Better Lesson
Better Lesson: "Sticky Note Reading" the Art of Questioning While Reading
Third graders will learn the importance questioning has on comprehension of a text. Students will use sticky notes and an interactive reading notebook while working with an informational text.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Guiding Students: Expository Text With Text Feature Walks
Explains how to guide students in examining text features during a walkthrough of an expository text.
Soft Schools
Soft Schools: Reading Comprehension
Students are to read a fiction paragraph and answer a 10-question quiz about it.
Soft Schools
Soft Schools: Reading Comprehension: Quiz 2
Students read a fiction paragraph and answer a 10-question quiz about it.
Beacon Learning Center
Beacon Learning Center: Get the Idea
Learn about and practice finding the main idea in short reading passages.
Other
Super Teacher Worksheets: Reading Comprehension: Great White Sharks [Pdf]
Read the fifth-grade reading passage entitled "Great White Sharks" by Erin Ryan and answer the comprehension questions over the selection. PDF includes an answer key with explanations.
Other
Reading Quest: Strategies for Reading Comprehension: Summarizing
Teach students to summarize nonfiction text with these lesson plans. Includes worksheets and activities that can be downloaded and printed.
Other
Strategies for Reading Comprehension:reciprocal Teaching
Use this page to understand the reciprocal teaching strategy that includes the role of the clarifier in student groups.
Pearson
Pearson Education: Practice Reading Section
This resource provides short reading selections that encourage reading comprehension. Students are challenged with questions about the selection to test their understanding.
Teachnology
Teachnology: Lesson Plan: Twenty Questions
For this lesson each student will have a turn in the "hot seat" where they answer class questions about a book they are reading including questions about the characters, setting, and plot.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Unit: Reading Comprehension and Structure
This unit focuses on reading comprehension and structure. It includes lessons on the main idea and supporting details, theme, sequence, fact and opinion, literary devices, character, text features, inferences, organization of nonfiction,...
TES Global
Blendspace: Informational Text
A twelve-part learning module with links to images, texts, slides, and charts that teach skills to build reading comprehension with informational texts.
TES Global
Blendspace: Reading Comprehension Visualizing
A five-part learning module with links to images and web sites to help student improve reading comprehension by visualizing.
TES Global
Blendspace: Abbreviations
A nine-part learning module with links to images, videos, and websites about abbreviations and how they are formed.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Nonfiction Comprehension: Making Personal and Textual Connections
This is a lesson plan to help elementary young scholars connect to nonfiction text as they read.
English Club
English Club: Learn English: Grammar: Verbs: Questions
An explanation and examples of a question and how it is structured. Links to additional information on structure, questions types, and a quiz are available.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Answering Questions in Complete Sentences
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will create visual images to comprehend/remember what they have read. Students will answer comprehension questions in complete sentences.
Can Teach
Can Teach: Different Perspectives a Graphic Organizer
In this lesson plan students will read a text from a number of different perspectives which will result in a greater understanding of it. This is a good strategy to use to guide students through multiple readings of a text. Lesson plan...
Other
Harrington Park: Asking Questions
This is a teacher handout of questions students should ask themselves before, during, and after reading.
Education.com
Education.com: ccss.ela literacy.rl.3.1 Worksheets: Ask and Answer Questions
[Free Registration/Login Required] Thirty downloadable worksheets to use while learning to ask and answer text-based questions in order to demonstrate reading comprehension.
Education.com
Education.com: Ri.2.7 Worksheets
[Free Registration/Login Required] These worksheets can help students practice the Common Core State Standards skill of explaining how specific images (e.g., a diagram showing how a machine works) contribute to and clarify a text.