Edutopia
Edutopia: Teaching Students How to Ask Productive Questions
This article gives insight into how to improve engagement, comprehension, and critical thinking by teaching students the process of asking insightful questions. Included is a comprehensive, metacognitive framework of questioning skills...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Text to Self and Text to World Connections
Students will further their reading comprehension by associating real-life events with the events of a story.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Vocabulary Magic
Using the book Farmer Duck, this lesson will take words that are unknown to students and teach students how to determine their meanings. This will help open up the world of reading to students.
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: Let's Play
This interactive focuses on short sentences that include picture words.
Axelson Academy
Axelson Academy:types of Texts
This professional resource will help teachers understand the different types of texts that early childhood students need to know.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Reading Informational Text: Grades K 1
This learning resource will show teachers how to model how to teach students to describe connections between pieces of information in a text.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Guiding Students: Expository Text With Text Feature Walks
Explains how to guide students in examining text features during a walkthrough of an expository text.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Molly of Denali: Veggiezilla! Game
This digital game extends students' use of informational text and their knowledge of Alaska. In this game, Molly and Trini have planted various vegetables to eat and enter to win prizes at the Alaska State Fair. Through a variety of...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Molly of Denali: Collection
Informational text and Alaska Native culture form the basis of the groundbreaking MOLLY OF DENALI series and its educational resources. The MOLLY OF DENALI collection offers videos, digital games, lessons, teaching tips, and activities...
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.
Starfall
Starfall: Let's Be Pals
This interactive focuses on short sentences that include picture words.
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.
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.
Other
Sebastian Swan: Read a Book!
Looking for a new way to get young students reading? This interactive reading site provides online stories and accompanying questions for students to explore.
Other
Dorling Kindersley: Question Words [Pdf]
This worksheet helps students understand the words we use to ask questions. [PDF]
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.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Special Names
[Free Registration/Login Required] Through these activities, students begin to demonstrate control in the writing process.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Three Little Pigs
[Free Registration/Login Required] Using copying and pasting, a flipchart retelling the traditional tale. Use the reveal blind and spotlight to highlight text, and pictures to stimulate discussion.
Other
Woodward English: Questions Words
Woodward English: Questions Words uses pictures and words to answer the 5 W's and H questions.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Chunk Lesson Ink
[Free Registration/Login Required] Use literature and the Whole-Part-Whole Method to teach individual word chunks. This flipchart focuses on the -ink word chunk.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Chunk Lesson It
[Free Registration/Login Required] Use literature and the Whole-Part-Whole Method to teach individual word chunks. This flipchart focuses on the -it word chunk.
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.