What are some strategies for achieving the goal of every child reading? This site features several activities to achieve this goal with your readers.

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

[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the science behind roller coasters, including Kingda Ka, one of the tallest and fastest roller coasters in the world. A question sheet is available to help students build...

[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...

[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about tornadoes. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.

[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about tornadoes and the scientists who study them. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.

Using these rate of speed problems practice figuring out either the distance, time or speed. Read the interactive quiz rules and then click on the "Begin" ticket. If you answer incorrectly you get one more chance to try again then you...

Read the passage "The Speed of a Neural Impulse" and completed the related five-question quiz.

Learn about assistive technology tools - from audiobooks to variable-speed tape recorders - that help students with reading.

This page offers several different Cloze exercises to strengthen reading comprehension. Speed exercises are also available.

This lesson explains the different rates of reading. This tutorial lesson shares a short slideshow with the lesson's content.

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

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...

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.

"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...

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

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

Read all about the Internet: connection, connection speeds, searching the web, what to do on the Internet, chat rooms and newsgroups, and its impact. Then take an interactive quiz to test your understanding.

An interactive module where students record their ideas in response to questions, and read and manipulate graphs and charts while they learn about velocity-time graphs and position-time graphs.

Join Anita, Dennis and Simon as they take a field trip to Willow Creek. This visit to the creek is slightly different than their first encounter there--discover why by reading this interesting tale!

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.

[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 lesson, 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 students will...

Here is a concise article on short track speed skating which includes great illustrations of the short track (it shows how it differs from the long track), the "glide stride" used by skaters, and the skates worn by competitors. Watch a...