North Central Regional Educational Laboratory
Ncrel Anticipation: Reaction Guide
A model of a quick survey to give students to help them activate their prior knowledge of subject matter. Alter this survey to suit your particular subject.
ESL4kids
The Efl Playhouse: Phonemic Awareness for Young Language Learners
A group of ten simple activities easily incorporated into the course of a day to reinforce phonemic awareness.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Multiple Ways to Solve a Problem
This Marilyn Burns lesson plan employs children's literature to teach the topics of combinations, perimeter, and area using a problem solving approach. Primary and intermediate levels have an activity appropriate to each.
Other
Seattle University: Literature Circles Resource Center
How can you get started with literature circles in your classroom? This site provides information on every aspect of developing your own literature circle instruction.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Asking and Answering Questions About Our Story
Today's lesson is all about asking and answering questions so we can strengthen comprehension.
Other
Literature Lesson Plan
This lesson plan is for a character study that uses butcher paper, pens, pencils, and copies of assigned book. Learners then complete a character study on at least two major characters.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Literature Circles With Primary Students, Self Selected Reading
Students respond to self-selected books in journals and talk about their books daily in small groups. The teacher guides students by offering suggestions and writing with them in dialogue journals.
Phonics Guide
Papa Jan: What Is Phonics?
How can you define phonics? Take this opportunity to learn a little more about phonics and its relationship to letters and sounds.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Context Counts in Second Language Learning
Discover how contextual factors count when learning a second language.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Miss Nelson Is Missing Key Details
Where did Miss Nelson go? We look at the key details in the text to determine what is happening throughout the story. Students will locate and record key details about story elements (characters, setting, problem, solution, and theme) in...
Other
Big Life Journal: How to Teach Problem Solving Skills to Kids (Ages 3 14)
How you teach problem-solving to kids depends on their age. Read on to learn key strategies for teaching problem-solving to kids, as well as some age-by-age ideas and activities.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Nouns and Adjectives Making Sentences
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this flipchart, students will apply what they have learned about nouns and adjectives to make complete sentences. This is a cloze activity which scaffolds learning by providing students with context...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Nouns and Adjectives Making Sentences
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this activity, students will synthesize what they have learned about nouns and adjectives by engaging in a formative assessment activity using Activotes. Students also evaluate incorrect sentences...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Houghton Mifflin Books: Zathura by Chris Van Allsburg
This comprehensive teacher's guide for the book "Zathura" by Chris Van Allsburg provides us with an opportunity to examine how writers blend scientific information with a fictional story.
AAA Math
Aaa Math: Adding Two Digit Numbers Mentally
Read these two strategies for adding two-digit numbers in your head. Then try out the one you like better by playing the game. Running totals of your correct and incorrect answers as well as a percent score of your correct answers will...
TES Global
Blendspace: Running Records
Links to eleven websites, videos, charts, and activities that teach how to collect and interpret information from running records.
Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center
Wisconsin Rt I Center: K W H L Chart [Pdf]
Classroom teachers will learn how to use use the K-W-H-L research strategy. Teachers will find this activity that may be used as a pre-research, during-research, or post-research strategy.
Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center
Wisconsin Rt I Center: Blending [Pdf]
Classroom teachers will learn how to blend words as a classroom modeling strategy. Teachers will learn direct instructional techniques for blending; games and activities are also provided to reinforcement the concept of blending.
Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center
Wisconsin Rt I Center: Segmenting [Pdf]
Classroom teachers will learn how to use segmenting phonemes as an instructional strategy. Teachers will learn direct instructional techniques for segmenting phonemes; games and activities are also provided to reinforcement student...