Teaching Themes
Reading Comprehension: Everything You Need
Strategies, ideas, and instructional guidelines for helping readers develop a deep understanding of the texts that they read
Teaching Comprehension with Jeff Wilhelm
Grades: 6–8
Understand and implement action strategies for reading comprehension. Here, you'll find support and research-based instruction guidelines for helping older readers tackle more difficult texts.
Articles, Lesson Plans
What Really Happened?
Grades: 1–2, 3–5
Students will test their comprehension skills by identifying which events actually happened in the story of "Henry and the Buccaneer Bunnies."
Reading Comprehension Resources
Grades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8, 9–12
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 Articles Graphic Organizers for Reading ComprehensionGrades: 1–2, 3–5, 6–8, 9–12 Graphic organizers help students construct meaning. Identify the strengths of your students' thought process with these reproducibles. |
 Lesson Plans Using the Comprehension StrategiesGrades: 6–8, 9–12 Presents a lesson for reviewing reading comprehension strategies. First year teachers or new teachers will have students apply those strategies... |
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Articles 3 Comprehension Strategies for Reading NonfictionGrades: 3–5 These lessons incorporate classroom-proven strategies that specifically enable students to construct meaning out of nonfiction. |
 Teaching About Nonfiction with Picture BooksGrades: 1–2, 3–5 Author Constance Leuenberger uses nonfiction picture books to teach reading comprehension to young children. Here are several teaching tips to use to... |
 Combining Reading Strategies and Multiple Intelligence ResearchGrades: 1–2, 3–5, 6–8 Angela shares a multiple intelligence approach to reading instruction, with a focus on reading strategies. |
Articles FREE Graphic Organizers for Reading ComprehensionGrades: 1–2, 3–5 Graphic organizers that can be used with any book and across all grade levels. Download and print them here. Use them to assess your child's... |
Assessing Reading and Reading FluencyGrades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8 Learn how to perform assessments and use the results efficiently to guide your instruction. |
 Unit Plans 5-Day Unit Plan for Introducing NonfictionGrades: 1–2, 3–5 Use these lesson plans to provide students with a strong foundation for reading, writing, and using nonfiction. |
 Everything You Need Reading StrategiesGrades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8, 9–12 Effective ways to help your students make progress as active readers |
Everything You Need Reading StrategiesGrades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8, 9–12 Effective ways to help your students make progress as active readers |
 Blog Posts My March Top Ten List: Nonfiction Reading ResourcesGrades: 3–5 It is crucial that we expose our students to nonfiction texts as often as possible. This month I share resources for teaching nonfiction reading... |
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 Blog Posts Higher Order Comprehension: The Power of Socratic SeminarGrades: 3–5, 6–8 I was in my room when my assistant principal’s voice came over the intercom: “It’s time for us to schedule an observation.” I groaned. I had just... |
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 Blog Posts Strategies for Building Reading ComprehensionGrades: 1–2, 3–5, 6–8, 9–12 Help your students truly understand the content that they are reading with these helpful tips and strategies. |
