Interactive
Mr. Nussbaum

Money

For Students 1st - 2nd Standards
Young readers test their comprehension skills with an interactive practice. Pupils read a brief informational text about money then answer five questions. A detailed page appears at the end to showcase participants' work.
Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Scaffolding Comprehension Strategies Using Graphic Organizers

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
A three-part standards-based instructional activity in which students will use collaborative strategic reading to apply four reading strategies: preview, click and clunk, get the gist, and wrap-up. They will work in cooperative groups...
Primary
PBS

Pbs: America 1900: William Jennings Bryan's Campaign Strategy

For Students 9th - 10th
Historian Walter LaFeber discusses William Jennings Bryan's 1900 campaign strategy to win the White House by criticizing the imperialism of the Republican candidate, William McKinley.
Handout
Other

University of Leeds: Literature Searching Explained: Develop a Search Strategy

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn how to create a search strategy when doing research. This resource explains how to choose search terms and keywords, about using truncated and wildcard searches, how to use Boolean logic, and how to search for citations. Includes...
Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Strategy to Define: Identify Poetic Terms

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Online lesson plan offers teachers the ability to teach a "Four-square," strategy technique for poetic terms. Students explore websites and define terms such as alliteration, assonance, simile, and rhyme.
Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Questioning a Comprehension Strategy for Small Group Reading

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Contains plans for three lessons about asking the right questions while reading. After the teacher explains the difference between factual and inferential questions, young scholars practice using them in small-group guided reading. In...
Article
International Reading Association

Using Bilingual Books in Esl and Mainstreamed Classrooms

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
The authors explain strategies for using bilingual books to foster literacy development with ESL learners. They argue that the presence of books in other languages in the classroom library sends a clear message about the value of...
Article
International Reading Association

Using Bilingual Books in Esl and Mainstreamed Classrooms

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
The authors explain strategies for using bilingual books to foster literacy development with ESL learners. They argue that the presence of books in other languages in the classroom library sends a clear message about the value of...
Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Qa Rs to Develop Comprehension & Reflective Reading Habits

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Contains plans for three lessons that use the QAR strategy to develop reading comprehension and reflective reading within students. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the...
Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Using Thieves to Preview Nonfiction Texts

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Contains plans for three lessons that introduce a nonfiction prereading strategy with the acronym THIEVES, which stands for Title, Headings, Introduction, Every first sentence, Visuals and vocabulary, End Questions, and Summary. In...
Article
New York Times

New York Times: On This Day: Roosevelt, Churchill Map 1943 War Strategy

For Students 9th - 10th
A great article from the New York Times on January 24, 1943, reporting on the meeting between President Roosevelt and Winston Churchill at Casablanca. At this meeting it was confirmed that the United Nations would accept only...
Professional Doc
International Reading Association

Reading Online: Classroom Strategies for Exploring Authenticity in the Media

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Four innovative classroom activities that actively engage students in analyzing and criticizing media messages. SL.11-12.2 Eval&Integrate sources
Activity
Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Cooperative Learning: Strategies for Problematic Members

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides a cooperative grouping strategy. This strategy focuses on placing students who tend to get into trouble.
Professional Doc
AdLit

Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Inferential Reading

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Teaching students to "read influentially" helps them learn how to read more strategically. This technique is derived from the teaching model that learners develop knowledge via the process of interpreting new information in light of past...
Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs: Gauss Arithmetic Sequence Strategy

For Students 6th - 8th
Learn how mathematician Karl Friedrich Gauss figured out how to sum up any arithmetic sequence without having to add up each and every term. This video focuses on using your critical thinking to follow along as Gauss determines his...
PPT
Tom Richey

Slide Share: Prediction and Inference: A Reading Strategy

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
This downloadable slideshow focuses on prediction and inference including the similarities and differences between them, when the reader does each, and questions to ask as you are reading.
Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Increasing Comprehension Through Prediction Strategies

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Contains plans for a lesson about predicting the outcomes of stories based off their first lines. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to PDF handouts and sites used in the lessons as well as...
Primary
The Federal Reserve System

Federal Reserve Board: The Strategy of Monetary Policy

For Students 9th - 10th
An address discussing in detail the monetary policy objectives, instruments, open market operations, and more. Includes information on the Federal Open Market Committee also.
Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Vocabulary Self Collection Strategy

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Contains plans for two lessons that ask students to compose their own vocabulary lists by selecting words that are unfamiliar to them. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the...
Handout
Washington State University

Washington State University: Literary Critical Theory: Interpretive Strategies

For Students 9th - 10th
Defines various critical approaches in brief. Click the Critical Theory link at the bottom of the page for more detail.
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Ap Physics: Kinematics of Rotational Motion

For Students 11th - 12th
By the end of this section, you will be able to observe the kinematics of rotational motion, derive rotational kinematic equations, and evaluate problem solving strategies for rotational kinematics.
Website
Other

Worcester Polytechnic Institute: Military Science: Battle of Monmouth

For Students 9th - 10th
This page begins with a summary of the history behind the battle and goes on to discuss key events in detail with links to maps and leaders in the war along with the military strategy involved.
Primary
Teaching American History

Teaching American History: Tehran Conference: Tripartite Dinner Meeting

For Students 9th - 10th
The Tehran Conference between Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin took place between November 28 and December 1, 1943. Read the minutes of the dinner meeting on November 28 where many issues concerning war strategy...
Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Election Central 2016: The Election Process

For Students 9th - 10th
This link from Election Central 2016 focuses on the Election Process using video clips, lesson plans, teaching materials, and activities having to do with the election process including Campaign Strategy, Getting the Nomination, Election...

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