Read Works
Read Works: Brazil Today: Carnaval
[Free Registration/Login Required] Free membership required. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding for vocabulary learning. It contains...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Making Predictions
Notes on using the reading strategy of making predictions before and during reading to increase comprehension. Notes can be both read and listened to.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Circular Plot: Prediction Strategies in Reading and Writing
Contains plans for two lessons about circular stories like those of Laura Joffe Numeroff, who is known for the book "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie." Students read stories with circular plots as models before composing their own. In...
Read Works
Read Works: The Flying Machine
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage gives a brief history of the airplane and ideas that came before the invention. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills...
University of Virginia
Miller Center at Uva: u.s. Presidents: James Abram Garfield: Life Before the Presidency
James A. Garfield wasn't a president for very long before he was cut down by an assassin, but reading about his political life before his presidency gives a good look at his political life and his political strategy. It also shows the...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Young Explorers
Abby Brown explores the world through books and activities. Each topic addresses developmentally appropriate instructional themes for kids ages 4-9. Academic content is layered in with storylines of fun and adventure! Children of all...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Making Predictions
This activity will use the trade book, Balto, the Dog Who Saved Nome, to teach making predictions. Students will also learn the true story of Balto and create their own fictional story of Balto.
Library of Congress
Loc: American Memory: American Women: Marching for the Vote
The day before the inauguration of Woodrow Wilson, 5,000 marchers along with floats, bands, and mounted groups paraded down Pennslvania Avenue in support of women's suffrage. Read about the parade, the actions of those watching the...
Math Is Fun
Math Is Fun: Add Em Up
This is a demo version of the game with two modes of play. In one, you must place number tiles on a grid so that the tiles touching it add up to that number. In the second mode, you solve number puzzles. Be sure to read the instructions...
Other
Wow Museum: Western Women's Suffrage Wyoming
Read about the place Wyoming holds in the history of women's suffrage. Even before statehood, Wyoming gave woment the right to vote. Find out how important that was to those who lived there.