Curated OER
Mighty Earth Movers
Note that although the publisher lists almost all of the Common Core standards for both math and language arts, you will most likely want to take the general topic and choose which area to focus on. Regarding math, pupils measure worms...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Deeper Reading Response a Template for Teachers
Contains plans for three lessons that teach students to express and perform responses to reading. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to PDF handouts and sites used in the lessons as well as...
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: "Seven Strategies to Teach Text Comprehension" by c.r. Adler
In this article, "comprehension strategies" are explained. Supported by research, these strategies are divided into seven different steps, including the following: monitoring comprehension, metacognition, graphic and semantic organizers,...
Student Achievement Partners
Achieve the Core: Professional Dev: Understanding Text Dependent Questions
Understanding Text-Dependent Questions is a 1-4 hour module designed to promote understanding of how text-dependent questions support the key shifts required by the Common Core State Standards for ELA/Literacy. It includes the following:...
Read Works
Read Works: Lessons:
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan and materials to teach kindergarten students to identify and describe a nonfiction text.
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Cengage Learning
National Geographic: Informational Text and Young Children [Pdf]
Research-based informative article on when, why and how to introduce and teach reading skills with informational texts to early-elementary students beginning as early as kindergarten.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Day 1 Rude Giants
Students will use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting, and events by working with partners to ask and answer questions about the text.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Asking and Answering Questions Professional Development
Asking and Answering Questions Professional Development provides strategies to teach students how to ask and answer questions more effectively to improve comprehension in the classroom and on standardized assessments. It containing 9...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Asking and Answering Questions About Our Story
A lesson plan with all resources included for asking and answering questions to strengthen comprehension.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: I See the Weather
Students will answer text-dependent questions for the expository text "Seasons and Weather". While text-dependent questions have been around for a long time, Common Core asks teachers to focus on them during reading. This lesson plan...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Question: Do You Know Your Question Words?
Once students realize they are able to gain more information and expand their learning by asking questions, they love to use their question words. In the end, the more students ask, the more they will have to answer; therefore, the more...
Read Works
Read Works: Read Aloud Lesson: Whoever You Are
In this read-aloud activity, students will identify similarities among people around the world in order to determine the theme of the story. Included is a detailed lesson plan, graphic organizer for guided practice, and an independent...
CPALMS
Cpalms: Understanding Key Details by Using Pancakes for Breakfast
[Free Registration/Login Required] For this lesson, students will be read Pancakes for Breakfast by Tomie DePaola in order to understand and describe people, places, things and events in a text. They will create a book by drawing or...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Guess My Solid
Descriptive details are used as learners develop a guessing game poster for others to try and guess their chosen solid. Included in this detailed lesson plan are videos, samples of student work, a printable worksheet, an assessment...
Education.com
Education.com: Asking Questions and Finding Answers
[Free Registration/Login Required] Pretending to be someone else is so much fun! In this hilarious lesson, learners will get to take on the persona of a book character as they practice their question and answer skills. At the conclusion...
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Reading Basics: Comprehension
Provides articles, parent tips, research briefs, and a video on how to teach reading comprehension.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Using Collaborative Strategic Reading
In this article, the Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR) technique is explained, along with research to support the use. The technique teaches students to use comprehension strategies, while working cooperatively, as they engage in the...
CPALMS
Cpalms: Giraffes and Zebras Oh My!
[Free Registration/Login Required] For this lesson plan, students will be able to ask and answer questions about key details in a text. Additionally, students will also be able to identify, compare, and contrast characteristics between...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: With Prompting and Support, Ask and Answer Questions
Choose from a variety of lessons that meet the Common Core standard of asking and answering questions about unknown words in nonfiction texts.
Other
Speech and Language Kids: Asking and Answering Questions
This article focuses on children with speech and language delays, but the tips can be used for any preschool student to practice asking and answering questions. It lists developmental milestones and provides links to activities for...
Free Reading
Free Reading: Reading Connected Text Activities
Great lesson plans and stories to build reading fluency and accuracy. Choose from beginner readers to 80 word passages.
Curated OER
Mc Graw Hill: Part 1: Reading Literature
Learn how asking and answering questions can help readers understand literature better. Site includes a model and an example of how to use this system.
Family Education
Family Education: Fifteen Minute Reading Activities
What can you do with your child in fifteen minutes to improve their reading skills? This site has a list of reading activities.
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Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Expository Fact Strip [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which students read a text and identify the topic and four facts presented within the text. Materials are included.