Important strategy for students.
Important strategy for students.
Good strategy to use with students.
Strategies for reading expository text; easy to understand guidelines and recommendations.
A website for teachers that "explores comprehension and content reading strategies and when to use them in social studies." Site includes templates and handouts, when necessary.
Although it was created for social studies teachers, the strategies are applicable for all content areas.
List of websites that provide free books, short stories, poems, and other literature. Here are 25 places you can find free literature and literature summaries online:
Reading resources for many titles; includes Lexile of material (number in green) by each title.
Links to articles in the Handbook of Reading Research III.
Searchable index webpage for hundreds of articles about reading education.
Suggestions for increasing motivation and engagement in reading.
Lots of titles and suggested activities; part of Choice Literacy website; lots of other resources here.
Collection of Word/pdf files on a variety of topics: assessment, writing, comprehension, etc.
Includes excellent information about reading in middle school;l lots of background information about teaching reading. Good stuff.
Article about using reading workshop at Jonesboro Middle School.
The Reading Teacher's Sourcebook offers middle school reading teachers an overview of research-based instructional approaches for teaching struggling readers.
Discusses issues of reading without meaning. Includes links at the end to previous posts on this topic.
Graphic organizers to assist with reading comprehension; include Organizer Patterns, Reading Comprehension, Character Analysis, Plot, Assessment,