Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Active Reading Strategies Part 1: Sq3 R
This Khan Academy Resource is an article about Active Reading Strategies Part 1: SQ3R.
TES Global
Blendspace: Runners Active Reading Process
A nine-part learning module on using the acronym RUNNERS to learn active reading strategies through text, videos, a PowerPoint, a web link and a quiz.
Rick Beach
Teaching Literature to Adolescents, 2nd Edition: Teaching Reading Strategies
The textbook entitled Teaching Literature to Adolescents, 2nd Edition contains activities for Chapter 8 reflection. Intended for teachers, this site contains activities that will extend the content from the Chapter 8. Focus of the...
TES Global
Blendspace: Reading Strategies for Complex Texts
A nine-part learning module on reading strategies including links to videos, images, websites, and activities.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Free Reading: Sounding Out Activities
A wonderful site full of tips for teaching the skills of sounding out words. This site has a plethora of links that provide an excellent way to practice and memorize the essential skills of sounding out words. The links using every...
University of South Florida
Fcat Reading Grade 4: Teaching Strategies
This is a great resource that concentrates strategies and student activities in one place in an easy to use format, and can be navigated easily. Find great examples of probable passage, selective underlining, and semantic feature...
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Activities for Struggling Readers
How can you help the struggling readers in your classroom? This site offers some insight into activities to help develop your students reading skills.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Family Reading Activities
This site features family reading activities that will guide parents with their children's reading development.
Other
Live Binders: Acre:snorkeling to Deep Sea Diving: Breaking Beyond Surface Reading
This unit from North Carolina Public Schools focuses on Common Core Standards for Reading including close reading strategies, questions teachers should ask themselves, and reading activities.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Read Write Think
ReadWriteThink offers hundreds of classroom resources for teaching and learning language arts and literacy. Resources range from lesson plans to student interactives, to after-school activities, and professional development.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Thumbs Up or Thumbs Down? Letter Sound Accuracy Game
An exciting activity for the whole class to practice listening for a specific letter sound. When they hear a word with the sound they are listening for they give it a thumbs up; if it doesn't have the sound, they give it a thumbs down....
Free Reading
Free Reading: Beginning Sounds; Poem
An activity that can be adapted for the whole class, small group, or large group. The instructor first reviews a letter and its sound, then presents the group with a poem with that letter that the students will then identify.
Other
Wisconsin Educational Communication Board: Into the Book
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...
Free Reading
Free Reading: Beginning Sound Spin Letter Sound Accuracy Activity
Builds students' abilities to identify the sound of a letter and say if a word begins with that sound. The student spins a wheel and says what letter/sound it stops on. Then they find a picture that begins with that sound. This site...
Free Reading
Free Reading: Holiday Relay: A Sounding Out Game
A small group game to practice word and sound recognition and accuracy. Given a sound or word, each student on team runs to pile of holiday shapes, finds the letter, or picture that begins with the sound, or brings back all the letters...
Free Reading
Free Reading: Word Potato: A Sounding Out Accuracy Game
A small group game to practice word and sound recognition and accuracy. A word version of "Hot Potato" in which the students pass around a basket of words. The last student to hold the basket must pick a word and sound it out. If they...
Free Reading
Free Reading: Word Baseball: A Sounding Out Accuracy Game
A small group game to practice word and sound recognition and accuracy. Students are divided into two teams and when "up to bat" sound out a word on a card accurately, and then pick a card from the baseball plays in a bucket.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Bingo! Sounding Out Accuracy Game.
A game of Bingo! for the whole classroom where the teacher sounds out a word and the students try to find the word on their individual bingo cards.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Draw Two: A Sounding Out Accuracy Game
A whole group game to practice word and sound recognition and accuracy. Students pull a card out of a hat and if they can sound it out accurately they keep the card. But Watch out! You may draw a card that says Draw Two! Then the student...
Free Reading
Free Reading: "You're a Liar!" a Letter Sound Accuracy Game
A small group game using cards with letters of the alphabet on them. The object is to place cards face down in a pile in alphabetical order. Based on an old card game called "I doubt it." This site has a link to a Letter card site for...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Reflecting on Reading
This lesson explains the reading strategy of reflecting on reading. This tutorial lesson shares a short slideshow with the lesson's content.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: At Home Literacy Activities
Families are a child's first educator and can serve as valuable partners throughout a child's literacy development. Providing families with quick, easy-to-use activities and strategies to use at home strengthens school-home connections...
PBS
Pbs: Multiple Methods of Reading Instruction
This article surveys three strategies to incorporate into classroom repertoire. They include guided reading, choral reading, and readers' theater.
US Department of Education
U.s. Department of Education: Helping Your Child Become a Reader
Help young learners become better readers with these literacy resources and ready-to-use reading strategies.