Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Recognition Quick Guide
How do you approach Recognition questions? Perhaps the most basic task of Reading Comprehension on the LSAT is that of recognizing things that the passage text states on a literal, explicit level, so these types of questions may seem...
Read Works
Read Works: The History and Process of Voting
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage focuses on the American federal voting process including its history and how the process works. It is followed by a comprehension question set.
Read Works
Read Works: The What and Who of Elections
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage focuses on the election process in the United States of America including the federal offices, the laws on voting, and the registration to vote. It is followed by a comprehension question set.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Main Point Quick Guide
The first question in most Reading Comprehension sets will ask you to identify the statement that best expresses the central idea or the main point that the passage as a whole is designed to convey.
Colorado State University
Colorado State Writing Center: Critical Reading
In-depth instructions on critical reading with lots of links to more reading guides and activities. A good site to help improve reading skills to become a better writer.
Other
Cuesta College: Reading Comprehension Guide: Inferences and Conclusions
Explanations and examples of inferences and conclusions in reading and in understanding context clues to define unknown vocabulary.
CommonLit
Common Lit: Women in Ancient Rome
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...
CommonLit
Common Lit: Excerpt From Peter Pan: "When Wendy Grew Up"
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Listen, Look, and Learn: An Information Gathering Process
This lesson models an information-gathering process for primary learners as they listen to and look at resources, seeking information pertinent to the questions on an information wheel. Guiding the listening, looking, and learning...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Primary Purpose Quick Guide
Primary purpose questions ask us to identify why the author may have written the passage. As you read through the passage the first time, it's a good idea to always be asking yourself: "So what?" "What's the point?"
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Reading 101: A Guide to Teaching Reading and Writing
Reading 101 is a self-paced professional development course for K-3 teachers. It presents some of the core information that teachers need to help young children learn to read and write well and to support the children who struggle. The...
HotChalk
Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Big Book Activities: What Will the Weather Be Like Today?
In this K-2 lesson, the teacher uses guided reading strategies and creative activities to make a big book come alive to her students.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Houghton Mifflin Books: Zathura by Chris Van Allsburg
This comprehensive teacher's guide for the book "Zathura" by Chris Van Allsburg provides us with an opportunity to examine how writers blend scientific information with a fictional story.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Organizing Information Quick Guide
Organizing information questions ask you to understand and analyze how a passage works to make an argument. What is the progression of ideas in the passage? or What is the purpose of a specific paragraph?
Biz Move
Bizmove.com: Business Customer Relationship Management
Comprehensive overview from bizmove.com focuses on understanding who your customer is, motivation behind purchase, when purchase takes place, and understanding that what they "buy" is not necessarily what they want. Good presentation....
Shmoop University
Shmoop: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Summary
Read all about the Adventures of Huckleberry in this comprehensive site that covers the major points of the plot.
Shmoop University
Shmoop: A Perfect Day for Bananafish
This fascinating short story written by J. D. Salinger in 1948 is explored in depth in this site. Read about the characters, analysis important quotations and explore themes in this comprehensive site.
Shmoop University
Shmoop: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
This intriguing short story was first published in 1922. Read about the characters stepping back in time and the important quotations in the novel from this comprehensive site.
Shmoop University
Shmoop: The House of Spirits
Published in Spain in 1982 this novel follows a Chilean family and thier connection with upsetting poitical events of the 1970s. Read about the characters, plot and important themes in this comprehensive site.
Shmoop University
Shmoop: The Importance of Being Earnest
Oscar Wilde's most famous play is profiled here in this comprehensive site. Read about the characters, the themes and important quotations in the play in this interesting site.
Other
Discover Hong Kong
A comprehensive site for visitors to Hong Kong, virtual or real. Visit the Interactive Gallery to see videos or photos, read your Chinese horoscope, listen to the sounds of a Hong Kong marketplace. Learn about Chinese cuisine (you'll...