Interactive
Mr. Nussbaum

Money

For Students 1st - 2nd Standards
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.
Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Expository Text Structure: Book Look [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which students look through a book to identify text features and complete a graphic organizer. Materials are included.
Lesson Plan
Read Works

Read Works: Vocabulary in Context 2nd Grade Unit: Glossary

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A activity in which students learn to use a glossary to determine the meanings of unfamiliar words. Lesson utilizes the book The Life Cycle of an Emperor Penguin by Robin Johnson and Bobbie Kalman and...
Professional Doc
AdLit

Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Semantic Feature Analysis

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
The Semantic Feature Analysis strategy engages students in reading assignments by asking them to relate selected vocabulary to key features of the text. This technique uses a matrix to help students discover how one set of things is...
Primary
Lumen Learning

Lumen: Enlightenment: Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

For Students 9th - 10th
Use the text or audio of Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin to consider the two learning outcomes below. Describe the major historical and cultural developments of the Enlightenment; explain key concepts. Describe the major conventions,...
Unit Plan
National Center for Families Learning

Ncfl: Wonderopolis: Wonder of the Day #1324: What Happened to the Lost Colony?

For Students 3rd - 6th
A video and article about the Lost Colony of Roanoke. Has an audio feature that highlights text as the article is read aloud. As well, individual highlighted words link to pop-up definitions and are used in a word definition game. [1:59]