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Reading Comprehension Booklets
Students demonstrate understanding of a reading selection by identifying major characters, the setting of the passage, the problem of the selection and how the problem was solved.
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Man on Trial Pre-Reading Activities
Students employ different strategies in order to increase reading comprehension. The Story is used to captivate the learners and provide a link to long term memory. By studying the one text in depth the skills will be embedded in the...
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"It's all about EXPRESSION!"
Students practice in groups the skill of reading fluency with expression with the book, "Goldilocks and the Three Bears." They decode the book and reread the book to practice reading with expression and once mastered model it in front of...
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Read Us a Story
Students take turns reading a story using a book on tape/cd. Special education students are encouraged to control the story telling by using the buttons on the tape/cd player. The instructor should interject with various questions about...
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1, 2, 3...Summing It Up!
Learners exercise the strategy of summarization to gain greater comprehension skills. In the computer lab, they access the National Geographic site and read "The Great Koala Rescue" to summarize and get rid of any unimportant information.
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Beginning Reading
Young scholars explore the various sounds that make up written words. They investigate the /o/ sound by creating a meaningful representation. Students spell and read words that contain the /o/ sound. They recite tongue twisters.
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Star Light, Star Bright
Students practice the skill of reading while chanting the rhyme of "Star Light, Star Bright" and act out the story while working as a group with the help of the teacher. They also listen to the story on tape and sing the rhyming song.
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Close Your Eyes and Imagine...
Students practice the techniques and strategies to become more fluent readers through visualization. They read and construct mental images from the reading of a text. The book, "Charlotte's Web," by E.B. White is read in class and then...
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Comprehension! The Key That Opens our Minds
Students examine the comprehension strategy of story-grammar. They discuss the strategy and read a variety of texts. Students practice using the story-grammar strategy while reading passages from the texts. They answer questions about...
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To Sum It All Up...
Students one main goal when reading is to comprehend, and one strategy to improve reading comprehension is summarization. As students begin reading expository texts, it is vital for them to be able to pick out and summarize the main...
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The Gray Wolf Story Pyramid
Students explore comprehension and understanding of what they read. They practice using the correct spelling for frequently used sight words and uncommon words. Students apply the correct principles of grammar. They read the article Gray...
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Using Picture Mapping to Improve Student Comprehension
Pupils draw pictoral representations of a reading selection they read in order to recall information. For this picture mapping lesson plan, students use pictures to comprehend what they read and sequence the pictures as well.
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In a Nutshell....
Students examine how to summarize the most important details in a reading passage in order to increase their comprehension. They design a story web using the summarization skills. Before class, they complete a reading assignment prior to...
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Can You See It?
Students discuss how to visualize while reading. They read The Thanksgiving Day Parade and Old Yeller. Students relax and picture their favorite place. They share what they saw and discuss the concept of visualization. Students visualize...
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Making A Match
Students read a poem containing sight words, then match word cards to the sight words in the poem. In this language arts lesson plan, students draw pictures next to sight words on a worksheet embedded in the plan. A good lesson plan for...
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Folktale Unit: The Emperor and the Kite
Students read the story of The Emperor and the Kite examining new vocabulary and working on comprehension skills. They examine how to summarize the story after reading it.
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Steps to Summarization!
Students practice summarizing what they have read. They review the meaning of comprehension. Students go through the steps needed in order to summarize a passage. They pick out the main parts/ideas of what they have read. Students...
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Picture This
Students examine how to create mental images to help them comprehend what they read. They discuss what it means to visualize and they draw a mental picture of what they read. Students draw a picture of what they see in their minds while...
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Musicians and Vampires
Students practice techniques and strategies for understanding the parts of a story to help them remember what they've read. They review and analyze the elements of a story and how to find them first in a paragraph and then in a book.
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Mapping Comprehension
Young scholars explore story structure. They discuss questions they can ask themselves while silently reading. Students implement their story knowledge by making story maps. They read The Little Pink Rose and the Cloud and create a story...
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Language Arts: Word Recognition and Mental Images
Students read short stories containing Dolch sight words and describe the scenes and answer comprehension questions. After relating the stories to their own experiences or observations, they draw pictures illustrating a scene from the...
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Word Wall Words
Learners practice recognizing sights words. For this literacy lesson, students recognize and read 200 sight words, use combinations of words to make sentences, use words to fill in basic sentences, successfully pass spelling tests with...
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Rainbow Writing with Dolch Words
Students read and decorate three Dolch sight words. In this literacy lesson, students write three Dolch sight words on a paper. They outline the words six times with the color of the rainbow.
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Trade a Word
Young scholars play a game called Trade a Word in order to read Dolch words. For this Dolch words lesson plan, students trade one word for another on index cards.
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