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Scholastic

Scholastic Teaching Resources: Informational Reading Response [Pdf]

For Teachers 1st - 9th Standards
This graphic organizer can be used with students when they read informational text. Students will write three facts they learned, two questions they still have after reading, and one interesting fact that they want to share.
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Cengage Learning

National Geographic: Informational Text and Young Children [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Research-based informative article on when, why and how to introduce and teach reading skills with informational texts to early-elementary students beginning as early as kindergarten.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Analyze Shifts in Perspective in Informational & Persuasive Text

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will read informational texts and identify varying perspectives in different arguments on the same topic. You will also analyze the reasoning and the...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Analyze Shifts in Perspective in Informational & Persuasive Text

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, students will read informational texts and identify varying perspectives in different arguments on the same topic. You will also analyze the reasoning and the...
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Informational Text: Reading Response: Claim Evldence Reasoning [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This graphic organizer can be used with students when they read informational text. Students will identify a claim, list text evidence that supports the claim, and explain how the information can be used for their future understanding of...
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University of South Florida

Fcat Express: Teaching Strategies (Reading) [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 4th Standards
Printable, fifty-five page PDF file of a staff development manual containing strategies for teaching reading. Includes chapters on vocabulary, main ideas and supporting details, author's purpose, chronological order, plot and conflict...
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Read Works

Read Works: Stuck in the Icy Ocean by Kate Paixao

For Students 2nd
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage is about Ernest Shackleton's expedition to Antarctica, the problems he faced, and how he solved them. A comprehension question set and vocabulary information for the words courage, rescue,...
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Workshops: Teaching Reading 3 5

For Students 3rd - 5th
This instructional workshop provides eight sessions on teaching reading in intermediate classrooms: "Creating Contexts for Learning," "Fluency and Word Study," "Building Comprehension," "Writing," "New Literacies of the Internet,"...
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BBC

Bbc: Ks2 Bitesize English: Reading

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
This site provides activities, games, tests, and worksheets in reading areas: deduction, dictionaries, poetry, and non-fiction.
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PBS

Colorin Colorado: Reading Rockets Resources for Ell

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Information that will help your child become a good reader and successful student. There are ideas on what to do at home, reading tips, activities, books, stories, resources and more. This bilingual site is designed for Spanish-speaking...
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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Helping Struggling Readers

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This resource provides information about how to improve reading instruction, especially for those students who need remediation.
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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Helping Struggling Readers

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
This resource provides information about how to improve reading instruction, especially for those students who need remediation.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Understand Information From Introductory Material, Headings, Etc.

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson students learn how to develop an overview of the material using information gained from text organization to help predict content and make connections. They also to gather information from reading the introduction,...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Synthesize Information in Charts and Graphs (English Ii Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Synthesize information that you find in charts and graphs.
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New Zealand Ministry of Education

Nz Ministry of Education: Logging Up Reading Mileage

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students will select and enjoy their own range of contemporary and historical texts, display a knowledge of different genre and their particular content, and identify literary aspects of chosen texts for sustained silent reading. They...
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Read Works

Read Works: Read Aloud Lesson: Where Do Polar Bears Live?

For Teachers K - 1st
This lesson is a close reading of "Where Do Polar Bears Live?". After reading the book to the class, students will be able to identify and recall characteristics that allow polar bears to survive in an extremely cold Arctic environment....
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Distinguish Between Summary and Critique (English I Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson, students will learn how to write an effective summary using reading strategies to help ensure that the summary contains enough information without including unnecessary details or personal opinions. You will also learn...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Analyze Thesis, Purpose, Textual Elements in Informational Text

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson focuses on how to locate the controlling idea or thesis and specific purpose in a text and analyze the roles they play in understanding what you read. You will...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Annotating to Deepen Understanding (English Iii Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th
Good readers underscore or circle important information, write summaries and definitions in the margins, and note questions or disagreements to help them understand and participate in their own reading. This lesson will help you learn...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Distinguish Between Summary and Critique (English Ii Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson will focus on summary and critique separately so that you can distinguish between the two. You will learn how to summarize a text and how to distinguish between essential and nonessential information when summarizing. You...
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Other

Reade: Zirconium Metal & Powder

For Students 9th - 10th
Summary of information on the chemical and physical properties of Zirconium. It also includes a table summarizing its properties.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Reading Informational Texts Using the 3 2 1 Strategy

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Learners can count on using the 3-2-1 strategy to help them successfully comprehend and write about an informational text.
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Read Works

Read Works: Using Cellphones and Computers to Transmit Information

For Teachers 11th - 12th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about changes in communication after computers and cell phones. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: A Critical Analysis of Eight Informal Reading Inventories

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
There are a number of current informal reading inventories - each has its strengths, limitations, and unique characteristics, which should be considered in order to best fit a teacher's needs.

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