How do you get started with guided reading? At this site one can find the answer to this question. The online lesson plans will help get learners started with guided reading.

This article surveys three strategies to incorporate into classroom repertoire. They include guided reading, choral reading, and readers' theater.

This series of videos and interactive activities provide an excellent set of resources for teaching or learning the 8 research based reading strategies provided here. After receiving your "key" you can investigate the features inside and...

Students will learn the difference between making a prediction and an inference as they engage in class discussions about both reading skills, play a game, look at art, and listen to songs.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Inferencing Lesson for First Grade Reading in Learning Focused Format.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Three lessons designed to introduce young learners and beginning readers to the concept of drawing conclusions based on actions performed in a charades game, on verbal cues given in a guessing game, and...

This strategy guide focuses on writing text-dependent questions which require the student to reread the text to support their answers. It offers a list of what to do to create these questions that progress from establishing general...

[Free Registration/Login Required] A two-lesson unit designed to teach learners to make predictions and support them with details from the text. Lessons are based on the books Wemberly Worried by Kevin Henkes and No Roses for Harry! by...

[Free Registration/Login Required] A three-lesson unit on drawing conclusions through which students learn how to use pictures and context clues to discover a missing word and to draw conclusions about a story. Students also use...

[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of three lesson plans, based on David Shannon's books No, David!, David Gets in Trouble, and David Goes to School. Students learn how to utilize text and picture clues to determine and describe...

"A Better Community" is a one page, fictional reading passage that focuses on recycling. It is followed by constructed-response questions which require students to provide evidence from the story; it includes skills such as sequencing,...

[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson utilizing the book No Roses for Harry! by Gene Zionin in which students make a prediction and then support it with details from the text. Ideas for direct teaching, guided practice, and...

"My Summer" is a one page, fictional, reading passage about a child who visited his grandmother in Phoenix for the summer. He was surprised at how hot it was there. It is followed by constructed-response questions which require students...

This resource features a biography of the author Laura Numeroff. Students and teachers will benefit from this inside look at the life and work of this children's author.