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Free Teaching Resources

To supplement students’ online work in Reading Plus, printable skill building materials are freely available to educators. These materials can be used in conjunction with online Reading Plus lessons, or as standalone resources to support student growth.

Comprehension Skill-Building Packages Include:

Skill Practice Worksheets: Worksheets explain the specific comprehension skill and give examples using real texts. Students have the opportunity to apply the lessons they learned with additional text examples and comprehension questions to further their understanding of the skill.
Skill-Based Writing Prompts: Writing prompts extend student skill-building offline using any texts students have read, whether in Reading Plus, a novel, or a news article.
Graphic Organizers: Graphic organizers help students share and process their ideas visually. Choose from skill-based graphic organizers for comparing and contrasting, plot outlining, character analysis, and more.

Teaching Resources Guides

Resources Grouped by Comprehension Standard:

Click on each standard below to view and download comprehension skill-building resources.

1: Close Reading

Identifying Explicit Details

Basic (for students reading between a 2nd and 5th grade level)

Intermediate (for students reading at a 6th grade level or higher)

Drawing Conclusions and Making Inferences

Basic (for students reading between a 2nd and 5th grade level)

Intermediate (for students reading at a 6th grade level or higher)

2: Main Idea and Themes

Determining Main Idea

Basic (for students reading between a 2nd and 5th grade level)

Intermediate (for students reading at a 6th grade level or higher)

Summarizing

Basic (for students reading between a 2nd and 5th grade level)

Intermediate (for students reading at a 6th grade level or higher)

3: Interaction of Ideas

Predicting Outcomes

Basic (for students reading between a 2nd and 5th grade level)

Intermediate (for students reading at a 6th grade level or higher)

Analyzing Setting, Plot, and Character

Basic (for students reading between a 2nd and 5th grade level)

Intermediate (for students reading at a 6th grade level or higher)

Analyzing Cause and Effect

Basic (for students reading between a 2nd and 5th grade level)

Intermediate (for students reading at a 6th grade level or higher)

4: Use of Language

Interpreting Word Meaning

Basic (for students reading between a 2nd and 5th grade level)

Intermediate (for students reading at a 6th grade level or higher)

Interpreting Analogies

Basic (for students reading between a 2nd and 5th grade level)

Intermediate (for students reading at a 6th grade level or higher)

Visualizing

Basic (for students reading between a 2nd and 5th grade level)

Intermediate (for students reading at a 6th grade level or higher)

5: Structure

Examining Text Structure

Basic (for students reading between a 2nd and 5th grade level)

Intermediate (for students reading at a 6th grade level or higher)

Examining Sequence of Events

Basic (for students reading between a 2nd and 5th grade level)

Intermediate (for students reading at a 6th grade level or higher)

Examining Genre

Basic (for students reading between a 2nd and 5th grade level)

Intermediate (for students reading at a 6th grade level or higher)

6: Point of View

Recognizing Author’s Purpose

Basic (for students reading between a 2nd and 5th grade level)

Intermediate (for students reading at a 6th grade level or higher)

Recognizing Persuasive Devices

Basic (for students reading between a 2nd and 5th grade level)

Intermediate (for students reading at a 6th grade level or higher)

Recognizing Mood and Tone

Basic (for students reading between a 2nd and 5th grade level)

Intermediate (for students reading at a 6th grade level or higher)

7: Imaging Scaffolds

Interpreting Images

Basic (for students reading between a 2nd and 5th grade level)

Intermediate (for students reading at a 6th grade level or higher)

8: Reasoning and Rhetoric

Judging Validity

Basic (for students reading between a 2nd and 5th grade level)

Intermediate (for students reading at a 6th grade level or higher)

Reasoning

Basic (for students reading between a 2nd and 5th grade level)

Intermediate (for students reading at a 6th grade level or higher)

9: Comparative Reading

Comparing, Contrasting, and Integrating

Basic (for students reading between a 2nd and 5th grade level)

Intermediate (for students reading at a 6th grade level or higher)

Classifying

Basic (for students reading between a 2nd and 5th grade level)

Intermediate (for students reading at a 6th grade level or higher)

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