Contains plans for three lessons that teach a reading comprehension technique called the prediction strategy, where students predict what will happen in a story before reading. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional...

Tutorial site for students that teaches them strategies so they can read faster. This then makes the student a more effective reader.

This site features family reading activities that will guide parents with their children's reading development.

Third graders will learn the importance questioning has on comprehension of a text. Students will use sticky notes and an interactive reading notebook while working with an informational text.

This module provides strategies to use with informational text. Teachers will explicitly teach students about graphic organizers to use before reading informtational texts.

This textbook chapter offers strategies for helping adolescent readers understand their reading and build skills to allow them to read to learn. PDF (requires Adobe Reader).

From the magazine, Teaching Exceptional Children, Sept/Oct 2003 issue, this article explains two different strategies for helping students with word recognition through blending and analogizing.

Site presents strategies for reading long texts in Latin. Discusses the concept of "prior knowledge" and also gives example exercises.

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...

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...

This site features an article that looks at the importance of phonemic awareness as an early step to learning to read. Teachers will benefit from the information presented within this article.

Three readings in Latin along with comprehension quizzes from the Classics Technology Center. Quizzes could easily be used as worksheets as well. Appropriate for a level I or II Latin class.

Contains plans for five lessons that teach students to make authentic connections to reading selections. Lessons use books such as "Bigmama?s" by Donald Crews, "The Snowy Day" by Ezra Jack Keats, and "The Relatives Came" by Cynthia...

A wonderful site full of tips for teaching Word-form recognition activities. This site has a plethora of links that provide an excellent way to practice and memorize the essential skills of recognizing words without sounding out each...

Elementary students, while working on their basal reader story for the week, will use various forms of technology to increase comprehension and other reading skills. (Other strategies may be substituted if some of the technology...

Reading unit plan focusing on picture books. It contains ten days worth of teaching suggestions that use a variety of reading strategies including modeled as well as independent reading and writing. Also includes five printable...

A version of the "20 Questions" game. The instructor tells the class he is thinking of something that starts with, for example, /b/. The students have to come up with what the teacher is thinking of.

Creating a product and illustrations make this lesson plan great for teaching about questioning. Students will ask and answer questions about a text via the assistance of a graphic organizer.

This is a comprehensive article about what descriptive writing including what it is, why to teach it and strategies to teach it. It also features two videos Five Senses Graphic Organizer and Writing Poems as well as an annotated list of...

Similar to teaching beginning readers about rhyme, teaching children about onset and rime helps them recognize common chunks within words. This can help students decode new words when reading and spell words when writing. This article...

A learning module that teaches students about writing a short story with a strong plot in seven mini-lessons: Introduction, Choose the Point of View, Figure Out What to Say, Suspend Readers in Midair, Write about a Central Theme, Read A...

Site provides extensive assistance in preparing 4th grade students for Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test. This section teaches students to use graphic organizers.

Parents and teaches can encourage reading with these author webcasts and links to teaching resources for novels, poetry, writing contests, and more.

Reading and writing texts online are basic skills that students need to be literate citizens in today's world. Teaching with blogs provides the opportunity to engage students in both of these literacy activities, and the strategy has the...