Florida Center for Reading Research
Provides a worksheet with instruction about how to actively read with kids. Shows steps and way that you can engage conversation to check comprehension and literacy skills.
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Monitoring for Undertsaning: Make and Check A prediction
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How Most Children Learn to Read
Reading Rockets
This website outlines the process of reading acquisition in children through everyday play and interaction, and discusses the essential components of reading while still acknowledging the individual variability in learning styles and paces. It also provides insights for parents and educators on creating a supportive reading environment and fostering a love for reading in children.
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Reading 101 for Parents: Comprehension
Reading Rockets
This webpage discusses the role of comprehension in reading, and offers insights into various strategies for parents to help to improve a child’s comprehension skills.
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Page 8: Teach Comprehension Strategies
The Iris Center
A webpage to provide the reading comprehension teaching strategies for teachers to add them into their teaching instruction. Included the strategies for three levels: beginning; intermediate; advanced.
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Reading and Writing SOS: Vocabulary and Comprehension
Reading Rockets
This webpage features a series of Q&A videos where experts answer questions from families and caregivers on supporting children’s literacy. Specifically, answers on how to actively support comprehension and vocabulary development in children’s literacy.
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The Simple View of Reading
Reading Rockets
An article to provide a formula demonstrating the widely accepted view that reading has two basic components: word recognition (decoding) and language comprehension.
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Learning Together About Reading Comprehension Strategies
Doing What Works
Professional development providers and literacy coaches can use this tool to introduce teachers to the key concepts in reading comprehension instruction. Included in this tool is a brainstorming and planning worksheet designed to facilitate preparation for comprehension strategy instruction.
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What Research Tells Us About Reading, Comprehension, and Comprehension Instruction
Reading Rockets
An article explains the active process of constructing meaning, and how good readers consciously employing comprehension strategies in reading comprehension.
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Seven Strategies to Teach Students Text Comprehension
Reading Rockets
An article provides seven strategies to help language users to make sense of text. These seven strategies have research-based evidence for improving text comprehension.
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What Is Scientifically Based Reading Research?
Reading Rockets
This website emphasizes the significance of research-backed methods in teaching reading. Explains how evidence-based practices are effective in fostering literacy skills and provides guidance for educators and parents to make informed decisions based on scientific research.
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Let’s Make Up a Story
Let’s Make Up a Story
Source: Sesame Street in Communities
Author: Not available
Ages: 4,5,6
Genre: Fantasy
Theme(s): Not available
Watch Rosita and her Abuela turn the night sky into a storytelling adventure. Later, try telling kids about a familiar story from your childhood, or a special family story.
Parent Guide: Not available
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Sesame Street Story Book Builder
Sesame Street Story Book Builder
Source: PBS Kids
Author: Not available
Ages: 3,4,5,6
Genre: Not available
Theme(s): Not available
Children can create their own virtual stories by interactively choosing among 3 options for character, place, activity, and feelings.
Parent Guide: Not available
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Grover’s Story Circle
Grover’s Story Circle
Source: Sesame Street in Communities
Author: Not available
Ages: 4,5,6
Genre: Not available
Theme(s): Not available
One or two kids can play. Help children follow the prompts to let the Sesame friends contribute to the silly stories. Play again and again to create a different version of each story each time. At the end of each story, listen to Grover read the whole story aloud.
Parent Guide: Not available
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Word Play Storybooks
Word Play Storybooks
Source: Sesame Street in Communities
Author: Not available
Ages: 4,5,6
Genre: Fantasy
Theme(s): Not available
Story time is a great opportunity to talk with children and build vocabulary. Choose one of the interactive stories. As you share it with kids, point out and talk about the new vocabulary words.
Parent Guide: Not available
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Graphic Organizers for Text Structures
National Center on Intensive Interventions
This lesson contains graphic organizers for identifying text structures.
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Can Your Middle Schooler Research a Topic?
Great Schools
This video details the variety of ways middle schoolers are expected to gather and use information. Watch as these middle schoolers use multiple sources and integrate what they learn to build their understanding.
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PALS: A Reading Strategy for High School
The IRIS Center
This module explains how to use PALS in your high school classroom.
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Close Reading and Text Selection
The IRIS Center
Deborah Reed, an Associate in Research at Florida State Universitys Florida Center for Reading Research, talks about close reading and how it can benefit the development of students literacy skills.
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Preparing Kindergarteners for Text Talk
Doing What Works
Hear how a kindergarten teacher helps students develop partner-sharing skills. The teacher talks about the benefits of beginning text discussion at an early age and describes how she establishes partner-share procedures and routines.
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Gertrude Took a Nose Dive: Identifying Problem and Resolution
Doing What Works
Watch a third‐grade teacher demonstrate how to teach narrative text elements using a graphic organizer. The teacher incorporates several strategies throughout the lesson, such as modeling, questioning, picture clues, predicting, and partner work. View the related sample material, Story Elements Graphic Organizer.