Tom Richey
Slide Share: Prediction and Inference: A Reading Strategy
This downloadable slideshow focuses on prediction and inference including the similarities and differences between them, when the reader does each, and questions to ask as you are reading.
Mind Tools
Mind Tools: Reading Strategies
This site from Mind Tools reviews six different strategies to help you read more effectively. RI.11-12.10a Text Complexity
Other
Project Happy Child: Mind Mapping
This British web site gives a basic overview, answers questions about mindmapping, and offers suggestions on this topic. Several books are recommended. Explore the links for more information.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Martin Luther King, Jr. Comprehension Activity
[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson is geared for a comprehension activity for the book, "My Brother, Martin" by Christine King Farris (MLK Jr.'s sister). It is intended to be a comprehension lesson based around the reading...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Reading With Your Purpose in Mind
This lesson explains how to read with purpose in mind. This tutorial shares a short audio lesson [1:48] and supplemental notes with the lesson's content.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Reflecting on Reading
This lesson explains the reading strategy of reflecting on reading. This tutorial lesson shares a short slideshow with the lesson's content.
FNO Press
From Now On: The Research Cycle, 2000
Excellent site from From Now On for students who are assigned research papers and need to begin finding and reading material. Part of a book, the site gives information on questioning, evaluating, planning, gathering, sorting,...
North Central Regional Educational Laboratory
Ncrel Anticipation: Reaction Guide
A model of a quick survey to give students to help them activate their prior knowledge of subject matter. Alter this survey to suit your particular subject.
LD Online
Ld Online: Beginning Reading and Phonological Awareness
This site from the LD OnLine focuses on beginning reading and phonological awareness for students with learning disabilities. Check out the information presented in this informative article.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Nouns and Adjectives Making Sentences
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this activity, students will synthesize what they have learned about nouns and adjectives by engaging in a formative assessment activity using Activotes. Students also evaluate incorrect sentences...
Other
Critical Reading: Three Ways to Read and Discuss Texts
Designed to help students think about their reading and writing skills, this page offers three different ways to interpret and discuss texts.
Other
How to Study: Strategy for Reading Textbooks
This site gives a method, called SQRW, that can help you with your reading. It is very similar to SQ3R.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Connection Stems
Use this graphic organizer to help students make a connection when they are reading and learning to what they know about themselves and the world.
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Prediction Relay
Prediction Relay is an activity that was developed as part of the Peer-Assisted Learning Strategies (PALS). PALS is a classwide peer tutoring program in which teachers carefully partner a student with a classmate. The Prediction Relay...
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Reading Guides
Reading Guides help students navigate reading material, especially difficult textbook chapters or technical reading. Students respond to a teacher-created written guide of prompts as they read an assigned text. Reading Guides help...
Education Development Center
Tv411: Tune in for Reading: Reading: Strategies for Better Reading
Self-checking interactive tutorial puts reading comprehension skills to work by asking learners to make inferences, predict what happens next, and identify the main ideas in a series of short reading passages. Related materials include...
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Direct, Explicit Comprehension Strategy Instruction
Comprehension strategies are routines and procedures that readers use to help them make sense of texts. Struggling adolescent readers need direct, explicit instruction in comprehension strategies to improve their reading comprehension.
Other
Prezi: Prove It! (Using Textual Evidence)
Slideshow explains textual evidence and how to use the I.C.E. method when citing it.
Other
Harrington Park: Asking Questions
This is a teacher handout of questions students should ask themselves before, during, and after reading.
Quizlet
Quizlet: Explicit, Implicit, Imply, Infer, Inferences Test
Reading strategy terms are included in this review exercise. An assessment is provided for the following words: explicit, implicit, imply, infer, and inferences. Five multiple choice questions are provided on this assessment.
Quizlet
Quizlet: Explicit, Implicit, Imply, Infer, Inferences Match
This interactive game of "Match" assesses students' knowledge of definitions associated with names of reading strategies. Students will match the correct reading strategy [explicit, implicit, imply, infer, inferences] to their...
Other
Prezi: What Is Complex Literature?
This Prezi was created by Marko Zlomislic. The presentation explains what constitutes complex literature. It defines complex texts, discusses the varied benefits of learning to read them, and provides links to lesson plans and examples....
Quizlet
Quizlet: Explicit, Implicit, Imply, Infer, Inferences Flashcards
Reading strategy terms are included in this review exercise. Interactive vocabulary flashcards are provided for the following words: explicit, implicit, imply, infer, and inferences.
HotChalk
Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Big Book Activities: What Will the Weather Be Like Today?
In this K-2 lesson, the teacher uses guided reading strategies and creative activities to make a big book come alive to her pupils.