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Using Picture Mapping to Improve Student Comprehension

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students draw pictoral representations of a reading selection they read in order to recall information. In this picture mapping lesson plan, students use pictures to comprehend what they read and sequence the pictures as well.
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Arthur's Reading Race: comprehension skills

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this comprehension skills activity, students read the book Arthur's Reading Race and complete comprehension activities. Students complete 5 activities including story elements, making inferences, predicting, and drawing conclusions.
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Annie's Gifts: comprehension skills

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this comprehension skills activity, students read the book Annie's Gifts and complete comprehension activities. Students complete 5 activities including problem/solution, setting, making predictions, making inferences, and...
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Ah, Music!: comprehension skills

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this comprehension skills worksheet, learners read the book Ah, Music! and complete comprehension activities. Students complete 5 activities including note taking, locating information, theme, speculating, and cause and effect.
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The Life of George Washington Carver: comprehension skills

For Students 2nd - 5th
In this comprehension skills worksheet, students read the book The Life of George Washington Carver and complete comprehension activities. Students complete 5 activities including note taking, making inferences, and drawing conclusions.
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What's My Job?: comprehension skills

For Students 2nd
In this comprehension skills worksheet, 2nd graders read the book What's My Job? and complete comprehension activities. Students complete 5 activities including setting, character traits, summarizing, main idea/details, and drawing...
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Serious Farm: comprehension skills

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this comprehension skills worksheet, students read the book Serious Farm and complete comprehension activities. Students complete activities such as plot, cause and effect, summarizing, drawing conclusions, and compare and contrast.
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The Bee: comprehension skills

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this comprehension skills worksheet, students read the book The Bee and complete comprehension activities. Students complete 5 activities including graphic aids, compare and contrast, sequencing, and cause and effect.  
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Watching in the Wild: comprehension skills

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this Comprehension skills worksheet, learners read the book Watching in the Wild and complete comprehension activities. Students complete 3 main idea and details sheets, summarizing, and author's purpose.
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Remembering What We Read

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students discover strategies to help them better understand the stories they read. As a familiar story is read to the class, individuals practice answering basic questions about the main characters, settings, problems, etc. while...
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A Birthday Mystery: comprehension skills

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this comprehension skills instructional activity, students read the book A Birthday Mystery and complete comprehension activities. Students complete activities such as main idea, opinions, details, and drawing conclusions.
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Frog and Toad All Year: comprehension skills

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this comprehension skills worksheet, students read the book Frog and Toad All Year and complete comprehension activities. Students complete 5 activities including cause and effect, drawing conclusions, predicting, and character.
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Winner's Never Quit: comprehension skills

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this comprehension skills worksheet, students read the book Winner's Never Quit and complete comprehension skills such as predicting, summarizing, making inferences, and author's purpose. Students complete 5 activities.
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Click Clack Moo Cows That Type: comprehension skills

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this comprehension skills worksheet, students read the book Click Clack Moo Cows That Type and complete comprehension activities. Students complete 5 activities including genre, cause and effect, inferring, and predicting.
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Reading for Comprehension on the GED

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers preparing for the GED test practice the components of reading for comprehension. Students complete a practice test activity and use a calculator to score the practice test.
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During Reading Strategies (Visualization)

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students develop and apply strategies using visualization. In this reading lesson, students listen to sounds and draw images that depict the audio recordings. Students then apply this visualization strategy to nonfiction material...
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Enhancing Listening Comprehension

For Teachers Higher Ed
Pupils develop, discuss and practice listening skills in English, focusing on prediction activities and strategies for coping with difficult listening situations.
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Flat Stanley Guided Reading

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders listen to their teacher read the book, "Flat Stanley". They relate the activities in the book to activities in their own life. They can also create their own pictures of Stanley.
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Finding the Good Stuff in What We Read

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students work to develop comprehension strategies. They focus on three rules for summarizing: getting rid of extra information, organizing, and finding the main idea. Through modeling and then guided practice, they apply these rules ...
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Fly Away Into Reading

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students complete repeated readings of the same passage in order to increase their reading fluency and comprehension. They listen as the teacher reads both with and without fluency to hear the difference. Working in small groups, they...
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Picture This!

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students practice the strategy of visualization to aid in their reading comprehension of text. They paint mental pictures from readings from their history books, "The World and Its People: the US and It's Neighbors," and short stories...
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Quick Tricks for Multiplication

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this multiplication math worksheet, students read tips for doing each group of multiplication facts. Shortcuts and tricks give students new strategies for memorizing their facts. Twelve sample problems are given for practice.
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Before, During, and After Strategies For The Catcher in the Rye Chapters 21-23

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Create a personal website for Phoebe. Play a song dealing with non-conformity. Have class members write an advice letter to Holden. Here's a teacher resource meant to accompany The Catcher in the Rye that is chock-full of strategies. It...
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Poetry As Oral Performance

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Reciting poetry is a great way to build oral language skills and build classroom community. Pupils look at the text elements of poetry and choose a poem to read aloud. They focus on rhythm, fluency, and expression. This is a great way to...