A topographic map can be challenging to read. This guide explains how to decipher one and how to use a magnetic compass to orient yourself to the landscape. It also explains how to use GPS coordinates.

Reading Guides help students navigate reading material, especially difficult textbook chapters or technical reading. Students respond to a teacher-created written guide of prompts as they read an assigned text. Reading Guides help...

This teaching guide accompanies Madeleine's L'Engle's book, A Wrinkle in Time. Setting, plot, characters, and theme questions are included, along with guided reading questions for each chapter.

This strategy guide focuses on planning and implementing close reading of complex text in the primary grades which fosters progressively deeper thinking as students become more responsible for their own learning. It offers a step-by-step...

Reading guide on Franz Kafka's "The Metamorphosis" with a variety of resources, discussion and writing questions, and brainstorming activities. Provides pre-reading material, such as an author biography, novella introduction, and...

This article surveys three strategies to incorporate into classroom repertoire. They include guided reading, choral reading, and readers' theater.

How do you get started with guided reading? At this site one can find the answer to this question. The online lesson plans will help get students started with guided reading.

Scholastic.com provides teachers with this practical article to help encourage summer reading. The research presented within this article will enable teachers to create readers.

Discover more about the importance of summer reading through this informative resource. Scholastic.com provides teachers with links to summer booklists, articles on summer reading and more.

This resource provides an article that discusses the importance of summer reading for students. Find out what schools can do to help improve student's participation in summer reading.

A chapter in George Fitzhugh's apology for slavery in which he argues that slavery brings clear benefits to those who were enslaved.

A 2-page worksheet where students fill in the blanks with information about the rights and protections embedded in the amendments in the Bill of Rights. They are also asked to explain the meanings of eight terms used in the Bill of Rights.

This Practice Guide, by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) in February 2009, aims to help educators develop and implement RTI to assist students struggling with reading. The focus is building an instructional program in order to...

Use reference guides to help you understand the meaning of unfamiliar words.

A detailed and helpful resource for students who may be reading "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek." Provides historical/biographical information, background, chapter summaries, characters, study questions, and post-reading activities.

An explanation of the Substitution Augmentation Modification Redefinition Model (SAMR) Model. The author uses an analogy of making coffee at home as opposed to having one at Starbucks, and compares this to reading a book versus reading...

A comprehensive mini-guide to Scott O'Dell's novel titled "Island of the Blue Dolphins." Contains detailed information about the biographical/historical context, background, chapter-by-chapter summaries, study questions, and post-reading...

A comprehensive mini-guide to the novel "Z for Zachariah" by Robert O'Brien. Includes detailed information about the novel's historical/biographical context, characters, chapter questions, and post-reading activities.

A detailed and comprehensive mini-guide to Cisneros's novel "The House on Mango Street." Includes information about historical/biographical context, characters, study questions, chapter summaries, and post-reading activities.

A comprehensive mini-guide to Lowry's novel "Number the Stars." Provides excellent and detailed information concerning historical/biographical context, characters, chapter study questions, and post-reading activities.

A mini-guide over the famous novel "Sounder" by William Armstrong. Includes comprehensive information about characters, historical/biographical context, chapter study questions, and post-reading activities.

An Anticipation Guide is a strategy that is used before reading to activate students' prior knowledge and build curiosity about a new topic. Before reading a selection, students respond to several statements that challenge or support...

This detailed guide provides background information about the purpose and structure of journal articles, then walks the reader step-by-step through the reading process. Additional resources are included.

How can you develop reading fluency in your students? This site offers insight into the direct and indirect approaches to teaching reading fluency. Come and check it out.