National Humanities Center
Teaching The Great Gatsby: A Common Core Close Reading Seminar
The 41 slides in a professional development seminar model how to use close reading techniques to examine the many layers of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. In addition to passages from the novel, slides provide biographical...
William & Mary
Inferential Reading Comprehension Considerations Packet
Don't forget to read between the lines! Educators learn tips and activities to help scholars learn to infer to increase reading comprehension. Activities suggested include think alouds, backwards words, and who's who. the packet includes...
Worthington City Schools
From Survive to Thrive: What Great Substitute Teachers Do Differently
Thinking about signing up as a substitute teacher? Subbing is not for the faint of heart but with the help of the thoughtful advice in a detailed guide, you can develop the skills you need to be a great, professional substitute teacher.
Akron Children's Hospital
Akron Children's Hospital: Kidshealth: All About Puberty
What is puberty, anyway? Read all about it in this article for kids.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Voting! What?s It All About?
Contains plans for an eight-lesson cross-curricular unit that uses the history of voting to teach reading and research skills. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons...
Starfall
Starfall: All About Matter
This lesson focuses on Matter including the three states of matter, the energy that it takes to change the state of matter, and experiments for children to conduct. Students can choose to have any paragraph read to them.
Read Works
Read Works: All About Koalas
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage is about the topic of koala bears. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding for...
Read Works
Read Works: All About Bats
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passages describes the characteristics of bats. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding for...
Read Works
Read Works: All About Ants
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage describes the roles of different types of ants. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding...
Read Works
Read Works: All About Money
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage discusses the topic of money. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding for vocabulary...
Read Works
Read Works: A Bit About Buttons
[Free Registration/Login Required] This reading passage is all about buttons including where they came from. uses for buttons, and fun facts about buttons. It is followed by comprehension questions based on Common Core standards.
Other
Iowa State University: Bug Guide
Here's an easy to use guide for identifying insects. All you have to do is click on the image that looks like your bug, then read all about it! There's lots of information about the insect; including food, life cycle, range, and habitat.
Michigan Technological University
Michigan Tech University: Santa Ana Volcano
Is Santa Ana's volcano, Ilamatepec, still active today? Read all about it and even see pictures of its fascinating crater at this site.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Teaching Tools: 6 Steps to Helping Students Set Strong Reading Goals
This site offers six steps to helping students set strong reading goals. It all starts with inspiring your students to think about who they are as readers.
CommonLit
Common Lit: Excerpt Southern Horrors: Lynch Laws in All Its Phases by Ida b.wells
This is an excerpt comes from "Southern Horrors: Lynch Laws in All Its Phases" by Ida B.Wells. In it she talks about lynching, or the murder by mob for an alleged crime without a legal trial. The targets of such violence and hatred were...
American Institutes for Research
Center on Response to Intervention:multi Tier Reading Intervention:primary Grade
This Practice Guide, by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) in February 2009, aims to help educators develop and implement RTI to assist students struggling with reading. The focus is building an instructional program in order to...
The Book Report
Kids reads.com: Amelia Bedelia Series by Peggy Parish and Herman Parish
You can learn all about Peggy Parish, who created the Amelia Bedelia series at this site. It also includes fast facts about the series, some information on the characters, and background about Peggy's nephew Herman, who has continued the...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: I Wonder: Writing Scientific Explanations With Students
Students choose a question to explore, research it using a variety of resources, organize their information on a TCF chart, and then collaboratively write a class scientific explanation.
Independence Hall Association
U.s. History: The Electric Ben Franklin: The New England Courant
Read all about it! Find copies of The New-England Courant published by James Franklin, Benjamin Franklin's older brother. You can also read about Ben Franklin's contribution to this colonial newspaper.
NOAA
Noaa: Ne Mo: Chemosynthesis
Deep under the ocean there is no light for plants to perform photosynthesis. This site is a good overview of the alternative energy method, chemosynthesis. Read all about it.
Other
State University of New York: Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
This site from Potsdam college contains interesting information on FAS. FAS is the leading cause of mental retardation in Western Civilization today. FAS is caused by exposure to alcohol during pregnancy. Read all about it here.
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Prince George's Community College: Reading the Rock Record [Pdf]
This is an in-depth activity where students create a rock layer formation using different colors of playdough and investigate the types of folds and rock formations that might occur. They take core samples through anticlines and...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: It's All in the Package
In this activity, students explore the concept of "reducing" solid waste and how it relates to product packaging and engineering advancements in packaging materials. Students read about and evaluate the highly publicized packaging...
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of American History: Numismatic Collection: Spain and Its Coins
Read about the history of Spain through its coins, beginning the Greeks and Romans in ancient Spain, all the way up to the 20th century. Spain's long history is reflected in the examples of its coins presented here.