Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: The Foundations for Reading
What are the foundations for reading? Come and explore this informative article to discover the answer to this question.
Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center
Wisconsin Rt I Center: Draft Multiple Reading [Pdf]
Teachers will learn about the importance of using multiple readings. Teachers will learn how to implement multiple readings; measure progress with multiple readings; and find research to support multiple readings.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Thumbs Up or Thumbs Down? Letter Sound Accuracy Game
An exciting activity for the whole class to practice listening for a specific letter sound. When they hear a word with the sound they are listening for they give it a thumbs up; if it doesn't have the sound, they give it a thumbs down....
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Papa Jan: Five Essential Components of Reading
Can you name the five essential components of reading? Check out this informative site from Papa Jan.com to learn more about phonemic awareness, phonics, reading fluency, vocabulary development and reading comprehension.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Monitor for Understanding: Strategic
A lesson plan in which students complete a graphic organizer to record prior knowledge before reading, ask questions while reading, and summarize a text after reading. Materials are included. [PDF]
McGraw Hill
Mc Graw Hill: How to Use Strategies to Teach Students to Access Complex Texts
In this short video, the strategies of summarizing, clarifying, and asking-answering questions are used. These instructional tools will help teachers show students how to access complex texts. [5:54] CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.10
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Monitor for Understanding: Reading Repair
A lesson plan in which students read a text using different reading strategies to fix problems as they read. Materials are included. [PDF]
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Monitor for Understanding: K W L [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which students complete a KWL chart before during and after reading a text. Materials are included.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Launching Young Readers: Episode 5: Reading for Meaning
Hosted by Frank McCourt, Reading for Meaning highlights effective strategies to help kids understand - and care about - what they read, the ultimate goal of learning how to read. Features host Frank McCourt and children's book author...
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Launching Young Readers: Episode 1: Roots of Reading
Hosted by Fred Rogers, The Roots of Reading looks at the earliest stages of literacy in such locations as a baby speech lab and a Head Start center. The program examines how parents, childcare providers, and kindergarten teachers can get...
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Monitor for Understanding: Sum Summary! [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which students read a narrative or informational text and complete graphic organizers to help them write good summaries of the texts. Materials are included.
Utah Education Network
Uen: The Important Thing About a Family
This activity engages students in reading comprehension strategies related to Margaret Wise Brown's book, The Important Book. Students will make their own Important Thing About a Family book.
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Wisconsin Educational Communication Board: Into the Book
This series of videos and interactive activities provide an excellent set of resources for teaching or learning the 8 research based reading strategies provided here. After receiving your "key" you can investigate the features inside and...
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Descriptive Writing
This is a comprehensive article about what descriptive writing including what it is, why to teach it and strategies to teach it. It also features two videos Five Senses Graphic Organizer and Writing Poems as well as an annotated list of...
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.
A to Z Teacher Stuff
Guided Reading: If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
This lesson helps students to make predictions using the pictures and text of "If You Give A Mouse A Cookie."
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Listen, Look, and Learn: An Information Gathering Process
This lesson models an information-gathering process for primary learners as they listen to and look at resources, seeking information pertinent to the questions on an information wheel. Guiding the listening, looking, and learning...
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Building Background Knowledge
The importance of background knowledge is especially salient in the age of Common Core. This article offers practical classroom strategies to build background knowledge such as using contrasts and comparisons and encouraging...
SMART Technologies
Smart: Cafe Reading Strategies
In this SMART Exchange lesson, students will learn the CAFE reading strategies. This lesson may be used as an instructional tool for teaching and introducing the various strategies to students.
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Jl Resource: The Reading Room
Find creative ways to help students learn to read. Links to online stories and activities.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Camp Paws and Claws: Pets
This multi-day series of lessons will engage students in reading and listenting comprehension strategies related to books about animals. Students will retell, dramatize, and illustrate their new animal knowledge.
Utah Education Network
Uen: 1st Grade Act. 14: Who's in Your Family
This lesson engages students in reading comprehension strategies related to Carol A. Johnson's book, Who's in Your Family. Students will create a classroom graph with the titles of their family members afterward.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Reading 101: A Guide to Teaching Reading and Writing
Reading 101 is a self-paced professional development course for K-3 teachers. It presents some of the core information that teachers need to help young children learn to read and write well and to support the children who struggle. The...
Michigan State University
Michigan State University: Intervention for Reading: Story Grammar Training
This intervention emphasizes the importance of metacognitive or active reading strategies to improve comprehension. It directs students' attention on story structure by teaching them to ask five "wh" questions about the settings and...
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