Graphic Organizer: Setting Stage

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40 Graphic Organizers That Build Comprehension During Independent Reading by Anina Robb

Teaching Tip:
Use this printable to help students visualize a story setting or to illustrate a key event. The combination of visual images and text helps students to isolate key story events.

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Improving Comprehension With Questioning the Author

by Isabel L. Beck and Margaret G. McKeown

In this fully revised and expanded edition of a classic, Isabel L. Beck and Margaret G. McKeown share their new findings on Questioning the Author, the approach that galvanized the research field to look at comprehension instruction in a new way. What's the big idea? What is the author telling us now? That's what the author says, but what does the author mean? By using queries such as these during reading, at strategic points in a text, students learn how to build meaning and consider an

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The 100th Day of School

Integrate math concepts and literacy lessons using mathematics big books.

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Big Book Collection | Grades K-3

The 100th Day of School

Grades K-3 $47.50

LESSON PLAN	Dragonwings: Evaluate Chapters 10-12 Suggests a literary response exercise. Students independently read Dragon Wings and write a newspaper page that depicts events from the story.

UNIT PLAN	Dragonwings Unit Presents organized steps to providing thorough, hands-on lessons in literary analysis, including research, discussion, graphing, and writing.

ONLINE ACTIVITY	Clifford Interactive Storybooks and Learning Games in English and Spanish Read or listen to stories in English or Spanish with Clifford the Big Red Dog, identifying words to correctly complete sentences. Plus, fun interactiv