Use a fill-in-the-blank lesson plan template to enhance your guided reading lesson plans with details surrounding decoding strategies, fluency and phrasing, vocabulary strategies, comprehension, and more! 

Scholars with high levels of self-efficacy perform better in school. Instructors review a list of strategies for enhancing self-efficacy skills. They discover how to teach learners to appropriately define success, celebrate progress, and...

What self-management techniques help scholars achieve their goals? Readers review a list of strategies for managing stress, increasing motivation, and setting goals. They discover how to monitor their emotions, create checklists to stay...

Help your students develop a growth mindset with a list of sample strategies for prioritizing efforts instead of results.Pupils learn how to embrace mistakes, set high expectations, and focus on process over product.

What are the benefits of developing social awareness? Using the resource, readers learn strategies for fostering civil discourse, creating a participatory classroom, and enhancing family involvement. Scholars also take a personality...

This site provides a collection of reading strategy teaching resources. Strategies are arranged according to the ELA Common Core Curriculum Standards and grade level bands.

This strategy guide focuses on planning and implementing close reading of complex text in the primary grades which fosters progressively deeper thinking as students become more responsible for their own learning. It offers a step-by-step...

This Practice Guide, by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) in February 2009, aims to help educators develop and implement RTI to assist students struggling with reading. The focus is building an instructional program in order to...

How can you develop reading fluency in your students? This site offers insight into the direct and indirect approaches to teaching reading fluency. Come and check it out.

Classroom teachers will learn about choral reading, an engaging instructional strategy. Teachers will learn how to implement choral reading, understand how to measure progress with choral reading, find research that supports choral...

Classroom teachers will learn about reading repeatedly, an effective instructional strategy. Teachers will learn how to implement repeated readings, understand how to measure progress with repeated readings, and find research that...

In this educational research article, the use of reading partnerships in the context of classrooms where some students are learning a second language. The first part of the article discusses the benefits of adding extensive reading to...

This helpful overview for teachers recommends strategies that aid young readers with oral reading.

This site offers questions to guide all facets of reading instruction broken down by grade level, grades K-3.

Links are provided for leveled reading lessons created by preservice teachers at Auburn University. Levels include emergent literacy, beginning reading, growing independence and fluency, and reading to learn.

A short explanation of why fluency instruction is important and how fluency develops in a child.

An educator's guide to help determine the level of text complexity.

Short discussion of teaching students the importance of why they are reading a particular text. Also provides some commentary from a teacher who used this method and an example of some questions students wanted to answer from a...

This professional development video is instructed by the National Reading Consultant, Marisa Russo. She provides explanations about what makes a complex text, why text complexity is important, and techniques to help student access...

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.

This professional resource includes a database to find the answer relative to the best instructional practices related to alphabetic literacy. This site offers activities in English and Spanish to help teach literacy topics.

The purpose of the Progress Monitoring: Study Group Content module is to provide participants with an introduction to procedures for progress monitoring using Curriculum-Based Measurement (CBM). The module outlines the steps required to...

Updated version of the ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines for speaking, writing, listening, and reading in a foreign/world language. Explanations and samples of each level of proficiency, from Novice Low through Distinguished are offered....

How can you implement effective decoding instruction for diverse learners in your classroom? This site focuses on phonemic awareness, alphabetic principle, morphology, and the six basic types of syllables in the English language.