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...
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Guidebooks: Independent Reading Protocols
During independent reading, students read independently from either a self- or teacher-selected text and then react to the text in their learning logs using one of three protocols.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Critical Reading: Reading Strategies
This lesson focuses on reading strategies including scanning, skimming, SQ3R, High-5 Reading Strategies, technology, and rhetorical context. It includes text information and videos.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes
By linking the experiences of the character Charlie Gordon to other characters and to themselves, students demonstrate through class discussion and journal writing their understanding and interpretation of the short story "Flowers for...
Rong-Chang ESL
Esl: English for Intermediate Learners (2): Victory Dance Leads to Death
A learning module geared toward English as a Second Language Learners. Students read and/or listen to a short text entitled "Victory Dance Leads to Death" and click on the links below to increase comprehension and vocabulary skills....
Education Development Center
Tv411: Tune in for Reading: Reading: Strategies for Better Reading
Self-checking interactive tutorial puts reading comprehension skills to work by asking learners to make inferences, predict what happens next, and identify the main ideas in a series of short reading passages. Related materials include...
Rong-Chang ESL
Esl: English for Intermediate Learners (2): Better to Be Unlucky
A learning module geared toward English as a Second Language Learners. Students read and/or listen to a short text entitled "Better To Be Unlucky" and click on the links below to increase comprehension and vocabulary skills. Students can...
Rong-Chang ESL
Esl: English for Intermediate Learners (2): Hotel Says Goodbye to Clean Couple
A learning module geared toward English as a Second Language Learners. Students read and/or listen to a short text entitled "Hotel Says Goodbye to Clean Couple" and click on the links below to increase comprehension and vocabulary...
Rong-Chang ESL
Esl: English for Intermediate Learners (2): How to Get Out of Jury Duty
A learning module geared toward English as a Second Language Learners. Students read and/or listen to a short text entitled "How to Get out of Jury Duty" and click on the links below to increase comprehension and vocabulary skills....
Rong-Chang ESL
Esl: English for Intermediate Learners (2): Wanted to Know How His Pig's Doing
A learning module geared toward English as a Second Language Learners. Students read and/or listen to a short text entitled "Wanted To Know How His Pig's Doing" and click on the links below to increase comprehension and vocabulary...
Rong-Chang ESL
Esl: English for Intermediate Learners (2): The Way to a Man's Heart
A learning module geared toward English as a Second Language Learners. Students read and/or listen to a short text entitled "The Way to a Man's Heart" and click on the links below to increase comprehension and vocabulary skills. Students...
Read Works
Read Works: News Debate: Religion on Display
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text debating whether or not schools should be allowed to display the 10 Commandments. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Savvy Story Structure
During this activity, young scholars learn to actively engage in reading by becoming more familiar with the elements of a story. Students will be required to think at a higher level and will enhance their understanding of selected...
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools:more Graphic Organizers for Teaching Literature and Reading
This Daily Teaching Tools collection provides graphic organizers for teaching reading and literature. Elaborate graphic organizers are provided for the following: story maps, character study charts, making text connection maps, conflict...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Realism: "To Build a Fire" by Jack London
This lesson focuses on the short story "To Build a Fire" by Jack London which provides a good example of Naturalism, the relationship between man and nature. It features links to a PDF study guide and an online copy of the text. After...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Understanding Content Through Photography
This lesson plan is designed to assist students making self-text-world connections through multimedia presentations. This plan includes a student guide for writing the reflection scripts as well as a detailed instructional plan.
The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Rwe: The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Self Reliance
Read the full text and listen to portions of Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Self-Reliance."
Education Development Center
Tune in to Learning: Scanning for Specifics
Self-scoring interactive lesson for improving skills in scanning informational texts and charts for keywords and specific details.
Art Institute of Chicago
Modern Collection: Vincent Van Gogh Self Portrait, 1887
Click to enlarge Van Gogh's self-portrait from 1886-87, and read the paragraph of text explaining his methods.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Questioning Text
Creating a product and illustrations make this lesson great for teaching about questioning.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Using Picture Books to Teach Plot Development and Confict Res.
Students read picture books to explore the concepts of plot development and conflict resolution. They first learn about the connections between reading and writing, and then revise their own writing. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.4
Rong-Chang ESL
Esl: English for Intermediate Learners (2):Woman Shot Next to Her Christmas Tree
A learning module geared toward English as a Second Language Learners. Students read and/or listen to a short text entitled "Woman Shot Next to Her Christmas Tree" and click on the links below to increase comprehension and vocabulary...
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Words in Context: Looking for Meaning [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which students look for the meanings of unknown words in a text. Materials are included.
Other
Gov Loop: The 7 Barriers to Digital Communication
For all its conveniences, significant barriers to effective digital communication exist. These digital communication barriers can interfere with the ability to get a point across via email, chats, texts, messaging, discussion boards,...