A lesson plan in which students read a text and record the main ideas and supporting details on a graphic organizer. Students then complete the organizer by writing a summary of the text. Materials are included.

A lesson plan in which students browse a text and complete a graphic organizer to show prior knowledge. Materials are included.

A lesson plan in which students read a text and create questions using the words provided on word cards. Materials are included.

A lesson plan in which students browse a text and complete graphic organizers to help them activate prior knowledge. Materials are included.

This video segment from The Supreme Court introduces viewers to the 14th amendment.

Tell me about it in your own words! If students can paraphrase the information they have read, then youÄand theyÄcan be confident that they understand it.

The reading strategy known as inferring is also one of the six basic process skills in science. How to apply the strategy in teaching K-5 reading and science is explained in this article from the free, online magazine Beyond Weather and the Water Cycle. The magazine is designed to prepare elementary teachers to teach climate science concepts while integrating inquiry-based science and literacy instruction.

Start the presses! Catchy titles, eye-popping graphics, and attractive fonts are all on studentsŐ agendas in this lesson as they create magazine covers to summarize a topic.

After you listen to and read the story, print out the activities to practice reading comprehension skills. Work on character identification, details, and sequence of events.

Listen to and read along with this story about a princess and a dragon. You can choose the ending to the story. Then print off activities to go along with the story.

Using text from Doreen CroninŐs Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type as shared readings, first-grade students learn word families and how to decode new words in a word family.

Modeled on the activities in ŇMiss Alaineus: A Vocabulary DisasterÓ, a picture book, students combine vocabulary exploration with word play by planning their own vocabulary parade.

Using the web-based lessons highlighted in this article, students learn how to pose questions before, during, and after reading nonfiction, fiction, and diagrams. This reading comprehension strategy is included in the literacy column of the magazine Beyond Weather and the Water Cycle, a free, online publication for K-5 teachers.

The author identifies online lessons that will support students in applying evaluation skills to fiction and nonfiction texts. The article appears in the free, online magazine Beyond Weather and the Water Cycle, which integrates science education and literacy skills instruction.

Different approaches to teaching the reading comprehension strategy of inferring in K-5 classrooms are identified in this article. The article appears in the free, online magazine Beyond Weather and the Water Cycle, which is structured around the essential principles of climate science.

Making predictions is a skill readers need for comprehending fiction and nonfiction. Three lessons are identified here to give young readers opportunities to make predictions about nonfiction text found in print or on web pages. The lessons are aligned with the national standards for English language arts. The article appears in the free, online magazine that focuses on the seven essential principles of climate literacy.

This article identifies online lesson plans that can be used to introduce visualizing, a comprehension skill important to both science and literacy learning. Each of the lessons meets NCTE/IRA English language arts standards. The article appears in the free online magazine Beyond Weather and the Water Cycle, which is structured around the seven essential principles of climate science and literacy.

Read "Miss Dorothy and Her Bookmobile" with Earnestine Sweeting. This story, written by Gloria Houston, tells the true story of the librarian Miss Dorothy. [14:33]

Help Spanish-speaking English-language learners unlock the mysteries of their new language by using a bilingual book to recognize unfamiliar words and construct meaning from the text.

This video segment from Between the Lions features "The Lion and the Mouse" for young students, an introduction to one of many Aesop's fables. illustrates how children can learn by talking about a book as it is read aloud. [4:19]