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Building Reading Comprehension Through Think-Alouds
Grades
6 - 8
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Lesson Plan
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Standard Lesson
Building Reading Comprehension Through Think-Alouds
Students learn components of think-alouds and type-of-text interactions through teacher modeling. In the process, students develop the ability to use think-alouds to aid in reading comprehension tasks.
Combining Read-Alouds With Economics in the Primary Grades
Grades
K - 2
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Lesson Plan
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Standard Lesson
Combining Read-Alouds With Economics in the Primary Grades
Students learn that what you read in books can really add up when they analyze literary texts for economic concepts.
Play Ball! Encouraging Critical Thinking Through Baseball Questions
Grades
6 - 8
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Lesson Plan
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Standard Lesson
Play Ball! Encouraging Critical Thinking Through Baseball Questions
Cooperation and critical thinking are the name of the game as students use baseball facts they find online to create trivia questions for a class Jeopardy game.
Developing Students' Critical Thinking Skills Through Whole-Class Dialogue
Grades
3 - 5
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Lesson Plan
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Standard Lesson
Developing Students' Critical Thinking Skills Through Whole-Class Dialogue
"That's my position and I'm sticking to it!" After reading about the Korean War, students will take a position in response to an open-ended question, support their position, and evaluate that support.
Peace Poems and Picasso Doves: Literature, Art, Technology, and Poetry
Grades
3 - 5
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Lesson Plan
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Unit
Peace Poems and Picasso Doves: Literature, Art, Technology, and Poetry

Students apply think-aloud strategies to reading and to composition of artwork and poetry. They research symbols of peace as they prewrite, compose, and publish their poetry.

Questioning: A Comprehension Strategy for Small-Group Guided Reading
Grades
3 - 5
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Lesson Plan
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Standard Lesson
Questioning: A Comprehension Strategy for Small-Group Guided Reading
Students learn about the process of questioning and using webs to organize information during reading and then practice writing factual and inferential questions.
Bringing Economic Vocabulary to Life Through Video Posters
Grades
2 - 5
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Lesson Plan
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Minilesson
Bringing Economic Vocabulary to Life Through Video Posters
Imagine if vocabulary could come alive with the click of a button! Students create video posters to demonstrate knowledge of new economics vocabulary.
Seeing Integration From Different Viewpoints
Grades
6 - 8
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Lesson Plan
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Standard Lesson
Seeing Integration From Different Viewpoints
What does the world look like through someone else's eyes? Guide students in using colorful paper glasses to examine a story of school desegregation from multiple perspectives.
Exploring Literacy in Cyberspace
Grades
9 - 12
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Lesson Plan
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Standard Lesson
Exploring Literacy in Cyberspace
It's not just words on a page (or screen)—reading comprehension involves making sense of the text. When students become aware of the analytical strategies they are using, they can explore the similarities and differences between making sense of print and making sense of a website.
Q is for Duck: Using Alphabet Books With Struggling Writers
Grades
3 - 5
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Lesson Plan
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Standard Lesson
Q is for Duck: Using Alphabet Books With Struggling Writers
A is for zoo? Q is for duck? The alphabet as students know it is transformed when students create a class book that contains clever associations for each letter of the alphabet.
Inferring How and Why Characters Change
Grades
3 - 5
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Lesson Plan
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Standard Lesson
Inferring How and Why Characters Change
Students will really get into character when they read short stories and analyze the how's and why's of characters' behaviors.
Thrills! Chills! Using Scary Stories to Motivate Students to Read
Grades
6 - 8
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Lesson Plan
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Unit
Thrills! Chills! Using Scary Stories to Motivate Students to Read
Students examine story elements through teacher read-alouds and independent reading and then use reader-response journals and graphic organizers to prepare for the creation of their own scary stories.
Grades
K - 2
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Lesson Plan
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Recurring Lesson
Note Writing in the Primary Classroom
This lesson provides a wealth of ideas for using notes in the classroom to promote authentic writing among children.
Mind Pictures: Strategies That Enhance Mental Imagery While Reading
Grades
6 - 8
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Lesson Plan
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Standard Lesson
Mind Pictures: Strategies That Enhance Mental Imagery While Reading
Students create mental images while reading using a three-pronged approach: developing schemata and visual awareness; Watch-Read-Watch-Read (W-R-W-R), using video clips; and a strategy similar to the think-aloud approach.
Peer Review: Narrative
Grades
6 - 8
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Lesson Plan
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Minilesson
Peer Review: Narrative
This minilesson guides student in using the PQP technique—Praise–Question–Polish—to offer concrete and useful peer review feedback.
Family Ties: Making Connections to Improve Reading Comprehension
Grades
K - 2
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Lesson Plan
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Standard Lesson
Family Ties: Making Connections to Improve Reading Comprehension
Families are all about connections between people. In this lesson, students read three books about different families and make text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections to those texts.
Developing Searching, Skimming, and Scanning Skills With Internet Bingo
Grades
4 - 8
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Lesson Plan
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Standard Lesson
Developing Searching, Skimming, and Scanning Skills With Internet Bingo
Student pairs aim to be the first team to call out "bingo" in this lesson in which they use skimming and scanning to locate information about ancient Greece and Rome.
Modeling Reading and Analysis Processes with the Works of Edgar Allan Poe
Grades
6 - 8
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Lesson Plan
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Unit
Modeling Reading and Analysis Processes with the Works of Edgar Allan Poe
Explore reading strategies using Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" and other works. Students read Poe's works in both large- and small-group readings then conclude with a variety of projects.

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