AdLit
Ad lit.org: What Should an Assessment System Look Like?
The developmental nature of reading means that diagnosing the reading comprehension ability of adolescents is more challenging than diagnosing reading comprehension among third graders. In particular, assessments should not only capture...
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Effective Reading Interventions for Kids With Learning Disabilities
Research-based information and advice for sizing up reading programs and finding the right one for your child with a learning disability.
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....
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: A Revision Lesson: Zooming in on a Prompt About Friendship
Take your students step by step through the revision process of with this prompt and guide.
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.
Other
Increased Comprehension With the Use of Imagery
Designed for adult learners, this literacy lesson could easily be used in the high school or middle school classroom. Some handouts are included, but some material must be found in a newspaper or magazine.
Other
Reading Skills for Academic Study
Designed for university students in the United Kingdom but applicable to English and advanced ESL students in other countries, this tutorial provides strategies and skills for required academic reading loads.
Other
Open Universiteit: Studieplaza
Enter the Study Plaza and learn how to manage your time and to study effectively.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Improving Student Writing Through Critical Thinking
Contains plans for a lesson about writing draft letters, or reflective letters about pieces of writing that students are submitting to an instructor. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to...
Other
Uni Learning: Strategies for Reading Journal Articles
Clear explanation of how journal articles tend to be structured, as well as tips for extracting information from each part. Includes sample, color-coded exercises.
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.
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.
TES Global
Tes: Assessing Pupil Progress in English: Writing
[Free Registration/Login Required] This PowerPoint provides exemplar pieces to guide students to understand how to revise a standardized, on-demand writing assessment piece.
University of Victoria (Canada)
Skimming Exercise
Timed practice and multiple choice questions are this site's offering. First you skim, rapidly, then you answer the questions and get immediate feedback and a chance to continue practicing.
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 -...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Facts
An eight-slide presentation discussing why revision is important to the writing process and explaining steps that can be taken to begin revision.
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.
21st Century Schools
21st Century Schools: Critical Viewing Skills and Media Literacy
Understand media literacy as it relates to a student's ability to analyze, evaluate, critique and produce multiple media messages. Information and links to inspire students, teachers and all those who work with young people regarding...
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Double Entry Journals
The Double-Entry Journal strategy enables students to record their responses to text as they read. Students write down phrases or sentences from their assigned reading and then write their own reaction to that passage. The purpose of...
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Writing Skills: Audience Awareness
This lesson focuses on audience awareness by recognizing and evaluating rhetorical approaches to building common ground. It also provides an example.
Literacy Head
Literacyhead: Writing Prompts: Images to Give Writers Ideas
Narrative images to encourage writers to write by exploring the themes and details of the art works.
Other
University of Missouri Rolla: Purposes in Writing
What are purposes in writing? Use this site from the University of Missouri-Rolla to learn more about the parts of the communication model. W.9-10.10 Write Routinely