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- About RSS
- RSS -- or Real Simple Syndication -- feeds are being used increasingly by newspapers, weblogs, and education web sites to help you get their information delivered right to you. Getting started is fairly simple, especially because you may already be using a web browser or email client that can also serve as your RSS reader.
- Format: article/help
- Reading newspapers: Reader contributions
- A learner's guide to reading letters to the editor and other reader contributions in historical newspapers.
- Format: article/learner's guide
- By Kathryn Walbert.
- Why miscue analysis?
- In Ongoing assessment for reading, page 2.1
- A holistic view of reading takes into account that "both the reader and the author are equally active in constructing or building meaning." The text available is the "medium through which the author and reader transact."* Teachers...
- By Jeanne Gunther.
- Reading primary sources: Newspaper editorials
- This interactive guide to reading a 19th-century newspaper editorial steps through layers of questions, guiding the reader through the process of historical inquiry. This edition is one in a series of guides on reading historical primary sources.
- Format: newspaper (multiple pages)
- Reading primary sources: Newspaper advertisements
- This interactive guide to reading classified advertisements in a 19th-century newspaper editorial steps through layers of questions, guiding the reader through the process of historical inquiry. This edition is one in a series of guides on reading historical primary sources.
- Format: newspaper (multiple pages)
- Reading behaviors
- In Ongoing assessment for reading, page 1.4
- A blank sheet of paper or blank running record sheet, a pencil, and a carefully selected text are all the materials needed to capture a student's reading behaviors. The reading behaviors — including the student's physical actions such as eye and hand...
- By Jeanne Gunther.
- Summarizing the session
- In Ongoing assessment for reading, page 2.6
- After the reading, comprehension check, and miscue analysis, all of the information gathered should be recorded. This single-page report will help identify patterns in use by the reader. The totals for graphic similarity, semantic and syntactic usage should...
- By Jeanne Gunther.
- Reading primary sources: Letters
- This interactive guide to reading an 18th-century letter steps through layers of questions, guiding the reader through the process of historical inquiry. This edition is one in a series of guides on reading historical primary sources.
- Format: letter (multiple pages)
- Reading primary sources: Slave narratives
- This interactive guide to reading a slave narrative steps through layers of questions, guiding the reader through the process of historical inquiry. This edition is one in a series of guides on reading historical primary sources.
- Format: interview (multiple pages)
- Ongoing assessment for reading
- Ongoing, informal assessment is crucial to teaching reading. Using audio and visual examples, this edition explains the use of running records and miscue analysis, tools that help a teacher to identify patterns in student reading behaviors and the strategies a reader uses to make sense of text.
- Format: series (multiple pages)
- Digging in the dictionary
- In this activity, first grade children will learn to use an age-appropriate dictionary to find a word, write its definition, write a sentence using that word, and report their results to their classmates.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Information Skills)
- By Mary Waldrup.
- Action chains
- Students learn to elaborate on an event in a narrative by expanding their sentences into action chains. Expanding single actions into an action chain provides the reader with a more detailed picture of an event in a narrative.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts)
- By DPI Writing Strategies.
- Slow motion replay
- Students will learn to use slow motion replay of a moment in a narrative to make it easier for the reader to feel that he or she is actually experiencing the event.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2–4 English Language Arts)
- By DPI Writing Strategies.
- Alternative discussion formats: The talk show
- In Alternative discussion formats, page 2
- The talk show is a format with which students are already familiar, and it provides the structure for a great discussion.
- By Kathryn Walbert.
- Comparing resumés
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade eight, page 1.1
- In this lesson plan, students will work in groups, acting as hiring committees for a college newspaper staff. Students will use two candidates' resumés to determine which applicant is the best fit for the job.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts)
- By Andrea Fedon, Gail Frank, and Cindy Neininger.
- Reading picture books
- Two strategies for helping children understand a story through illustrations.
- By Melissa Thibault.
- About the five features of effective writing
- An explanation of the "Five Features of Effective Writing" model (focus, organization, support and elaboration, style, and conventions) with links to detailed articles, lesson plans, and exemplars of student writing.
- Format: bibliography/help
- Discovering just the right word
- Precise word choice helps show the reader a story and not just tell a story. The purpose of this series of lessons is to help students improve their writing style by strengthening word choice at the word and sentence level by adding adverbs, precise verbs, and specific nouns.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Arts)
- By DPI Writing Strategies.
- Finding your way in North Carolina
- Students will become familiar with the regions and local features of North Carolina and be able to write directions for others to find these features on a map.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Social Studies)
- By Sadie Allran Broome.
- Guest of honor: A presidential banquet
- In Rethinking Reports, page 1.3
- A research assignment in which students plan a banquet in honor of a president.
- By Melissa Thibault and David Walbert.
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