Reading Lesson Plans

Learners complete activities with Click Magazine March 2006, by reading articles and practicing their skills in phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, word recognition, listening, reading, comprehension and writing. 

Students read chapter 1 at home with parent or adult. This chapter contains a sex scene between Easy and schoolteacher in classroom. They read aloud to find out individual reading deficiencies and identify who might benefit from the services of the reading specialist.

First graders participate in a lesson that has the intention of helping them increase reading comprehension. This done using the activity of Reader's Theater. Students act out the characters in the story while reading to each other.

Learners identify illiteracy in the community and locate places that assist with reading.  In this literacy instructional activity, students examine several centers and libraries in their area that can assist the underprivileged with reading assistance.  Learners complete a reading comprehension activity which assesses their own reading abilities.

Third graders choose a book, read, and report what they read. Using the three R's, they will watch a video of an author giving a book talk. Then they discuss the video as a class. Next, they organize information from their chosen book to give their own book talk based on the model they observed. At the conclusion of the lesson, 3rd graders learn how to self-evaluate their reading.

Practice higher level thinking by discussing "thick" questions and story elements about an independent reading assignment. Students make predictions of where the story will go based on the text.

Young scholars apply specific reading strategies to answer questions about the selection Freedom on the Menu. In this reading comprehension lesson, students read a selection called Freedom on the Menu and use specific reading strategies to answer comprehension questions about the selection.

Students explore the March 2010 issue of Ladybug Magazine. In this reading strategies lesson, students investigate several reading comprehension strategies based on the articles, stories, and poems of Ladybug Magazine. Resources are included.

Strengthen young readers' literacy skills with sequencing activities, illustrating, and writing evaluation based off expository articles in the September 2010 issue of Ladybug Magazine. A detailed description including theoretical rationales accompanies this instructional series, which also provides many links to other websites designed to support reading comprehension.

Challenge your class with this lesson! Learners read The Time Machine by H.G. Wells, discuss context clues, identify main ideas and details, analyze story elements, and more!