Michigan State University
Michigan State University: Intervention for Reading: Story Grammar Training
This intervention emphasizes the importance of metacognitive or active reading strategies to improve comprehension. It directs students' attention on story structure by teaching them to ask five "wh" questions about the settings and...
Harvard University
Harvard University: Strategies for Essay Writing
This website provides a series of links to detailed information about each segment of how to write an academic essay from how to read the assignment to the final edits. Use the links to the right. W.9-10.1a claims/intro/org, W.9-10.2a...
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...
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Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center
Wisconsin Rt I Center: K W H L Chart [Pdf]
Classroom teachers will learn how to use use the K-W-H-L research strategy. Teachers will find this activity that may be used as a pre-research, during-research, or post-research strategy.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Get the Gist: A Summarizing Strategy for Any Content Area
A five-part standards-based lesson in which students learn to write a 20 word summary of an informational text by focusing on answering the questions who, what, when, where, why, and how. This strategy can be applied to any content area,...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Collaborative Prewriting and Drafting
A very useful lesson that incorporates the process of collaboration to elementary students. Students brainstorm and use prewriting strategies to write a group story.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Creating Question and Answer Books Through Guided Research
Contains plans for five lessons that develop research skills in primary students by having them create their own question and answer books. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in...
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Enhancing Outcomes for Struggling Adolescent Readers
With so much required of high schools today, there is little time or money to spend on the students who lack basic skills. This article presents important factors leading to success for struggling adolescent readers, taken from...
Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center
Wisconsin Rt I Center: Writing to Learn [Pdf]
Teachers will learn how to use Writing to Learn as a formative assessment tool. Teachers will learn how to implement the strategy, measure progress, and find research to support writing to learn. A list of Writing to Learn activities is...
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Writing Process: Finding Evidence
This lesson focuses on finding evidence to support your thesis, how to incorporate your findings into your own work, and how to effectively quote, paraphrase, and summarize your information. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.9, W.11-12.1b...
Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center
Wisconsin Rt I Center: Interactive Word Walls [Pdf]
Classroom teachers will learn about interactive word walls, an engaging instructional strategy. Teachers will learn how to implement word walls, find research that supports the practice, and find examples.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Assessing Theme
This is an introductory lesson on the concept of theme. Students choose two words that sum up the theme of the novel "So B. It" by Sarah Weeks. They then analyze a passage to find evidence of their choices and create a theme map. They...
University of South Florida
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Lit2 Go: Thornton Burgess
This resource presents the texts of two of Thornton Burgess's nature-oriented children's books, "The Adventures of Jerry Muskrat," and "Whitefoot the Woodmouse." The texts can be read online or downloaded by individual chapters in MP3 or...
University of South Florida
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Lit2 Go: History of Mathematics
Short selections from W. W. Rouse Ball's "A Short Account of the History of Mathematics," most of which are biographies that focus on the mathematician's work. The text can be read online or downloaded by individual chapters in MP3 or...
CommonLit
Common Lit: f.b.i. Watched Activist Groups, New Files Show by Eric Lichtblau
Following the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001, President George W. Bush signed the PATRIOT Act, expanding the power of F.B.I. and its ability to surveil citizens. In this 2005 New York Times article, Eric Lichtblau discusses...