Center for Parent Information and Resources
Nichcy: Visual Impairments Fact Sheet
This PDF fact sheet, written by the NICHCY, provides details on visual impairments, and includes a thorough definition, incidence, characteristics, and educational implications, as well as listed resources and organizations. Printable...
Center for Parent Information and Resources
Nichcy: Visual Impairments Fact Sheet
This fact sheet, written by the NICHCY, provides details on visual impairments, and includes a thorough definition, incidence, characteristics, and educational implications, as well as listed resources and organizations. Printable for an...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Workshops: Teaching Reading 3 5
This instructional workshop provides eight sessions on teaching reading in intermediate classrooms: "Creating Contexts for Learning," "Fluency and Word Study," "Building Comprehension," "Writing," "New Literacies of the Internet,"...
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Strategy Guide: Teaching How Scientists Make Inferences [Pdf]
This guide includes an introductory section about visual evidence, a general overview of how to use this strategy with many science texts, and a plan for teaching how to use visual evidence to make inferences with the Seeds of...
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Power Notes
Power Notes is a strategy that teaches students an efficient form of organizing information from assigned text. This technique provides students a systematic way to look for relationships within material they are reading. Power Notes...
Other
Keywords: A Memorization Strategy [Pdf]
This is a teachers' guide to teaching students how to use keywords and visualization as tools to help them remember important facts. This PDF file provides a list of materials necessary for the lesson, as well as a script and tips for...
Other
Wisconsin Educational Communication Board: Into the Book
This series of videos and interactive activities provide an excellent set of resources for teaching or learning the 8 research based reading strategies provided here. After receiving your "key" you can investigate the features inside and...
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Story Maps
Story Maps are used for teaching students to work with story structure for better comprehension. This technique uses visual representations to help students organize important elements of a story. Students learn to summarize the main...
Auburn University
Auburn University: Developing Reading Fluency
How can you develop reading fluency in your students? This site offers insight into the direct and indirect approaches to teaching reading fluency. Come and check it out.
LD Online
Ld Online: Learning Disabilities Online: Phoneme Awareness Activity
What do you know about phoneme activities for collaborative classrooms? This site will show how to develop your own activities to sharpen your students phonemic awareness skills. This informative resource will support any teacher's work...
New Zealand Ministry of Education
Nz Ministry of Education: As Far as the Eye Can See
View a variety of television advertisements analyzing visual and verbal features and how these are combined to communicate ideas. Write a coherent essay which expresses and argues a viewpoint about a chosen marketing strategy, linking...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Witches Brew
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart concentrates on subtraction but uses a wide variety of teaching strategies to help students understand subtraction. The clever theme keeps their attention and problems are stated in...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Zoo Addition
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart concentrates on addition but uses a wide variety of teaching strategies to help students understand addition. The clever theme keeps their attention and problems are stated in several...
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Family Reading Activities
This site features family reading activities that will guide parents with their children's reading development.
Kidsource OnLine
Phonemic Awareness: Important Early Step to Reading
This site features an article that looks at the importance of phonemic awareness as an early step to learning to read. Teachers will benefit from the information presented within this article.
Other
Lesson Plan: Decoding: Context Activity
What does it mean to decode words in a context activity? Explore this lesson plan to find the answer to this question and more.
Other
Lesson Plan: Decoding: Context Activity
What does it mean to decode words in a context activity? Explore this lesson plan to find the answer to this question and more.