abcteach
Abcteach: Middle/high School Reading Comprehension
[Free Registration/Login Required] Here one can generate several reading comprehension activities for middle or high school students with material ranging from biographies to non-fictional content.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Rti & Reading: Response to Intervention in a Nutshell
This article provides a quick overview of response to intervention (RTI) as it relates to reading. RTI is not a particular method or instructional approach, rather it is a process that aims to shift educational resources toward the...
Other
Saskatoon Public Schools: Instructional Strategies Online: Indirect Instruction
Learn about direct instruction and view a list of indirect teaching strategies including problem solving, case studies, reading for meaning, inquiry, and many more. Then click on each strategy in order to learn more about the strategy...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Using Comprehension Strategies With Elie Wiesel's Night
Working in small groups, students read and discuss Elie Wiesel's memoir Night and then take turns assuming the "teacher" role, as the class works with four different comprehension strategies.RI.11-12.4 Word meaning, RI.11-12.10b Text...
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Scholastic
Scholastic: So That's the Reason! [Pdf]
Simple, one-page printable worksheet to introduce your students to cause and effect. Gives one set example, and has space at the bottom to apply to any story you read.
Scholastic
Scholastic: A Not So Glorious Victory
After reading "A Not-So-Glorious," Victory, which is included on this page, have your students practice identifying cause and effect using the printable worksheet.
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...
Other
All4ed.org: Adolescents and Literacy: Reading for the 21st Century
Here's a good starting point for anyone undertaking an adolescent literacy initiative in his or her school. The 50 page report offers background on the importance of the issue, research findings, and practical information about school...
McGraw Hill
Mc Graw Hill: How to Use Strategies to Teach Students to Access Complex Texts
In this short video, the strategies of summarizing, clarifying, and asking-answering questions are used. These instructional tools will help teachers show students how to access complex texts. [5:54] CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.10
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Reading Quest: Strategies for Reading Comprehension: Power Thinking
Looking for an alternative to formal outline instruction? Power Thinking teaches the concept of outlining but on a somewhat simplified level. The site is good for basic note-taking from a text.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Guided Comprehension: Evaluating
This lesson introduces young scholars to the comprehension strategy of evaluating. Students learn this strategy through the "meeting of the minds" technique that teaches them to act out opposing views of two or more characters.
International Reading Association
Reading Online Articles: Comprehension Instruction
An article on improving reading comprehension through time-tested strategies as well as a summary of new hypotheses about effective comprehension instruction.
Austin Independent School District
Austin Independent School District: Guided Reading [Pdf]
Learn what guided reading is and how it to use it in the classroom to increase literacy skills. Discover guided reading strategies to use before, during, and after reading. Then follow-up with information on how to create right questions...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Interactive Strategy Workbook
Read two poems and reflect on the numerous teaching strategies featured in Teaching Multicultural Literature . Choose strategies to explore, and consider how you might adapt them for these poems and your students. Then compile and print...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Once Upon a Fairy Tale Teaching Revision as a Concept
Contains plans for five lessons that teach the difference between revision and editing using fractured fairy tales. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as well as...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Conversations in Literature
A research based workshop by Judith Langer on bringing the joy of reading literature to your class. An excellent professional development resource, with eight videos on demand. Topics include Responding as Readers, Objectifying the Text,...
Indiana University
Iu: Providing Students With a Purpose for Reading
Discussion of providing students with a purpose for reading from a college class site entitled "Advanced Study of the Teaching of Secondary School Reading." Along with discussion and background on the topic, some specific strategies are...
Teaching American History
Teaching American History: Tehran Conference: Tripartite Dinner Meeting
The Tehran Conference between Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin took place between November 28 and December 1, 1943. Read the minutes of the dinner meeting on November 28 where many issues concerning war strategy...
Teaching American History
Teaching American History: Tehran Conference: Tripartite Meeting
The Tehran Conference between Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin took place between November 28 and December 1, 1943. Read the notes of the of the dinner meeting that took place on November 29, which primarily dealt...
Teaching American History
Teaching American History: Tehran Conference: Tripartite Political Meeting
The Tehran Conference between Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin took place between November 28 and December 1, 1943. Read the notes from the final meeting on December 1 where the major topics of discussion were...
Joe Landsberger
Study Guides & Strategies for Speakers of Arabic.
This is the Arabic language version of a study skills site also available in English and other languages as well. Different sections teach skills in reading and writing, Internet literacy, critical thinking, math, science, dealing with...
AdLit
Ad lit.org: The Teaching Moves of a Strategic Teacher
Research demonstrates the effectiveness of the 12 strategic teaching moves described in this article. On any given day in any given classroom, the strategic teacher employs all of these moves - whether with the whole class, a small...
Scholastic
Scholastic: Questioning the Text
In this magazine article originally featured in Instructor, the reading strategy called "questioning the text" is explained by the renowned literacy consultant and staff developer, Stephanie Harvey. The steps included for questioning the...