ClassFlow
Class Flow: Developing Vocabulary Context Clues
[Free Registration/Login Required] This interactive whiteboard lesson is designed to help students develop their vocabulary by recognizing and analyzing context clues with unfamiliar words.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Activities for Struggling Readers
How can you help the struggling readers in your classroom? This site offers some insight into activities to help develop your students reading skills.
Other
Nclr: The Essentials of Teaching Reading
Find out what the essentials are for teaching reading. This site provides vital information for teachers in developing the most successful reading program for their students.
English for Everyone
Reading Comprehension Assessent: "Carly's Family" [Pdf]
Read Theory provides a free reading comprehension assessment that is designed for reading students in early elementary grades. Six multiple choice questions and one extended response question are included on the assessment.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Intro to Accountable Talk With "Big Anthony and the Magic Ring"
In this lesson, 1st graders will take a more active role in their learning by discussing a read aloud with their partners. The teacher will become more of a facilitator in the lesson and allow the children to "wrangle" with the content.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Text Feature Find
Students will identify text features.
Other
Lesson Plan: Reading Comprehension Booklets
Use this online lesson plan for creating reading comprehension booklets. Teachers can use this lesson plan as a spring board for other reading comprehension activities.
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.
abcteach
Abcteach: Nonfiction Reading Comprehension for K 2
[Free Registration/Login Required] Teachers can use this site to print from over twenty informational pieces with comprehension questions for their students. Subjects range from Earth Day to mothers to George Washington's birthday.
Mind Tools
Mind Tools: Sq3 R Retention of Written Information
SQ3R is a useful technique for fully absorbing written information. It helps you to create a good mental framework of a subject, into which you can fit facts correctly. It helps you to set study goals. It also prompts you to use the...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Nouns and Adjectives Making Sentences
[Free Registration/Login Required] Teachers can use this flipchart to help students make connections between pictures of familiar objects and words which represent these objects within a different contextual setting.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Reading to Gather Information
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is an introduction for elementary students learning to pull facts from sources.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Rosie, a Visiting Dog's Story Harcourt Series Flipchart
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart correlates with the Harcourt Reading series. It explains story genres, multi-syllabic words, reading comprehension questions, and singular possessive noun practice.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
[Free Registration/Login Required] This quiz is to be given after reading the book The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson.
Dartmouth College
Dartmouth College: Reading Techniques: Sq3 R Method for Thorough Study
A brief description of the SQ3R method of reading comprehension and how it can be used to improve study habits.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Tuck Everlasting Comprehension Check
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart can be used during and after reading Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt. There are also graphic organizers and strategies in this lesson that can be applied in many other ways to...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Answering Questions in Complete Sentences
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will create visual images to comprehend/remember what they have read. Students will answer comprehension questions in complete sentences.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Companion to Louis Sachar's Holes
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart works as a companion to Louis Sachar's novel Holes. It includes introduction ideas as well as activities to do with classes as they progress through the book.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Duck for President Think Aloud
[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson is meant to model a Think Aloud. This strategy models good reading habits for readers: the teacher reads the text aloud and explains their thinking as they read. Duck for President by Doreen...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Mfc Do Animals Think?
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart contains the story on MP3, inferences, vocabulary activities, comprehension questions, distinguishing between thoughts and instincts, Activote, and web extensions.
Can Teach
Can Teach: Dear Character
In this lesson plan students will demonstrate reading comprehension and writing skills by writing a letter to a character in a story. Lesson plan indicated for 3rd grade and above, but could be adapted for younger grades.
Can Teach
Can Teach: Different Perspectives a Graphic Organizer
In this lesson plan students will read a text from a number of different perspectives which will result in a greater understanding of it. This is a good strategy to use to guide students through multiple readings of a text. Lesson plan...
Donald Clark
Bloom's Taxonomy of Learning Domains
This article--in text and charts--explains the three learning domains devised by Benjamin Bloom.
University of Victoria (Canada)
Reading Exercises: Comprehension, Sequencing & Summary
Choose your story, then answer the multiple choice questions, recreate the story in the proper order, and summarize the action using the interactive exercises.