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AdLit

Ad lit.org: Teach the Seven Strategies of Highly Effective Readers

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
To improve students' reading comprehension, teachers should introduce the seven cognitive strategies of effective readers: activating, inferring, monitoring-clarifying, questioning, searching-selecting, summarizing, and...
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PBS

Pbs: Multiple Methods of Reading Instruction

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This article surveys three strategies to incorporate into classroom repertoire. They include guided reading, choral reading, and readers' theater.
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Other

Wisconsin Educational Communication Board: Into the Book

For Students K - 1st Standards
This series of videos and interactive activities provide an excellent set of resources for teaching or learning the 8 research based reading strategies provided here. After receiving your "key" you can investigate the features inside and...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Critical Reading as a Learning Strategy

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This tutorial focuses on critical reading using a downloadable PowerPoint presentation, "Critical Reading 101," which includes separating fact from opinion, 6 propaganda techniques, and 6 common fallacies in reasoning. Also provided is...
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E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Making Predictions Worksheets and Lessons

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
In this learning module, students will learn more about making predictions in reading. Worksheets and a leson are provided to support Tier I, Tier II, and Tier III students.
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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Building Background Knowledge

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
The importance of background knowledge is especially salient in the age of Common Core. This article offers practical classroom strategies to build background knowledge such as using contrasts and comparisons and encouraging...
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Text Analysis: Incredible Inferences [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
A lesson plan in which students play a game to cover words on a game board by making inferences. Materials are included.
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Austin Independent School District

Austin Independent School District: Independent Reading [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
A guide explaining the importance of Independent Reading and providing several strategies students can use to increase comprehension while reading independently. Strategies include Reader's Response Journals, Quick Conferences,...
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Inferential Reading

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Teaching students to "read influentially" helps them learn how to read more strategically. This technique is derived from the teaching model that learners develop knowledge via the process of interpreting new information in light of past...
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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Strategy Guide: Teaching How Scientists Make Inferences [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This guide includes an introductory section about visual evidence, a general overview of how to use this strategy with many science texts, and a plan for teaching how to use visual evidence to make inferences with the Seeds of...
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Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center

Wisconsin Rt I Center: Cloze Passage [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Classroom teachers will learn about cloze passages, a contextual analysis instructional strategy. Teachers will learn how to implement cloze passages, understand how to measure progress with cloze passages, find research that supports...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Walmart Middle School Litercy Initiative

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Interactive, student-paced lessons on such literacy skills as categorizing, comparing and contrasting, summarizing, evaluating, determining cause and effect, using text features, connecting, inferring, sequencing, understanding problems...
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Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center

Wisconsin Rt I Center: Text Dependent Questions [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Describes a reading strategy where students must respond to text by supporting their ideas with text-based evidence. Lists different categories of questions the teacher can prepare based on the text chosen, with examples for each.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Inferences About Views Quick Guide

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn how to spot inferences plus strategies for answering reading comprehension questions.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Depend on the Text! How to Create Text Dependent Questions

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This strategy guide focuses on writing text-dependent questions which require the student to reread the text to support their answers. It offers a list of what to do to create these questions that progress from establishing general...
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Thinkport Education

Thinkport: Read Like This: Using Informational Text Strategies

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this module practice working with informational text.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Laura Numeroff Biography

For Students Pre-K - 1st
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.
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University of Illinois

University of Illinois Extension: Character Education "Old Wisdom"

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Excellent resource for empowering students to become better learners. This lesson includes motivating students to read, encouraging students to use inferential and critical thinking skills, and promoting an understanding and appreciation...