How do you get started with guided reading? At this site one can find the answer to this question. The online lesson plans will help get learners started with guided reading.

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

A guide explaining the importance of Independent Reading and providing several strategies students can use to increase comprehension while reading independently. Strategies include Reader's Response Journals, Quick Conferences,...

This guide includes an introductory section about visual evidence, a general overview of how to use this strategy with many science texts, and a plan for teaching how to use visual evidence to make inferences with the Seeds of...

[Free Registration/Login Required] A two-lesson unit designed to teach students to make predictions and support them with details from the text. Lessons are based on the books Wemberly Worried by Kevin Henkes and No Roses for Harry! by...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a lesson designed to teach students to make predictions based on relationships between characters. The lesson is based on the book Soupy Saturdays with the Pain and the Great One by Judy Blume....

[Free Registration/Login Required] Students are guided through a lesson plan to understand the difference between explicit information and conclusions drawn from a text. With free login, users have access to passages used in this lesson...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage lists steps in the scientific method. This passage reinforces essential reading comprehension skills. Opportunities for vocabulary acquisition are also included. Several...

Learn how to spot inferences plus strategies for answering reading comprehension questions.

[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Use different organizational patterns as guides for summarizing and forming an overview of different kinds of expository text while distinguishing factual claims from...

This strategy guide focuses on writing text-dependent questions which require the student to reread the text to support their answers. It offers a list of what to do to create these questions that progress from establishing general...

[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson utilizing the book No Roses for Harry! by Gene Zionin in which students make a prediction and then support it with details from the text. Ideas for direct teaching, guided practice, and...

Article discusses the author's attitude or the attitudes of people or groups that are mentioned. While not explicitly stated, these attitudes can be discovered from both the language and content of the passage.

This resource features a biography of the author Laura Numeroff. Students and teachers will benefit from this inside look at the life and work of this children's author.

This educational module enables students (5-12) to experience ongoing research of University of California paleontologists studying about life in Montana 60-70 million years ago. It gives students the opportunity to experience the...