ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Weather: A Journey in Nonfiction
Questions about weather clear up when students use what they learned from their books to create a presentation to share with the rest of the class.
Other
Bubbl.us: Brainstorming Made Simple
Bubbl.us is a free online application that allows users to brainstorm online then save them, email them and share with friends.
Read Works
Read Works: Helping a Friend
[Free Registration/Login Required] This ReadWorks module contains a pair of literary texts that narrate teamwork-themed stories about a children's running race and a children's soccer game . Pictures, photos, and question sets are...
Read Works
Read Works: Singing Time
[Free Registration/Login Required] ReadWorks provides texts for pre-fluent and fluent readers. This resource is a short poem about joyful mornings.
Read Works
Read Works:lesson 2: Humorous Solutions Kindergarten Tell Tales
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will learn that tall tales are stories with funny solutions to a problem and how to learn unknown words.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Rl.1.1 Ask and Answer Questions About Key Details in a Text.
This landing page offers different lessons related to the standard RL.1.1 Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: The Foundations for Reading
What are the foundations for reading? Come and explore this informative article to discover the answer to this question.
PBS
Pbs Kids: Martha Speaks: Games
Sixteen games containing characters from the show Martha Speaks that introduce new vocabulary through play, presenting words in proper context and providing definitions. Parents and teachers can print a list of the vocabulary words used...
Other
Axelson Academy(you Tube:)asking and Answering Questions About Unknown Vocabulary
This video provides teachers an example of how to support critical thinking skills in relation to vocabulary development in kindergarten. [2:45]
Read Works
Read Works: Paired Text Questions: "We Are Americans" and "Whoever You Are"
Students will compare information from the non-fiction book "We are Americans" and the book "Whoever You Are" to write or speak more knowledgeably about what large groups of people have in common.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Batty Questions
In this lesson, students will be able to recognize and ask questions using standard question words while learning about bats. Included in this lesson are samples of student work, and pictures of the lesson in action.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research:ask and Answer [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which students read a text and stop periodically to write questions based on question word cards. Materials are included.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Questions to Guide Instruction
This site offers questions to guide all facets of reading instruction broken down by grade level, grades K-3.
Education.com
Education.com: Ask Me How
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, your students will become familiar with using this question word to investigate how things work. At the conclusion of this lesson, students will be able to ask and answer questions to...
Love To Know Media
Your Dictionary: Grammar Games
This is a list of 23 links to grammar games including word scrambles, charades, word puzzles, and other games.
CPALMS
Cpalms: Building Meaning
In this tutorial, students will acquire tools from Handy Hal that will help them answer questions about unknown words in a text. Students will learn about word parts, picture clues, and context clues to help them with vocabulary...
Starfall
Starfall: At School
In this learning game, children click and drag pictures and words into boxes to create sentences, and then click on the apple to read or listen to sentences containing words and pictures.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Arthur: Collection
This collection foster students' interest in reading and writing, and encourage positive social skills with this collection of classroom resources from ARTHUR. Aimed at children between the ages of four and eight, these resources feature...
Scholastic
Scholastic: Teaching Tools: 6 Steps to Helping Students Set Strong Reading Goals
This site offers six steps to helping students set strong reading goals. It all starts with inspiring your students to think about who they are as readers.
ABCya
Ab Cya: Keyboarding Zoo 2
The keyboarding zoo is back! This fun and educational activity will focus on uppercase and lowercase letters, as well as typing words and making short sentences using the period key and spacebar.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Guide for Determining Text Complexity
An educator's guide to help determine the level of text complexity.
Axelson Academy
Axelson Academy: Asking and Answering Questions About Unknown Vocabulary
In this lesson, students will receive support and prompting as they listen to informational text and then determine the meaning of one of the words in context.
Other
Dorling Kindersley: Question Words [Pdf]
This worksheet helps students understand the words we use to ask questions. [PDF]
Other
Jl Resource: The Reading Room
Find creative ways to help students learn to read. Links to online stories and activities.