After you listen to and read the story, print out the activities to practice reading comprehension skills. Work on character identification, details, and sequence of events.

Today's lesson is all about asking and answering questions so we can strengthen comprehension.

In this lesson students get to combine the world of literacy and physical movement! As the teacher reads the book "Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now" by Dr. Seuss, students listen carefully and safely jump up out of their chairs...

Collection of children's books online. Some of the books are "Talking books," and children can create their own story by using Adlib and even have the story read back to them.

Contains plans for seven lessons that use the book "Junie B., First Grader (at last!)" by Barbara Park to develop reading comprehension, summary and writing skills. Students create literacy mystery boxes based off the text. In addition...

Contains plans for a language activity called "Guess What's in the Bag." Learners try to guess the object in a bag in order to develop descriptive language, listening, and problem solving skills. In addition to objectives and standards,...

Practice reading and pronouncing words that have a vowel followed by the letter R.

This series of 12 downloadable activities teach students some basics of story writing, using books or videos from the PBS "Arthur" series as a springboard. Activities include creating story maps, asking questions about characters and...

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...

What does it mean to decode words in a context activity? Explore this lesson plan to find the answer to this question and more.

What does it mean to decode words in a context activity? Explore this lesson plan to find the answer to this question and more.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is correlated to Houghton Mifflin Reading, Grade 2 and is a guideline for comprehension and vocabulary for Henry and Mudge and the Starry Night by Cynthia Rylant. Interactive vocabulary...

Young readers and beginning English language learners will enjoy this short animated read-along/listen-along story about penguins having a party. Delightful illustrations aid comprehension.

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

Find creative ways to help students learn to read. Links to online stories and activities.

This resource features four stories and related activities in Spanish. Students can watch an animated version or listen and read along. Each story also includes activities: word puzzles, coloring, reading comprehension questions, and...

[Free Registration/Login Required] Come and check out this resource featuring printable materials on birds. This site includes poems, shape books, questions for reading comprehension and more.

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...

Listening to a cute story about an imaginary planet helps with English comprehension and the additional activities encourage reading and writing skills.

Read and listen to the story about the greedy hippo; then print some activities and play an online game having to do with the story.

This resource features four stories and related activities in Spanish -- activities include interactive games, illustrations, videos, and craft activities for each story.

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.

In this lesson, students will learn to retell a story using story elements to improve their comprehension of the story. The students will actively listen to a story and complete a graphic organizer to share and discuss with a partner.

Listen to and read along with this story about a princess and a dragon. You can choose the ending to the story. Then print off activities to go along with the story.