Teaching Themes
Reading Strategies: Everything You Need
Effective ways to help your students make progress as active readers
Reading Strategy Charts and Bulletin Boards
Grades: 3–5
Here are photos of five reading strategy centers that Angela uses in her own classroom -- and you can use in yours.
Booktalks
Strategies for Reading Success: Rah-rah Reading!
Grades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8
Booktalks: what they are and how to give them.
Reading Strategies
Grades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8, 9–12
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Book Resources Reading Strategies Checklist: After Reading AssessmentGrades: 3–5, 6–8 This checklist helps the teacher monitor students'attitudes toward reading, use of reading strategies, participation in partner and group book... |
Book Resources Checklist for Student Reading Strategies: Before Reading AssessmentGrades: 3–5, 6–8 This Checklist helps you monitor your students'attitudes toward reading, use of reading strategies, participation in partner and group book... |
Checklist for Student Reading Strategies: During Reading AssessmentGrades: 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... |
Lesson Plans, Book Resources Reading Clinic: Use Predictions to Help Kids Think Deeply About BooksGrades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8 Kids find evidence to form hunches, they also ask questions, recall facts, reread, skim, infer, draw conclusions, and, ultimately, comprehend the... |
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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... |
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... |
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Lesson Plans, Book Resources Teaching Strategies: The Word Wall: A Tool for Beginning Readers and WritersGrades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8 Learn how to implement this effective strategy for teaching young children high-frequency or sight words. |
Reading Workshop: Easy-to-Introduce Journal ResponsesGrades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8 Highlights easy-to-introduce journal responses. Model how to set up a journal page and go about responding to each suggestion and then have... |
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Articles, Book Resources Books for Teaching the Reading StrategiesGrades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5 Booklist for suggestions of books to use when teaching the reading strategies. |
Teaching Guides, Book Resources Books for Creating a Reading CommunityGrades: 3–5 Books that can be used to build and strengthen the reading community in my classroom. Each book list corresponds to the three lessons in a unit.... |
Snapshot: Independent Reading in my Classroom for Grades 3-5Grades: 3–5 Tips for organzing independent reading sessions with students grades 3-5. Includes a list of useful supplies to have on hand. |
Book Resources Differentiation in a Reader's WorkshopGrades: 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... |
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Book Resources Books for Teaching the Reading StrategiesGrades: 3–5, 6–8, 9–12 Books that model active reading strategies. Includes picture books for each comprehension strategy. |
Get Students Talking About BooksGrades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8 Offers advice for getting your students to talk about books. Includes ten "tell me" questions. |
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Activities and Games, Articles, Lesson Plans, Book Resources Reading Workshop: Student-Led Discussion GroupsGrades: 3–5, 6–8 Ideas for rich, strategy-building student-led reading discussions. Offers tips for organization, management, establishing guidelines, and prompting... |
Reading Workshop: Essential Reading ExperiencesGrades: 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,... |
Reading Workshop: Managing the WorkshopGrades: 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,... |
Articles How to Implement Read-Aloud Strategies in Your ClassGrades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8, 9–12 These 11 printables include guidelines, checklists, and assessment tools to help you get started. |
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. |
Unit Plans Reading PartnershipsGrades: 3–5, 6–8 In this unit, students are paired with similar readers in their class to engage in meaningful reading partnerships. |









