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Jl Resource: The Reading Room
Find creative ways to help students learn to read. Links to online stories and activities.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Discussion Guide: Officer Buckle and Gloria
Scholastic presents this discussion guide of "Officer Buckle and Gloria" by Peggy Rathmann. The guide includes discussion questions, extension activities, and more.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Dolphins
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart integrates a science and reading lesson on dolphins. The lesson includes wonderful interactive activities for the students activating prior knowledge and what they learn in the chart.
LD Online
Ld Online: Beginning Reading and Phonological Awareness
This site from the LD OnLine focuses on beginning reading and phonological awareness for students with learning disabilities. Check out the information presented in this informative article.
Read Works
Read Works: Watch the Tennis Ball
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage explains concepts related to the sport of tennis. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes...
PBS
Pbs Teacher Source: Reading and Language Arts
PBS TeacherSource provides lesson plans and activities for all grade levels in the subject area of reading and language arts.
Auburn University
Auburn University: Invitations: Reading Lessons From Preservice Teachers
Links are provided for leveled reading lessons created by preservice teachers at Auburn University. Levels include emergent literacy, beginning reading, growing independence and fluency, and reading to learn.
HotChalk
Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Big Book Activities: What Will the Weather Be Like Today?
In this K-2 lesson, the teacher uses guided reading strategies and creative activities to make a big book come alive to her pupils.
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Nsw Department of Education: Reading for a Purpose
Short discussion of teaching students the importance of why they are reading a particular text. Also provides some commentary from a teacher who used this method and an example of some questions students wanted to answer from a...
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Internet4 Classrooms: ccss.ela literacy.sl.k.4 Describe Familiar People, Places
Choose from several activities to teach the Common Core Standard of describing familiar people, places, things, and events and, with prompting and support, providing additional detail. Includes ideas for conversation starters for...
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Essentials for Reading Success
This site offers three cyclical flow charts of the essentials for reading success: components of reading, types of assessment, and layers of instruction.
Starfall
Starfall: It's Fun to Read: Tongue Twisters
These four tongue twisting stories can be read or listened to.
Starfall
Starfall: Reading Left to Right
A short animation that explains the left-to-right orientation of reading and writing the English language.
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Unmuseum: Children's Reading Room
Here you'll find a selection of stories you can print out and read to your students over and over again. Enjoy the large print and the bright colors on the story pages.