Practice reading and pronouncing words that have a vowel followed by the letter R.

Brush up on your reading comprehension skills when you check out this website. It looks at a particular strategy called QAR. QAR stands for "Question-Answer Relationships." This particular strategy helps students learn to answer reading...

Students will get exposure to a folktale and work to understand the moral. This lesson uses two fables "The Fox and the Grapes" and "The Fox and the Hen". The lesson involves guided practice where the students write notes on the left...

Using "Have You Seen My Cat?" students will learn to recognize high-frequency words. There are supplementary materials provided, as well as several links to useful websites.

This is a lesson plan for teaching storytelling and/or fables to first graders including listening, reading, lesson learned (moral), and follow up ideas.

This site offers two ideas for lessons/activities for students during "Get Caught Reading" month. It was taken from ReadWriteThink's calendar on May 1, 2007, and includes activities, web links, and a bibliography.

Contains plans for short, daily minilessons that use nursery rhymes to teach basic reading skills. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as well as assessment and...

Students will use words acquired through reading to describe images (with adjectives) that demonstrate an understanding of characters in a story. The teacher will read Miss Nelson is Back which has great descriptors and will hold a class...

[Free Registration/Login Required] With this lesson plan, students can learn how several authors can write about the same topic, but for different purposes.

A lesson plan with all resources included for asking and answering questions to strengthen comprehension.

Students will identify the similarities and differences between different versions of fictional stories by completing a double bubble map. Included in this lesson are teacher questions, a bubble map printable, a video of a class...

This lesson is designed to give students practice creating and reading bar graphs as well as understanding how to accurately represent a graph with appropriate units.

[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan and materials to teach kindergarten students that fairy tales start with "Once upon a time" and have a happy ending.

In this lesson, students will take a more active role in their learning by discussing a read aloud with their partners. The teacher will become more of a facilitator in the lesson and allow the children to "wrangle" with the content.

In this instructional activity, students will be able to gather information from provided resources to answer a question. Using the book "Owls", the teacher will read the book while asking guiding questions. After the book, the students...

Learners will read an article and determine the author's point and identify the reasons the author gives to support his or her point. This lesson requires analysis by the students and a great deal of higher-order thinking as they...

Contains plans for two 50-minute lessons that ask young scholars to identify the most important word in a piece of writing. Shel Silverstein?s poem ?Sick? is used as an example. In addition to student objectives and standards, this...

Contains plans for three lessons that teach about sound and letters using Dr. Seuss's "Mr. Brown Can MOO! Can You?" In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as well as...

Students will write about what they would trade for gold and practice inventive spelling in the process. After reading "In 1492", students will discuss how Christopher Columbus traded with the natives and then write what they would trade...

Students will be able to identify similarities and differences between two texts about the polar habitats by using a Venn diagram. Included in this lesson are guided questions to use while reading, a printable Venn Diagram, and pictures...

Once students realize they are able to gain more information and expand their learning by asking questions, they love to use their question words. In the end, the more students ask, the more they will have to answer; therefore, the more...

Oral language development is crucial to Kindergarteners because it lays the foundation for the development of reading and writing. One of the main skills young scholars need to tackle is speaking in complete sentences. With this lesson,...

This is a practice lesson plan designed to excite sports fans in a unit about determining who is speaking in a story. The students practice this specific skill as the teacher models it in the hook. They get guided practice sorting and...

What is autism? How does it affect behavior? Students will find evidence of the author's tone or purpose for writing the article, as well as hints that show evidence of opinion. Includes a video clip from the movie "Rainman", and an...