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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Exploring Disability Using Multimedia and B D a Reading Strategy

For Teachers 9th - 10th
History takes on new dimensions in this interactive multimedia lesson that emphasizes the B-D-A (before-during-after reading) approach to research as students investigate the experiences of people with disabilities since the early 1800s.
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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Common Core Resources: Fiction Questions [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This PDF is a Common Core teacher resource that provides a list of questions for students to use with fiction works. It includes questions for before, during, after reading, and determining author's purpose, viewpoint, and techniques.
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PBS

Pbs: Multiple Methods of Reading Instruction

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This article surveys three strategies to incorporate into classroom repertoire. They include guided reading, choral reading, and readers' theater.
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Austin Independent School District

Austin Independent School District: Guided Reading [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 6th Standards
Learn what guided reading is and how it to use it in the classroom to increase literacy skills. Discover guided reading strategies to use before, during, and after reading. Then follow-up with information on how to create right questions...
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Teaching Reading 3 5: Session 3: Building Comprehension

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
This is a workshop for teachers of grades 3-5 with a focus on building reading comprehension. It includes a video demonstrating some of the strategies used as well as activities, printouts, and even tips for new teachers. [28:25]
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Reading Strategies

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a creative flipchart to enhance reading strategies for all readers who are reading to learn that can be used on a daily basis. It allows students to receive BEFORE, DURING, and AFTER reading...
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Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: Here Their Stories Will Be Told

For Students 9th - 10th
Each Jewish community during WWII had its own individual story to tell. This online exhibit highlights 12 of these communities. Select a community and read about life before, during, and after the Holocaust. Testimony from survivors is...
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Milly and the Macy's Parade

For Students 3rd - 8th
Resource guides the reader through this great book. Choose from different categories in before, during, and after you read. Take a quiz, create a story map, and write a book report.
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McGraw Hill

Glencoe Literary Library: "Canterbury Tales" Study Guide [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
An extensive, printable study guide for Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" from the Glencoe Literary Library. Includes biography, background information, and Before, During, and After Reading Activities using graphic organizers, literature...
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PBS

Pbs: American Experience: Golden Gate Bridge

For Students 9th - 10th
The perfect site on the Golden Gate Bridge! PBS provides bridge math, great pictures of before, during, and after the construction of the bridge, and a special section called "Balancing Forces," that demonstrates how the "tension" of the...
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Companion to Gary Paulsen's Hatchet

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] The flipchart is meant to be used before during and after reading Hatchet by Gary Paulsen. It includes introduction material as well as discussion topics during reading and assessment questions after...
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Penguin Publishing

Penguin Random House: A Teacher's Guide to "Measure for Measure" [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A rich resource for teaching this complex play, these 17 pages in .pdf format offer background, teaching suggestions for before, during and after reading the play as well as other features. Requires Adobe Reader.
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Penguin Publishing

Penguin Random House: A Teacher's Guide to "A Midsummer Night's Dream" [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Detailed discussion and study questions are a major feature of this 11 page teacher guide. Suggestions for classroom activities before, during and after reading are also included. Requires Adobe Reader. [PDF]
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Penguin Publishing

Penguin Random House: A Guide to George Orwell's "1984" [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Before, during and after reading activities and suggestions are features of this .pdf guide. Includes a number of class discussion questions.
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Other

Stratford Hall Plantation: General Robert E. Lee

For Students 9th - 10th
This biography of Robert E. Lee is part of a larger site about the Lee family plantation, Stratford Hall. Read about his personal life before and after the war. Included are links to his farewell address and information about the horses...
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Freak the Mighty Storia Teaching Guide

For Students 5th - 9th
A detailed teaching guide for the Rodman Philbrick novel, Freak the Mighty. The guide includes activities for before, during, and after students read the book.
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Other

Historic Information: Johnstown, Pa

For Students 9th - 10th
Historic information on the town of Johnstown before the flood, during the flood, and after. Click on "A Roar Like Thunder, May 31, 1889" to read an account of the flood itself.
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NASA

Nasa: Detailed Chronology of Events Surrounding the Apollo

For Students 9th - 10th
How would you like to experience what was actually said during the Apollo 13 accident? At this site read recorded NASA information from 2.5 minutes before the accident to about 5 minutes after.