This text on the topic of Women's Rights from Scholastic has been reformatted into a guided reading lesson where students can see annotated examples of active reading, stop at logical places in the text to answer discussion questions,...

A nine-part learning module on using the acronym RUNNERS to learn active reading strategies through text, videos, a PowerPoint, a web link and a quiz.

This free reading intervention site is geared toward students grade K-3, with literacy activities and lessons/ideas links. The site includes teaching tools and activities. See the link at the bottom to "About FreeReading" for a list of...

This extensive site has links to games and activities that teach students to read 30 high-frequency irregular words. There are over 20 activities and games at the bottom of the site in additional to sequenced irregular word activities....

Understanding word structure and being able to identify root or base words, prefixes and suffixes give your student valuable vocabulary-building skills. Click on the Prefixes and Suffixes handout.

This lesson uses the popular card game, UNO. Students form small groups, and then take turns picking up cards and performing a specific exercise. Each card color has a designated exercise associated with it and the number on the card...

This lesson 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. They...

[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson's activities, you will determine the purpose of description, narration, and exposition essays, analyze their literary devices, and examine text features. You...

This lesson is similar to traditional bingo. Each student gets a fitness bingo card. Creating space between them and their peers, students will act out the exercise if they have it on their bingo card.

This lesson is based on the popular game show, Minute to Win It. Students work as a whole class to perform various exercises for one minute in order to gain points.

In this instructional activity students explore with movement and creativity to make words come alive! Using sight word flashcards, students use their bodies to spell out simple sight words.

Activities and lesson ideas that revolve around the significance of the events depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry.

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

A big green monster helps learners build their reading fluency and word recognition skills through choral reading, literacy center activities, and writing stories.

In this classroom activity, the instructor creates a list of simple sentences that include a three or four letter word that the students are asked to blend. The instructor says the sentence and asks the student to help blend the letters...

An exciting version of baseball to build fluency in creating rhyming words. The classroom is divided into two teams; when one team is up to bat the first student is given a word family such as -at. They must create a rhyming word and...

In this teacher-led activity on this site, students work together in the classroom creating a book full of rhymes.

A teacher-led activity teaching students to identify whether it contains rhyming words. This site also contains links to Rhyming Books.

A classroom activity led by the instructor. The student is given a spoken onset and rime, and learns to remove the onset and state the remaining rime.

ReadWriteThink offers hundreds of classroom resources for teaching and learning language arts and literacy. Resources range from lesson plans to student interactives, to after-school activities, and professional development.

This site features cross-curricular activities for fifteen of Dr. Seuss' books.

A lesson plan/activity which allows students to learn about primary source documents and family histories while researching the midnight ride of Paul Revere. Taken from the ReadWriteThink calendar on 4/18/07.

Read playing cards so the suit determines the type of physical activity, and the face value determines the number of repetitions.

Students can easily grasp the the parts of a sentence with this lesson plan.