ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Daily Book Boosts
Find instructions, forms, and inspiration to help students to share their reading excitement with the class.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Popular Culture: To Read or Not to Read
This lesson focuses on the benefits of reading for pleasure including building experience, better standardized test scores, improved problem solving, provides pleasure, provides a language model, and develops thinking skills. It offers a...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Contemporary Literature: Outside Reading Made Fun
This lesson is an introduction to an "Outside Reading Made Fun" unit in which students select a book to read for pleasure, write journal questions, write an analytical essay, create a book project, and participate in a book discussion.
Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg: The Gambler
Katherine Cecil Thurston's novel, The Gambler, is presented here in English translation in multiple digital formats.
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Movie Read Alikes From Yalsa
If the teens in your life love movies, check out this list of read-alikes for blockbusters like The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
FableVision
Fable Vision: Peter Reynolds: Playing From the Heart
Read a click-through story about rediscovering the joy of making music.
FableVision
Fable Vision: Peter Reynolds: The North Star
A story about the importance of following your own path through life, not the path others have taken. Told with great simplicity and beautifully illustrated, The North Star celebrates independence, spirited inquiry, and a life full of...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Developing Reading Plans to Support Independent Reading
Young scholars analyze their past readings and use that knowledge to create reading plans for the future.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: May Is "Get Caught Reading" Month!
This site offers two ideas for lessons/activities for students during "Get Caught Reading" month. It was taken from ReadWriteThink's calendar on May 1, 2007, and includes activities, web links, and a bibliography.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Engagement: Reading Rockets: Topics a to Z
This site provides a link to the website Reading Rockets: Topics A to Z which offers reading engagement resources.
Other
The Official Gordon Korman Web Site
Lots of information about Gordon Korman, who writes children's and young adults' novels, and his work.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Lesson: Reading Outside of Class
In this lesson, a teacher describes the steps being taken to encourage students to become independent readers outside class time.
CommonLit
Common Lit: Book Pairings: "The Book Thief" by Markus Zusak
Death narrates a poignant tale of collecting lives and stories through Nazi Germany while constantly circling back to Liesel, who survives because of the love she shares and her love of language. Selected (6) reading passages (grades...
BBC
Bbc Skillswise: Reading: Reading for Pleasure
Tutorial on types of material to read for enjoyment.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Novel Study Independent Reading
Young scholars will choose a novel from a teacher-created reading list. After reading their choice novel, students will prepare a 1-1/2 to 2 minute multimedia presentation to "sell" other young scholars on the novel. In addition,...
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: The Goldilocks Test
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides a readability test for students to use when selecting a book. Students will learn to self-assess their ability to choose a book by using the "Goldilocks Test" independently.
TES Global
Blendspace: Ela: Golden Goblet
A learning module with twenty-two links to images, texts, websites, and videos to use while reading Eloise Jarvis McGraw's The Golden Goblet.
TES Global
Blendspace: Clive Barker & Abarat
An eight-part learning module with links websites and videos to use while reading Cliver Barker's Abarat.
TES Global
Blendspace: Charlie's Timeline
A six-part learning module with links to texts, images, and a video to use while reading Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes.
TES Global
Blendspace: The Hero's Journey the Hunger Games
A twenty-part learning module with links to texts, images, and videos to use while reading The Hunger Games by Susanne Collins.
TES Global
Blendspace: Hatchet Survival
A five-part learning module with links to an image, texts, a video, and a quiz to use while reading Gary Paulsen's novel Hatchet.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Read Every Day: The Art of Read Every Day
Download thirteen full-color posters created by some of the top illustrators of children's literature in support of Scholastic's Read Every Day program. In addition, discussion guides accompany each poster, and several also have video...