Reading Instructional Strategies

Reading Comprehension Strategies

• Reading Comprehension Resources
• Comprehension Strategies
• Learning Strategies
• ReadingQuest Strategies
• Just Read Now--Collection of Reading Strategies with Examples
• A list of 103 Activities to do Before/During/After Reading (From The English Teachers Companion)
• Greece School District List of Reading Strategies
• Reading in Content Area Instructional Strategies (Take a Look at These)
• Resources for Language Arts and Reading Research

Prepreparational Reading Strategies, During Reading Strategies, and Follow Up Strategies (Favorites)

Anticipation/Reaction Guide

Anticipation/Reaction Guides

• Anticipation/Reaction Guide Templates
• Anticipation/Reaction Guide--Narrative Example
• Anticipation/Reaction Guide Example

Concept Map

Concept Maps

• Concept Maps Resources
• Concept Maps--Examples
• Concept Maps--Examples
• What Am I Graphic Representation--Example

Vocabogram

Vocabogram

KWL

KWL

• KWL Explanation
• KWL Explanation 2
• KWL Example Charts
• KWL Chart Generator
• KWL Plus

DRTA

DTRA Lesson

• DRTA Example: Pirates Past Noon
• DRTA Example: Uncle Jed's Barbershop
• DRTA Example: Princess Furball

Elements of a Story

Elements of a Story Overview

• Advanced Discussion of Story Elements
• Elements of a Story
• Story Element Activities
• Story Elements Graphic Organizer
• Story Map (1)
• Story Map (2)
• Search Google for Story Map

Setting

• Using Picture Books to Teach Setting
• Setting--Graphic Organizer
• Setting--Comparison Organizer

Character Analysis

• Character Sketcher Assignment
  • Example of Character Sketcher--Implied Traits with Bud, Not Buddy
  • Example of Character Sketcher
  • Character Traits—List of Adjectives
  • Character Traits--List of Descriptive Words
• Letter to a Character
  • See NCSCOS English/Language Arts Composition Products Guide (by grade level)
  • Picture Books that Feature Letters
  • Lesson for Teaching Friendly Letter
    • Mini-Lesson Outline
    • Reading/Writing Workshop
    • Friendly Letters Mini-Lesson
    • Example Letters from Dear Peter Rabbit
    • Friendly Letter Checklist
    • Friendly Letter Revision Guide
    • Example Letter to a Character (to correct)
    • 6 + 1 Writing Traits
• Wanted Poster Example
  • http://etc.usf.edu/plans/lessons/lp/lp0106v.htm – Pirate Wanted Poster
  • http://www.atlantictallships.ca/gv.php?GuideID=27&lang=e – Pirate Wanted Poster
  • Search google for wanted posters
    http://www.fbi.gov/wanted.htm -- FBI List of Most Wanted
  • http://iitc.tamu.edu/lessons/lesson38.html -- Wanted Posters in Science

Plot

• Discussion of Plot--Wikipedia
• Plot Diagram--Cinerella Example
• Plot Diagram--Read, Write, Think
• Plot Flow Chart

Figurative Language (Tone and Mood)

• Figurative Language--Metaphor, Alliteration, Simile, Personification, Onomatopoeia
• Figurative Language Resources
• Figurative Language Links
• Examples of Figurative Language
• Metaphors and Other Types of Figurative Language
• Dictionary of Idioms and Idiomatic Expressions
• Idioms--List of Idioms
• ESL Idiom Page
• Idiom Connection
• Figurative Language in Poetry
• Lesson Plan for Simile and Metaphor
• Class Book of Idioms (Illustrations)
• Examples of Figurative Language (Illustrations)
  • Bud, Not Buddy 1
  • Bud, Not Buddy 2
  • Bud, Not Buddy 3

Literature Circle Roles (See more detailed examples in other resources--below)

• Literature Circle Assignment--Overview and Examples
• Discussion Director Assignment
  • Discussion Director Example
  • Discussion Director Lower Grades (Discussion Director Polar Bears Past Bedtime)
• Character Sketcher Assignment
  • Example of Character Sketcher--Implied Traits with Bud, Not Buddy
  • Example of Character Sketcher
  • Character Traits—List of Adjectives
• Passage Picker Lower Grades (Passage Picker Polar Bears Past Bedtime)
• Word Wizard Polar Bears Past Bedtime
• Internet Investigator
  • Internet Workshop (Leu) and Internet Workshop Resources
  • Child Friendly Search Engines
  • Web Search for Kids
  • Internet Workshop Bud, Not Buddy Workshop #1
  • Internet Workshop Bud, Not Buddy Workshop #2
  • Internet Workshop for The Frog Princess
  • Students Can Summarize What They Find In Internet Workshop by Creating: What AM I
    • iKeepBookmarks.com allows you to upload, and keep, your bookmarks on the web for free.
      You can access them at any time, from any computer... anywhere!

Literature Circle Units (Upper Grades):

Vocabulary Instruction

• Vocabulary Instruction Examples
• Vocabulary Assessment Examples
• Vocabulary Exercises for Uncle Jed's Barbershop
• NCSCOS Goals and Objectives for Language Arts--Word Study/Vocabulary
• Vocabogram

Vocabulary Resources

• Frayer Model for Graphically Representing Words
• Frayer Model for Vocabulary Study
• Frayer Example in Mathematics

Dictionary Resources

• One Look Dictionary Search
• Merriam-Webster OnLine
• Merriam-Webster Word Central (for kids)
• The Free OnLine Dictionary
• Cambridge OnLine Dictionary
• Picture Dictionary
• Babel Fish Translation--Web site that translates blocks of text to other languages.
• LookWayUp Translator
• Vocabulary of the Day
  • Merriam-Webster
  • SuperKids 4th-6th
  • Wordsmith.org
• Fun-with-words.com
• Dictionary References
• Dictionary References (Online Publications)
• KidSpace

Reading (Learning) Log/Response Journal

• Reading (Learning) Log Example
• Double Entry Diary Assignment
  • Double Entry Diary Example
  • Double Entry Diary Example from Bud, Not Buddy

Graphic Organizers

• Types of Graphic Organizers
• Examples of Graphic Organizers
• Graphic Organizers
• Graphic Organizers
• Collection from Scholastic
• Sketch to Stretch (Illustrate a Theme or Story Structure)--Simple Explanation
  • Sketch to Stretch (Read, Write, Think)
  • Examples of Responses to Books by Elementary School Children
    • (Includes Sketch to Stretch)

Creating ABC Books

• ABC Book Assignment
• ABC Book Examples
• Sleeping Bear Press -- Check Out the Teacher's Guides
• ABC Book Links
  • Oceanography ABC Books--Great Lesson Plan for Science and Language Arts
  • ABC Books and Activities-- Sue LeBeau's Comprehensive Site for Making ABC Books
  • Lesson Plan for ABC Books
  • Comprehensive List of Published ABC Books
  • Example of ABC Book on Dinosaurs
  • Example of ABC Book with Young Children
  • Example of ABC Book with Poems for Each Letter--from Hans Christian Andersen : The A-B-C Book

Artistic Impressions

• I Am Poem -- From A Character's Point of View (Bud, Not Buddy)
  • Example I Am Poem from Bud, Not Buddy
• What Am I -- List of Traits, Guess What, or Who I Am
• Illustration -- Representation of Elements of Bud, Not Buddy
• Write a Feature Story In Response to Book
  • Feature Story Assignment--Example from Bud, Not Buddy

Reader's Theater

Reader's Theater: What is it?

• Article About Reader's Theater
• Article About Reader's Theater and Reading Aloud
• Scholastic Article About Reader's Theater
• Aaron Shepard’s RT Page Scripts and Tips for Reader’s Theater
• Literacy Connection Resources
• Reader's Theater Resources
• Scripts for Schools
• Free Scripts and Teachers Guide
• Scripts for Reader's Theater--Many selections scripted
• Reader's Theater Lesson Plans
• Reader's Theater Resources
• Reader's Theater Overview
• Reader's Theater Lesson Plan
• Poems for Reader's Theater
• Reader's Theater in 3rd grade--pictures from Beth Frye

Presentation of Unit and Work

Bud Caldwell's Student Packet Covers--Examples

6 Point Lesson Plan

Lesson Plan for Great Depression (Bud, Not Buddy) 6 point lesson example (word document)

Other Resources

Literature Circle Units

• Character Sketcher	o Character Traits—List of Adjectives o Example
• Passage Picker	o Example
• Word Wizard	o Example
• Discussion Director	o Example
• Internet Investigator	o Example

Literature Circle Assignment

The Bad Beginning: Examples of Literature Circle Jobs

Elements of a story

KWL

Double Entry Diary

Internet Workshop (Lue) and Internet Workshop Resources

Harvey Daniel's' Literature Circle Web Site

 

Phonics Web Site

 

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