Reading Skills
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New Research, DRTA: A Boost for Third-Grade Reading Comprehension
Reading comprehension, a cornerstone of academic success, often poses challenges for young learners. While traditional teaching methods have their place, educators are continually seeking innovative…
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Patriot Day Activities for September 11th
A new generation of students is in United States classrooms who do not know about the attacks of September 11th. In the United States, Patriot Day…
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Figurative Language Task Cards: Making Inferences 9
In our 9th set of making inferences task cards, students read a variety of figurative language and infer the meaning of sensory language, idioms, and…
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Hurricane Harvey Teaching Resources and Fundraising
The Hurricane Harvey Fundraiser is now closed, and we are please to announce that over $300 were raised and donated to the American Red Cross!…
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Summarizing Video Lesson Bundle
Summarizing Video Lesson Bundle Get ready to take your literacy instruction multi-modal! This new summarizing lesson bundle has video, cartoon, guided notes, student talk, writing,…
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Why Shared Reading is the Most Effective Instructional Activity in the Reading Classroom
If you could choose only one Instructional Activity for Reading what would it be? What one strategy would you use to increase reading levels? Would…
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How to Teach Context Clues
How do I teach context clues? How do my students use context clues? If you teach reading, you’ve probably wondered these questions about how to teach…
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Summarizing as a Thinking Strategy
Summarize what you read. A typical reading task, right? Yes. But it is so much more than that! Summarizing is a powerful thinking strategy that…
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Teaching Summaries, Getting Detailed Part 1
Summarizing is one of the greatest skills of good reading, but teaching students how to summarize is a great challenge. I have found one way…
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Teaching the Reading Process
So, yeah, teaching reading is so much more than completing a worksheet or doing a test prep book. It involves so much thinking! Reading teachers…