The highly-respected Reading Rockets program offers both teachers and students a toolkit of ways to connect more actively with the materials they read. Some of these techniques are specifically for fiction-reading, others are designed...

This tutorial focuses on active reading comprehension strategies including reading aloud, taking notes, summarizing, and writing in the margins of books to improve retention and class discussion. It includes two Flickr videos on active...

What can you do with your child in fifteen minutes to improve their reading skills? This site has a list of reading activities.

This lesson engages students in the read aloud book of Elinor J. Pinczes, One Hundred Hungry Ants, and in daily reinforcement of counting activities. Students will engage in a number of activities connected to the 100th day of school.

The class will read the informational text "Together They Were Better". As the teacher reads the book aloud, she/he will use the illustrations from each page to give students clues as to the text on the page, helping them to see the...