Reading Strategies: Everything You Need

Activities and Games, Articles, Book Resources, Lesson Plans Reading Workshop: Student-Led Discussion Groups Grades: 3–5, 6–8 Ideas for rich, strategy-building student-led reading discussions. Offers tips for organization, management, establishing guidelines, and prompting... Read more >	Reading Workshop: Essential Reading Experiences Grades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8 Lists reading workshop experiences that enable you to interact with students and monitor their progress, such as read-alouds, strategy mini-lessons,... Read more >
Articles How to Create Curious Readers Grades: 3–5 Seven tricks and games to help kids truly engage with texts. Plus, four tips for helping a student who is reading below grade level. Read more >	Unit Plans Reading Partnerships Grades: 3–5, 6–8 In this unit, students are paired with similar readers in their class to engage in meaningful reading partnerships. Read more >
Combining Reading Strategies and Multiple Intelligence Research Grades: 1–2, 3–5, 6–8 Angela shares a multiple intelligence approach to reading instruction, with a focus on reading strategies. Read more >	Collections Leveled Books Grades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8 Trying to compare reading levels from different leveling systems can be confusing. The reading levels do not always correspond neatly, and the... Read more >
Book Resources Differentiation in a Reader's Workshop Grades: 1–2, 3–5, 6–8 Third grade teacher Marissa Ochoa shares ideas on meeting students'individual needs. New and first year teachers will learn how to challenge their... Read more >	Snapshot: Independent Reading in my Classroom for Grades 3-5 Grades: 3–5 Tips for organzing independent reading sessions with students grades 3-5. Includes a list of useful supplies to have on hand. Read more >
Writing Activities, Unit Plans Exploring the Mystery Genre Grades: 3–5 In this unit, students act as reading detectives to discover the elements of a mystery. Read more >	Unit Plans Making Connections/Self-Monitoring: A Differentiated Learning Centers Unit Plan Grades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5 These seven lessons and seven reproducibles provide teaching strategies to help students make all three levels of connections -- to their life... Read more >
Lesson Plans Reading Research! Grades: PreK–K Proposes a lesson on the winter season requiring students to research an animal's winter habitat through early reading and learn a list of vocabulary... Read more >	Collections Beth Newingham: Classroom Tips & Strategies Grades: 1–2, 3–5 Creative solutions for test review, classroom management through reading workshop, a classroom economy unit plan, and more from one of the star... Read more >
Articles Teaching Techniques: Reading Aloud - Artfully! Grades: Early Childhood, Infant, PreK–K, 1–2 Church offers several techniques to help teachers improve their oral storytelling skills. These include previewing the book, preparing a... Read more >	Reading Workshop: Managing the Workshop Grades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8 Illustrates how to manage a reading workshop effectively. Features behavior guidelines, strategies for teaching students to work independently,... Read more >
Get Students Talking About Books Grades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8 Offers advice for getting your students to talk about books. Includes ten "tell me" questions. Read more >	Articles Guidelines and Student Handouts for Implementing Read-Aloud Strategies in Your Class Grades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8, 9–12 A collection of guidelines, checklists, and assessment tools to start think-aloud strategies with your students. Read more >
Book Resources Reading Strategies Checklist: After Reading Assessment Grades: 3–5, 6–8 This checklist helps the teacher monitor students'attitudes toward reading, use of reading strategies, participation in partner and group book... Read more >	Book Resources Checklist for Student Reading Strategies: Before Reading Assessment Grades: 3–5, 6–8 This Checklist helps you monitor your students'attitudes toward reading, use of reading strategies, participation in partner and group book... Read more >
Checklist for Student Reading Strategies: During Reading Assessment Grades: 1–2, 3–5, 6–8 Checklists help you monitor your students'attitudes toward reading, use of reading strategies, participation in partner and group book discussions... Read more >	Listen and Read Activities, Book Resources, Lesson Plans Listen & Read: Animals & Food Grades: PreK–K, 1–2 These short, high-interest, nonfiction stories from Scholastic News boost early reading skills and support differentiated reading and ELL students... Read more >