Read Works
Read Works: Welcome Back!
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage shares advice about how to make the first day of school a great one. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes...
Read Works
Read Works: Helping a Friend
[Free Registration/Login Required] This ReadWorks module contains a pair of literary texts that narrate teamwork-themed stories about a children's running race and a children's soccer game . Pictures, photos, and question sets are...
Goodwill
Gcf Global: Text Explorer
Use this Text Explorer reading comprehension activity to improve your literacy skills.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Character Web
In this instructional activity, students will create a character web. Students will use a character from their storybook character for the web.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Rl.1.1 Ask and Answer Questions About Key Details in a Text.
This landing page offers different lessons related to the standard RL.1.1 Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Building World Knowledge: Informational Text
Before, during, and after-reading ideas for introducing students to informational texts in the early-elementary grades in order to boost reading achievement through the upper-elementary grades.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Activities for Struggling Readers
How can you help the struggling readers in your classroom? This site offers some insight into activities to help develop your students reading skills.
Read Works
Read Works: The Harmonica
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage shares facts about the harmonica. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding for...
Read Works
Read Works: American Symbols
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage lists and explains some of the different American symbols. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes...
Read Works
Read Works: Where Does Food Go?
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage explains the process of food digestion. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Batty Questions
In this lesson, students will be able to recognize and ask questions using standard question words while learning about bats. Included in this lesson are samples of student work, and pictures of the lesson in action.
CPALMS
Cpalms: It's All in the Details
Using this comprehensive lesson plan, students will use a web graphic organizer to learn to record the main idea and details learned from informational text read aloud to them.
Education.com
Education.com: sl.k.5 Lesson Plans
[Free Registration/Login Required] Choose from four quality lesson plans to help students practice the Common Core Standard of adding drawings or other visual displays to descriptions as desired to provide additional detail.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research:ask and Answer [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which students read a text and stop periodically to write questions based on question word cards. Materials are included.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Monitor for Understanding: Read and Ask [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which students read a text aloud and then roll a question cube and answer the questions together with a partner. Materials are included.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Questions to Guide Instruction
This site offers questions to guide all facets of reading instruction broken down by grade level, grades K-3.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Student Center Activities, K 1
In 2004-2005, a team of teachers at FCRR reviewed current research, collected ideas, and created materials for use in kindergarten and first grade classrooms. The K-1 Student Center Activities include three books and one DVD: The first...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Asking and Answering Questions About Our Story
Today's instructional activity is all about asking and answering questions so we can strengthen comprehension.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Questioning Text
Creating a product and illustrations make this lesson great for teaching about questioning. Students will ask and answer questions about a text via the assistance of a graphic organizer.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Questioning Text
Creating a product and illustrations make this lesson great for teaching about questioning.
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.
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.
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]