Read Works
Read Works: 1st Grade Unit: Supporting Predictions
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson utilizing the book No Roses for Harry! by Gene Zionin in which students make a prediction and then support it with details from the text. Ideas for direct teaching, guided practice, and...
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Guided Reading: If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
This lesson helps students to make predictions using the pictures and text of "If You Give A Mouse A Cookie."
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Read Works: Predicting 2nd Grade Unit
[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of three lesson plans designed to teach students to use textual clues and prior knowledge to make predictions and revise incorrect predictions. Lessons are based on the books The Stories Huey...
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Read Works: Predicting 3rd Grade Unit
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a lesson designed to teach young scholars to make predictions based on relationships between characters. The lesson is based on the book Soupy Saturdays with the Pain and the Great One by Judy...
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Read Works: Predicting Kindergarten Unit: Picture Clues and Repeated Text
[Free Registration/Login Required] Lesson uses The Grouchy Ladybug by Eric Carle to teach students predict the outcome of a story by using clues provided in pictures and in repeated texts. Ideas for direct teaching, guided practice, and...
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Pbs: Multiple Methods of Reading Instruction
This article surveys three strategies to incorporate into classroom repertoire. They include guided reading, choral reading, and readers' theater.
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Read Works: Predicting Kindergarten Unit: Repeated Text
[Free Registration/Login Required] Lesson uses The Very Busy Spider by Eric Carle to teach young scholars predict the outcome of a story with textual repetition. Ideas for direct teaching, guided practice, and independent practice are...
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Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Directed Reading Thinking Activity (Drta)
The Directed Reading Thinking Activity (DRTA) is a strategy that guides students in asking questions about a text, making predictions, and then reading to confirm or refute their predictions. The DRTA process encourages students to be...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Main Point Quick Guide
The first question in most Reading Comprehension sets will ask you to identify the statement that best expresses the central idea or the main point that the passage as a whole is designed to convey.
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Read Works: The Scientific Method
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage lists steps in the scientific method. This passage reinforces essential reading comprehension skills. Opportunities for vocabulary acquisition are also included. Several...
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Read Works: Genre 4th Grade Unit: Strategies for Identifying Genres
[Free Registration/Login Required] A instructional activity in which students use books from the classroom library to learn strategies that can be utilized to determine the genre of a book and to understand how knowing the genre before...
Scholastic
Scholastic: Laura Numeroff Biography
This resource features a biography of the author Laura Numeroff. Students and teachers will benefit from this inside look at the life and work of this children's author.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Max's Math Adventures: Max's Measuring Mania
Read about how Max and Ruthie measured some fun objects in their gym. Use this method to measure things in your classroom. A helpful teacher's guide and extra challenges will make this a fun lesson on measuring with nonstandard units.
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North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences: Groundhog Day 2010 [Pdf]
Designed for Grades K-8, this teaching guide is chock-full of ideas for celebrating Groundhog Day, with activities like making shadow puppets, examining weather lore and studying cloud formations.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Max's Math Adventures: The Tooth
Read this spooky rhyme and then use the activity page to create patterns with Halloween candy. The teacher's guide and extra challenges will help teachers make fun and interesting lesson plans.
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Ivy Global: Sat Practice Tests
Students can access SAT's practice tests here, as well as take some diagnostic tests to find their weak areas and to predict their probably results on the SAT. In addition, this site offers insights into the make-up of the new SAT, and...
TES Global
Blendspace: Touching Spirit Bear
A learning module that includes links to an anticipation guide, prediction sheet, author biography, vocabulary terms, videos, a character list, activities, and questions for use while reading Ben Mikaelsen's novel Touching Spirit Bear.