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: Questions to Guide Instruction
This site offers questions to guide all facets of reading instruction broken down by grade level, grades K-3.
Education.com
Education.com: Ask Me How
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, your students will become familiar with using this question word to investigate how things work. At the conclusion of this lesson, students will be able to ask and answer questions to...
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...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Listen, Look, and Learn: An Information Gathering Process
This lesson models an information-gathering process for primary learners as they listen to and look at resources, seeking information pertinent to the questions on an information wheel. Guiding the listening, looking, and learning...
CPALMS
Cpalms: Lafs.2.sl.2.5
Choose from a variety of courses, lesson plans, and resources aligned to the Common Core standard of creating audio recordings of stories or poems.
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.
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.
Enchanted Learning
Enchanted Learning: 5 W's Diagrams
Enchanted Learning provides several examples of graphic organizers that can be used for gathering Who, What, Where, When, and Why information, either for reading comprehension or prewriting. These template suggestions can only be printed...
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.
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: Sensory Details
A five-part learning module with links to images and videos about sensory details and using sensory language.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Retelling the Story
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart helps to teach students how to retell main events from a story and sequence events.
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: Answering Questions in Complete Sentences
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will create visual images to comprehend/remember what they have read. Students will answer comprehension questions in complete sentences.
Read Works
Read Works: The Rain Forest
[Free Registration/Login Required] Read and/or listen to the following paired texts on the subject of the Rain Forest. Use the guided question set to assess students understanding of the topic. Students can write their answers, respond...
Other
Harrington Park: Asking Questions
This is a teacher handout of questions students should ask themselves before, during, and after reading.
Quizlet
Quizlet: Kindergarten
Kindergarten flash cards that have words and names with questions and some pictures on the flip sides.
Big Learners
Biglearners.com: ccss.ela literacy.w.k.8 : Kindergarten English Language Arts
Choose from a variety of worksheets aligned to the core standard W.K.8. A brief description is provided for each worksheet. Click on the image to view, download, or print them. All worksheets are free.
Education.com
Education.com: W.1.8 Worksheets
[Free Registration/Login Required] Choose from a variety of worksheets to practice the Common Core Standard of recalling information from experiences or gathering information from provided sources to answer a question.
Other
Fusion Yearbooks: Great Ways to Encourage Students to Ask Questions
This article contains 9 ways that teachers can maintain and develop that pre-school curiosity as our children grow older by fostering question asking in the classroom.