AdLit
Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Selective Highlighting
Selective Highlighting/Underlining is used to help students organize what they have read by selecting what is important. This strategy teaches students to highlight/underline ONLY the key words, phrases, vocabulary, and ideas that are...
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Structured Notetaking
Structured Notetaking is a strategy that helps students become more effective note takers. Using graphic organizers specific to a particular text, structured notes assist students in understanding the content of their reading.
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Multiple Texts: Multiple Opportunities for Teaching and Learning
Engaging all students in a themed study or unit is a challenge that teachers can resolve by using materials that match students' independent or instructional reading levels (Robb 1994, 2000). When students face textbooks that are above...
Cynthia J. O'Hora
Mrs. O's House: Time Capsule Show What You Know
Students will assemble a time capsule full of tidbits of information they feel would be useful for the next class to study and learn successfully.
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.
Other
Braindance: Reading More Selectively
Gives specific advice on the most effective way to gain information through reading, especially necessary because the glut of information has created "an increasing need for the ability to scan." There are suggestions on how to decide...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Cosmic Oranges
Contains plans for four 45-minute lessons that ask students to use their senses and focus their attention while writing descriptively and observing scientifically. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains...
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Become a Flexible Reader
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides information for different types of reading. The differences among study reading, skimming, and scanning are provided so that students can be flexible readers.
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.
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Customizable Graphic Organizers
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides a series of graphic organizers for reading students. Forms are provided for plot, character analysis, reading logs, and reading responses.
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Daily Assignment Sheet
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides a daily assignment sheet. This downloadable page is applicable for short-term homework and test-preparation goals.
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Discipline Packet
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides reproducible packet that will engage students in reflecting about their behavior. The packet may be used as typical writing prompts or as part of a classroom management system. Additional...
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Establishing Expectations
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides an explanation about the importance of setting high expectations for students. Goal-setting related to reading independently is included in the module. An example of a school-wide reading...
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Structuring the Instructional Week
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides a structure for Reader's Workshop. Students will learn the importance of carefully organizing instructional times.
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Underlining for Comprehension
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides a test taking strategy. Students will engage in underlining as they preview directions and texts. Students can continue with this strategy as they read.
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Structuring the Instructional Day
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides an efficient way of structuring the instructional day using a learning strategy that involves visualization. As a brainstorming activity, students will visualize themselves going to a movie.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: A Left Brained Writing Prompt: Rather Unlikely Encyclopedia Entries
After studying encyclopedia entries for structure and writing style, create unlikely encyclopedia articles for things in your life. If you really can't think of any, press the writing prompt generator button to get a few ideas. Do your...
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: The Slow Student
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides an explanation of ways to assist students who need differentiated instruction. This article focuses on ways to assist student who struggle with keeping up with the pace in the classroom.
Mind Tools
Mind Tools: Time Management
Mind Tools provides information regarding time management, information on beating procrastination, activity logs, action plans, prioritized to do lists, information on scheduling skills, personal goal setting tips, and time management...
Other
Jeopardy Labs: Text Structure
Practice answering text structure questions in this Jeopardy-style learning activity.
Other
Prezi: 7th Grade Ela Making Inferences
Slideshow explores how to read between the line while offering examples for practicing.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Time Management
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart gives middle school students some guidelines and websites to help them develop time management skills.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Goals of Revision: Adding Flavor
This lesson introduces the importance of revision in the writing process. This tutorial lesson shares a short slideshow with the lesson's content.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Reading Rates
This lesson explains the different rates of reading. This tutorial lesson shares a short slideshow with the lesson's content.