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Sophia: Revision Techniques: Improving Flow
A ten-slide presentation explaining revision strategies that focus on improving the flow of a written text.
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Ncrel: Reading Strategies: Before, During, and After [Pdf]
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...
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Read Write Think: Anticipation Guide
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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Read Write Think: Compare and Contrast Map
Use this graphic organizer to compare or contrast ideas, things, or texts. This is a great cross-curricular tool to use for both reading strategies and prewriting.
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Sophia: Formal Language
This slideshow lesson focuses on formal language. It reviews the basics of formal language and the need to know your audience. It explains how to change various types of informal language into formal language and provides examples....
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Read Write Think: Common Content Area Roots and Affixes
This table offers 50 or so common roots, prefixes, and suffixes, their definitions, and sample words in the content areas. L.9-10.4b Patterns/word changes
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Sophia: Global Editing
This lesson introduces the concept of global editing. Students learn to edit for big picture ideas like organization, strategy, and effectiveness. W.9-10.5 Writing Process, W.11-12.5 Writing Process
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Sophia: Anticipating a Reader's Questions: Lesson 2
This lesson discusses how to anticipate and address a reader's questions.