Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Teaching Reading: Classroom Strategies
A collection of effective, research-based classroom strategies to help build and strengthen literacy skills in print awareness, phonological awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, and writing.
The Balanced Literacy Diet
The Balanced Literacy Diet: Interactive Story Retelling
The goal of Interactive Story Retelling: Encouraging Retelling with Picture Supports is to build early comprehension skills and promote oral expression by having young scholars sequence the events in a story using pictures and then...
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Building Background Knowledge
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...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Spanish Action Verbs Lesson Plan
In this interactive lesson, students learn about Spanish action verbs while exercising!
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Marvin K. Mooney Lesson Plan
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...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Memory Lane Fitness Lesson Plan
With this activity, students get a brain and body workout! Students work in pairs as the teacher calls out physical tasks such as high fives and tunnel tens. As the teacher is calling out these partner exercises, students must listen...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Waddle Lesson Plan
This lesson plan connects literacy, creativity and movement! Students act out different animals in the book "Waddle" as the teacher reads aloud. Students listen carefully for the animal name and the verb describing how that animal moves....
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Molly of Denali: Dream Tube Lesson Plan
Use this comprehensive instructional activity as part of a comprehensive literacy, STEM, or social studies unit in which children will be using informational texts. In the "Dream Tube" animated story from the PBS Kids series Molly of...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Ven Conmigo! La Ciudad De Nueva York, Cultura, Capitulo 9
Spanish content; this interactive Spanish exercise tests vocabulary and comprehension on the topic of New York city.
Joe Landsberger
Study Guides & Strategies: Sq3 R Reading Method
For students, the SQ3R Reading Method provides a method for how to read and comprehend a reading assignment.
California State University
Reading Strategies From the University of Waterloo
Brief and easy to read, this California State University Northridge site lists strategies for getting the most of your reading. Geared for reading texts and technical material.
AdLit
Ad lit.org: What Do Reading Comprehension Tests Measure? Knowledge.
The federal No Child Left Behind law requires more testing of students, and has spurred some frantic and ineffectual test preparation in many schools, says the author, E. D. Hirsch, Jr. Reading tests must use unpredictable texts to be...
AdLit
Ad lit.org: What Works in Comprehension Instruction
The National Reading Panel identified three predominant elements to support the development reading comprehension skills: vocabulary instruction, active reading, and teacher preparation to deliver strategy instruction. L .9-10.3...
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Student Motivation and Engagement in Literacy Learning
Teachers can help students build confidence in their ability to comprehend content-area texts, by providing a supportive environment and offering information on how reading strategies can be modified to fit various tasks. Teachers should...
abcteach
Abcteach: Historical Fiction Form [Pdf]
Good printable historical fiction book report form. Highlights the era as well helping learners distinguish between fictional and true historical figures.
Rick Beach
Teaching Literature to Adolescents, 2nd Edition: Chapter 12: Activities
The textbook entitled Teaching Literature to Adolescents, 2nd Edition contains activities for Chapter 12 reflection. Intended for teachers, this site contains activities that will extend the content from the Chapter 12. Focus of the...
Other
Increased Comprehension With the Use of Imagery
Designed for adult learners, this literacy lesson could easily be used in the high school or middle school classroom. Some handouts are included, but some material must be found in a newspaper or magazine.
Other
Tutorial World: Basic Reading Worksheets for Grade 2
This site is a listing of a variety of worksheets for second-grade English students. Includes vocabulary, grammar, sentence construction, comprehension, and revision.
Other
Tutorial World: Primary 3 English
This site is for teachers looking for worksheets for third-grade English students. Includes vocabulary, grammar, sentence construction, comprehension and revision.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Using a Word Journal to Create a Dictionary
This lesson enables middle schoolers to track unfamiliar words as they read, link these words to their background knowledge, create new sentences for their words, and develop a final project that displays their new vocabulary. Great...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Guided Comprehension: Making Connections
Lesson introduces students to the strategy of making connections. Students learn the three types of connections using a double-entry journal. A good resource for teachers.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Guided Comprehension: Semantic Analysis
Lesson introduces students to comprehension of knowing how words work. Students learn semantic feature analysis and examine folktales, myths, and fables using this analysis to better understand these terms and texts.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Guided Comprehension: Evaluating
This lesson introduces young scholars to the comprehension strategy of evaluating. Students learn this strategy through the "meeting of the minds" technique that teaches them to act out opposing views of two or more characters.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Guided Comprehension: Monitoring
Online lesson introduces students to the concept of monitoring. Students learn the INSERT technique, which allows them to monitor their thinking and comprehension using a coding system.