Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Applying Word Study Strategies (English I Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Apply previous lessons, (1) Linguistic Roots and Affixes, (2) Denotation and Connotation, (3) Origins and Meanings of Foreign Words, (4) Cognates, and (5) Reference Materials, to improve fluency and comprehension.
Activity
Other

Esl Reader English Reading Help for Esl Students

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides great reading help for ESL students. You can use this helper to speed up reading time and improve your reading skills by providing definitions at a click for any passage you provide. Just copy and paste your text...
Article
Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Simple Things Principals Can Do to Help All Children Read Well

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Explore a list of simple things that principals can do to help all children learn to read. Come and learn more about the collaboration process with school administrators, teachers and staff.
Professional Doc
International Reading Association

Reading Online: Teaching Vocabulary to Adolescents to Improve Comprehension

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
An article highlighting the improvements of middle and high school students' reading comprehension through a sixteen-week program. Includes introduction, overview of the intervention, course structure, sample activities, assessments, and...
Lesson Plan
Free Reading

Free Reading: Guest Readers

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Mix up reading time by having your own young scholars transform into guest readers. Have students act out the book, read, or show illustrations.
Website
British Council

British Council Go4 English for Arabic Speakers: Stories

For Students 3rd - 8th
A collection of 20-25 animated stories designed to teach children English. Children can read as they watch and listen, then play a game to see how much they understood. Includes original stories on topics of interest to students...
Activity
Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: Chicken Little

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Improve students' reading fluency while providing fun and purposeful practice and performance through Reader's Theater Scripts. The focus is on reading the text with expressive voices and gestures - no memorization required! Have fun...
PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Revision Techniques: Improving Flow

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A ten-slide presentation explaining revision strategies that focus on improving the flow of a written text.
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Applying Word Strategies: Multiple Choice Review: Practice 1

For Students 9th - 10th
Apply content from lessons 1-6 to improve reading fluency and comprehension.
Unit Plan
Ingles Mundial

Ingles Mundial: Beginning Level

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Improve English language proficiency at this comprehensive ELL (English Language Learner) site for Spanish speaking students. This section is subdivided into eight areas of language development: vocabulary, grammar, listening...
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Ingles Mundial

Ingles Mundial: Intermediate Level

For Students 9th - 10th
Improve English language proficiency at this comprehensive ELL (English Language Learner) site for Spanish-speaking students. It is subdivided into eight areas of language development: vocabulary, grammar, listening comprehension,...
Website
Information Fluency

Imsa 21 Cif Portal: Urls Tutorial Directory

For Students 9th - 10th
Micro-Module covering the process the topics of URL, Files, Domain Names, and Domain Extensions. The 21st Century Information Fluency (21CIF) Portal was developed by the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy (IMSA) to improve Internet...
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Goshen College

Bird Ritual

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This opening art exercise, although intended to increase art fluency, would be a great motivation for a lesson on Brancusi's "Bird in Space."
Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Reader's Theater

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
To improve oral reading and listening skills, groups students will alternate performing reader's theater plays.
Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Listen!

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This small group lesson addresses a very specific skill that some students need to improve their reading skills - self-monitoring. Using play phones, the students will listen to themselves very carefully to see whether what they are...
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Information Fluency

Imsa 21 Cif Portal: Imsa Internet Search Wizard

For Students 9th - 10th
The first step in information fluency is locating Web resources. Use this Internet Search Wizard to effectively retrieve educational Internet content by using advanced search strategies. This tool prompts the user for keywords which are...
Website
Information Fluency

Imsa 21 Cif Portal: Evaluation Wizard

For Students 9th - 10th
Internet content is not reviewed like published written material - so how do you know if the information you found on the Internet is reliable? Use this Evaluation Wizard to guide you through a thorough assessment of any Internet...
Interactive
Other

Typing Club: Learn Touch Typing

For Students 2nd - 8th Standards
Use this free, online typing program to improve typing speed and fluency. Does not require an account. A school portal is available for teachers to customize lesson plans.
Handout
Information Fluency

Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy: Accessibility Awareness [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Micro-Module covering relevant information on Accessibility Awareness and Section 508, the American Disabilities Act for the Internet. The thorough and informative article addresses applications of Section 508, WC3, website compliance,...
Unit Plan
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Conditional Reasoning and Logical Equivalence

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
How do we recognize logically equivalent conditional statements? Conditional (or "if-then") statements can be difficult to master, but your confidence and fluency on the LSAT will improve significantly if you can recognize the various...
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Information Fluency

Imsa 21 Cif Portal: Micro Modules: Copyright and Fair Use

For Students 9th - 10th
Micro-Module provides an excellent overview on copyright and fair use. Following the article is a post-test to assess your understanding of the material. The 21st Century Information Fluency (21CIF) Portal was developed by the Illinois...
Website
Information Fluency

Imsa 21 Cif Portal: Searching for Non Html Formats?

For Students 9th - 10th
Micro-Module provides instruction on searching documents in non-HTML formats. Find out about specilized search engines for alternate file formats. Also contains godd charts summarizing file extensions of alternate formats. Following the...
Unit Plan
Information Fluency

Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy: Micromodules: Author

For Students 9th - 10th
Tutorial explaining the importance of determining the authorship as one of the criteria to evaluating a website. Following the article is a post-test to assess your understanding of the material. The 21st Century Information Fluency...