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Rick Beach

Teaching Literature to Adolescents, 2nd Edition: Teaching Reading Strategies

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
The textbook entitled Teaching Literature to Adolescents, 2nd Edition contains activities for Chapter 8 reflection. Intended for teachers, this site contains activities that will extend the content from the Chapter 8. Focus of the...
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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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Other

Nclr: The Essentials of Teaching Reading

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Find out what the essentials are for teaching reading. This site provides vital information for teachers in developing the most successful reading program for their students.
Study Guide
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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University of South Florida

Fcat Reading Grade 4: Teaching Strategies

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
This is a great resource that concentrates strategies and student activities in one place in an easy to use format, and can be navigated easily. Find great examples of probable passage, selective underlining, and semantic feature...
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Teaching Reading 3 5: Fostering Book Discussions

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This video lesson is part of a year-long unit on immigration. It begins with an introduction to My Name Is Maria Isabel by Alma Flor Ada; the students begin to discuss books they have read about immigrants and how that relates to their...
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Auburn University

Auburn University: Developing Reading Fluency

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
How can you develop reading fluency in your students? This site offers insight into the direct and indirect approaches to teaching reading fluency. Come and check it out.
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SMART Technologies

Smart: Runners Reading Strategy

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This file will help you teach your students the "RUNNERS" reading strategy. I am a music teacher but I developed this file to help tutor some students and increase their reading scores on the EOG. Under each shape is the reading...
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SMART Technologies

Smart: Cafe Reading Strategies

For Teachers 1st - 6th Standards
In this SMART Exchange lesson, students will learn the CAFE reading strategies. This lesson may be used as an instructional tool for teaching and introducing the various strategies to students.
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Teaching Reading 3 5: Session 3: Building Comprehension

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
This is a workshop for teachers of grades 3-5 with a focus on building reading comprehension. It includes a video demonstrating some of the strategies used as well as activities, printouts, and even tips for new teachers. [28:25]
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Paired Reading

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
The Paired Reading strategy encourages peer teaching and learning. Students are divided into pairs and read along together or take turns reading aloud to each other. Pairs can have the same reading ability or can include a more fluent...
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: Grouping Students Who Struggle With Reading

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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...
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Reading Quest: Strategies for Reading Comp.: History Frames: Story Maps

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This activity will help you teach students chronological order as well as identifying key people and events. Printable worksheets.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Read Write Think

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
ReadWriteThink offers hundreds of classroom resources for teaching and learning language arts and literacy. Resources range from lesson plans to student interactives, to after-school activities, and professional development.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Free Reading: Sounding Out Activities

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A wonderful site full of tips for teaching the skills of sounding out words. This site has a plethora of links that provide an excellent way to practice and memorize the essential skills of sounding out words. The links using every...
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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Activities for Struggling Readers

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
How can you help the struggling readers in your classroom? This site offers some insight into activities to help develop your students reading skills.
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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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Mo Dept. Of Ed.: Life Is a Journey (The Odyssey Unit Plan)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Unit plan containing five lessons designed for ninth graders. They center around "The Odyssey" and the journey of life, and they teach reading strategies such as decoding, note taking, and summarizing. All are aligned to Missouri...
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Keywords: A Memorization Strategy [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This is a teachers' guide to teaching students how to use keywords and visualization as tools to help them remember important facts. This PDF file provides a list of materials necessary for the lesson, as well as a script and tips for...
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: Reading Comprehension Strategies for English Language Learners

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Explicit teaching of reading comprehension skills will help English Language Learners apply these strategies to all subject matter.
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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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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Family Reading Activities

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This site features family reading activities that will guide parents with their children's reading development.
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Other

Teaching Struggling Adolescent Readers to Comprehend What They Read [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This textbook chapter offers strategies for helping adolescent readers understand their reading and build skills to allow them to read to learn. PDF (requires Adobe Reader).
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Teaching Word Recognition [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
From the magazine, Teaching Exceptional Children, Sept/Oct 2003 issue, this article explains two different strategies for helping students with word recognition through blending and analogizing.