ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Visualizing Using the Sketch to Stretch Strategy
Contains plans for three lessons to improve reading comprehension using a visualizing strategy called sketch-to-stretch. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as well...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Recognition Quick Guide
How do you approach Recognition questions? Perhaps the most basic task of Reading Comprehension on the LSAT is that of recognizing things that the passage text states on a literal, explicit level, so these types of questions may seem...
Other
Cuesta College: Reading Comprehension Guide: Inferences and Conclusions
Explanations and examples of inferences and conclusions in reading and in understanding context clues to define unknown vocabulary.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Using Features of Literary & Informational Text to Guide Reading
A learning module that teaches students about using text features to guide reading in three mini lessons: Engaging with Text, Literary Think-Aloud, and Informational Think-Aloud. Download a PDF with lesson plans and printable handouts...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Main Point Quick Guide
The first question in most Reading Comprehension sets will ask you to identify the statement that best expresses the central idea or the main point that the passage as a whole is designed to convey.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Journey North: Reading Strategies: Compare and Contrast Ideas
This reading resource discusses the strategy of comparing and contrasting ideas. Students will learn definitions and explanations for similes, metaphors, and analogies. A list of guiding questions is provided to help students as they...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Listen, Look, and Learn: An Information Gathering Process
This lesson models an information-gathering process for primary learners as they listen to and look at resources, seeking information pertinent to the questions on an information wheel. Guiding the listening, looking, and learning...
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Reading 101: A Guide to Teaching Reading and Writing
Reading 101 is a self-paced professional development course for K-3 teachers. It presents some of the core information that teachers need to help young children learn to read and write well and to support the children who struggle. The...
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Reading Discussion Guide: The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale
She was born with her eyes closed and a word on her tongue, a word she could not taste. Her name was Anidori-Kiladra Talianna Isilee, Crown Princess of Kildenree, and she spent the first years of her life listening to her aunt's stories...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Houghton Mifflin Books: Zathura by Chris Van Allsburg
This comprehensive teacher's guide for the book "Zathura" by Chris Van Allsburg provides us with an opportunity to examine how writers blend scientific information with a fictional story.
CommonLit
Common Lit: Excerpt From Peter Pan: "When Wendy Grew Up"
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Organizing Information Quick Guide
Organizing information questions ask you to understand and analyze how a passage works to make an argument. What is the progression of ideas in the passage? or What is the purpose of a specific paragraph?
HotChalk
Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Big Book Activities: What Will the Weather Be Like Today?
In this K-2 lesson, the teacher uses guided reading strategies and creative activities to make a big book come alive to her students.
CommonLit
Common Lit: Eating Together
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story, article or poem is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Bright Morning
Use this lesson plan to delve into the exploration of character development in fiction through the novel "Bright Morning," by Scott O'Dell.
Other
Introduction to the Biosphere: Characteristics of the Earth's Terrestrial Biomes
From Chapter 9 of a textbook on physical geography that covers the biosphere. Important vocabulary is highlighted and linked to a glossary. It explains the characteristics of a biome, and describes the features of the eight different...
Shmoop University
Shmoop: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Summary
Read all about the Adventures of Huckleberry in this comprehensive site that covers the major points of the plot.
Shmoop University
Shmoop: The Prisoner of Chillon
The poem, The Prisoner of Chillon, was written by Lord Byron in 1816. Read about the meaning, and important quotations from the poem in this comprehensive site.
Shmoop University
Shmoop: The House of Spirits
Published in Spain in 1982 this novel follows a Chilean family and thier connection with upsetting poitical events of the 1970s. Read about the characters, plot and important themes in this comprehensive site.
Shmoop University
Shmoop: The Importance of Being Earnest
Oscar Wilde's most famous play is profiled here in this comprehensive site. Read about the characters, the themes and important quotations in the play in this interesting site.