ClassFlow
Class Flow: Reading Strategies
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a creative flipchart to enhance reading strategies for all readers who are reading to learn that can be used on a daily basis. It allows students to receive BEFORE, DURING, and AFTER reading...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Exploring Disability Using Multimedia and B D a Reading Strategy
History takes on new dimensions in this interactive multimedia lesson that emphasizes the B-D-A (before-during-after reading) approach to research as students investigate the experiences of people with disabilities since the early 1800s.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Tic Tac Toe; Letter Sound Accuracy Activity
A letter sound version of Tic Tac Toe that learners play with partners. Before they can take their turn, they must draw a letter and give three words that begin with that letter. Their partner must give them a thumbs up before they can...
Free Reading
Free Reading: Give Me Five; Letter Sound Accuracy Activity
An exciting game to build students' understanding and accuracy of producing words that begin with the same letter. Students sit in a circle and the teacher says the sound of the letter. One student must pass a bean bag around the circle...
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Anticipation Guides
An Anticipation Guide is a strategy that is used before reading to activate students' prior knowledge and build curiosity about a new topic. Before reading a selection, students respond to several statements that challenge or support...
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Concept Sorts
A concept sort is a strategy used to introduce students to the vocabulary of a new topic or book. Teachers provide students with a list of terms or concepts from reading material. Students place words into different categories based on...
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.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Teaching Reading 3 5: Session 3: Building Comprehension
This is a workshop for teachers of grades 3-5 with a focus on building reading comprehension. It includes a video demonstrating some of the strategies used as well as activities, printouts, and even tips for new teachers. [28:25]
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Reading: Understand New Vocabulary Using Roots and Affixes
In this lesson, you will learn about two kinds of affixes - prefix and suffix. Prefixes are attached, before a root or base word, and suffixes to the end of a word. You'll learn how all three word parts are keys to unlocking the meanings...
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Listen Read Discuss (Lrd)
Listen-Read-Discuss (LRD) (Manzo & Casale, 1985) is a comprehension strategy that builds students' prior knowledge before they read a text. During the first stage, students listen as you present the content of their reading through a...
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: List Group Label
It provides students with a way to recognize the relationships between words and concepts using their prior knowledge about a topic. The list-group-label strategy can be used before and after students read.
Read Works
Read Works: Genre 4th Grade Unit: Strategies for Identifying Genres
[Free Registration/Login Required] A instructional activity in which students use books from the classroom library to learn strategies that can be utilized to determine the genre of a book and to understand how knowing the genre before...
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Austin Independent School District
Austin Independent School District: Guided Reading [Pdf]
Learn what guided reading is and how it to use it in the classroom to increase literacy skills. Discover guided reading strategies to use before, during, and after reading. Then follow-up with information on how to create right questions...
Read Works
Read Works: Brazil Today: Carnaval
[Free Registration/Login Required] Free membership required. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding for vocabulary learning. It contains...
Read Works
Read Works: The Flying Machine
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage gives a brief history of the airplane and ideas that came before the invention. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Young Explorers
Abby Brown explores the world through books and activities. Each topic addresses developmentally appropriate instructional themes for kids ages 4-9. Academic content is layered in with storylines of fun and adventure! Children of all...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Making Predictions
This activity will use the trade book, Balto, the Dog Who Saved Nome, to teach making predictions. Students will also learn the true story of Balto and create their own fictional story of Balto.
Math Is Fun
Math Is Fun: Add Em Up
This is a demo version of the game with two modes of play. In one, you must place number tiles on a grid so that the tiles touching it add up to that number. In the second mode, you solve number puzzles. Be sure to read the instructions...