Karen Houck's List: Reading Strategies

Links to sites with games already linked for your reading strategies.

Many links to other websites that are about inferences in reading.

How to create inferences when reading and what inferencing during reading is.

This is a lesson plan that could be used for creating mental images.

This is a lesson plan for creating mental images.

This website is listed below, but is a link to the powerpoints for summarizing.

This quest takes you though how to get students to summarize and gives strategies for how to teach this concept.

Various worksheets and stories that can be used to model the sequence of events.

Game Classroom is a one-stop destination for accessing educational games and homework help for Kindergarten through 6th grade students

After reading a short story, this site has you make and confirm predictions. This could be a shared reading part to a lesson.

This is a resource website for teachers which focus includes literacy engagements, lessons, standards, web resources, and even student materials. It contains many lesson plans on various reading topics, including reading strategies.

This gives information on the six comprehension strategies: making connections, questioning, visualizing, inferring, determining importance, and synthesizing. Each strategy has a few links to show examples, define the strategy, and worksheets that go to the strategy.

This is a resource website with links to book chapters, and articles. There is also a separate grade level teacher's section which provides links to lesson plans, professional development, integrating technology, and the current best practices.

This website is full of power points only. It has pre-made powerpoints for every subject area from reading to science, social studies, and math. Each subject is broken into various categories and each category has a few powerpoints to choose from.

This is a website with a large amount of researched based information for teachers, coaches, administrators, parents, and researchers. Staff created various center activities which pertain to various strategies and practices within reading. It also defines the various assessments in reading and gives many examples/links to find deeper understanding.

This is another content related area website which defines strategies that are helpful to readers. As you click on each of the twenty strategies, the link leads you to a definition of the strategy. Questions are also given to ask students that involve each particular strategy.

The Into the Book teacher area provides resources for teaching eight reading comprehension strategies for grades 1-4. Features teacher guides, lesson plans, posters, video and audio clips, downloads, and more. This website is accessible for both teachers and students. The teacher site focuses on the eight strategies of reading and gives lessons, examples, and videos to go with each. The student side has games to go with each of the strategies.

This website gives different strategies for reading comprehension in Social Studies. It gives various links to clock buddies, graphic organizers, and even think-pair-share. It gives instructions for the strategy and also a chart to go with the instructions.

This website focuses on teaching kids to read and also helps those who struggle. There are again links for teachers, parents, and librarians. The website features different links to teaching, classroom strategies, themed book lists, and various other topics. It also features various interviews with authors on their books and writing in general.

Scholastic's extensive web-resources include various authors, books, and lesson plans that co-inside with many different reading strategies. It also features book discussions/recommendations. It is user friendly and easy to navigate around. The top task bar has links for teachers, parents, administrators, and even librarians