Contains plans for two lessons designed to help primary students' reading comprehension with mathematical story problems. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as well as assessment and reflection activities.

Great lesson plans and stories to build reading fluency and accuracy. Choose from beginner readers to 80 word passages.

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.

This article provides an overview of metacognition, suggestions for teaching elementary students to be metacognitive about their reading, and links to professional resources.

Students use the Semantic Impressions and Possible Sentences strategies to write about Patricia Polacco's books "Chicken Sunday" and "Rechenka's Egg", complete a character study, and write using a WebQuest.

This lesson offers reasons why some students prefer to read the text before reading the questions when asked to answer questions. It offers this information in text and audio formats.

For teachers in K-Grade 5 classrooms, the author of this article reviews the reading comprehension strategies known as Summarizing and Synthesizing. She provides links to web sites and to a book that will provide more background information and lessons. The article appears in the free, online magazine Beyond Weather and the Water Cycle, which focuses on the seven essential principles of climate science.

Empower students on a reading adventure with this collection of interactive literacy games. Superpower your literacy lessons with these videos, interactives, and activities.

A lesson plan in which students play a football card game by determining if sentences are facts or opinions. Materials are included.

The importance of reading aloud to children is an established tenet of reading instruction. This lesson supports the language development and reading comprehension of kindergarten through second graders. Through the use of the text talk strategy, students explain, develop, and expand story ideas. This lesson is designed to help students learn how to gain meaning from words that are taken out of their original context.

This online lesson supports the language development and reading comprehension of kindergarten through second graders. Through the use of an innovative "Text talk," strategy, students will explain, develop, and expand upon story ideas. Students use the story "Julius, the Baby of the World," to begin to apply these concepts.

Students will discuss and write about what we are thankful for this Thanksgiving.

This lesson explains how to apply prior knowledge to a reading. This tutorial lesson shares a short screencast [4:57] with the lesson's content.

Working in small groups, students read and discuss Elie Wiesel's memoir "Night" and then take turns assuming the ŕteacherĚŇ role, as the class works with four different comprehension strategies.

Visualizing is a reading comprehension strategy that can be applied to science-themed texts, according to this article from Beyond Weather and the Water Cycle, a magazine that integrates literacy and science skills instruction. The author identifies six online resources that have activities, lesson plans, and more information.

In this lesson students will practice comprehension skills as they make predictions while listening to the story and recall and sequence events. They will understand how a healthy diet and exercise can increase the likelihood of physical and mental wellness.

This series of videos and interactive activities provide an excellent set of resources for teaching or learning the 8 research based reading strategies provided here. After receiving your "key" you can investigate the features inside and even pick up where you left off later.

Provide students an opportunity to read scientific literature, express understanding of scientific content and write a summary of the written work.