PBS
Pbs Learning Media: The Road to Representation Creating the Crunchy Life Kid's Series
This blog focuses on a teacher's need to fill in the gaps for reading strategies and the priority to improve comprehension and overall reading development. She explains the strategies to meet the above goals.
Other
Reading Quest: Strategies for Reading Comprehension: Summarizing
Teach students to summarize nonfiction text with these lesson plans. Includes worksheets and activities that can be downloaded and printed.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Unit: Informational Text: Writing
This unit is designed to teach young scholars about research writing. The lessons follow the format of Writer's Workshop. Many of the lessons provide a formula for students to follow while constructing their essays to ensure struggling...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Unit: Reading Comprehension and Structure
This unit focuses on reading comprehension and structure. It includes lessons on the main idea and supporting details, theme, sequence, fact and opinion, literary devices, character, text features, inferences, organization of nonfiction,...
TES Global
Blendspace: Text Features
A six-part learning module with links to images, graphic organizers, and a video on recognizing text features in nonfiction texts.
TES Global
Blendspace: Informational Text
A twelve-part learning module with links to images, texts, slides, and charts that teach skills to build reading comprehension with informational texts.
TES Global
Blendspace: Text Features
A six-part learning module with links to videos and images to use while learning about text features in a nonfiction text.
TES Global
Blendspace: Nonfiction 2014 2015
A learning module with twenty-one links to images, websites, texts, slideshows, and videos about nonfiction and informational text reading skills.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Nonfiction Comprehension: Making Personal and Textual Connections
This is a lesson plan to help elementary young scholars connect to nonfiction text as they read.
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Education.com
Education.com: How Is a Star Born? [Pdf]
[Free Registration/Login Required] Have you ever looked into the night sky and wondered where all those millions and millions of stars come from? Find out here with a mini astronomy lesson! You'll discover what stars are made of and how...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Connection Stems
Use this graphic organizer to help students make a connection when they are reading and learning to what they know about themselves and the world.
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Academic Tips to Help Kids Learn to Be Effective Students
A teaching resource with information and downloadable handouts on various study skills including the following: Coming to Class Prepared, Student Planers, Good Listening in Class, Taking Notes in Class, Using Acronyms to Remember...
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Academic Tips to Help Kids Learn to Be Effective Students
A teaching resource with information and downloadable handouts on various study skills including the following: Coming to Class Prepared, Student Planers, Good Listening in Class, Taking Notes in Class, Using Acronyms to Remember...
Quizlet
Quizlet: Text Structure: Flashcards
This interactive set of flashcards helps students to learn the terms and definitions for types of text structure, organizational patterns, and keywords and graphic organizers for the types of text structures.
Quizlet
Quizlet: Non Fiction Text Features 3rd Grade Match
Text feature terms (nonfiction) are included in this review "Match" game. Questions are provided for the following words: map, table of contents, index, bold words, caption, timeline, heading, and glossary. Images of each of these text...
Quizlet
Quizlet: Nonfiction Text Features 3rd Grade Flashcards
Text feature terms (nonfiction) are included in this review exercise Flashcards are provided for the following words: map, table of contents, index, bold words, caption, timeline, heading, and glossary. Images of each of these text...
Quizlet
Quizlet: 3rd Grade History: Chapter 5: Flashcards
This set of flashcards focuses on 14 vocabulary terms for 3rd-grade history including the terms and definitions.
SMART Technologies
Smart: Sequence Putting Things in Order
Students will practice putting things in order, learn about sequence words, and use sequence words to produce a writing assignment within this interactive SMART whiteboard lesson.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Student Center Activities, Grades 4 5
In 2006-2007, FCRR reviewed current research, collected ideas, and created materials for use in fourth and fifth-grade classrooms. The 4-5 Student Center Activities include three books and one DVD. The first two books contain Activity...