ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Guided Comprehension: Summarizing
Lesson that introduces young scholars to the comprehension technique of summarizing. Students learn using the QuIP (questions into paragraphs) method which involves organizing information and putting it in writing.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Activities for Struggling Readers
How can you help the struggling readers in your classroom? This site offers some insight into activities to help develop your students reading skills.
Colorado State University
Colorado State Writing Center: Critical Reading
In-depth instructions on critical reading with lots of links to more reading guides and activities. A good site to help improve reading skills to become a better writer.
CommonLit
Common Lit: Woolly Mammoth Sparks Debate Over Cloning
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...
Read Works
Read Works: Grade 2: Three Lesson Unit: Sequence
[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of three lesson plans designed to teach students to retell and summarize a fiction story told in chronological order and a story told with flashback. Lessons are based on the books First Day...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Make Inferences in Informational/expository Texts
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Use different organizational patterns as guides for summarizing and forming an overview of different kinds of expository text while distinguishing factual claims from...
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Recommendations for Improving Adolescent Literacy
In its practice guide Improving Adolescent Literacy: Effective Classroom and Intervention Practices, the Dept. of Education offers five recommendations for increasing the reading ability of adolescents. Those recommendations are...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Journey North: Reading Strategies: Summarize Information
Learn what a summary is and how to write an objective summary of an informational text by using a list of guiding questions.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Guided Comprehension in Action: Teaching Summarizing
Students learn the ins and outs of writing biographies by researching a contemporary or historical figure and writing a summary.
Other
Curriculum Associates: Determining Theme or Central Idea [Pdf]
In this reading comprehension lesson unit, learners are guided in learning how to find the main theme or idea of a text and understanding how details in the text convey that. Includes lots of exercises and examples, as well as...
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Writing Process: Finding Evidence
This lesson focuses on finding evidence to support your thesis, how to incorporate your findings into your own work, and how to effectively quote, paraphrase, and summarize your information. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.9, W.11-12.1b...
CPALMS
Help Pick Your Class Pet
[Free Registration/Login Required] During this MEA simulation, kindergarten students will be given the power of slelecting a classroom pet. Students, working in collaborative groups, must collect data about different potential classroom...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Letter B Flipchart for Kindergarten
[Free Registration/Login Required] Teaching letter B through focused based curriculum and instruction. Includes activator, vocabulary, teacher guided instruction, handwriting, graphic organizer, guided reading, science-tie-ins and...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Letter C Flipchart for Kindergarten
[Free Registration/Login Required] Teaching letter C through learning-focused based curriculum instruction. Includes activator, vocabulary, teacher guided instruction, handwriting, graphic organizer, guided reading, science-tie-ins and...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Letter D Flipchart for Kindergarten
[Free Registration/Login Required] Teaching letter D through learning-focused based curriculum instruction. Includes activator, vocabulary, teacher guided instruction, handwriting, graphic organizer, guided reading, science-tie-ins and...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Letter E Flipchart for Kindergarten
[Free Registration/Login Required] Teaching letter E through learning-focused based curriculum instruction.Includes activator, vocabulary, teacher guided instruction, handwriting, graphic organizer, guided reading, science-tie-ins and...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Letter F Flipchart for Kindergarten
[Free Registration/Login Required] Teaching letter F through learning-focused based curriculum instruction. Includes activator, vocabulary, teacher guided instruction, handwriting, graphic organizer, guided reading, science-tie-ins and...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Letter G Flipchart for Kindergarten
[Free Registration/Login Required] Teaching letter G through learning-focused based curriculum instruction. Includes activator, vocabulary, teacher guided instruction, handwriting, graphic organizer, guided reading, science-tie-ins and...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Interpreting Documents on the Ahsge
Students will explore the documents that were used in shaping the United States, before, during, and after its creation. While studying these documents, students will use reading skills to interpret and analyze documents. By the end of...
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Reciprocal Teaching
Reciprocal Teaching is a strategy that asks students and teachers to share the role of teacher by allowing both to lead the discussion about a given reading. Reciprocal Teaching involves four strategies that guide the discussion:...