Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Instructional Routines
This site offers PDF grade-specific lesson plans for teaching various reading skills for grades K-3. These include phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension.
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.
Other
Balanced reading.com: Decoding
What is decoding? Use this site to find the answer to this important question. This website focuses on a balanced reading approach to learning.
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.
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.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: What Can We Learn From Pigs?
This thematic language arts lesson uses a variety of beginning reading books about pigs to help special education/early elementary students learn about character traits and concepts. The wide use of graphic organizers introduces...
Starfall
Starfall: Let's Be Pals
This interactive focuses on short sentences that include picture words.
Starfall
Starfall: Giving
This interactive focuses on giving to others. Children can read independently or click on the ear to have sentences read to them.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: The Relatives Came by Cynthia Rylant
This is a first grade reading comprehension lesson to teach students how to make text-to-self connections while reading.
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.
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.
Other
Jl Resource: The Reading Room
Find creative ways to help students learn to read. Links to online stories and activities.
US Department of Education
The Partnership for Reading: Childhood: Teaching Approaches: Fluency Instruction
A short explanation of why fluency instruction is important and how fluency develops in a child.
TES Global
Blendspace: Authors Purpose
A five-part learning module with links to videos and an image on author's purpose.
Room Recess
Room Recess: Author's Purpose
Read short texts and determine whether their purpose is to inform, entertain, or persuade in order to move around the board in this online learning game. Click on video lessons for an understanding of author's purposes including types of...
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.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Kindergarten Sequencing Lesson
[Free Registration/Login Required] Sequencing lesson for Kindergarten in Learning Focused format.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Letter a Flipchart for Kindergarten
[Free Registration/Login Required] Learning Focused Curriculum Setup; Teaching for letter A includes activator, vocabulary, teacher guided lessons, graphic organizers, guided reading, and science tie-ins.
Can Teach
Can Teach: Word Race
In this activity for grades 1 and 2, students practice examining, copying out, and reading words that are written in the classroom.
Can Teach
Can Teach: Class Book Ideas: Story Frames
This site discusses how story frames are a great way to support emergent writers in the classroom. Lots of story prompts and writing frames to use in a K-2 classroom.
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.