[Free Registration/Login Required] Lesson plan with materials to use with the book Passage to Freedom: The Sugihara Story.

The highly-respected Reading Rockets program offers both teachers and students a toolkit of ways to connect more actively with the materials they read. Some of these techniques are specifically for fiction-reading, others are designed...

This tutorial focuses on active reading comprehension strategies including reading aloud, taking notes, summarizing, and writing in the margins of books to improve retention and class discussion. It includes two Flickr videos on active...

This lesson engages students in fluency stories related to Dr. Seuss' stories. Students will engage in reading these texts with meaningful phrases, intonation, and expression. The Sneetches, Yertle the Turtle, Gertrude McFuzz, What Was I...

This instructional activity engages students in the read aloud book of Elinor J. Pinczes, One Hundred Hungry Ants, and in daily reinforcement of counting activities. Students will engage in a number of activities connected to the 100th...

Read all about favorite author Mem Fox in this very comprehensive website. Features her biography, her books and some stories even read aloud.

Emergency drills (fire drills especially) can be terrifying for preschoolers. It's loud, interruptive, and there can be kids everywhere! This site includes examples of read-aloud books and drill routine posters you can adapt to your...

The class will read the informational text "Together They Were Better". As the teacher reads the book aloud, she/he will use the illustrations from each page to give students clues as to the text on the page, helping them to see the...