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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Revision Technique: Thesis and Support

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This slideshow lesson focuses on assessing and revising the thesis, topic sentences, and supporting details in a paper. It uses the analogy of the body: the thesis and topic sentences are the bones and the supporting details are the...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Supporting Details

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A six-slide presentation explaining the importance of using supporting details and describing different types of details that can be used to support an idea.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Informational Text: Reading Response: Main Ideas & Details [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This graphic organizer can be used with students when they read informational text. Students will write the main idea in a central oval and then write four details that support the main idea of this reproducible graphic organizer.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Essay Map

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A fillable essay map in PDF format with boxes for an introduction, main ideas, supporting details, and a conclusion. Directions on how to use this type of graphic organizer as well as lists of teaching ideas and related resources are...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Oral Presentation Rubric [Pdf]

For Students 2nd - 8th Standards
This reproducible resource provides an assessment rubric to be used with students' oral presentations. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.SL.4
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The British Museum

The British Museum: Where Was Writing Used?

For Students 9th - 10th
A thorough detailing of the duties of a scribe in ancient Egypt, including duties, tools, and required training.
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Literacy Head

Literacyhead: Writing Prompts: Images to Give Writers Ideas: Family Stories

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
These images are intended to give students ideas for writing about their families by exploring the details of the art works.
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Scholastic

Scholastic Teaching Resources: Nonfiction Notepads [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
From Just-Right Reading Response Activity Sheets for Young Learners, this graphic organizer can be used when students read informational texts. As responses to nonfiction, students will write the following on each notepad response:...
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Education Place

Houghton Mifflin: Eduplace: 5 Ws Chart [Pdf]

For Students K - 1st Standards
This site from Houghton Mifflin Company provides a simple, reproducible chart to help students gather details of Who, What, When, Where, and Why. This could be used as a reading comprehension tool, or as prewriting for expository writing.
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Other

Ncrel: Reading Strategies: Before, During, and After [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page provides a detailed chart to aid students' understanding of texts. It goes through the steps of pre-reading, during reading, and after reading, outlining what students should be thinking about as they interact with a text. This...