Text+Structures

** [|Academic Support] offers information about the reading process for both student and teacher. This site could be an excellent resource for a teacher who is new to teaching reading.
 * Academic Support from Cuestia College


[|Marzano's Instructional Strategies] is a web page that focuses on comparison-contrast and classifying. The links on the page are Inspiration, Kidspiration, and MS Word files to use with your students.
 * Marzano's **


**LiteracyNet.org**

[|LiteracyNet.org] is a site sponsored by CBS. It houses several news articles under topic headings that include politics, adventure, business and economy, education, crime, religion, etc. **Story Modules: Text** **//Story://** As provided by CNN SF and CBS 5. Intended for adults with moderate reading and speaking comprehension skills including advanced ESL or non-native English speakers. **//Abridged Story://** Modification of original story text by simplifying complex ideas and sentences, exchanging advanced words with less difficult ones, and change difficult concepts into precise terms. Intended for adults with low reading comprehension skills including beginning ESL or non-native English speakers. **//Story Outline://** Outline summary of basic edited story elements.  **Comprehension Activities** **//Measuring Comprehension//** The following modules are designed to interactively test learner comprehension of the story: After answering a modules question, learners can check their responses by clicking the "Review Answers" button at the end of each lesson. A "report card" of correct and incorrect answers is quickly transmitted back. (Note: These activities were created using Half-Baked Software.) <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica;">**//Your Turn!//** <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica;">This module allows learners to respond to a question concerning the story they have just read. Learners use the email form below the question to submit their comments. All comments are collected and posted on the "Your Turn!" page. Learners are encouraged to respond to other learner's comments.
 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica;">Word Selection
 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica;">Multiple Choice
 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica;">Vocabulary
 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica;">Sequencing
 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica;">Questions and Answers
 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica;">Your Turn!

<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica;">**Multimedia Features** <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica;">Along with text, most story modules contain: <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica;">
 * [[image:http://literacynet.org/cnnsf/images/realmedia.jpg align="bottom"]] || <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica;">full streaming video of the broadcast ||
 * [[image:http://literacynet.org/cnnsf/images/rafile.gif align="bottom"]] || <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica;">full streaming audio of the broadcast ||
 * [[image:http://literacynet.org/cnnsf/images/gregralogo.gif align="bottom"]] || <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica;">text of the story read by Greg Lefevre, CNN SF Bureau Chief & Correspondent ||