Use text features (e.g., headings, subheadings, formatting) as appropriate to signal simple relationships between ideas. 0801.3.9
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- Captions Help Tell the Story - students look at three pictures and try to determine which caption fits best
- Dust Bowl Timeline - (from PBS) Use this timeline to practice this SPI.
- Looking for the Fine Print - students read advertisements to practice reading critically
- Using Graph and Charts
- Interpreting a Data Chart - students practice by answering questions about what can be found in a grid chart
- Interpreting Column Graphs - students practice by answering ten questions about the graph
- Interpreting Circle (Pie) Graphs - students practice by answering eight questions about the graph
- Using Graphs to Understand Data - a five-question multiple-choice quiz
- Using Maps
- Beginner's Map Reading Skills - Several activities are presented to assist in teaching the concepts of reading maps.
- Graphs and charts - five different graphs and charts for you to consider
- How to read a map - Several activities are presented to assist in teaching the concepts of reading maps. [This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive. If the page doesn't load quickly click on Impatient? at the bottom right of the page.]
- Index of topics and quizzes - by David J. Leveson at CUNY in Brooklyn, NY
- Latitude and Longitude quiz - quiz that checks answers
- Map Reading Activities - practice reading maps using compasses, latitude, longitude and more
- Mathematics of Cartography - several map activity from Cynthia Lanius
- National Atlas of the United States
- What's On a Map? - eight questions about using various parts of a map
- Read All About It! - Newspapers are divided into standard sections. Students use sections to predict where types of stories would be found
- Reading Headlines - students read eight headlines and try to determine what the article is about
- Reading Headlines - Match the newspaper headlines on the left to the newspaper section on the right.
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