[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a guided reading flipchart for third grade. It provides the schedule and the activities for the class. All activities are grouped and self led by the students. The activities are on homophones.

In this K-2 lesson, the teacher uses guided reading strategies and creative activities to make a big book come alive to her students.

Colorful bilingual guides (downloadable as PDFs) with tips for parents on how to encourage reading, work with schools, and find great reading resources for their children. The guides are short, with straightforward, common-sense activity...

How can you help the struggling readers in your classroom? This site offers some insight into activities to help develop your students reading skills.

In 2004-2005, a team of teachers at FCRR reviewed current research, collected ideas, and created materials for use in kindergarten and first grade classrooms. The K-1 Student Center Activities include three books and one DVD: The first...

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.

[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson using the book Long Ago and Today by Rozanne Lanczak Williamsin in which students learn to recognize similarities and differences within a text. Ideas for teaching, guided practice, and...

Beginning with reading, "Diary of a Worm" to the students, guide a discussion about how the story is like real worms. The students then keep a day by day activity diary of all the things that happen in their lives to compare their lives...

Scholastic presents this discussion guide of "Horrible Harry and the Christmas Surprise" by Suzy Kline. The guide includes discussion questions, extension activities, and more.

Scholastic presents this discussion guide of "Each Peach Pear Plum" by Allan Ahlberg. The guide includes discussion questions, extension activities, and more.

Contains plans for five lessons that develop research skills in primary students by having them create their own question and answer books. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in...

This nonfiction narrative entails a young girl describing her family's grey sheep on the farm activities related to raising them. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and...

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...

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.

What do raccoons eat? Explore this site to find your answer. Students will gain a perspective of where and how raccoons live through this educational resource.

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.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Students learn about putting events in order with a short text. Then they complete guided and independent sequencing activities with The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle. Short texts and handouts...

Designed for Grades K-8, this teaching guide is chock-full of ideas for celebrating Groundhog Day, with activities like making shadow puppets, examining weather lore and studying cloud formations.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Learning Focused Curriculum Setup; Teaching for letter A includes activator, vocabulary, teacher guided lessons, graphic organizers, guided reading, and science tie-ins.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Teaching letter C through learning-focused based curriculum instruction. Includes activator, vocabulary, teacher guided instruction, handwriting, graphic organizer, guided reading, science-tie-ins and...

[Free Registration/Login Required] Teaching letter D through learning-focused based curriculum instruction. Includes activator, vocabulary, teacher guided instruction, handwriting, graphic organizer, guided reading, science-tie-ins and...

[Free Registration/Login Required] Teaching letter E through learning-focused based curriculum instruction.Includes activator, vocabulary, teacher guided instruction, handwriting, graphic organizer, guided reading, science-tie-ins and...

[Free Registration/Login Required] Teaching letter F through learning-focused based curriculum instruction. Includes activator, vocabulary, teacher guided instruction, handwriting, graphic organizer, guided reading, science-tie-ins and...

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