This site contains a lesson plan for teaching skimming and scanning to young adults and adults.

Build comprehension by developing reading strategies for use with nonfiction text. This lesson focuses on teaching students to recognize text elements as clues to help them quickly locate key information in text.

Supporting Ideas Questions: These questions ask you to identify the supporting ideas and specific details mentioned in a passage. What does the passage say? Perhaps the most basic task of the Praxis Core Reading Test is recognizing...

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

Second graders play a favorite card game which practices the quick and accurate recall of double facts.

Students use themed graphic organizers to compose cinquain poems on topics common in the early elementary classroom.

Great lesson for identifying words and phrases that indicate which past tense to use, preterite or imperfect. Though not meant to be a comprehensive lesson on the application of these two past tenses, the two lists of time expressions...

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 site from the TEAMS Distance Learning provides a K-1 activity: "Quick test you can give your young scholars to see if they can tell when words rhyme and when they do not."

Click through the pages of this beautifully illustrated story book to read about a young sorcerer's apprentice who thinks she can cast spells like the sorcerer in order to get her work done more quickly, but she learns a lesson and the...

Sixteen lessons about Chinese poems in Chinese with English translations. Traditional Chinese music plays in the background and feature content, such as author briefs, passage readings, and poem analyses, are available. Site is slow to...