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Audiblox: Foundational Reading Skills
What types of reading skills do students need to be successful? This informative site focuses on students with learning disabilities. Explore!
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.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Choosing the Right Book: Strategies for Beginning Readers
Students make purposeful choices for their reading materials, thinking about their reasons for reading a book and using strategies to match books to their abilities.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Catching the Bug for Reading
This lesson plan for reading utilizes techniques associated with interactive read-alouds. Included in the lesson plan is an overview, practice, objectives, resources, preparation, and more.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Literature Circles With Primary Students, Self Selected Reading
Learners respond to self-selected books in journals and talk about their books daily in small groups. The teacher guides students by offering suggestions and writing with them in dialogue journals.
Harold D. Underdown
Early Reader Series: Targeting the Emergent Reader
An informational article concerning the "emergent reader" (child who has just learned to read). Provides information about writing for emergent readers, educating emergent readers, and serving as an editor for emergent literature.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Top 10 Things to Know About Reading
What are the top ten things you should know about reading?
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Your School Age Child
What can you do to help your school-age child develop their reading skills?
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Simple Things Principals Can Do to Help All Children Read Well
Explore a list of simple things that principals can do to help all children learn to read. Come and learn more about the collaboration process with school administrators, teachers and staff.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Phonemic Activities
Come and learn more about these awesome phonemic activities for the preschool or elementary classroom.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Family Reading Activities
This site features family reading activities that will guide parents with their children's reading development.
Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher
Teaching resources, lesson plans, study guides, and other resources cataloged for easy access by language arts teachers. The majority of resources deal with reading and literature, although there are also sections on grammar, writing,...
Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher
Teaching resources, lesson plans, study guides, and other resources cataloged for easy access by language arts teachers. The majority of resources deal with reading and literature, although there are also sections on grammar, writing,...
Read Works
Read Works: About Your Bones
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage discusses the skeletonThis passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding for vocabulary learning....
Read Works
Read Works: How Plants Work
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the different parts of a plant: the leaves, stem, roots, and flowers. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Read Works
Read Works: How Plants Get Water and Food
[Free Registration/Login Required] An information text about a plant's roots and why they are important. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Read Works
Read Works: Stop the Rock!
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about animals that work together to help each other. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Read Works
Read Works: Fun on the Playground
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about playing outside during recess. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Read Works
Read Works: In the Night
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a cat who likes to go hunting at night. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Read Works
Read Works: Wow, Water!
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the importance of water. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Read Works
Read Works: Save Your Paper, Help Earth
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about how recycling paper can help Earth. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Read Works
Read Works: How Trees Help
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about trees and the way they help people. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
US Department of Education
U.s. Department of Education: Helping Your Child Become a Reader
Help young learners become better readers with these literacy resources and ready-to-use reading strategies.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets
The national literacy initiative, Reading Rockets, provides information and resources on how students learn to read, why so many struggle, and how educators can help.