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Grade 7, Reading and Language Arts Std #: 12 Apply strategies that include setting purposes for reading, distinguishing fact from opinion, making generalizations, and reviewing to comprehend textual/informational and functional materials.

Lesson Plans: Review Basketball Using paper basketballs to help with comprehension of classroom readings Teachers' Handbook of Lesson Plans Main idea and supporting details lesson plans geared toward GED students that are appropriate for middle school students. Main Ideas and Supporting Details Identifying main idea and supporting details using non fiction materials. Using the Check and Line Method to Enhance Reading Comprehension Students will complete assigned reading, relate prior knowledge to the reading, comprehend the reading, and retain new information.

Resources: Story Maps and Boxes Using story maps to review parts of the story Suggestions for English Language Learners: ESL Ideas (B=Beginning, I=Intermediate, T=Transitional) (B, I) Students indicate understanding by raising their hand as they follow simple sequence (2-3) events in a story. (B, I) Students copy repetitive words in a paragraph. (I, T) Students recall and tell information from story read (characters, details, setting). (I, T) Students participate in cloze exercises (where a word or words are omitted from a written sentence then supplied by the student). (T) Students identify orally or in writing the beginning, middle, and end of a story they have read or written. (T) Teacher models SQ3R study strategy (Scan, Question, Read, Write and Review) for taking notes. Students scan the chapter and make questions out of bold headings; then read the text under heading and write the answer to the question; then review questions and answers.
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