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Adolescent Literacy: Social Studies Comprehension Strategies: The ability to read and comprehend information is crucial to understanding society around us, as well as making decisions and defending one’s views and opinions. Help your students develop the reading skills that will help them achieve higher in social studies--and in life; Take this course: Begins April 6.

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sustained silent reading: A period of uninterrupted silent reading in the classroom, typically from fifteen to thirty minutes.
active reading: A manner of reading in which the reader is mentally engaged with a text and reads for comprehension and criticism as well as reads selectively and with a purpose.

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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)

Running records as authentic testing: In Ongoing assessment for reading, page 1.2; In many school systems, running records are administered using preprinted running record sheets that contain the exact text the student is reading in a matching leveled book. To allow a teacher to administer multiple assessments with a single student, two...; By Jeanne Gunther.

Portrait of a reader: Ben: In Ongoing assessment for reading, page 3.2; A fourth-grade teacher uses running records to uncover individual strengths and needs in a new student's reading.; By Jeanne Gunther.

Real-world approaches to reading: Techniques for providing children with the literacy-rich environment that is crucial to both reading and writing success.; By Alta Allen.

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Student contracting: This lesson from ReadWriteThink provides teachers with a basic contract format, sustained silent reading (SSR) extension activities, and literature response activities. Students develop contracts that focus on language arts education. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 6 English Language Arts); Provided by: IRA/NCTE

LEARN NC, a program of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Education, finds the most innovative and successful practices in K–12 education and makes them available to the teachers and students of North Carolina — and the world.