Test scholar's reading comprehension skills with a practice that challenges pupils to read an informational text about the Amerian Revolution then answer 10 questions. 

Test scholars' reading comprehension skills with a practice that focuses on the Civil War. Participants read an informational text then answer 10 questions.

Young readers test their comprehension skills with an interactive practice. Pupils read a brief informational text about money then answer five questions. A detailed page appears at the end to showcase participants' work.

A collection of effective, research-based classroom strategies to help build and strengthen literacy skills in print awareness, phonological awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, and writing.

This strategy guide introduces an approach for making students aware of cognates (words that have a similar spelling, pronunciation, and meaning across languages) in content-area texts. This guide includes an introductory section about...

From a chapter on Statics and Torque in a Physics textbook. This section of the chapter discusses how statics can be applied in the real world, and strategies for solving statics problems. Includes a question, two exercises, and a...

This strategy guide explains how you can employ peer review in your classroom, guiding students as they offer each other constructive feedback to improve their writing and communication skills.

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

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 instructional activity focuses on specialized reading strategies such as online reading, reading in math, science, etc., and reading charts and graphs. It provides text, videos, charts and graphs, graphics, and a self-check.

The Monitoring/Clarifying strategy teaches students to recognize when they don't understand parts of a text and to take necessary steps to restore meaning. This technique is a component of the Reciprocal Teaching model in which teachers...

This article describes eight cognitive strategies - including monitoring, tapping prior knowledge, and making predictions - to help readers develop their comprehension skills.

This lesson plan explores reading strategies by creating a musical soundtrack to accompany the specific reading. Included in the lesson plan is an overview, practice, objectives, resources, preparation, and more.

This reading resource discusses the strategy of comparing and contrasting ideas. Students will learn definitions and explanations for similes, metaphors, and analogies. A list of guiding questions is provided to help students as they...

Contains plans for three lessons to improve reading comprehension using a visualizing strategy called sketch-to-stretch. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as well...

Writing enables students to process, organize, formulate, and extend their thinking about what they have been learning. In addition, teachers can also assign writing to help students evaluate what they know and understand about a topic....

Contains plans for a lesson that will provide students with strategies for spelling unfamiliar words. Students are asked to use phonological awareness and visual recall, analyze alternative spellings, and use a variety of resources...

The Obama administration is changing its strategy and timetable for US troops in Afghanistan. Caught between the desire of Karzai for limited American military role and the fear of not being able to fulfill the goal of subduing Taliban...

In this blog, a teacher offers strategies for building engaging digital lessons as a result of the Covid Pandemic. My first task is to figure out how to make my lessons clear. I am working without the benefit of being able to circle the...

Comprehension strategies are routines and procedures that readers use to help them make sense of texts. Struggling adolescent readers need direct, explicit instruction in comprehension strategies to improve their reading comprehension.

One of the most overlooked steps in research is preparing a strategy before beginning a search. This mini-lesson will help you construct time-saving searches.

This section of a chapter on "America's War for Independence" deals with Great Britain's response to the destruction of a British shipment of tea in Boston Harbor in 1773 and how it set the stage for the Revolution.

This article discusses how to begin teaching students in K-2 to record their ideas about text using highlighters, colored pens, large graphic organizers, and sticky notes. Students can retell a story with a storyboard, use a web to find...

Clear explanation of how journal articles tend to be structured, as well as tips for extracting information from each part. Includes sample, color-coded exercises.