Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Using Thieves to Preview Nonfiction Texts

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Contains plans for three lessons that introduce a nonfiction prereading strategy with the acronym THIEVES, which stands for Title, Headings, Introduction, Every first sentence, Visuals and vocabulary, End Questions, and Summary. In...
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: Teaching Content Knowledge and Reading Strategies in Tandem

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Many areas of instruction can have a rippling effect for the expansion of readers' repertoire of skills, including pre-reading, predicting, testing hypotheses against the text, asking questions, summarizing, etc. Literacy-rich,...
Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Exploring How Section Headings Support Understanding

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
Teaching students to pay attention to headings and titles as they read? Here you'll find a practical application for using an expository text to apply the concept of using headings. Geared toward older elementary students, but...
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Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center

Wisconsin Rt I Center: Structural Analysis [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Classroom teachers will learn about structural analysis of words, an important instructional strategy. Teachers will learn how to implement structural analysis, understand how to measure progress with structural analysis, find research...