Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Exploring How Section Headings Support Understanding

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
Teaching learners to pay attention to headings and titles as they read? Here you'll find a practical application for using an expository text to apply the concept of using headings. Geared toward older elementary students, but lesson...
Unit Plan
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Prairie Ecology Questions and Activities [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
"Prairie Ecology Questions and Activities" is a one page, nonfiction, reading passage about prairie ecology the interdependence of its plants and animals. It is followed by questions which require students to provide evidence from the...
Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Monitor for Understanding: What Do You Know? [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
A lesson plan in which learners browse a text and complete graphic organizers to help them activate prior knowledge. Materials are included.
Activity
Other

Wordville: President's Readings: Abraham Lincoln and His Cats

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this reading comprehension activity, students read a story about Abraham Lincoln and answer questions about it.
Activity
Goodwill

Gcf Global: Text Explorer

For Students 1st - 5th Standards
Use this Text Explorer reading comprehension activity to improve your literacy skills.
Activity
Goodwill

Gcf Global: Blast Off!

For Students 1st - 5th Standards
Use this Blast Off! reading comprehension activity to improve your literacy skills.
Lesson Plan
Other

Lesson Plan: Decoding: Context Activity

For Teachers 1st - 6th Standards
What does it mean to decode words in a context activity? Explore this lesson plan to find the answer to this question and more.
Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: History Comes Alive: Developing Fluency and Comprehension

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
Let the power of imagination and inference serve as a "time machine" to bring Benjamin Franklin into the classroom! History and science come to life in a dialogue with Franklin the inventor, developed through instructional activity...
Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Monitor for Understanding: Background Check [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
A lesson plan in which students browse a text and complete a graphic organizer to show prior knowledge. Materials are included.
Lesson Plan
Common Sense Media

Common Sense Media: Education: Story Elements Retelling

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
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.
Professional Doc
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Student Center Activities: Grades 2 3

For Teachers 1st - 4th Standards
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...
Lesson Plan
Can Teach

Can Teach: Storyboard Frames

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
In this lesson plan students will be able to focus on the main events of a book by drawing a storyboard. Lesson plan indicated for 2nd grade and above.
Website
PBS

Idaho Ptv: Science Trek: Dinosaurs

For Students 2nd - 6th
A comprehensive overview of dinosaurs. Includes three videos: a half-hour show, a video short, and a short video where an expert answers children's questions. Other features of the site include facts, links, games and activities, a...
Interactive
Quia

Quia: Synonyms

For Students 2nd - 5th Standards
This site offers a matching squares activity in which students match pairs of synonyms. Java is required.
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Southwest Literacy Unit

For Teachers 2nd - 8th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is a literacy unit based around a Southwest / Westward Expansion Theme. Native Americans, pioneers, and the old west is covered. 8 different literacy strategies are taught with FULL...
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Nouns and Adjectives Making Sentences

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this activity, students will synthesize what they have learned about nouns and adjectives by engaging in a formative assessment activity using Activotes. Students also evaluate incorrect sentences...