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.
Read Works
Read Works: Knocked Down
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a boy Christopher who did not treat a friend very nicely. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
US Department of Education
U.s. Department of Education: Helping Your Child Become a Reader
Help young learners become better readers with these literacy resources and ready-to-use reading strategies.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets
The national literacy initiative, Reading Rockets, provides information and resources on how students learn to read, why so many struggle, and how educators can help.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Teaching Reading 3 5: Session 3: Building Comprehension
This is a workshop for teachers of grades 3-5 with a focus on building reading comprehension. It includes a video demonstrating some of the strategies used as well as activities, printouts, and even tips for new teachers. [28:25]
University of Oregon
Big Ideas in Beginning Reading
The goal for teachers from the academic content standards is every child to be reading by 3rd grade. This site will help teachers to teach the "big ideas" in reading: phonemic awareness, alphabetic principle, fluency with text,...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Anticipation Guide
Anticipating is an effective reading strategy for readers of all ages. Utilize this template and graphic organizer to help your students become better readers.
Scholastic
Scholastic Teaching Resources: Informational Reading Response [Pdf]
This graphic organizer can be used with students when they read informational text. Students will write three facts they learned, two questions they still have after reading, and one interesting fact that they want to share.
Read Works
Read Works: Learning on the Soccer Field
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a boy named Gustavo who lives in Brazil and loves to play soccer. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Goodwill
Gcf Global: Letter Explorer
Use this letter explorer reading comprehension activity to improve your literacy skills.
Goodwill
Gcf Global: Text Explorer
Use this Text Explorer reading comprehension activity to improve your literacy skills.
Goodwill
Gcf Global: Blast Off!
Use this Blast Off! reading comprehension activity to improve your literacy skills.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Rl.3.10: By the End of the Year, Read and Comprehend Literature
Links to 25 lessons that focus on skills within third grade reading standard RL.3.10.
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.
University of Victoria (Canada)
Study Zone: Nasreddin and the Smell of Soup: Reading Comprehension
A reading passage with eight multiple-choice questions to assess reading comprehension.
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Reading With Cups, and More! [Pdf]
In this lesson, students will explore how music and language arts naturally overlap to promote literacy as they cultivate their creative and critical thinking.
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Reading With Cups, and More! [Pdf]
In this lesson, students will explore how music and language arts naturally overlap to promote literacy as they cultivate their creative and critical thinking.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Monitor for Understanding: Question Creation [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which students read a text and create questions using the words provided on word cards. Materials are included.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Monitor for Understanding: Stop and Ask [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which young scholars read a text stopping to answer questions as they read. Materials are included.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Monitor for Understanding: Reading Repair
A lesson plan in which students read a text using different reading strategies to fix problems as they read. Materials are included. [PDF]
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Monitor for Understanding: Strategic
A lesson plan in which students complete a graphic organizer to record prior knowledge before reading, ask questions while reading, and summarize a text after reading. Materials are included. [PDF]
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Text Analysis: Inference Innovations [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which students read a text and use a graphic organizer to make inferences. 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.