In this lesson, you will learn how to understand the data found in charts and graphs, and at the end of the lesson, you will practice what you have learned.

[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson focuses on how to locate the controlling idea and specific purpose in a text and analyze the roles they play in understanding what you read. You will analyze the...

[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson will help you distinguish among three kinds of evidence: logical, empirical, and anecdotal; and see how they are used to support conclusions and arguments in texts.

[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will learn how to evaluate the clarity and visual appeal of images and other graphic elements included in a reading text. Practice exercises are included.

When you read an argumentative essay or article, you should analyze the author's evidence. However, you can't analyze the evidence a writer gives in support of a position if you don't know the author's perspective.

In this lesson, we will discuss how an author's syntax reveals meaning and makes ideas stay with the reader. Practice exercises are included.

This lesson will teach you how to evaluate texts for the clarity of their graphics and for their visual appeal.

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...

Follow this six-step method and you'll have a good understanding of what a good scientific research paper involves and how it is organized. There are plenty of samples for you to look at. This explanation is also very helpful for...

The highly-respected Reading Rockets program offers both teachers and students a toolkit of ways to connect more actively with the materials they read. Some of these techniques are specifically for fiction-reading, others are designed...

This strategy helps students refine their understanding of texts to meet reading expectations, engage in group conversations to meet speaking and listening expectations, prepare for writing about texts, and engage in language analysis of...

This lesson plan is based on Willie Nelson lyrics, and the PBS feature on him. It focuses on brainstorming and choral reading skills. In addition to the lesson plan, there is information on how to do guided reading and choral reading.

A lesson plan in which students look at different books, write their titles, and sort them according to whether they are fiction or nonfiction. Materials are included.