BBC
Bbc: Ks2 Bitesize English: Reading
This site provides activities, games, tests, and worksheets in reading areas: deduction, dictionaries, poetry, and non-fiction.
Other
Reading and Writing Project: Oral Reading Benchmark [Pdf]
Reading and Writing Project provides a benchmark document for oral reading to help assess students word recognition and comprehension abilities.
Other
City College: Skills for Life: Reading for a Purpose
This resource offers 11 exercises with variety of everyday reading passages such as letters, recipes, classified ads, etc. Students read the passage and answer multiple choice questions about its purpose.
Poetry Foundation
Poetry Foundation: Basketball Poems
A collection of poems about basketball in its many facets, and, as a bonus, an article by renowned coach John Wooden about how he used poetry in his coaching.
Academy of American Poets
Poets.org: Poems for Your Pocket
One day during National Poetry Month is dedicated to "Put a Poem in Your Pocket Day." Use this site to find poems to share with others. It includes a downloadable PDF of ideas for teachers and a collection of poems.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Reading Basics: Fluency
Fluency is the ability to read a text accurately, quickly, and with expression. Reading fluency is important because it provides a bridge between word recognition and comprehension. To learn more about fluency, browse the articles,...
Michigan State University
Michigan State University: Interventions for Reading: Repeated Readings
This is a lesson for repeated readings including directions, materials needed, procedures, and evaluation. The goal is to increase young scholars' reading fluency and, therefore, their reading comprehension.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Reading Development
Explore an interactive article to experience reading development firsthand. Listen in as a typical child from each grade reads aloud, and compare reading strategies and skills as children progress from kindergarten through third grade.
US Department of Education
U.s. Dept. Of Education: Compact for Reading: Second Grade Activities (Spanish)
Links to one hundred second grade activities arranged by skill set and designed to improve reading and writing. All activities are in PDF format and are ready to print and use. They can be downloaded individually, according to skill set,...
Scholastic
Scholastic: Listen and Read
Choose to read and/or listen to 15 different books on members of the community, animals, and the President. Review vocabulary at the end of each book.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Start and Stop Poetry
In this instructional activity students will analyze the cyclical patterns within poetry.
Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center
Wisconsin Rt I Center: Choral Reading [Pdf]
Classroom teachers will learn about choral reading, an engaging instructional strategy. Teachers will learn how to implement choral reading, understand how to measure progress with choral reading, find research that supports choral...
Free Reading
Free Reading: Sentence Scramblers
A great exercise to help students practice reading fluency by using sentence strips and games.
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.
Other
The Waterfall [Pdf]
This is a third grade reading fluency exercise entitled "The Waterfall" and has 205 words.
Other
The Keeping Quilt [Pdf]
This is a third grade reading fluency exercise entitled "The Keeping Quilt" and has 202 words.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Dynamite Diamante Poetry
Contains plans for five lessons that teach about parts of speech, gerunds, and vocabulary by having students write diamante poetry. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Guided Comprehension: Previewing
This lesson introduces students to the comprehension technique of previewing. Students use anticipation guides to preview and predict stories and work in small groups.
Austin Independent School District
Austin Independent School District: Phonological Awareness Activities [Pdf]
A series of ready-to-print cards filled with ideas and activities to increase students' recognition and understanding of rhyme and rhythm.
Austin Independent School District
Austin Independent School District: Phonological Awareness Activities [Pdf]
A series of ready-to-print cards filled with ideas and activities to increase students' recognition and understanding of rhyme and rhythm. In Spanish.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Improving Fluency Through Group Literary Performance
Students participate in shared reading, choral reading, and readers theater, using books by Bill Martin, Jr. Repeated readings and literary performances help students with their reading accuracy, expression, and rate.
Repeat After Us
Repeat After Us: "The Owl and the Pussycat" by Edward Lear
This site offers the text and audio of the poem "The Owl and the Pussycat" by Edward Lear. Great for students to practice reading poetry aloud at an appropriate rate and with expression.
Yale University
Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: Poetry for the Elementary Classroom
Site contains a narrative and three lesson plans. These plans are designed to assist learners with various aspects of poetry. This site discusses strategies which enable students to effectively, memorize, recite, and correctly pronounce...
Hopelink
Reading Lesson: Reading Accuracy Check
ESL tutors learn how to develop student reading skills for ESL students from this lesson plan.