What do you know about phoneme activities for collaborative classrooms? This site will show how to develop your own activities to sharpen your students phonemic awareness skills. This informative resource will support any teacher's work...

This invaluable site helps instructors teach students how to handwrite each letter of the alphabet. It includes the amsti sequence to introduce letters, followed by fluency-building activities and accuracy-building activities. Additional...

[Free Registration/Login Required] Teachers may choose from over 20 short stories that have printable worksheets for checking comprehension.

Read a click-through story about rediscovering the joy of making music.

In this lesson, students read the book I Was Walking Down The Road by Sarah E. Barchas and Jack Kent and study the predictable rhythm and rhyme pattern. Then, students write their own sentences to mimic those patterns.

To improve oral reading and listening skills, groups students will alternate performing reader's theater plays.

This Roy the Zebra e-book shares the story of Roy the Zebra who finds the 'zebra warp drive' and learns how to drive a tractor. Students will develop their fluency and reading comprehension through this guided reading book.

This Roy the Zebra e-book shares the story of Roy of Zebra as he goes to a carnival. Students will develop their fluency and reading comprehension through this guided reading book.

This e-book shares the story of Roy the Zebra and his trip to a safari park. Students will develop their fluency and reading comprehension through this guided reading book.

This e-book shares a story of Roy the Zebra and his method for finding this herd. Students will develop their fluency and reading comprehension through this guided reading book.

In 2005-2006, a team of teachers at FCRR reviewed current research, collected ideas, and created materials for use in second and third grade classrooms. These included two books for students and a teachers guide with a DVD for...

This is a third-grade reading fluency exercise entitled "Anthony Reynoso: Born to Rope" and has 203 words.

The authors explain strategies for using bilingual books to foster literacy development with ESL learners. They argue that the presence of books in other languages in the classroom library sends a clear message about the value of...

The authors explain strategies for using bilingual books to foster literacy development with ESL learners. They argue that the presence of books in other languages in the classroom library sends a clear message about the value of...

This lesson plan uses the popular card game, UNO. Students form small groups, and then take turns picking up cards and performing a specific exercise. Each card color has a designated exercise associated with it and the number on the...

This lesson is similar to traditional bingo. Each student gets a fitness bingo card. Creating space between them and their peers, learners will act out the exercise if they have it on their bingo card.

This instructional activity is based on the popular game show, Minute to Win It. Learners work as a whole class to perform various exercises for one minute in order to gain points.

This small group lesson addresses a very specific skill that some learners need to improve their reading skills - self-monitoring. Using play phones, the students will listen to themselves very carefully to see whether what they are...

As teachers, one of our goals is for every student to read and comprehend at or above grade level. We want students to take ownership of their reading, monitoring themselves while they are reading and self-correcting when they need to....

How do you assess phoneme awareness and decoding? Use this site to find the answer to this question on phoneme awareness and decoding.

This task challenges a student to demonstrate fluency in adding and subtracting whole numbers.

Micro-Module covering relevant information on Accessibility Awareness and Section 508, the American Disabilities Act for the Internet. The thorough and informative article addresses applications of Section 508, WC3, website compliance,...

This online storybook is for very early readers; the child has the option to click on a word they don't know to have it read to them. A list of words in the story are provided.

This video segment from Between the Lions features a classic tongue twister: a type of wordplay that helps children tune their ears to language and the sounds within words. [0:29]