Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Workshops: Teaching Reading 3 5
This instructional workshop provides eight sessions on teaching reading in intermediate classrooms: "Creating Contexts for Learning," "Fluency and Word Study," "Building Comprehension," "Writing," "New Literacies of the Internet,"...
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Strategies for Every Child to Read
What are some strategies for achieving the goal of every child reading? This site features several activities to achieve this goal with your readers.
Read Works
Read Works: Adventure on a Hot Air Balloon
[Free Registration/Login Required] This first person account describes a hot air balloon trip. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding for...
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Read Works: A Small Life
[Free Registration/Login Required] This literary text passage shares the story of a hamster and its first person account of what it sees. This passage is to be read aloud and reinforces essential comprehension skills. Opportunities for...
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Read Works: Portrait of an Artist
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage shares a first person account of an artist's life. This passage is intended for guided practice and is designed to reinforce essential reading comprehension skills.
Stanford University
Sheg: Reading Like a Historian: Intro to Historical Thinking: Lunchroom Fight
[Free Registration/Login Required] A fight breaks out in the lunchroom and the principal needs to figure out who started it. But when she asks witnesses what they saw, she hears conflicting accounts. Why might these accounts differ? As...
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Yad Vashem: Let the World Read and Know
These artifacts in this online exhibition were created, gathered, and written in real time during the Holocaust. These first-hand accounts are important in preserving the memory of the Holocaust. Included are letters, diary entries,...
Stanford University
Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Snapshot Autobiography
[Free Registration/Login Required] What is history? And why do historical accounts differ? In this lesson, students create brief autobiographies and then reflect on the process to better understand how history is written. Exploring these...
Stanford University
Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Sharecropping
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students solve a problem surrounding a historical question by reading primary source documents. This historical inquiry instructional activity allows students to critically evaluate their classroom...
Stanford University
Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Battle of Lexington
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students solve a problem surrounding a historical question by reading primary source documents. This historical inquiry instructional activity allows students to practice sourcing, corroboration, and...
Stanford University
Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: American Imperialism
[Free Registration/Login Required] The American Imperialism Unit covers the Spanish-American War and the Philippine-American War. The lessons approach historical inquiry from different angles. One asks young scholars to consider...
Stanford University
Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: u.s. Entry Into Wwi
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this historical inquiry instructional activity, students address the question, "What changed between 1914 and 1917 that caused the U.S. to enter WWI?" to corroborate a textbook account with two...
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Guidebooks: Accountable Talk
This strategy helps students refine their understanding of texts to meet reading expectations, engage in group conversations to meet speaking and listening expectations, and prepare for writing about texts.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Explicit and Implicit Costs and Accounting and Economic Profit
There are different ways of thinking about costs and profit. Read about what they are and answer the review questions.
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Reading Discussion Guide: Cures for Heartbreak by Margo Rabb
In Cures for Heartbreak, Margo Rabb writes a fictional account of a 15-year old girl whose mother dies just days after being diagnosed with melanoma; then her father falls ill, too. Using vignettes - many appeared elsewhere as short...
Read Works
Read Works: Eyewitness to History: I'm American No Matter What
[Free Registration/Login Required] TThis passasge contains a first person account of a child who was rounded up and placed in a Japanese internment camp after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece...
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Read Works: American Government Jury Duty
[Free Registration/Login Required] This first person account explains the topic of jury duty. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding for...
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Read Works: An Adventure in Africa
[Free Registration/Login Required] This fictional first person account shares the story of a child whose fears are overcome while experiencing a safari in Africa. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential...
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Read Works: Immigration Ellis Island: The Hunt for Alois Hanousek
[Free Registration/Login Required] An autobiographical account of a family looking for information about their great-grandfather. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: In the Night Passage & Question Set
[Free Registration/Login Required] This literary text passage shares a first person account of a cat and its night on the prowl. This passage reinforces essential reading comprehension skills. Opportunities for vocabulary acquisition are...
CommonLit
Common Lit: "Diary of a Teenage Refugee" by Amira
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...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Is My Checkbook Balanced?
In this lesson, learners will write checks, complete and record deposits, reconcile a bank statement, journalize bank statement transactions, and check for errors. This is a Commerce and Information Technology lesson plan.
British Library
British Library:northwest Passage: Early Approaches, a Historical Account
Read about the early attempts to find a way through the Northwest Passage. Included are portraits and early maps of the explorers.
CommonLit
Common Lit: Units: Teaching Units
Complete teaching units (12) by grade level. CommonLit units are crafted to be both engaging and rigorous, featuring a variety of literary and informational texts from diverse sources. Reading, writing, and discussion are prioritized in...