Revising word choice in sample texts

ReadWriteThink offers a lesson plan on implementing Readers Theatre with students. This plan does not require teachers to use any specific text, so feel free to use any chapter book or short story with large sections of dialogue. This plan is broken up into four sixty minute sessions and is suitable for upper elementary students. 

This strategy is designed to help elementary students explore texts from various viewpoints, and identify author, speaker point-of-view, publication date, intended audience and characters. This activity is shared  by Teaching Tolerance and can be used with a "Perspectives central text" or any other suitable text.

Reading Rockets explains anticipation guides,  a comprehension strategy  used before reading to activate students' prior knowledge and build curiosity about a new topic. Included find information on why and how to implement this strategy along with templates and and a video of the strategy in action. 

Generating Interactions between Schemata and Texts (GIST) is a summarization procedure that helps students digest complex texts by requiring contextual word learning. GIST explicitly combines the most important words with reading and writing to comprehend complex texts. Teaching Tolerance offers a protocol to implement this strategy in your classro...