TEACHING RESOURCE
Download for free! As you may have inferred...this is a critical reading skill! Making an inference involves using what…
To encourage critical reading, teachers should ask students questions about the text before, during, and after they…
LESSON PLANS
A complete collection of resources for applying this critical reading strategy Help your students be good readers with…
Learn and apply this critical reading instruction strategy Visualizing refers to our ability to create pictures in our…
GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS
Extends students' learning experience reading literature. Students will use this printable worksheet to describe in…
The ability to identify the elements of a story (plot, characters, setting, and theme) aids in reading comprehension,…
Five elements of a story's plot (introduction, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution) provide the…
Use a lesson that provides students with an opportunity to learn about the characters in a fable by investigating their…
An essential graphic organizer for all ELA classes! Students are asked to identify cause and effect of a story with…
DAILY WARM-UPS
Students learn about sharks and improve their reading comprehension skills with a nonfiction reading passage and…
REFERENCE
In this printable warm-up, students read a short biography on Nobel Peace Prize recipient Nelson Mandela and answer…
This graphic organizer will help your students identify the main idea and supporting facts in three paragraphs. It's…
Organizing the who, what, where, when, why, and how of an event is the goal of this graphic organizer. This printable is…
Use a printable that contains instructions for using a story pyramid to describe important information from a story,…
WORKSHEETS
Use Mad Libs® books to supplement your English language arts curriculum. They're a fun and engaging way to teach kids…
Week 1: Word analogies to sharpen students' thinking skills and prepare them for standardized tests.
Spark students' imagination with the passage of fantasy fiction and reading comprehension questions in this printable…
Question-Answer Relationships, or QAR, is a reading comprehension strategy developed to encourage students to be active,…
ACTIVITIES
Island of the Blue Dolphins tells the story of an American Indian girl stranded on an island, alone, for 18 years. This…
An important task of reading comprehension is to determine the importance and meanings of individual words, sentences,…
This resource contains three different choice boards that align with “All Summer in a Day” by Ray Bradbury, “The Fun…
ASSESSMENT
The organization, elements of literary analysis/interpretation writing, grammar, usage, mechanics, and spelling of a…
Week 19: Word analogies to sharpen students' thinking skills and prepare them for standardized tests.
Read about the history of women's rights in the United States. This printable warm-up includes a nonfiction passage…
