Reading Strategies Lesson Plans

Primary readers learn reading strategies. They will choral read a poster or big book, predict covered words, and learn various reading strategies for figuring out an unknown word. They will gain an understanding of the alphabetic principle to associate sounds with letters so they can decode tricky words. Strategies are taught using context, rereading, pictures, and chunks.

Students apply reading strategies. In this reading lesson students read a passage and utilize strategies for decoding the text. They infer during reading to find the meaning of vocabulary words. The students self-question as they read and check using a cueing system.

Students practice using meta-cognitive techniques by writing reflective notes while reading. They read various scientific and historical texts and test certain reading strategies to see which improve comprehension most.

Students use a historical novel to investigate. For this reading strategies lesson students ask themselves the question, "How important is freedom to you and your family?" while they read a passage from a historical novel. Students use the cuing system to do so.

Discovery Education presents a straightforward lesson about finding the main idea and supporting details in a news story. After watching a video on reading strategies (provided), small groups work to identify the main ideas and details in four different articles. One reader from each group reads aloud while other group members make a chart.

Fifth graders review vocabulary words that they have previously learned and practice reading strategies that build their comprehension. In this reading strategies lesson, 5th graders read material regarding the Summer Olympics and complete a Venn Diagram where they compare and contrast related information. Students then build background knowledge by answering specific questions and by making predictions. 

Young readers read a book about living things found near a pond. They will make predictions about the animals and plants found at the pond.  They use context clues to find words they can't read along with reading strategies. They also participate in activities across the curriculum to understand pond life.

Through a guided "reading nonfiction" lesson, readers respond to a variety of informational texts and narratives about dirt and digging animals. Learners match digging animals with their physical traits, write an expository piece about a digging animal, locate facts and opinions within the text, and practice other nonfiction reading strategies. They also perform experiments involving dirt and make pottery using clay.

Students practice reading strategies.  In this dinosaurs literacy instructional activity, students read and respond to a variety of magazine articles about dinosaurs.  Students make predictions, organize information, locate pronouns, count syllables, and participate in other skill and strategy based literacy lessons.

Young scholars complete activities from Click magazine March 2010. In this Reading Strategies lesson, students read articles, answer comprehension questions, and complete activities. They read about nutrition, monarch butterflies, eggs, sailboats, and more.