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Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center

Wisconsin Rt I Center: Reading Resources [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This site provides a collection of reading strategy teaching resources. Strategies are arranged according to the ELA Common Core Curriculum Standards and grade level bands.
Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Reading Strategies for Complex Texts

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
A nine-part learning module on reading strategies including links to videos, images, websites, and activities.
Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Types of Sentences

For Students 6th - 9th Standards
A nine-part learning module with links to texts, videos, and websites to use while learning about clauses and simple, compound, and complex sentences.
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Other

Shoreline Community College: Formal Properties of Literature

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
As students become more aware of text complexity, an understanding of the formal properties of literature becomes more important. This is an excellent examination of the kinds of choices writers make that change the way readers receive...
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Buck Institute

Pbl Works: What Does It Mean to Align Pbl With Common Core?

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] Seeing the phrase "CCSS Aligned" on everything and wondering if it truly aligned? This article and video discusses five considerations to look for in problem based learning. To ensure alignment to...
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Education.com

Education.com: Rl.3.10 Worksheets: By End of the Year, Read and Comprehend Lit

For Students 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Links to 30 worksheets and graphic organizers that can be downloaded and printed. Each worksheet focuses on skills highlighted in standard RL.3.10: By the end of the year, read and comprehend...
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Teenage Brain: Answer Questions About Ideas and Topics

For Students 9th Standards
Answer questions about ideas and topics shared across texts to extend your understanding of complex texts and build your knowledge of the effect of social media on the brain. This will help us evaluate claims across texts.
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CPALMS

Cpalms: Lafs.1.ri.4.10

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This website offers various resources to meet the common core standard of reading informational texts appropriately complex for grade 1. Resources include center activities, lesson plans, and a professional development article.
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TES Global

Blendspace: Sentence Types and Comma Rules

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
A 21-part learning module including links to texts, images, videos, exercises, and websites on simple, compound, and complex sentences and their rules for comma use.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Summary and Paraphrase: Tutorial

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this slideshow tutorial, students are provided with notes that distinguish "summarizing" from "paraphrasing" content. Examples of effective summaries and paraphrases of text are provided. Then students have the opportunity to engage...
Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Machines Can Move!

For Students 2nd
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about simple machines used in daily life such as: a pulley, a screw, an inclined plane, a wheel and axle, a wedge, and a lever. A question sheet is available to help students build...
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Other

Grays Harbor College: Writing Essays: Four Tips

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This resource explores four tips for writers: "Center Your Thinking," "Organize Your Thinking," "Specify Your Thoughts," and "Present Your Thoughts Clearly." The information is presented in an easy-to-follow outline with examples given...
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Read Works

Read Works: Machines Can Move

For Teachers 2nd
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about simple machines people use every day. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: For Middle Schoolers: Activities to Build College Level Reading Skills

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
ACT has developed this list of activities to help middle-school students improve their reading ability. Parents and educators can use this information to help ensure that these students are on target for college and career readiness.
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Rhetorical Reading: Academic Reading Strategies

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on reading strategies including understanding your purpose, and before, during, and after reading strategies.
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Curated OER

Mc Graw Hill: Craft and Structure: Determine the Meaning of Words and Phrases

For Students 5th - 7th Standards
Learn how to use context clues to determine the meaning of an unfamiliar word in a Social Studies passage.
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: Effective Reading Programs Grades 6 12: A Best Evidence Synthesis

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Many reading programs claim to boost student performance, but how is that measured? Johns Hopkins University examined more than 200 published studies to create this quick guide to programs.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Camping Sentences

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
In this instructional activity, Teaching Grammar in Context by Constance Weaver provides foundational information for this instructional activity. When I Go Camping with Grandma, a book by Marion Dane Bauer, is used as the mentor text of...
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Read Works

Read Works: Electricity & Energy Circuits

For Teachers 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about electric circuits. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: Cognitive Strategies Toolkit

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This article describes eight cognitive strategies - including monitoring, tapping prior knowledge, and making predictions - to help readers develop their comprehension skills.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Teaching Poetry Through Riddles

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Excellent teaching resource that attempts to teach poetic concepts to middle schoolers by using riddles. Discusses riddles' use of metaphor, simile, and imagery, and relates these concepts to the students' understanding of poetry....
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Anticipation Guide

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Anticipating is an effective reading strategy for readers of all ages. Utilize this template and graphic organizer to help your students become better readers.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Precalculus Concepts 2.0

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
A complete high school Precalculus Concepts course. Includes 'Related Modalities' for each lesson that teach the same concept in different ways. The text materials follows Algebra II and comes before Calculus or Statistics. The content...
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Other

Using English: Content Analysis Tool

For Students 9th - 10th
How are your English writing skills coming along? This online text analyzer will help you assess word usage, sentence complexity, and other writing features. Copy and paste your text into the box and click to view statistics. This is...