Mr. Nussbaum
Money
Young readers test their comprehension skills with an interactive practice. Pupils read a brief informational text about money then answer five questions. A detailed page appears at the end to showcase participants' work.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Qa Rs to Develop Comprehension & Reflective Reading Habits
Contains plans for three lessons that use the QAR strategy to develop reading comprehension and reflective reading within students. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Using Thieves to Preview Nonfiction Texts
Contains plans for three lessons that introduce a nonfiction prereading strategy with the acronym THIEVES, which stands for Title, Headings, Introduction, Every first sentence, Visuals and vocabulary, End Questions, and Summary. In...
Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center
Wisconsin Rt I Center: Reading Resources [Pdf]
This site provides a collection of reading strategy teaching resources. Strategies are arranged according to the ELA Common Core Curriculum Standards and grade level bands.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Scaffolding Comprehension Strategies Using Graphic Organizers
A three-part standards-based instructional activity in which students will use collaborative strategic reading to apply four reading strategies: preview, click and clunk, get the gist, and wrap-up. They will work in cooperative groups...
Tom Richey
Slide Share: Prediction and Inference: A Reading Strategy
This downloadable slideshow focuses on prediction and inference including the similarities and differences between them, when the reader does each, and questions to ask as you are reading.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Monitor for Understanding: K W L [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which students complete a KWL chart before during and after reading a text. Materials are included.
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Teaching Content Knowledge and Reading Strategies in Tandem
Many areas of instruction can have a rippling effect for the expansion of readers' repertoire of skills, including pre-reading, predicting, testing hypotheses against the text, asking questions, summarizing, etc. Literacy-rich,...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Questioning a Comprehension Strategy for Small Group Reading
Contains plans for three lessons about asking the right questions while reading. After the teacher explains the difference between factual and inferential questions, young scholars practice using them in small-group guided reading. In...
Other
Merit Software: Reading Comprehension Connection: Reading Lessons
In these practice exercises, students select a reading subject and skill level from drop-down menus and then complete the lesson activities. The lessons are on vocabulary, context, and comprehension. There are two skill levels:...
Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center
Wisconsin Rt I Center: Qt a [Pdf]
Teachers will learn about the close reading strategy, QtA, Questioning the Author. Teachers will learn how to implement QtA; measure progress with QtA; and find research to support the use of QtA. A QtA graphic organizer is provided.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Exploring How Section Headings Support Understanding
Teaching students to pay attention to headings and titles as they read? Here you'll find a practical application for using an expository text to apply the concept of using headings. Geared toward older elementary students, but...
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Monitor for Understanding: Sum Summary! [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which learners read a narrative or informational text and complete graphic organizers to help them write good summaries of the texts. Materials are included.
Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center
Wisconsin Rt I Center: Repeated Readings [Pdf]
Classroom teachers will learn about reading repeatedly, an effective instructional strategy. Teachers will learn how to implement repeated readings, understand how to measure progress with repeated readings, and find research that...
International Reading Association
Using Bilingual Books in Esl and Mainstreamed Classrooms
The authors explain strategies for using bilingual books to foster literacy development with ESL learners. They argue that the presence of books in other languages in the classroom library sends a clear message about the value of...
International Reading Association
Using Bilingual Books in Esl and Mainstreamed Classrooms
The authors explain strategies for using bilingual books to foster literacy development with ESL learners. They argue that the presence of books in other languages in the classroom library sends a clear message about the value of...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Guided Comprehension: Making Connections
Lesson introduces young scholars to the strategy of making connections. Students learn the three types of connections using a double-entry journal. A good resource for teachers.
Read Works
Read Works: Excerpt From Martin Luther King Jr.'s Letter From Birmingham Jail
[Free Registration/Login Required] This primary source features a letter excerpt from Dr. Martin King, Jr. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies. Scaffolding for vocabulary...
Other
Improving Word Identification Skills Using Strategic Instruction Model (Sim)
This research article is a Publication of the National Center on Secondary Education and Transition. In this article, the authors share the steps for using the Strategic Instruction Model (SIM) to help secondary students with identifying...
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Developing Academic Language: Got Words?
This is a research-based article concerning how to best teach academic vocabulary. Research finds that most teachers assign and mention vocabulary, but to be effective, instruction must be direct and meaningful. Recommendations for...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Searching Informational Texts
Online lesson allows elementary students to use prior knowledge, make predictions, and perform research on the Internet. Labeled "The Frog Beyond the Fairy Tale Character," lesson challenges students to examine print and online texts...
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Inferential Reading
Teaching students to "read influentially" helps them learn how to read more strategically. This technique is derived from the teaching model that learners develop knowledge via the process of interpreting new information in light of past...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Strategy to Define: Identify Poetic Terms
Online lesson plan offers teachers the ability to teach a "Four-square," strategy technique for poetic terms. Students explore websites and define terms such as alliteration, assonance, simile, and rhyme.
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Effective Reading Programs Grades 6 12: A Best Evidence Synthesis
Many reading programs claim to boost student performance, but how is that measured? Johns Hopkins University examined more than 200 published studies to create this quick guide to programs.
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