Literacy and Reading Skills, Page 3
Rain, Rain, Go Away!
A weather WebQuest for "reading to be informed." Students learn about the water cycle.
Read, Please
This application coverts text to speech. It's great for LD and ESL students, for struggling readers, and as a final step in the proofreading process. This is a commercial product, but as I create this link, it has a free download (Read Please 2003). Windows only.
Reader's Theater
Background, scripts, and ideas for using RT in the classroom.
Reading and Language Arts Resources on the Internet
Resources on these topics: What to Read and How to Encourage It, Reading Research, Reading Disorders, Lesson Plans, and others.
Reading the Movies: Another Approach to Teaching Critical Thinking Skills and Writing
This lesson utilizes elements of film to analyze character, action, and theme in the 1994 movie Quiz Show. Through classroom discussion, journaling, and a multi-paragraph critical essay, the lesson also encourages students to make personal connections and real life applications as they view movies and television critically as well as for entertainment. This unit is designed for grades 11 and 12 and takes about 7 days. Access requires Adobe Reader.
Reading and Writing via the Myths
Strategies to motivate students to read, write, and follow their interests into other areas. This unit is designed for grades 4-6 and includes an extensive related reading list.
Reading: Instructional Philosophy and Teaching Suggestions
This extensive page has to have one or two ideas for teaching reading skills that you haven't tried yet! This list was compiled for grades 6-9 but has ideas that can be adapted to many levels.
Reading Journal Prompts
These prompts are designed for middle school students. There are 14 prompts for fiction and 4 for nonfiction.
Reading Plans from The Teacher's Desk
A variety of activities related to different reading skills. Designed for grades 5 and 6.
Reading Quest: Strategies for Reading Comprehension
Originally designed for social studies, this site offers 27 strategies for developing student literacy.
Reading Response Journals
Suggestions for responding to reading.
Trading Card
This page was not designed with education in mind, but it will serve nicely for responding to reading, especially character analysis. Students upload a picture, add some icons and text, save the resulting picture to their desktops, and then print a "trading card."
Sentence Segmentation
Twelve activities to help K-1 students separate sentences into words. This 54-page document includes all the printables needed and requires Adobe Reader for access. (Suggestion: save the document to your computer and print only the pages you need.)
Shared Reading
Description of the strategy and tips for success.
Skimming and Scanning: Using The [New York] Times to Develop Reading Skills
In this lesson, students practice and explore the reading skills of skimming and scanning with the front page of The New York Times and come away understanding how and when to use these skills. The process outlined here will translate to other texts, as well.
Songs 4 Teachers
Free, original theme-related songs and poems for educators to download, activities, books suggestions, midis, links and more.
Star Words
Designed for kindergarten or grade 1, this lesson combines astronomy and study of word families ig, at, and it.
Strategies for Reading Comprehension
A list of 28 strategies to support reading skills. All include a description; some also include printables.
Storyline Online
Members of the Screen Actors Guild read children's books aloud. Each book comes with activities and lesson ideas.
StoryPlace: The Children's Digital Library
Available in both English and Spanish, this site offers reading activities for preschool and elementary readers and their families. Follow the link to Book Hive to find a site for middle school readers.
Story Station
Online texts of contemporary stories for children and young adult readers.
Theme Units from abcteach.com
Printable activity sheets, puzzles, facts, and related links for elementary/primary students. New units are under construction, so check back often.
TLS Books: Free Worksheets
Free printable elementary worksheets for reading (also math, some science and history). Adobe Reader required for access.
Tween Tribune
News for kids, by kids, with the classroom in mind. Free registration grants access to additional support and allows students to post comments in a COPPA-compliant environment.
Using Poetry to Teach Reading
Suggestions from a veteran teacher, including day-by-day activities, management tips, a reminder about copyright, and suggested poets.
Words and Pictures
This site uses a fun, multi-media approach to learning specific phonics concepts. Good for extra practice, differentiation.
Yo! Yes!
To develop reading comprehension, emergent readers use picture cues in comic books and in Yo! Yes! by Chris Raschka.
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