Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Strategies for Every Child to Read
What are some strategies for achieving the goal of every child reading? This site features several activities to achieve this goal with your readers.
PBS
Pbs Kids: Super Why!: Games
Choose from four interactive games have fun while working on reading skills.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Monitor for Understanding: Reading Repair
A lesson plan in which students read a text using different reading strategies to fix problems as they read. Materials are included. [PDF]
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Monitor for Understanding: Read and Ask [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which students read a text aloud and then roll a question cube and answer the questions together with a partner. Materials are included.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Monitor for Understanding: K W L [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which learners complete a KWL chart before during and after reading a text. Materials are included.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Engage in Group Reading Activities With Purpose and Understanding
Choose from a variety of lessons that meet the Kindergarten standard of engaging in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.
International Literacy Association
International Literacy Association: Teaching the Skill of Self Correction
As teachers, one of our goals is for every student to read and comprehend at or above grade level. We want students to take ownership of their reading, monitoring themselves while they are reading and self-correcting when they need to....
Starfall
Starfall: Things That Can Go
This interactive nonfiction ebook focuses on things that can go. Children can choose to read independently or listen to each sentence read to them.
Starfall
Starfall: Come Play With Me
This interactive nonfiction ebook focuses children playing. Students can choose to read independently or listen to each sentence.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Goals for First Grade: Early Reading and Writing
Children go through certain phases of reading development from preschool through third grade- from exploration of books to independent reading. Find out what children at the first-grade phase should be able to do, and what teachers and...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: /C/ Like Columbus
A historical figure helps students recognize a specific initial sound, the hard /c/.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Discussing "Goldilocks and the Three Bears"
Today we are picking apart this story and discussing it in great detail so that we can set the foundation for our comparing and contrasting activity on our Day 3 lesson.
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.
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.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: The Road to Representation Creating the Crunchy Life Kid's Series
This blog focuses on a teacher's need to fill in the gaps for reading strategies and the priority to improve comprehension and overall reading development. She explains the strategies to meet the above goals.
Beacon Learning Center
Beacon Learning Center: Get the Idea
In this reading comprehension exercise, young readers will learn to identify main ideas in paragraphs. Includes multiple choice options with hints.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Reader's Theatre With Jan Brett
For this lesson, learners will interact with the book Hedgie's Surprise by Jan Brett and create a Readers Theatre performance. Students will engage in interacting with story elements during before, during, and post-reading activities.
LM Digital Media
Kids World Fun: The Mouse That Was
This e-book shares the story of a mouse realized that he should always be himself around others. He set out to become "big" and set his sites on being "big" at the zoo.
Other
Papa Jan: Five Essential Components of Reading
Can you name the five essential components of reading? Check out this informative site from Papa Jan.com to learn more about phonemic awareness, phonics, reading fluency, vocabulary development and reading comprehension.