NASA
Catch a Gravitational Wave, Dude!
It is cowabunga time! Pupils read an article about the NASA LISA mission on gravitational waves and conduct additional research on them. The class participates in a science bowl type competition about gravitational waves. Panels of four...
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: 103 Things to Do Before/during/after Reading
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...
PBS
Pbs: Multiple Methods of Reading Instruction
This article surveys three strategies to incorporate into classroom repertoire. They include guided reading, choral reading, and readers' theater.
Curated OER
History Matters: Landon in a Landslide: The Poll That Changed Polling
"Dewy Wins" is not the only big mistake made by journalists in predicting the outcome of presidential elections. This article from the Literary Digest, October 31, 1936, predicted that Alf Landon would defeat Franklin Roosevelt by a...
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Prediction Relay
Prediction Relay is an activity that was developed as part of the Peer-Assisted Learning Strategies (PALS). PALS is a classwide peer tutoring program in which teachers carefully partner a student with a classmate. The Prediction Relay...
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Cognitive Strategies Toolkit
This article describes eight cognitive strategies - including monitoring, tapping prior knowledge, and making predictions - to help readers develop their comprehension skills.
Other
Circle of Blue: National Security Assessment: Water Scarcity Disrupts Continents
Read this U.S. State Department report which finds a global confrontation between growing water demand and shrinking supplies, in addition to predictions for the next thirty years of water security.