An ebook by Core Knowledge features information about early United Stated presidents such as George Washington and Thomas Jefferson and social reformers such as Sojourner Truth and Frederick Douglas.

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 is a lesson for repeated readings including directions, materials needed, procedures, and evaluation. The goal is to increase students' reading fluency and, therefore, their reading comprehension.

This guide is written for college students, but should be very useful for upper level high school students as well. The writer first describes fourteen steps to take in doing a close reading, then provides six pieces of advice on how to...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This ReadWorks reading from the American Museum of Natural Anthropology's website called OLogy explains what archaeologists do. A paired passage entitled "Meet the Ologist-Chuck Spencer" is provided in...

[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about tornados written on the 2nd grade reading level. The text is followed by ten comprehension questions in multiple choice or extended response format. A link to answers is...

A higher level activity that helps students develop fluency in identifying open and closed syllable words.

A printable PDF explaining a reading workshop approach to reading accountability and book reports. Several leveled assignments are worth different amounts of points, and students choose which assignments they would like to do in order to...

This online learning module offers lessons about "characters" and practice exercises about "characters" in stories. These lessons are organized according to the grade levels to which they apply.

Students will sequence story events with the teacher and read an emergent reader in a guided setting. The chosen book, "Pilgrims and Wampanoag: Together They Were Better", has high use of sight words and high levels of picture support...

Would you sometimes rather be by yourself than with a group of friends? Do you get a little nervous when you meet someone new? It's very probable that you have felt shy before. Some people are just shy in certain situations, other people...

Maths Maps is a collaborative project where participants use Google maps to choose a location within one of the cities highlighted, then create a Math problem about the site. The problems are marked on the map with various colors...

As teachers, one of our goals is for every student to read and comprehend at or above grade level. We want students to take ownership of their reading, monitoring themselves while they are reading and self-correcting when they need to....

A list of books about animals for kids middle school and elementary aged reading levels can be found on this website.

This website contains a list of sports books and novels for kids middle school and elementary aged reading levels.

A list of wilderness books and novels for kids middle school and elementary aged reading levels can be found on this website.

The graph of the water level of a hot tub is presented and students are asked to tell the story of how the water level changes. Explanations of slope and functions accompany the problem.

A list of fantasy books for kids middle school and elementary aged reading levels.

Travel to the Grand Canyon with gophers and learn that if rocks can tell stories, so can YOU! Practice using two different kinds of questions: comparative and descriptive, and learn that during reading time, there is no such thing as a...

This instructional activity guide provides literacy activities for learning about climate change. The reading level is more accessible to struggling readers who may be studying this topic in the higher grades.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Watch videos, read grade-level texts, complete activities, and take assessments about prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells.

Self-esteem is something that we all have. It is how you look at yourself, how highly you value yourself. If you have good self-esteem, you're bound to be a little more confident and proud of yourself than a person who has a lower level...

Have you ever wondered about how much sleep you need? Watch a short video, read grade level text, and take an interactive quiz about the science behind sleep.

A comprehensive site that looks at the life, culture and environment of the Inuit. Suggested readings for middle schoolers are included as well as assignments of varying levels of difficulty.