complex spelling rules, and links to several resources.
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Ad lit.org: How to Increase Higher Order Thinking

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Parents and teachers can do a lot to encourage higher order thinking. Here are some strategies to help foster children's complex thinking.
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Wnet: Thirteen: Workshop: Interdisciplinary Learning in Your Classroom

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
What is interdisciplinary learning? How does this buzz word play into today's classroom? Find the answers to these questions when you visit this educational resource. Learn how to implement this strategy into your curriculum.
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Customizable Graphic Organizers

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides a series of customizable graphic organizers. Students will be able to engage in "during reading" strategies and writing process graphic organizers.
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North Central Regional Educational Laboratory

North Central Regional Educational Laboratory: Reciprocal Teaching

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This site offers a comprehensive description of reciprocal teaching.
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Reading Quest: Making Sense of Social Studies

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Teaching students to read well in areas other than language arts requires teaching and reinforcing the kinds of reading strategies taught here. There are 27 strategies, ranging from brainstorming to word mapping. The site includes PDF...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Charting Characters for a More Complete Understanding

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Contains plans for one 60-minute lesson that teaches about a reading strategy called Character Perspective Charting. In addition to student objectives and standards, these instructional plans contains links to PDF handouts and links to...
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Ad lit.org: 5 Homework Strategies for Teaching Students With Learning Disabilities

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Many students with learning or reading disabilities find homework challenging. Here are five research-based strategies that teachers can use to help students.
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Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Summarizing

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Summarizing teaches students how to take a large selection of text and reduce it to the main points for a more concise understanding. Upon reading a passage, summarizing helps students learn to determine essential ideas and consolidate...
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Teach With Movies: Lesson Plans Based on Shorts and Clips

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Links to many video-clip based lessons in the areas of health, English language arts & drama, mathematics, music, biology, earth science, inventions, astronomy, physics, chemistry, U.S. history and culture, and world history and...
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Cooperative Learning: Strategies for Problematic Members

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
A teaching resource to use with difficult students who do not participate appropriately in their cooperative learning groups including The Dominant Student, The Slow Student, The Bored Bright Student, and the Competitive Student.

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