Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Text Analysis: Compare and Contrast [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which students use graphic organizers to compare and contrast topics within a text. Materials are included.
Professional Doc
AdLit

Ad lit.org: Top Tips for Engaging Dads

For Teachers K - 1st
The U.K.'s National Literacy Trust offers ideas that schools and nonprofit organizations can implement to get fathers involved in their children's reading.
Professional Doc
Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center

Wisconsin Rt I Center: Segmenting [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Classroom teachers will learn how to use segmenting phonemes as an instructional strategy. Teachers will learn direct instructional techniques for segmenting phonemes; games and activities are also provided to reinforcement student...
Professional Doc
AdLit

Ad lit.org: Reading Software: Finding the Right Program

For Teachers 9th - 10th
With the range and variety of commercial software products on the shelves today, how can an educator or parent choose a program that will most benefit a particular student? Where are product reviews that can inform the decision?
Professional Doc
Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center

Wisconsin Rt I Center: Phoneme Substitution [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Classroom teachers will learn how to use phoneme substitution as an instructional strategy. Teachers will learn direct instructional techniques for phoneme substitution. Word picture cards are included to be used with phoneme...
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Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center

Wisconsin Rt I Center: Blending [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Classroom teachers will learn how to blend words as a classroom modeling strategy. Teachers will learn direct instructional techniques for blending; games and activities are also provided to reinforcement the concept of blending.
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Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center

Wisconsin Rt I Center: Phoneme Isolation [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Classroom teachers will learn how to use phoneme isolation as an instructional strategy. Teachers will learn direct instructional techniques for phoneme isolation. Word picture cards are included to be used with phoneme isolation tasks...
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Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center

Wisconsin Rt I Center: Structural Analysis [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Classroom teachers will learn about structural analysis of words, an important instructional strategy. Teachers will learn how to implement structural analysis, understand how to measure progress with structural analysis, find research...
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Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center

Wisconsin Rt I Center: Story Writing Frames [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Teachers will learn how to use story writing frames with their students. Teachers will learn how to implement story frames; measure progress with story frames; and find research to support using story frames. A reproducible story frame...
Unit Plan
Beacon Learning Center

Beacon Learning Center: Web Lesson: Get the Idea

For Students 1st - 4th Standards
Read through a lesson about main ideas and supporting details to understand their importance. Practice choosing the main idea of three nonfiction paragraphs. Features practice activities to enhance learning.
Activity
Beacon Learning Center

Beacon Learning Center: Sequence of Events

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Build sequencing skills by looking at transition words like first, next, then, and finally. Read four short paragraphs and use the transition clues to put the events in the correct order. Then use these words while typing an original...
Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Miss Nelson Is Missing Key Details

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Where did Miss Nelson go? We look at the key details in the text to determine what is happening throughout the story. Students will locate and record key details about story elements (characters, setting, problem, solution, and theme) in...
Handout
Harvard University

Harvard University: Strategies for Essay Writing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This website provides a series of links to detailed information about each segment of how to write an academic essay from how to read the assignment to the final edits. Use the links to the right. W.9-10.1a claims/intro/org, W.9-10.2a...
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Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center

Wisconsin Rt I Center: Frayer Model [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Classroom teachers will learn about the Frayer Model, an engaging instructional strategy tool. Teachers will learn how to implement the Frayer Model, understand how to measure progress with the Frayer Model, find research that supports...
Professional Doc
Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center

Wisconsin Rt I Center: Interactive Word Walls [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Classroom teachers will learn about interactive word walls, an engaging instructional strategy. Teachers will learn how to implement word walls, find research that supports the practice, and find examples.
Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Words in Context: If the Word Fits

For Teachers 1st - 2nd Standards
A lesson plan in which students work with a partner to choose the meaning of the underlined word in each sentence. Materials are included.
Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Morphemic Elements: Affix Match

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which students play a memory match game by matching affixes and their meanings. Materials are included.
Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Words in Context: Looking for Meaning [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
A lesson plan in which students look for the meanings of unknown words in a text. Materials are included.
Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Expository Text Structure: Book Look [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which students look through a book to identify text features and complete a graphic organizer. Materials are included.
Lesson Plan
Other

Morningside Center: Active Listening

For Teachers 2nd - 6th Standards
In this instructional activity, students practice active listening by paraphrasing what they hear. Students will practice listening to one another and repeating what they heard. Various listening activities are included in this...
Interactive
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Interventions for Struggling Readers

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This site offers links to an action plan a for school-wide intervention program. It includes a PDF of the principal's action plan outline, links to web casts of the intervention plan, and a video about the sounds of the English language...
Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Sentence Meaning: Silly Sentence Mix Up

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which students use sentence strips with various phrases to create sentences. Materials are included.
Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Word Analysis: Category Sort

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which students work with a partner to sort words according to category and then label each category. Materials are included.
Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Word Analysis: Category Cube

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which students sort word cards according to categories including: food, clothing, sports, animals, classroom things, and things with wheels. Materials are included.