Curated OER
Mc Graw Hill: Part 1: Reading Literature: 1st Grade Retell Stories
Learn how to use retelling a story to increase student's comprehension of a story.
FableVision
Fable Vision: Peter Reynolds: Playing From the Heart
Read a click-through story about rediscovering the joy of making music.
Other
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: May Is "Get Caught Reading" Month!
This site offers two ideas for lessons/activities for students during "Get Caught Reading" month. It was taken from ReadWriteThink's calendar on May 1, 2007, and includes activities, web links, and a bibliography.
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Austin Independent School District
Austin Independent School District: Guided Reading [Pdf]
Learn what guided reading is and how it to use it in the classroom to increase literacy skills. Discover guided reading strategies to use before, during, and after reading. Then follow-up with information on how to create right questions...
Other
Trelease on Reading: "The Read Aloud Handbook," Ch.6
Author Jim Trelease presents ideas about how to make books and reading more appealing to children, which helps to raise reading rates and levels. Read these excerpts from his book on this topic.
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: 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: The Human Body Your Vision
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage gives facts about human vision. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding for...
Read Works
Read Works: Great Ideas!
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about some good ideas that became inventions. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Read Works
Read Works: Ideas That Pop
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about an invention made by a 10-year-old girl from Texas. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Read Works
Read Works: Learning New Things
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a little boy named Billy who learned that spending time at the Senior Center could be more fun than he thought. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in...
Read Works
Read Works: Forgetting the Words
[Free Registration/Login Required] This fictional pieces shares the story about a boy who is afraid of forgetting his lines in a play. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies...
Read Works
Read Works: Playtime in the Snow
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a little boy named George who loves to play outside as the seasons change. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Read Works
Read Works: The Wishing Tree
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a little boy named Noah who finds a wishing tree. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Read Works
Read Works: Snow Science!
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about how snow forms and about different types of snowflakes. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Read Works
Read Works: Our World
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text giving a little information about each of the seven continents. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Bare Bones
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the bones of a human skeleton. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Read Works
Read Works: Growing Up Long Ago
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text telling what it was like to be a child 200 years ago. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Read Works
Read Works: Whoop It Up!
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text that asks the reader to make predictions about s scientist who work to teach cranes to migrate. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.