Reading

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 [|Interrogating Texts: 6 Reading Habits to Develop in Your First Year of Higher Education]Critical reading—active engagement and interaction with texts—is essential to your academic success in college and to your intellectual growth.

[|McREL] has lesson plans and other resources that are helpful for curriculum planning, including activities developed for specific benchmarks. Subject areas include the Arts, Behavioral and Social Sciences, Civics, Economics, Foreign Languages, Geography, Health and PE, History, Language Arts, Math, Multi/Interdisciplinary, Science, and Technology.

[|Misunderstood Minds]The site includes profiles of the students in the PBS documentary Misunderstood Minds, as well as sections on Attention, Reading, Writing, and Mathematics. Interactive activities, called Experience Firsthand, are designed to give site visitors a sense of what it may be like for a student struggling with a basic skill. The [|decoding difficulties experience]was eye opening.

[|The Most Famous Book Set In Every State]Local literature can be a surprising source of home state pride, no matter where you're from.

[|Read Write Think] You don’t have to go any further than your desktop to find outstanding educational, interactive, and engaging resources to foster literacy learning within and beyond the classroom. ReadWriteThink.org blends proven instruction and Internet technology to deliver powerful online tools for teaching reading and language arts in grades K–12

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[|ReWordify] is powerful, free, online software that improves reading, learning, and teaching. This site can: simplify difficult English, for faster comprehension; teach words, for building a better vocabulary; help teachers save time and produce engaging lessons; help improve learning outcomes.

====[|TestYourVocab.com] is part of an independent American-Brazilian research project to measure vocabulary sizes according to age and education, and particularly to compare native learning rates with foreign language classroom learning rates. ====