Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Miss Nelson Is Missing Key Details
Where did Miss Nelson go? We look at the key details in the text to determine what is happening throughout the story. Young scholars will locate and record key details about story elements (characters, setting, problem, solution, and...
Harvard University
Harvard University: Strategies for Essay Writing
This website provides a series of links to detailed information about each segment of how to write an academic essay from how to read the assignment to the final edits. Use the links to the right. W.9-10.1a claims/intro/org, W.9-10.2a...
Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center
Wisconsin Rt I Center: Frayer Model [Pdf]
Classroom teachers will learn about the Frayer Model, an engaging instructional strategy tool. Teachers will learn how to implement the Frayer Model, understand how to measure progress with the Frayer Model, find research that supports...
Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center
Wisconsin Rt I Center: Interactive Word Walls [Pdf]
Classroom teachers will learn about interactive word walls, an engaging instructional strategy. Teachers will learn how to implement word walls, find research that supports the practice, and find examples.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Words in Context: If the Word Fits
A lesson plan in which students work with a partner to choose the meaning of the underlined word in each sentence. Materials are included.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Morphemic Elements: Affix Match
A lesson plan in which students play a memory match game by matching affixes and their meanings. Materials are included.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Words in Context: Looking for Meaning [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which students look for the meanings of unknown words in a text. Materials are included.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Expository Text Structure: Book Look [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which students look through a book to identify text features and complete a graphic organizer. Materials are included.
Other
Morningside Center: Active Listening
In this lesson, students practice active listening by paraphrasing what they hear. Students will practice listening to one another and repeating what they heard. Various listening activities are included in this lesson.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Interventions for Struggling Readers
This site offers links to an action plan a for school-wide intervention program. It includes a PDF of the principal's action plan outline, links to web casts of the intervention plan, and a video about the sounds of the English language...
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Sentence Meaning: Silly Sentence Mix Up
A lesson plan in which students use sentence strips with various phrases to create sentences. Materials are included.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Word Analysis: Category Sort
A lesson plan in which learners work with a partner to sort words according to category and then label each category. Materials are included.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Word Analysis: Category Cube
A lesson plan in which students sort word cards according to categories including: food, clothing, sports, animals, classroom things, and things with wheels. Materials are included.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Morphemic Elements: Affix Action
A lesson plan in which students play a game by moving around the board by identifying suffixes. Materials are included.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Word Knowledge: Homograph Hitch
A lesson plan in which students match two definitions to each homograph. Materials are included.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Word Knowledge: Opposites Attract
A lesson plan in which students play a card game by matching synonym and antonym cards. Materials are included.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Morpheme Structures: Affix Hunt
A lesson plan in which students identify prefixes and suffixes on word cards. Materials are included.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Answer Know How [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which students sort questions into one of four types: On My Own, Author and Me, Right There, and Think and Search. Materials are included.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Exp. Text Structure: Text Feature Find
A lesson plan in which students look through a book to find various text features including: a table of contents, sequence and format, charts/graphs/maps, diagrams/graphics/illustrations, print variations, an index, and a glossary....
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Phoneme Segmenting: Say and Slide Phonemes
A lesson plan in which students work with a partner to count phonemes in picture cards. All materials are included.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Helping Your Child Succeed in School
How can you help your child succeed in school? This article offers some important tips to making success a reality for every student. This is a terrific resource to pass along to parents.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Helping Your Child Succeed in School
How can you help your child succeed in school? This article offers some important tips to making success a reality for every student. This is a terrific resource to pass along to parents.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Greenland Ice Sheet Project 2: A Record of Climate Change
Using images and graphs, this interactive resource illustrates scientists' efforts to study Earth's climatic history for the last 250,000 years by drilling into the Greenland Ice Sheet and examining ice cores. Includes background reading...
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Developing a Positive School Climate
What is meant by "school climate", and how can you assess the climate at your school? Read on for helpful definitions, assessment ideas, tools, and resources.