COMMUNICATIONS RESOURCES
Reading Resources
Get Help With:
- Identifying and integrating main ideas or details
- Paraphrasing main ideas or details
- Tackling difficult vocabulary
- Learning various strategies to read or listen more fluently
Reading Resources
Main Idea
The main idea is the most important point. It gives the paragraph focus and purpose
- Main Idea Study Sheet explains how to find a paragraph's main idea, with examples and practice.
- Main Idea Practice lets students choose the correct topic sentence for each selection.
- Main Idea and Supporting Details is a video that assists with explaining this topic in a fun way.
Supporting Details
Supporting details are reasons, examples, facts, or steps that explain the main idea.
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Supporting Details Study Sheet explains supporting details and how to use them.
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Supporting Details Practice 1 helps students identify supporting details in a paragraph.
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Supporting Details Practice 2 helps students identify major supporting details.
Patterns of Organization
Good communication starts with clear ideas organized in a logical way.
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Patterns of Organization Study Sheet shows how to use supporting details. It includes examples and practice.
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Patterns of Organization Practice 2: Students choose the correct pattern for each sentence.
Facts
Facts can be proven true or false, but opinions cannot.
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Facts and Opinions Practice 1 and Facts and Opinions Practice 2 include statements to identify as facts, opinions, or both.
Inferences
Inferences are ideas that are not stated directly, but are implied by the content of the material.
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Inferences Study Sheet explains how to identify and make inferences, with examples and practice.
Vocabulary
Paying attention to words in a sentence helps students understand new words.
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Vocabulary in Context Study Sheet shows how to use clues to find the meaning of unknown words. It includes instructions, examples, and practice.
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Vocabulary in Context Practice 1 and Vocabulary in Context Practice 2 help students use context clues to find the best meaning of each word
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Context Clues video
External Resources
Fluency and General Reading:
Online Encyclopedias:
Online Dictionaries:
Visual Dictionaries:
Word Maps:
Writing and English Resources
Get Help With:
- Brainstorming and content development
- Grammar and mechanics
- Using MLA, APA, and Turabian citation
- Writing personal statements for college admission, resumes, and cover letters
- All writing assignments across the curriculum
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Resources
Citation Styles
Planning and Drafting
Writing Strategies
Career Writing and College Admission
Grammar and Mechanics
External Resources
Spanish Resources
Get Help With:
- Conversation skills
- Vocabulary development
- Reading
- Writing
- Grammar
Elementary Spanish
Chapters 1 and 2
Chapters 3 and 4
Chapters 5 and 6
Chapter 7
Chapters 8 and 9
Chapters 10 and 11
Miscellaneous Resources