A lesson plan in which students read a list of wards from a passage three times and then take turns reading the passage while focusing on speed and accuracy.

How can you help the struggling readers in your classroom? This site offers some insight into activities to help develop your students reading skills.

"Changing Our Street" is a one page, realistic fiction, reading passage about how the problem of people driving too fast in a neighborhood was solved. It is followed by constructed-response questions which require students to provide...

This fluency graphic organizer for reading speed and comprehension will be used to record reading times and what they learned. Guiding questions are included to help students reflect about what they learned. This resource's prompts are...

[Free Registration/Login Required] Requires free membership.T his passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding for vocabulary learning. It contains...

Do words or colors have more influence over what you read? Try this interactive Stroop Effect test to find out what causes the results.

A lesson plan in which students practice reading a list of affixes and then time each other to see how many affixes they can read in one minute. Students repeat to work towards increased speed and accuracy. Materials are included.

Gives specific advice on the most effective way to gain information through reading, especially necessary because the glut of information has created "an increasing need for the ability to scan." There are suggestions on how to decide...

Use this free, online typing program to improve typing speed and fluency. Does not require an account. A school portal is available for teachers to customize lesson plans.

Organized into question/answer format, this website on methamphetamine abuse provides information on how this drug affects the body and how the drug is made and obtained. Learn about the health hazards associated with methamphetamine use...

This site provides good online learning games and exercises for music theory. It also has a lot of options for teachers if they choose to subscribe.

Read a description and brief history of short track speed skating, and follow links for more information on famous skaters Ahn Hyun Soo, Apolo Anton Ohno, and Steven Bradbury.

The ultimate resource for fans of the U.S. speedskating team. Read about athletes, latest competitions, and results, news and more.

Comprehensive guide with 17 areas of suggestions and tips for delivering a successful class presentation. Requires Adobe Reader. [PDF] CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.SL.4, SL.11-12.4 Presentation

[Free Registration/Login Required] During this MEA simulation, kindergarten students will be preparing for a move to another state. Students must work in cooperative groups as they determine which moving company will be the best for...

In this instructional activity, 7th graders are shown how Great Navigators of the past stayed on course with the historical methods of navigation. The concepts of dead reckoning and celestial navigation are discussed. Using Vector Voyage...

Read how hurricanes are rated on the Saffir-Simpson scale and check out the hurricane record for each level of the scale.

Read about the life and work of this Austrian physicist and philosopher, known for his contributions to physics with the Mach number and the study of shock waves.

With no dorsal fin, a slender body shape that tapers steadily toward the tail, and small flippers and flukes, the northern right whale dolphin appears to be built for speed. It has been clocked at 34 km per hour and can dive as deep as...

Test your scanning skills by racing the clock with this exercise.

This site from Physics Web gives information on the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physics. It was awarded to Zhores Alferov and Herbert Kroemer for the invention of semiconductor lasers, integrated circuits and other high-speed electronic devices....

Rough-toothed dolphins are usually seen swimming in schools of 10-20 individuals, although groups of 50 or more have been reported. They are sometimes seen cruising along at high speed, with their beaks at the surface and their dorsal...

Notable for its running speed, the Texas Antelope Squirrel has the longest hindlimbs and tail of any antelope squirrel. In the field, the squirrels are noticeable because of the way they carry the tail arched forward over the back. Learn...