Specific Reading
Skills

Vocabulary

Reading Across Disciplines

Reading Programs

Visual Literacy

Reading Poetry/ Literature

Reading Media

Technical Reading

Textbook Sites

Accelerated Reading

Reading Study Skills and Tools

Reading the WWW

(SAMPLE ASSIGNMENT FORM)

Main Idea

• Prentice Hall Index of Interactive Tutorials : (Select Desired Skills)

• My Reading Lab. Main Idea New!

• Identifying the Main Idea - Wisc Oncline New!

• Finding the Main Idea

• Recognizing the Main Idea- Verizon New!

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Supportive Details

• Recognizing Supportive Details- Verizon New!

• Recognizing SupportiSupportive Details: Geocities: This is a fantastic pictorial illustration of detail.

• Major Details

• Identify Supporting Details

• Identifying Topics, Main Ideas, and Supporting Details

• Essay Mapping: This interactive graphic organizer for a five-paragraph essay helps students understand introductory statement; main ideas, supporting details, and a conclusion that summarizes the main ideas.
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• Prentice Hall Index of Interactive Tutorials - Go to Sequencing, Cause and Effect, Comparing and Contrasting, or Problem Solving.
• Safari Tips: Cause and Effect.
• Safari Tips: Chronology
• Safari Tips: Comparison Contrast
• Patterns of Organization & Clue Words (PDF)
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• ReadWriteThink Note Taking Tool: Formatted Outlining using bullets, Roman Numerals, and/or letters.
• Mapping Tool- Intel Education: Claim and Evidence
• Showing Evidence - Intel Education
• Topic Outlining (Speech) - Wisc Online
• Sentence Outlining (Speech) - Wisc Online
• Persuasion Map Tool - ReadWriteThink
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• Prentice Hall Index of Interactive Tutorials (Select Desired Skills)
• Finding the Main Idea
• Implied Main Idea Practice
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Fact and Opinions

• Prentice Hall Index of Interactive Tutorials - Go to Distinguishing Fact and Opinion.
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• Prentice Hall Index of Interactive Tutorials - Go to Recognizing Bias.
• New Bias Explored
• Bias
• Safari Tips: Purpose
• An Introduction to Purpose and Tone
• National Rifle Association - MyNRA
• Washington Post
  

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Inferences/Conclusions/Critical

• Prentice Hall Index of Interactive Tutorials - Go to Drawing Inferences and Conclusions, & Making Valid Generalizations.
• Safari Tips: Inferences: A quick review and practice.
• ReadWriteThink Analyzing a Visual Message
• Drawing Inferences
• Figurative Language: Simile-Metaphor Practice
• Comics- More Practice of Inferencing Skills.
• Practice Reading Exercises- Main Idea, Details & Inference
• Reading critically
  
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• Prentice Hall Index of Interactive Tutorials : Go to Supporting a Position, and/or Using Reliable Information
• Visual Message Students analyze posters from WWII to determine when to use argument or persuasion to make their point.
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                 Summarizing/Paraphrasing
• University of Texas
• Identifying Acceptable Paraphrases

• Errors in Reasoning & Propaganda - MC Tutorial
• Prentice Hall Index of Interactive Tutorials - Go to Recognizing Bias: Part II
• Propaganda Video GalleryPropaganda - Interactive Tutorial by MC Faculty
• News Bias Explored
• Propaganda Resources on the Web
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• Wadesworth Reading Quizzes
• Textbook Inventory  
  
  

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