Reading Instruction Lesson Plans Resources
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Activating Prior Knowledge
A complete collection of resources for applying this critical reading strategy Help your students be good readers with…Subjects:Reading and LiteratureReading ComprehensionReading Instruction -
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Predicting Lesson
Predicting actively engages students and connects them to what they read Predicting involves thinking ahead while…Subjects:ReadingReading Instruction -
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"The Fox and the Goat": A Lesson on Aesop's Fable
Use a lesson that provides students with an opportunity to learn about the characters in a fable by investigating their…SubjectsReadingLiteratureLanguage Arts and Writing -
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"Two Travelers and the Bear": A Lesson on Aesop's Fable
Use a lesson that provides students with an opportunity to recognize cause-and-effect relationships in a fable by Aesop.SubjectsLiteratureAncient CivilizationsReading and Literature -
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"The Grasshopper and the Owl": A Fable by Aesop
Use a lesson that provides students with an opportunity to draw conclusions using one of Aesop's enjoyable fables.…SubjectsReadingReading ComprehensionLiterature -
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Student Guide to Web Research Lesson 3: Learning to Read on the Web
Deliver a lesson plan that will help you teach students to read on the Web, a skill that is different from reading…SubjectsReading InstructionReading ComprehensionReading -
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Books to Use When Teaching Fables
Recommended books related to fables for classroom use.Subjects:ReadingFablesStorytelling -
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Blooming Tree
Reward students for reading books by adding to a student-made tree.SubjectsReading InstructionLanguage Arts and WritingReading -
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Aunt Isabel Tells a Good One and Aunt Isabel Makes Trouble
Create a memorable storytelling unit for your class with the help of this teacher's guide.Subjects:Reading ComprehensionLiteratureCreative Writing -
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The Boy Who Saved Baseball
Explore teaching activities to be used with The Boy Who Saved Baseball by John H. Ritter.Subjects:LiteratureBaseballReading and Literature -
BOOK GUIDES
The Secret Life of Bees
Share this literature guide with your secondary students; it provides activities to be used with the bestselling – and…Subjects:LiteratureReading and LiteratureNovels -
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Tolkien's Middle-earth Unit 1: Introducing Tolkien and His Worlds
Use the handouts in this printable guide to explore myths and folk tales from around the world that share the themes…Subjects:LiteratureFolk TalesFantasy Fiction -
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Tolkien's Middle-earth Unit 3: There and Back Again
Enhance students' reading experience of Tolkien's The Hobbit with lesson planning resources that accompany chapters…Subjects:LiteratureTeaching Tolkien – Lesson Planning ResourcesReading and Literature -
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Bella's Rules Common Core Curriculum and Discussion Guide
Bella likes to do things her way, but when her new puppy doesn't follow the rules she begins to see why her own behavior…Subjects:Reading InstructionChildren's BookReading -
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A Core Curriculum Guide for Penguin Young Readers: A Leveled Reading Program for Beginning Readers
Reach beginning readers with twelve lesson plans to use in conjunction with the Penguin Young Readers program. Written…Subjects:Early ReadingReading InstructionReading -
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The Donkey and the Dog
Use a lesson that provides students with an opportunity to compare and contrast by observing and analyzing…SubjectsLiteratureAncient CivilizationsReading and Literature -
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Organizing for Instruction
Find tips to motivate your students to read in the classroom.Subjects:Reading InstructionReadingReading and Literature -
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Tolkien's Middle-earth Unit 2: Runes, Riddles, and a Ring of Power
Discover the magic of language in Tolkien's work and deepen students' understanding of the text with the supplemental…Subjects:LiteratureTeaching Tolkien – Lesson Planning ResourcesLanguage Arts and Writing -
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Tolkien's Middle-earth Unit 5: "The Tides of Fate Are Flowing"
Explore the magical world of Tolkien with your class through the lesson planning resources in this teacher's guide for…Subjects:LiteratureTeaching Tolkien – Lesson Planning ResourcesReading and Literature -
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Tolkien's Middle-earth Unit 6: Treebeard's Lament
Examine the price of progress in The Lord of the Rings, Book Three, with the lesson planning resources in this printable…Subjects:LiteratureTeaching Tolkien – Lesson Planning ResourcesPlants and Botany -
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Tolkien's Middle-earth Unit 7: Tolkien's Moral Universe
Discuss the intricacies of a classic tale of good versus evil with the guided questions in this lesson planning unit for…Subjects:LiteratureTeaching Tolkien – Lesson Planning ResourcesReading and Literature -
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Bad Day at Riverbend Teacher's Guide
Your students will be delighted by the unique illustrations and storytelling in Chris Van Allsburg's Western, Bad Day at…Subjects:Reading and LiteratureReading InstructionLanguage Arts and Writing -
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The Wreck of the Zephyr Teacher's Guide
Consider the use of voice and the idea of ambiguity with your class as students read Chris Van Allsburg's The Wreck of…Subjects:Reading and LiteratureReading InstructionLanguage Arts and Writing -
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The Friday Society Unit Study
This 22-page unit study for The Friday Society by Adrienne Kress consists of pre-reading activities, two approaches to…Subjects:Reading InstructionLiterary Style and TechniquesReading
