Supporting Your Children’s and Teens’ Home Learning: Identifying Themes in Literary Text
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Posted on: April 28, 2020
Families can help their adolescents practice this comprehension skill as they look for clues in the text.
Literature: Key Ideas and Details
Posted on: April 28, 2020
Theme Development Tracker
Adolescents can use this resource to identify themes in literary texts and record textual details that introduce and develop the themes.
Supporting Your Children's and Teens' Home Learning: Writing an Objective Summary
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Posted on: April 7, 2020
Teach and practice this high-leverage skill at home with the help of our resource.
Writing an Objective Summary
With this resource that includes a graphic organizer, children follow a step-by-step set of instructions that leads them to write an objective summary of a text. The summary does not include any opinions or judgments.
Effective Literacy Lesson: Making and Evaluating Predictions to Support Comprehension
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Posted on: September 24, 2019
An instructional sequence shows how to help students integrate new info with their mental representation of the text.
Making and Evaluating Predictions
This graphic organizer helps students write down evidence they find in a text, make a prediction based on that evidence, write down any new evidence they find, and evaluate the prediction they made. Making predictions is a way for students to better comprehend a given text.
The Effects of a Peer-Mediated Reading Intervention on Juvenile Offenders' Main Idea Statements About Informational Text
Deborah K. Reed, Ph.D.
Many youth in the juvenile justice system with or at risk for emotional and behavioral disorders struggle with reading.
Student Generation of Higher-Order Questions
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Posted on: January 9, 2018
Generating higher-order questions about text benefits students reading comprehension and critical thinking skills. Model this skill for students and provide practice and feedback.
Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy Anchor Chart
This anchor chart (Vanderbilt University Teaching Center, 2016) illustrates and describes the levels of the Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy (Anderson & Kratwohl, 2010). Both students and teachers can use this resource.
Important Elements of Literary Texts Anchor Chart
Students may use this anchor chart to formulate questions about important elements of literary texts.