Thinking about signing up as a substitute teacher? Subbing is not for the faint of heart but with the help of the thoughtful advice in a detailed guide, you can develop the skills you need to be a great, professional substitute teacher.

What are the benefits of developing social awareness? Using the resource, readers learn strategies for fostering civil discourse, creating a participatory classroom, and enhancing family involvement. Scholars also take a personality...

A topographic map can be challenging to read. This guide explains how to decipher one and how to use a magnetic compass to orient yourself to the landscape. It also explains how to use GPS coordinates.

Reading guide for "The Secret Life of Bees" provided by the book's publisher, Penguin. Sections include an introduction, a short biography of Sue Monk Kidd, a much longer transcript of an interview with her, and eleven discussion...

Reading Guides help students navigate reading material, especially difficult textbook chapters or technical reading. Students respond to a teacher-created written guide of prompts as they read an assigned text. Reading Guides help...

This guide discusses Langston Hughes's body of poetry, as well as briefly analyzing characteristics in several individual poems. The site also offers an interview with writer Afaa Weaver regarding Hughes's works, discussion questions, a...

This site contains 47 one-page guided writing and reading guides and assessments.The reproducibles are copyrighted materials but may be copied and used for educational purposes.

This teaching guide accompanies Madeleine's L'Engle's book, A Wrinkle in Time. Setting, plot, characters, and theme questions are included, along with guided reading questions for each chapter.

This site offers a reading guide for Bailey White's book "Sleeping at the Starlite Motel." A plot summary, 16 study questions, suggestions for further reading, and links to other useful sites are included.

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.

A reading guide to the novel David Copperfield along with biographical tidbits about Dickens and discussion questions for reading groups.

This reading guide provides a critical introduction, background biographical information, and a number of questions to spark discussion about the book. Requires Adobe Reader. [PDF]

Besides the usual critical introduction, biographical information and discussion question; this reading guide includes an interview with the author.

A learning module that teaches students about using text features to guide reading in three mini lessons: Engaging with Text, Literary Think-Aloud, and Informational Think-Aloud. Download a PDF with lesson plans and printable handouts...

This strategy guide focuses on planning and implementing close reading of complex text in the primary grades which fosters progressively deeper thinking as students become more responsible for their own learning. It offers a step-by-step...

Reading guide on Franz Kafka's "The Metamorphosis" with a variety of resources, discussion and writing questions, and brainstorming activities. Provides pre-reading material, such as an author biography, novella introduction, and...

Contains plans for three lessons to improve reading comprehension using a visualizing strategy called sketch-to-stretch. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as well...

This article surveys three strategies to incorporate into classroom repertoire. They include guided reading, choral reading, and readers' theater.

How do you get started with guided reading? At this site one can find the answer to this question. The online lesson plans will help get students started with guided reading.

This site features a guided reading lesson plan for "If You Give A Mouse A Cookie." It features a materials lists and a lesson plan.

Scholastic.com provides teachers with this practical article to help encourage summer reading. The research presented within this article will enable teachers to create readers.

Discover more about the importance of summer reading through this informative resource. Scholastic.com provides teachers with links to summer booklists, articles on summer reading and more.

This resource provides an article that discusses the importance of summer reading for students. Find out what schools can do to help improve student's participation in summer reading.

Reading guide for Victor Martinez's "Parrot in the Oven" provided by the book's publisher, HarperCollins. Sections include an introduction, short biography of the author (including a picture), and ten discussion questions.