This two-day lesson plan engages students in reading comprehension strategies related to Joy Cowley's Wishy-Washy Day and Audrey Wood's book, King Bidgood's in the Bathtub. Students will participate in making predictions, sequencing, and...

This lesson plan engages students in a study of the collaborative elements of Lincoln's famous speech. Included in the lesson plan is an overview, practice, objectives, resources, preparation, and more.

This lesson engages students in reading comprehension strategies related to Margaret Wise Brown's book, The Important Book. Students will make their own Important Thing About a Family book.

This lesson engages students in reading comprehension strategies related to Patricia Polacco's book, My Rotten, Red-Headed, Older Brother. Students will analyze the story's characters and create thought bubbles associated with each...

This lesson engages students in reading comprehension strategies related to Elizabeth Howard's Aunt Flossie's Hats, Mem Fox's Wilford Gordon McDonald Partridge, Bill Martin's Knots On A Counting Rope, and Lucia Gonzales' The Bossy...

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...

A learning module that teaches students about using text features to guide reading in three mini lessons: Engaging with Text, Literary Think-Aloud, and Informational Think-Aloud. Download a PDF with lesson plans and printable handouts...

Contains plans for three lessons that teach students to express and perform responses to reading. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to PDF handouts and sites used in the lessons as well as...

This lesson engages students in reading activities related to James Marshall's book, Yummers. Students will analyze the diet of the main character and determine what made the character sick.

Contains plans for four lessons that use "Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. to engage students in a discussion about what constitutes equality. Lessons use re-writes, persuasive essays, computer activities, and informal class...

Asking and Answering Questions Professional Development provides strategies to teach students how to ask and answer questions more effectively to improve comprehension in the classroom and on standardized assessments. It containing 9...

In this learning module, students will engage in a deep study of Frank Baum's The Wizard of Oz. Worksheets, a test, and map projects are provided to reinforce comprehension of The Wizard of Oz.

Contains plans for five lessons that teach students to make authentic connections to reading selections. Lessons use books such as "Bigmama?s" by Donald Crews, "The Snowy Day" by Ezra Jack Keats, and "The Relatives Came" by Cynthia...

Engaged, accountable reading requires students to interpret, and respond, often creatively. This article suggests several personalized ways to hold students accountable for their reading.

In this lesson plan, students will engage in the technology, social studies, and language arts standards as students engage in reading by Octavia Butler's book entitled Kindred. Students will research tslavery. Students will keep a...

Lesson in which students engage in an entire-group revising process, using a story which has already been written by the group. An excellent follow-up instructional activity to the "prewriting and drafting" instructional activity.

Students will be answering text-dependent questions in which they will have to describe the differences between the different characters, settings, and major events in our stories using complex contrasting sentences. The students will...

Students will listen to the book What Time is it Mr. Crocodile? by Judy Sierra. The students will read and use Mr. Crocodile's schedule to answer questions as well as read analog and digital clocks to the hour.This lesson plan was...

First graders will use text evidence to make inferences about word and word phrase meanings in a text. Word and picture clues will be used to help students form inferences.

In this lesson plan, 1st graders will work with "The True Story of the Three Little Pigs" Jon Scieszkaby. They will describe the characters, setting, and key details in the story and help the teacher record the details on a circle map.

This lesson plan is designed to help students begin to engage with metaphors on a deeper and more abstract level. The lesson plan will begin with a poem containing metaphors accessible at all levels, and with each poem, the lesson plan...

Students will engage in a Reader's Theater adaptation of Cinderella after reading several different versions that come from various cultures. Students will complete a graphic organizer with story elements that apply to the story Cinderella.

Students will engage in a shared reading of Itchy, Itchy Chicken Pox by Grace Maccarone, Arthur's Chicken Pox by Marc Brown, or Turkey Pox by Laurie Anderson. Students will discuss the text and then engage in several math-related tasks...

[Free Registration/Login Required] During this MEA simulation, kindergarten students will be deciding which type of bike will be best for a company to sell in their community. Students must work in cooperative groups as they determine...