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Guided Reading using Gail Gibbon's book Frogs

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students read to locate information about the stages of a frog's life and organize on a chart.
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Listening/Reading Transfer - Guided Reading

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students are read "Danny the Dinosaur" and explore alternate endings. They answer questions about the story to answer as they go.
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Score a Homerun for Reading!

For Teachers K - 3rd
Learners form the ability to be able to read text smoothly, expressively, and faster. By being able to do this, students are able to concentrate more on the comprehension of the text instead of on the decoding of each individual word....
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Color Coded Reading

For Teachers Pre-K - 8th
Learners read text that is color coded to make it more exciting to read. In this reading lesson plan, students read text that is in different colors or highlighted differently in order to be inspired to read in front of the class.
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Reading Freedom on the Menu

For Teachers K - 4th
Learners apply specific reading strategies to answer questions about the selection Freedom on the Menu. In this reading comprehension lesson, students read a selection called Freedom on the Menu and use specific reading strategies to...
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Reading My Hero Stories

For Teachers K - 12th
Students use the My Hero website to help them develop their reading skills. They create a KWL chart for the hero of their choice.
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Arthur's New Puppy Directed Reading Lesson (Elementary, Reading/Writing)

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students listen and take part as teacher and classmates give a definition and examples of responsibility, then brainstorm what Arthur needs to do to prepare for his puppy's arrival. The story be read as a total group and then talked about.
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Guided Reading "In the Night Sky"

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students participate in a variety of reading exercises, such as choral reading and reading response journal, to reinforce concepts about space and nocturnal animals.
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Do You Know What You Just Read?

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students answer reading comprehension questions using the "story grammar" technique. They listen to a story and then answer questions using the technique: main character, setting, main events, and resolution. Students complete an...
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Show Me That You Understood What You Just Read

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Pupils complete reading comprehension activities for the book Corduroy. After reading independently or in pairs, students answer questions orally as a class. They retell their favorite part of the story with the instructor and complete...
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Beginning Reading Design: Blending Boats

For Teachers K - 1st
Students study how to blend the sounds together in words with the CVC form. They use letter cards and the books, "Tin Man Fix-It," and Dr. Seuss', Green Eggs and Ham. They work with /m/ words to blend the sounds together to read words....
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Irregular Word Fluency, Tic Tac Toe

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Learners play a tic-tac-toe game to practice reading irregular words.  In this tic-tac-toe activity, students read words to a partner.  If they are correctly read, learners mark the tic-tac-toe board.
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The No Thanksgiving Read Aloud

For Teachers 1st
First graders investigate a story with the theme of The Thanksgiving holiday. The teacher reads the story to the class. The story is meant to help students to think of things they are thankful for. Students share the ideas in either...
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Run Away With Fluency

For Teachers 1st
First graders identify the difference between a fluent and a non-fluent reader reads like and that the more often they read, they recognize words automatically. They pair up, read the story one at a time, and use a stop watch to time one...
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Kindness Feels Good/Reading Kindness Books

For Teachers K - 6th
Students complete acts of kindness. In this kindness and compassion lesson plan, students read books about acts of kindness and complete various activities each month to show kindness.
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Reading Rainbow Book Review

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students watch a "Reading Rainbow" video including the short book reviews that are always shown during each video. They read a book fo their choice and do an oral book report similar to those from Reading Rainbow.
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What Are We Reading for Again?

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students work to develop comprehension strategies. Through modeling and guided practice they develop a series of questions as they read Where the Wild Things Are. They apply these questions to find answers about the text and make...
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Seeing What You Read

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students practice visualizing what they read and hear in a text. They listen to selected passages from a text read by the instructor. Students discuss the visual pictures they see when listening to the text. After listening to a...
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Reading to Learn

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Children learn to read and comprehend non-fiction text and explore how to relate non-fiction texts to things they already know. They then examine how to stop and think about what they are reading repeatedly to make sure they understand...
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Johnny Appleseed Reading and Writing

For Teachers 1st
First graders explore language arts by reading a classic story in class. In this word choice lesson plan, 1st graders read the story of Johnny Appleseed and identify the descriptive words and sentences the author used to entice the...
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Irregular Word Fluency, Word Baseball

For Teachers K - 1st
Young scholars review irregular words and build fluency by playing a game. In this irregular word lesson plan, students label a variety of blank index cards, then post the index cards around the room as signs that...
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The Mini Bee Book

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
In this literacy worksheet, young scholars read a story about a bee that is in a variety of environments to work on the skill of fluency and comprehension.
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Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students find themes in folktales. In this folktale lesson, students read different folktales from Africa to find what message the author wants the reader to learn. They read "Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears" by Verna Aardema,...
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Order of Events

For Teachers K - 1st
In this reading comprehension worksheet, students cut apart cards and put them in order. There are three sets of three cards, each set of cards depicts a block construction. The first shows the individual blocks, then most blocks in the...

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