This activity engages students in evaluating authors’ purpose. Students sort passages into three categories of author’s purpose: persuade, inform, and entertain.
In this activity students will listen to the text and determine what the author is inferring by using information from the text and what is already known about the text.
MORE, created by the Harvard Graduate School of Education’s READS Lab, is a supplemental curriculum designed build important literacy skills such as students’ language and schemas through exploring science and social studies topics.
IXL is a comprehensive personalized learning platform that supports PK-12 math, language arts, science and social studies instruction. IXL has embedded diagnostic assessments that practitioners can use to identify students’ learning needs.
Let’s Know! is a supplemental curriculum designed to develop comprehension skills, such as vocabulary, text structure knowledge, inference, and comprehension monitoring, over the course of a school year.
STARI is a literacy intervention designed to support adolescent struggling readers through high-interest and engaging texts, topics, and conversation that teach essential literacy skills such as decoding, fluency and comprehension strategies.
