Textbook previewing strategies focus not only on the structure of the text - such as the table of contents, index, chapter introductions, and so forth - but on a content overview, which focuses on the concepts and questions covered in the chapter and their interrelationships.

Provides a number of questions that students can ask themselves about a literary passage when doing a "Close Reading" and following this with an organized piece of writing. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.5

Designed to help students think about their reading and writing skills, this page offers three different ways to interpret and discuss texts.

A lesson plan in which students read a text and record the main ideas and supporting details on a graphic organizer. Students then complete the organizer by writing a summary of the text. Materials are included.

A lesson plan in which students read short texts and sort them according to structure: cause and effect, problem and solution, question and answer, compare and contrast, description, and sequence. Materials are included.

A lesson plan in which students read a narrative text and complete a graphic organizer to show the plot elements of the story. Materials are included.

The Guide to Grammar and Writing defines many of the terms common to sentence development, such as the parts of speech, or provides links for those definitions. Discusses strategies for adding variety to sentence structures. Includes links to exercises.

This guide is written for college students, but should be very useful for upper level high school students as well. The writer first describes fourteen steps to take in doing a close reading, then provides six pieces of advice on how to do a written analysis based on a close reading.CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.5, RL.11-12.5 Choice of Text Structure, RI.11-12.2 Central IdeaS/Anal/Summ, RI.11-12.5 Evaluate text structure, RI.11-12.6 Eval Purpose, Rhetoric, Style

This site from the Internet Grammar of English of the University College of London provides a general overview of sentence structure. Content includes an online exercise, and is worth checking out on the subject.

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This series of videos and interactive activities provide an excellent set of resources for teaching or learning the 8 research based reading strategies provided here. After receiving your "key" you can investigate the features inside and even pick up where you left off later.