AdLit
Ad lit.org: Assistive Technology Tools: Reading
Learn about assistive technology tools - from audiobooks to variable-speed tape recorders - that help students with reading.
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Extended Writing to Learn Strategies
Writing enables students to process, organize, formulate, and extend their thinking about what they have been learning. In addition, teachers can also assign writing to help students evaluate what they know and understand about a topic....
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Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center
Wisconsin Rt I Center: Writing to Learn [Pdf]
Teachers will learn how to use Writing to Learn as a formative assessment tool. Teachers will learn how to implement the strategy, measure progress, and find research to support writing to learn. A list of Writing to Learn activities is...
Other
Braindance: Reading Groups of Words at Each Glance
Gives insight into improving reading speed by learning to read words in groups. There is an excercise to test your speed and suggestions on how to increase it.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Developing Reading Plans to Support Independent Reading
Students analyze their past readings and use that knowledge to create reading plans for the future.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Developing Searching, Skimming, and Scanning Skills
Contains plans for two or three lessons that teach searching, skimming, and scanning skills using an internet bingo game that is easily adaptable to a variety of topics. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan...
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Learning From Mistakes
This Daily Teaching Tools resource is a reflective writing activty. Students will write a reflection regarding a mistake they have made. This activity may be used as a simple writing prompt or as part of behavior management system.
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Things That We Read
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides ways to motivate middle school students to read. A link is provided that contains 25 graphic organizers related to reading and note-taking.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Motivating Middle School Students to Revise and Edit [Pdf]
This article explores the idea of authentic audiences and student publication for motivating student writers.
Education Development Center
Tune in to Learning: Summarizing
Series of interactive activities for practicing skills in summarizing information, in identifying main points and ideas, and in sorting lists into meaningful categories.
E Reading Worksheets
E Reading Worksheets: Reading Activities
An assortment of reading mini-projects are included on this site. Reading skills worksheets and differentiated reading activities are also included.
Read Works
Read Works: Finding Salinger
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage shares the story of a lost cat. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding for vocabulary learning....
Read Works
Read Works: Routine
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a person who becomes tired of the routineness of life. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Workshop 2: Making Writing Meaningful
Workshop 2 demonstrates how teachers use authentic sources and topics to prompt students to write about things that matter to them, subjects that relate to their lives, relationships, and communities. The topic may be the students -...
Read Works
Read Works: Focus on Adhd
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage explains ADHD, its effects, and explanations from students who are living with the condition. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential...
Other
Kim's Korner: Definitions: Purposes for the Modes of Writing
What are the modes of writing? Use this site that details the different types of writing.
Education Development Center
Tune in to Learning: Scanning for Specifics
Self-scoring interactive lesson for improving skills in scanning informational texts and charts for keywords and specific details.
Education Development Center
Tv411: Strategies for Better Reading: Activities 3 of 3
Use these eight multiple choice passages to practice summarizing the main idea of a paragraph.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Motivating Students to Read Nonfiction
This lesson plan deals with timelines in connection to nonfiction reading. Included in the lesson plan is an overview, practice, objectives, resources, preparation, and more.
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Additional Webs
Daily Teaching Tools include several graphic organizers. Some of the graphic organizers provided are for the planning of informative paragraphs, summaries, and literary response.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Notetaker Interactive Tool
An excellent interactive site which allows students to take notes as well as organize, plan, and revise their writing, as well as assist with reading skills. Provides several options for student creativity and improvement concerning...
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Guidebooks: Shared and Interactive Writing
This strategy helps students refine their understanding of texts to meet the standards for reading and prepare for writing about texts by refining their writing and language skills. In early elementary, the writing that is produced can...
Joe Landsberger
Study Guides and Strategies: Time Management
Guide to developing time management skills provides practical tips and strategies to help organize and prioritize studies. Includes link to an assignment calendar that creates steps needed to complete an assignment.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Priorities
This clip asks students to think about what their most valuable way is to spend their free time.