University of Oregon
Big Ideas in Beginning Reading
The goal for teachers from the academic content standards is every child to be reading by 3rd grade. This site will help teachers to teach the "big ideas" in reading: phonemic awareness, alphabetic principle, fluency with text,...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Workshops: Teaching Reading 3 5
This instructional workshop provides eight sessions on teaching reading in intermediate classrooms: "Creating Contexts for Learning," "Fluency and Word Study," "Building Comprehension," "Writing," "New Literacies of the Internet,"...
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Family Reading Activities
This site features family reading activities that will guide parents with their children's reading development.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Teachers: Bridging the Summer Reading Gap
This resource provides an article that discusses the importance of summer reading for students. Find out what schools can do to help improve student's participation in summer reading.
Auburn University
Auburn University: Developing Reading Fluency
How can you develop reading fluency in your students? This site offers insight into the direct and indirect approaches to teaching reading fluency. Come and check it out.
Read Works
Read Works: Art and Artists What Is an Artist?
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text explaining what an artist is. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Launching Young Readers: Episode 1: Roots of Reading
Hosted by Fred Rogers, The Roots of Reading looks at the earliest stages of literacy in such locations as a baby speech lab and a Head Start center. The program examines how parents, childcare providers, and kindergarten teachers can get...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Integrating Math and Literacy
This lesson provides the elementary teacher with an opportunity to integrate the concept of mathematics with reading literacy. Young scholars use models to learn shapes, practice spelling the names and shapes, and learn to reflect and...
Kidsource OnLine
Kid Source: Beginning Reading and Phonological Awareness
Key to learning how to read is the ability to identify the different sounds that make words and to associate these sounds with written words. There are 44 phonemes in the English language, including letter combinations such as /th/,...
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Launching Young Readers: Episode 11: Summer Learning
Adventures in Summer Learning offers practical suggestions for parents about how to create a literacy-rich summer, as well as profiles of effective formal programs for at-risk youth and children with learning disabilities. Video excerpts...
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Launching Young Readers: Episode 7: Becoming Bilingual
Acclaimed actress Rita Moreno hosts Becoming Bilingual, a 30-minute PBS program that examines the challenges of teaching children to read in a new language. The show visits six cities across the country to learn about the different ways...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Artifacts and Fiction: Workshop in American Literature
This workshop, which is divided into eight segments, teaches how to use primary source artifacts from a variety of genres to support the teaching and learning of specific pieces of literature. The genres include visual arts, political...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Analyze Graphical Sources: Practice 2 (English Ii Reading)
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, students will learn how to evaluate the clarity and visual appeal of images and other graphic elements included in a reading text. RL.9-10.7 analyze 2 media
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Evaluating Data in Tables, Graphs and Charts
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson students look at examples of graphics, tables, charts, and graphs, and learn how to interpret their data. They will be able to use this skill to enhance their...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Evaluate Graphics in Informational/procedural Text
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will learn to explain the function of the graphical components. You will also learn to evaluate graphics on how well they do what they are intended to do.
New Zealand Ministry of Education
Nz Ministry of Education: Logging Up Reading Mileage
Students will select and enjoy their own range of contemporary and historical texts, display a knowledge of different genre and their particular content, and identify literary aspects of chosen texts for sustained silent reading. They...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Synthesize Information in Charts and Graphs (English Ii Reading)
Synthesize information that you find in charts and graphs.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Imagining & Visualizing: Tutorial
In this slideshow tutorial, students will review the reading strategies of imagining and visualizing to assist with interpreting stories' characters, events, and settings. Students are given an explanation of the strategies and examples...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Reading Strategies: Tutorial
In this slideshow tutorial, students will review different types of reading strategies to promote comprehension of text. The strategies included are the following: making predictions, visualizing, questioning the text, retelling,...
Other
Space Camp for Interested Visually Impaired Students
A space camp designed specifically for students with with visual impairments. Read about this week long camp adventure which takes place at the US Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Launching Young Readers: Episode 8: Reading and the Brain
Hosted by Henry Winkler, who has had his own struggles with reading, Reading and the Brain explores how brain scientists are working to solve the puzzle of why some children struggle to read and others don't. Startling new research shows...
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Launching Young Readers: Episode 6: Empowering Parents
Empowering Parents, a PBS special hosted by Al Roker, visits schools in Huntingtown, Maryland, and Portland, Oregon, to see how families learn to identify early signs of reading problems and find ideas for getting their kids the help and...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: History Comes Alive: Developing Fluency and Comprehension
Let the power of imagination and inference serve as a "time machine" to bring Benjamin Franklin into the classroom! History and science come to life in a dialogue with Franklin the inventor, developed through lesson activities that...
Read Works
Read Works: 3rd Grade: Lesson 1: Visualizing a Setting
[Free Registration/Login Required] In the course of this lesson plan, 3rd graders will learn to determine the setting of what they read by using context clues and visualization.