A literacy support teacher leads a district-wide initiative to organize content-area teachers in an effort to help their students become better readers by offering instruction and practice in five reading strategies across the curriculum.
The Middle School High Five: Strategies Can Triumph
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Flip-a-Chip
6 - 8
Student Interactive
| Learning About Language
The Flip-a-Chip activity provides hands-on practice with affixes and roots, and also promotes comprehension through structural analysis and vocabulary in context.
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Using Pictures to Build Schema for Social Studies Content
3 - 5
Lesson Plan
| Standard Lesson
How do you read an image? Students find out in this lesson in which they "read" several images of the Boston Massacre to better understand the event and recognize effects of propaganda.
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Pairing Fiction With Poetry and Performance
9 - 12
Lesson Plan
| Unit
Make connections across genres and across cultures to engage students in the study of literary voice and themes. Comprehension skills and vocabulary also come into play, especially for English language learners, as students read a novel and related poems, then write and perform original poems related to the novel.
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The Reading Performance: Understanding Fluency Through Oral Interpretation
6 - 8
Lesson Plan
| Standard Lesson
Students discuss prosody, gain a new appreciation for literature intended for oral performance, and participate in activities that instill the value of technology in shaping their appreciation of literature.
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Introducing Ideas and Vocabulary with the Concept Sort
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K - 8
Strategy Guide
A Concept Sort is a vocabulary and comprehension strategy used with students to introduce new topics and/or familiarize students with new vocabulary.
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Reading for Learning: Using Discipline-Based Texts to Build Content Knowledge
5 - 10
Professional Library
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Heather Lattimer provides practical, classroom-tested approaches to helping students access and critically respond to content-based texts.