Teaching students to read well in areas other than language arts requires teaching and reinforcing the kinds of reading strategies taught here. There are 27 strategies, ranging from brainstorming to word mapping. The site includes PDF...

During this lesson, students will use close reading strategies to analyze aspects of the setting in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. [7:57] CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.10, RL.11-12.10a/b Text Complexity

The importance of background knowledge is especially salient in the age of Common Core. This article offers practical classroom strategies to build background knowledge such as using contrasts and comparisons and encouraging...

This lesson focuses on reading strategies including understanding your purpose, and before, during, and after reading strategies.

This lesson plan enables young scholars to compile a list of vocabulary words in association with a recently read novel. Included in the lesson plan is an overview, practice, objectives, downloadable resources, an interactive tool, and...

Anticipating is an effective reading strategy for readers of all ages. Utilize this template and graphic organizer to help your students become better readers.

Summarizing is a key skill needed in reading comprehension. This page describes how to summarize main ideas in a text. Click on Model button for a model with explanation and then click on Practice (Bottom Right)

[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about a meteor that fell to Earth in 2013 and the witnesses who documented it. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.

This is a complete study guide for the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee including chapter-by-chapter guided reading questions (aligned to specific Common Core Standards), discussion questions, various writing prompts, and...

Walk your students through the writing process with this revision checklist. Students review their idea development, organization, sentence fluency and word choice. Click on appropriate grade-levels to get the desired checklists....

ACT has developed this list of activities to help middle-school students improve their reading ability. Parents and educators can use this information to help ensure that these students are on target for college and career readiness.

In this learning module, students will learn more about making inferences. Worksheets are provided to reinforce the skill of making inferences. This module is designed to support Tier I, Tier II, and Tier III students.

An article describing the importance of making inferences while reading a story.

Determine the theme of a story with this reading activity. See the model and then practice identifying the theme.

Engaged, accountable reading requires students to interpret, and respond, often creatively. This article suggests several personalized ways to hold students accountable for their reading.

As part of a review and close reading section of BBC Bitesize, this site presents an overview of various purposes of reading, including a five-bullet point explanation of reading purposes. Click the Next button for more information.

A short explanation of why fluency instruction is important and how fluency develops in a child.

Lesson that introduces students to the comprehension technique of summarizing. Students learn using the QuIP (questions into paragraphs) method which involves organizing information and putting it in writing.

A 5-lesson unit where students learn to use context clues and semantic gradients together to determine the meanings of unfamiliar words.

Contains plans for seven lessons about working dogs that teach critical thinking skills and a vocabulary strategy called Word Storms. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the...

Comprehension strategies are conscious plans - sets of steps that good readers use to make sense of text. Comprehension strategy instruction helps students become purposeful, active readers who are in control of their own reading...

This lesson explains how to reference an author's purpose when answering a reading comprehension question. This tutorial shares an audio version of the lesson's content. [3:14] RI.11-12.6 Eval Purpose, Rhetoric, Style

Students need to develop an extensive vocabulary to read with fluency. In turn, fluency in reading leads to increased comprehension. Fluency also comes from the written language of the reader since the student writes words he or she...

Young scholars will practice the reading comprehension skill of visualizing. Teachers will model the skill with All the Places to Love by Patricia MacLachlan. Then students will listen to Robert Service's poem "The Shooting of Dan...