AdLit
Ad lit.org: Extended Writing to Learn Strategies
Writing enables students to process, organize, formulate, and extend their thinking about what they have been learning. In addition, teachers can also assign writing to help students evaluate what they know and understand about a topic....
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Caught Up in the Moment
Students read The Summer My Father Was Ten by Pat Brisson and discuss the father's actions and the consequences that followed. In small groups, students make and share text-to-self connections of when they were caught up in the moment...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Scary Somethings
Dick Gackenbach's classic picture book, Harry and The Terrible Whatzit, is a wonderful story about a child and his fear of the Whatzit that he is sure lives in his cellar. The story shows how through determination and the desire to save...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: A Revision Lesson: Sorcerer's Binocular Revision
Take students through the revision process with this prompt and lesson.
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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...
Rock ’N Learn
Rock 'N Learn: Meal Time
This printable phonics worksheet from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Students will complete a fill-in-the-blank paragraph with long /o/ words and then find each word in a seek-and-find. An...
Other
Braindance: Reading Groups of Words at Each Glance
Gives insight into improving reading speed by learning to read words in groups. There is an excercise to test your speed and suggestions on how to increase it.
Other
Increased Comprehension With the Use of Imagery
Designed for adult learners, this literacy lesson could easily be used in the high school or middle school classroom. Some handouts are included, but some material must be found in a newspaper or magazine.
Other
Reading Skills for Academic Study
Designed for university students in the United Kingdom but applicable to English and advanced ESL students in other countries, this tutorial provides strategies and skills for required academic reading loads.
Other
Open Universiteit: Studieplaza
Enter the Study Plaza and learn how to manage your time and to study effectively.
Rock ’N Learn
Rock 'N Learn: Get the Swing of It: Ing
This printable -ing worksheet from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Students will label pictures that contain -ing in them. An answer key and lesson extension are included.
Education Place
Houghton Mifflin: Eduplace: Bright Ideas for Writing
Looking for writing ideas? Here are two groups of writing prompts: one for grades 1-2 and one for 3-5. They are even organized by type of prompt as well. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.10
University of Victoria (Canada)
Skimming Exercise
Timed practice and multiple choice questions are this site's offering. First you skim, rapidly, then you answer the questions and get immediate feedback and a chance to continue practicing.
Read Works
Read Works: Focus: Understanding How the Brain Works
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction piece discusses the human brain. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding for vocabulary...
Read Works
Read Works: Finding Salinger
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage shares the story of a lost cat. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding for vocabulary learning....
Read Works
Read Works: Routine
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a person who becomes tired of the routineness of life. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Read Works
Read Works: Scales
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about how the human brain organized past memories. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Read Works
Read Works: Ant and Grasshopper
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding for vocabulary learning. It contains questions and teacher guides and...
Read Works
Read Works: Experiments
[Free Registration/Login Required] This literary text passage shares the story of a family who attempts to not waste any food. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and...
Read Works
Read Works: Time to Think
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about the possibility of making the school day longer. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in comparing and contrasting.
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.
Education.com
Education.com: W.3.10 Worksheets: Write Routinely Over Extended Time Frames
[Free Registration/Login Required] A site with links to 12 worksheets that can be downloaded and printed for student use while building skills with standard W.3.10: Write routinely over extended time frames (times for research,...
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Education.com: Sl.3.5 Worksheets: Create Engaging Audio Recordings
[Free Registration/Login Required] A site with links to 5 worksheets that can be downloaded and printed for student use while building skills with standard SL.3.5: Create engaging audio recordings of stories or poems that demonstrate...
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Education.com: W.4.10 Worksheets: Write Routinely Over Various Time Frames
[Free Registration/Login Required] A site with links to 5 worksheets that can be downloaded and printed for student use while building skills with standard W.4.10: Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection,...