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...

Scroll down to the Guides for Selected Titles to find a wealth of information on a variety of titles for adults and teens. Each entry, though they come from different sources, includes book discussion questions and some background about...

These materials are intended for use by those wishing to conduct a Training of Trainers (TOT) for the RTI Implementer Series. TOT facilitators should have knowledge of the materials provided here, the Implementer Series training module...

[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about a tour of the Johnson Space Center's Mission Control room. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.

Hope Shay's life is about acting. Her parents have supported and promoted her talents since she was a little girl. From community theater, dinner theater, and commercials to auditions around the country and finally a place at a...

The use of charts and graphs can improve your presentations, whether on paper or as visual aids. Here you can read about how to create line, column, bar, pie graphs, and scatterplots. Just follow the links to their respective pages.

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

In 2004-2005, a team of teachers at FCRR reviewed current research, collected ideas, and created materials for use in kindergarten and first grade classrooms. The K-1 Student Center Activities include three books and one DVD: The first...

This site provides a study guide to aid in the reading of "Oedipus the King" by Sophocles. Contains questions for consideration, links to outside information, and footnotes to help enhance knowledge.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction piece discusses the bombing of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 and how this tragendy is memorialized today. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces...

This resource provides a downloadable worksheet that will assist students after they read a piece of nonfiction. Students will answer guided questions to help them determine the strength of evidence used when supporting a claim....

Discussion questions that guide the reading of Chapter 1 of Harriet Beecher Stowe's influential novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin. Hyperlink to the entire text.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage describes the events of September 11th and the memorials established to commemorate this horrifying day in history. This passage reinforces essential reading comprehension...

In 2006-2007, FCRR reviewed current research, collected ideas, and created materials for use in fourth and fifth-grade classrooms. The 4-5 Student Center Activities include three books and one DVD. The first two books contain Activity...

In 2005-2006, a team of teachers at FCRR reviewed current research, collected ideas, and created materials for use in second and third grade classrooms. These included two books for students and a teachers guide with a DVD for...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage describes the ancient city of Cuzco, the center of activity during the Inca Empire. This passage reinforces essential reading comprehension skills. Opportunities for vocabulary...

A chapter in George Fitzhugh's apology for slavery in which he argues that slavery brings clear benefits to those who were enslaved.

An essay by the South Carolina Senator John C. Calhoun, outlining his belief in a "concurrent majority" and the power of individual majority groups to determine whether to follow a particular law that had been passed.

This article focuses on how parents can be more involved in their child's education. Teachers will benefit from this informative article and can pass it along to parent's as a valuable resource.

This article focuses on how parents can be more involved in their child's education. Teachers will benefit from this informative article and can pass it along to parent's as a valuable resource.

The monastery typically becomes the spiritual focus of the nearest town or village. In early Buddhism, monastic complexes were created for the monks close enough to a town in order to receive alms or charity from the villagers, but far...

In this article, N.R. Kleinfield reports on the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. The article focuses on the destruction of the World Trade Center's Twin Towers in New York City after they were hit by two hijacked passenger jets....