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Strategies for Reading Comprehension:reciprocal Teaching

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Use this page to understand the reciprocal teaching strategy that includes the role of the clarifier in student groups.
Activity
Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Cooperative Learning: Great Grouping Strategies

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides a flexible grouping strategy. An explanation is provided that explains how to use tongue depressers to divide students into cooperative learning groups.
Article
Other

Big Life Journal: How to Teach Problem Solving Skills to Kids (Ages 3 14)

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
How you teach problem-solving to kids depends on their age. Read on to learn key strategies for teaching problem-solving to kids, as well as some age-by-age ideas and activities.
Professional Doc
Other

Tinkergarten: Books That Help Us Teach Problem Solving

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
One of the most helpful, and easy, ways to teach problem-solving is to read, fall in love with and make sense of books that help teach problem-solving strategies. This article lists a few examples of books to use in your classroom.
Article
International Literacy Association

International Literacy Association: Teaching the Skill of Self Correction

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
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....
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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Content Area Literacy

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Content area lessons require specific techniques and knowledge that help students navigate different types of texts. Here you will find articles, videos, teaching strategies, webcasts, and research reports.
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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Writing

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
A collection of videos, articles for parents and for teachers, teaching strategies, webcasts for teachers, and research briefs on helping children develop their writing skills.
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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Audio Assisted Reading

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A resource for teachers to understand how to effectively use audio books in their reading programs. Includes links to teaching materials.
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Auburn University

Auburn University: Using Decodable Text

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
How can you use decodable text in your classroom? This site offers insight into this necessary part of the reading process. Come and learn more.
Handout
LD Online

Ld Online: Learning Disabilities Online: Reading Resources

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
LD Online is an excellent resource for a variety of needs. The site has information on teaching reading skills and using technology as a resource. Many links are to specific products that you must buy however, there are other resources...
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Education Place

Houghton Mifflin: Eduplace: Word Recognition Skills and Strategies

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Included is a brief article outlining the skills that readers, all educational levels, use when they identify printed words. This site contains background material only and no related activities.
Lesson Plan
Scholastic

Scholastic: Instructor: Reading Clinic: Strategy Inventory

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This lesson plan includes a group of activities that will teach students how to use vocabulary knowledge to help with comprehension of a text. Split into three activities, this lesson plan encourages students to use prior knowledge, word...
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Other

Phonemic Awareness, Alphabetics and Sight Words

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Discover more about phonemic awareness when you visit this informative site. This resource features activities that teach phonemic awareness and activities that teach alphabetics.
Website
Other

Library of Congress: Teaching With Primary Sources

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This website is an excellent resource for teaching with primary sources. This resource features Holocaust lessons, lesson plan strategies, and podcasts.
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Powerful Teaching and Learning

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Read the description of each segment, then identify up to three elements of powerful teaching and learning best represented in the segment. Once you've identified the elements, explain your answers.
Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Integrating Movement and Spelling Generalizations

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Contains plans for two lessons that use movement and cheering to teach the letter y spelling generalization. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as well as...
Lesson Plan
University of Pittsburgh

University of Pittsburgh: Leaders: Word Building

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This lesson walks teachers through a strategy for teaching word building skills to early elementary students. The site includes links to a page on preparing the materials needed for word building lessons, and to a page which explains the...
Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Go, Dog, Go!

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Students will read the story and describe the picture details of the illustrations in relation to the text and write about one of the story events. "Go, Dog, Go!" contains illustrations that are very elaborate and crazy while the text is...
Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: I See the Weather

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Young scholars will answer text-dependent questions for the expository text "Seasons and Weather". While text-dependent questions have been around for a long time, Common Core asks teachers to focus on them during reading. This...
Website
Scholastic

Scholastic: New Teachers

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
If you are a new teacher, this is a great resource. Features advice and support from experienced teachers, teaching strategies. classroom tools, and hot topics.
Lesson Plan
Other

Nsw Dept. Of Ed.: "One World" [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Reading unit plan about endangered animals from the New South Wales, Australia, Department of Education and Training entitled "One World" (Forty-four page PDF file). It contains ten days worth of teaching suggestions that use a variety...
Lesson Plan
Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Academic Tips to Help Kids Learn to Be Effective Students

For Teachers 1st - 9th Standards
A teaching resource with information and downloadable handouts on various study skills including the following: Coming to Class Prepared, Student Planers, Good Listening in Class, Taking Notes in Class, Using Acronyms to Remember...
Lesson Plan
Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Academic Tips to Help Kids Learn to Be Effective Students

For Students 1st - 9th Standards
A teaching resource with information and downloadable handouts on various study skills including the following: Coming to Class Prepared, Student Planers, Good Listening in Class, Taking Notes in Class, Using Acronyms to Remember...
Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Asking and Answering Questions About Our Story

For Teachers 1st Standards
Today's lesson is all about asking and answering questions so we can strengthen comprehension.