Read Works
Read Works: Get Well Lance
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage includes the story of a girl who is writing a get well note to a classmate. This passage is intended as a guided passage. It contains questions regarding explicit information and drawing...
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Read Works: Finding the Office
[Free Registration/Login Required] This realistic fiction dialogue shares what happens when a note is given to a student. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and...
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Read Works: Be Careful With Medicines
[Free Registration/Login Required] This reading comprehension passage focuses on children learning to be safe with medicine and vocabulary words. It is followed by questions about the passage that include picture cues.
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Read Works: In the Night Passage & Question Set
[Free Registration/Login Required] This literary text passage shares a first person account of a cat and its night on the prowl. This passage reinforces essential reading comprehension skills. Opportunities for vocabulary acquisition are...
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: 25 Activities for Reading/writing Fun
Discover these exciting 25 activities that develop reading and writing skills while having fun. The activities are split for two different age groups.
Read Works
Read Works: The Four Seasons
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage shares information about the four seasons of the year. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Writing Reports in Kindergarten
Lesson which provides three types of reports for early elementary young scholars to share. These allow young students to see themselves as writers with something useful to contribute from an early age.
Other
Center for Media Literacy: What Is "Critical" Viewing?
Understand the term "critical viewing" as it relates to visual literacy. Learn how to assess the media around you in order to become more knowledgeable and not easily manipulated by what you see.
Learning Farm
Learning Farm: Procedural Texts and Signs
Practice your skill at following written directions in a procedural text recognizing common signs. Play in game mode or test mode.
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...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: The Big Green Monster Teaches Phonics in Reading and Writing
A big green monster helps students build their reading fluency and word recognition skills through choral reading, literacy center activities, and writing stories.
Goodwill
Gcf Global: Blast Off!
Use this Blast Off! reading comprehension activity to improve your literacy 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...
Auburn University
Auburn University: Help Beginners With Oral Reading
This helpful overview for teachers recommends strategies that aid young readers with oral reading.
Auburn University
Auburn University: Developing Reading Fluency
How can you develop reading fluency in your students? This site offers insight into the direct and indirect approaches to teaching reading fluency. Come and check it out.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Listen!
This small group lesson addresses a very specific skill that some students need to improve their reading skills - self-monitoring. Using play phones, the students will listen to themselves very carefully to see whether what they are...
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Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Phrases: Phrase Speed Practice [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which students read a list of wards from a passage three times and then take turns reading the passage while focusing on speed and accuracy.
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Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Words: Word Speed Practice [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which students check for speed and accuracy while reading word lists. Printable materials are provided.
Starfall
Starfall: Dune Buggy
Learn the long U sound in English while paging through this read-aloud story about a day at the dunes. Great graphics, unlimited repetition, and learner controlled.
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.
Scholastic
Scholastic Instructor: Puzzled Over Paragraphs?
Here is an excellent list of ideas for teachers to utilize in their classroom to accompany paragraph writing skills. These creative and exciting activities will sharpen your student's writing abilities.
Starfall
Starfall: Let's Play
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.