Reading Instruction Lesson Plans Resources
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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…SubjectsReadingReading ComprehensionLiterature -
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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…SubjectsReadingLiteratureLanguage Arts and Writing -
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Predicting Lesson
Predicting actively engages students and connects them to what they…Subjects:ReadingReading Instruction -
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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…SubjectsLiteratureAncient CivilizationsReading and Literature -
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Aunt Isabel Tells a Good One
By isolating basic story elements including setting, characters, problem, and…Subjects:LiteratureReading InstructionReading Comprehension -
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The Donkey and the Dog
Use a lesson that provides students with an opportunity to compare and contrast…SubjectsLiteratureAncient CivilizationsReading and Literature -
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The Boy Who Saved Baseball
Explore teaching activities to be used with The Boy Who Saved Baseball by John…Subjects:LiteratureBaseballReading and Literature -
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Books to Use When Teaching Fables
Recommended books related to fables for classroom use.Subjects:ReadingFablesStorytelling -
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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…SubjectsReading InstructionReading ComprehensionReading -
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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…Subjects:Reading ComprehensionLiteratureCreative Writing -
BOOK GUIDES
The Secret Life of Bees Literature Guide
This literature guide to Sue Monk Kidd's bestselling novel, The Secret Life of…Subjects:NovelsReading InstructionLanguage Arts and Writing -
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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…Subjects:Reading InstructionChildren's BookReading -
BOOK GUIDES
The Secret Life of Bees
Share this literature guide with your secondary students; it provides activities…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…Subjects:LiteratureFolk TalesFantasy Fiction -
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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…Subjects:Early ReadingReading InstructionReading -
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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'…Subjects:LiteratureTeaching Tolkien – Lesson Planning ResourcesLanguage Arts and Writing -
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Blooming Tree
Reward students for reading books by adding to a student-made tree.SubjectsReading InstructionLanguage Arts and WritingReading -
MAPS
Tolkien's Middle-earth Unit 3: There and Back Again
Enhance students' reading experience of Tolkien's The Hobbit with lesson…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…Subjects:LiteratureTeaching Tolkien – Lesson Planning ResourcesPlants and Botany -
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Aunt Isabel Makes Trouble
Students will be introduced to more complex issues of story development while…Subjects:LiteratureReading InstructionReading Comprehension -
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Sirens Common Core Discussion & Activity Guide
This 34-page activity guide for Sirens by Janet Fox follows a 5 week course of…Subjects:Reading Instruction1920sSuspense -
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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…Subjects:LiteratureTeaching Tolkien – Lesson Planning ResourcesReading and Literature -
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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…Subjects:LiteratureTeaching Tolkien – Lesson Planning ResourcesReading and Literature