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: Morpheme Structures: Syllable Map It [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which students use phoneme-grapheme mapping with a list of words. Materials are included.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Guidebooks: Tp Castt
This strategy helps students refine their understanding of poetry to meet reading expectations, engage in group conversations to meet speaking and listening expectations, prepare for writing about texts, and engage in language analysis...
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Guidebooks: Annotating Text
This strategy helps students refine their understanding of texts to meet reading expectations and prepare for writing about texts.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: The Road to Representation Creating the Crunchy Life Kid's Series
This blog focuses on a teacher's need to fill in the gaps for reading strategies and the priority to improve comprehension and overall reading development. She explains the strategies to meet the above goals.
Ted Nellen
Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Stanza
This is a glossary entry for "Stanza" including the definition of the term.
Los Poetas
Los Poetas: Nezahualcoyotl
Read the biography of the Mexican poet Nezahualcoyotl and his poems.
Los Poetas
Los Poetas: Ignasio Mauel Altamiro
Read the biography of the Mexican poet Ignasio Mauel Altamiro and his poems.
Los Poetas
Los Poetas: Amado Nervo
Read the biography of the Mexican poet Amado Nervo and his poems.
Los Poetas
Los Poetas: Manuel Acuna
Read the biography of the Mexican poet Manuel Acuna and his poems.
Los Poetas
Los Poetas: Gutierre De Cetina
Read the poems and biography of the Spanish poet Gutierre de Cetina.
Los Poetas
Los Poetas: Baltazar De Alcazar
Read the poems and biography of the Spanish poet Baltazar de Alcazar.
Los Poetas
Los Poetas: Bartolome Aregensola
Read the poems and biography of the Spanish poet Bartolome Aregensola.
E Reading Worksheets
E Reading Worksheets: Reading Comprehension: Carnivorous Plants
A complete reading comprehension activity with the nonfiction text, and several interactive questions as follow up. Press the "play" button to access the material.
E Reading Worksheets
E Reading Worksheets: Text Structures
A complete reading activity covering text structure with several interactive practice questions. Press the "play" button to access the material.
Quia
Quia: Text Structure Practice Part #1
After reading key words and phrases, determine the correct text structure in this Rags to Riches style game.
University of Victoria (Canada)
The U Vic Writer's Guide: Literary Term: Blank Verse
This brief site provides a definition of the term blank verse, a short description of its history, and an example of its use from a poem.
Other
Cincinnati Arts Association: Poetry in Motion [Pdf]
This study guide focuses on the preparation behind a poetry slam. In addition to discussing the history of a poetry slam, the study guide features various methods and exercises to get involved.
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: 10 Free Reading Tests for Comprehension Practice
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides ten short reading comprehension quizzes. Students will be able to write a sequence of events more efficiently by using this tool. All questions are skill-based and vary in levels of readability.
Application Magazine
Aplicaciones: Ortografia Del Quijote
There are thirty exercises with texts from Don Quixote. You can test your spelling and reading comprehension knowledge.
Application Magazine
Aplicaciones: Redaccion Interactiva
Here you will find eighteen different set of exercises so you can test your reading comprehension.
Tom Richey
Slide Share: Poetry Analysis Tpcastt
11 slides demonstrating poetry analysis using the TPCASTT format: Title, Paraphrase, Connotation, Attitude, Shift, Title, Theme.
TES Global
Blendspace: Reading Strategies for Complex Texts
A nine-part learning module on reading strategies including links to videos, images, websites, and activities.
TES Global
Blendspace: Poetry in the Classroom
An eighteen-part learning module with links to images, videos, websites, and slides about poetry, writing poems, and students presenting original poems.