Read Works
Read Works: Go Outside and Play!
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text explaining the benefits of playing outside and providing a list of possible activities. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Read Works
Read Works: A New Letter for the Alphabet
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage discusses the history of the schwa sound. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding for vocabulary...
Read Works
Read Works: The Growth Factor
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage shares information about ways to project heighth in students. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and...
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]
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Think Alouds
Think Alouds help students learn to monitor their thinking as they read an assigned passage. Students are directed by a series of questions which they think about and answer aloud while reading. This process reveals how much they...
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.
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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.
CommonLit
Common Lit: Dreams and Musical Feet
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...
CommonLit
Common Lit: A Slick Little Robot
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Crafting Themed Poetry Collections
Contains back-to-school poetry lesson ideas that ask students to write poems in order to get to know each other. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to PDF handouts and sites used in the...
Learning Farm
Learning Farm: Word Relationships
Learn how word relationships affect the meaning of text, and then practice this skill.
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.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Teaching Adolescents Who Struggle With Literacy
There are five components of reading instruction for struggling adolescent readers: Word identification/decoding, Vocabulary, Comprehension, Fluency, and Engagement/motivation. These components are discussed and a video of middle school...
Other
Literacy Design Collaborative: Partner Retelling of Narrative Text
In this instructional activity, the teacher reads a story aloud and learners work with a partner to retell the story using sentence starters. Includes downloadable poster.
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, young scholars will explore how music and language arts naturally overlap to promote literacy as they cultivate their creative and critical thinking.
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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.
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Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Monitor for Understanding: Stop and Ask [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which students read a text stopping to answer questions as they read. Materials are included.