Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Summarize Informational/expository Text
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] You will learn how to summarize main ideas, supporting details, and relationships among ideas within expository text.
American Institutes for Research
Center on Response to Intervention: Progress Monitoring: Study Group Content
The purpose of the Progress Monitoring: Study Group Content module is to provide participants with an introduction to procedures for progress monitoring using Curriculum-Based Measurement (CBM). The module outlines the steps required to...
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Recommendations for Improving Adolescent Literacy
In its practice guide Improving Adolescent Literacy: Effective Classroom and Intervention Practices, the Dept. of Education offers five recommendations for increasing the reading ability of adolescents. Those recommendations are...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Distinguish Between Summary and Critique (English Ii Reading)
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...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Walmart Middle School Litercy Initiative
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...
Study Languages
Study Spanish: The Verb Form "Hay"
Great explanation of the verb form "hay". Ample examples illustrate the use of "hay". A quiz, oral exercise and a test after the lesson evaluate the student's understanding of how to use "hay". A printer-friendly page summarizes the...
Study Languages
Study Spanish: Idiomatic Expressions With "Tener"
Fantastic explanation of idioms which focuses on the use of idiomatic expressions with the verb tener. This comprehensive lesson does an outstanding job of presenting idioms which use the verb tener. A short quiz, oral exercise and test...
abcteach
Abcteach: Literacy Circles
[Free Registration/Login Required] Learn what literacy circles are, how they work and some suggestions for planning. Included are reproducible worksheets that define the student roles of various jobs within the literary circle.
Scholastic
Scholastic Instructor: Vocabulary Stretchers
Here is a list of terrific ideas for teachers to use in the classroom to accompany vocabulary building lessons. These activities are well summarized and easy to understand.
Loyola University Chicago
Loyola University: Gender Differences in Cognitive Functioning
Summarizes the results of several studies that have looked at differences in cognitive functioning between males and females.
Other
Introducing Plain Language
This site by Plain Language Online states that plain language "begins with the needs of the reader," which will determine why and how the writer writes. It goes on to elaborate on audience and purpose, idea organization, use of...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Desert Beneath the Sea Grade 4
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is designed to accompany Scholastic Literacy Place's story Desert Beneath the Sea, and contains an introduction to the genre, vocabulary work, summarizing practice as well as a timeline...
Auburn University
Auburn University: Invitations: Reading Lessons From Preservice Teachers
Links are provided for leveled reading lessons created by preservice teachers at Auburn University. Levels include emergent literacy, beginning reading, growing independence and fluency, and reading to learn.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Distinguish Between Summary and Critique (English I Reading)
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...
Other
Wisconsin Educational Communication Board: Into the Book
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...
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Activities for Struggling Readers
How can you help the struggling readers in your classroom? This site offers some insight into activities to help develop your students reading skills.
AdLit
Ad lit.org: A Summary of "Writing Next"
What does research tell us about effective teaching techniques to help adolescents develop their writing skills? This article summarizes Writing Next, a 2007 study of adolescent writing instruction.
CommonLit
Common Lit: Woolly Mammoth Sparks Debate Over Cloning
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Grouping Students Who Struggle With Reading
There are a variety of grouping formats that have been proven effective for teaching reading to students with learning disabilities: whole class, small group, pairs, and one-on-one. This article summarizes the research and implications...
Read Works
Read Works: Read Aloud Lesson: Digging Up Dinosaurs
[Free Registration/Login Required] Teachers will read "Digging Up Dinosaurs" using the close reading technique. Young scholars will use graphic organizers to summarize the steps necessary to collect, study, and build a dinosaur skeleton.
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Paragraph Shrinking
Paragraph Shrinking is an activity developed as part of the Peer-Assisted Learning Strategies (PALS). PALS is a classwide peer tutoring program in which teachers carefully partner a student with a classmate. The Paragraph Shrinking...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Multimedia Careers
Learners may be surprised that Computer Careers aren't all found under "Computer" in the Occupation Handbook. Students will conduct guided research of careers related to Multimedia Design and/or Multimedia Publication course objectives....
Other
Skills Workshop: Listening for the Main Points [Pdf]
A simple exercise where students listen to a reading passage read out loud and identify the key pieces of information.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: An I Pod Inspired Writing Lesson: Podcasting Science
Using "Science Times" at NewYorkTimes.com, students will listen to podcasts to learn about and share science ideas that are currently in the news. By organizing and summarizing science thoughts, students will be able to effectively share...