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Cuma, 31 Mart 2006

Literacy and Reading Skills

25 Ideas to Motivate Young Readers
These ideas are designed for elementary students, and many will work with middle school, too.

103 Things to do Before/During/After Reading
These tips from Jim Burke can be applied to a wide range of grade and ability levels.

800 Remedial Reading & Phonics Worksheets from Tampa Reads
Reading support activities and worksheets for Kindergarten through Fourth Grade. Worksheets can be printed out from the Web site.

An African Folktale: Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears
Designed for lower elementary students, this five-day series of lessons includes map study, vocabulary words, and reading skills.

The Alphabet is Historic
The three lessons in this K-2 curriculum unit include short historical introductions to the Phoenicians, Greeks, and Romans, hyperlinks to selected illustrations, and suggestions for activities.

Alphabet Made Easy with Learning Styles
Designed for preschool through grade 1, this lesson uses the book Obvious Letters to appeal to visual, auditory, and kinesthetic learners.

Beginning Reading and Writing
Activities for the youngest readers and writers.

Between the Lions
Sponsored by PBS with a new lesson every week. Lessons are tied to specific skills.

Building a Case for Clues
Students make, confirm and revise predictions using the reading context. This activity is designed for grades 3-5 and includes an optional graphic organizer.

Cheryl Sigmon's Website
An extensive introduction to Four Blocks reading instruction strategy, free handouts, and learning games.

Dosiety.com
Interactive lessons, games, exercises, and printable worksheets for grades K-8.

Early Literacy Development
Descriptors of levels of early literacy. Follow links on the left to sample lessons, reading strategies, and other resources.

Fact vs. Opinion (Part I) and Fact vs. Opinion (Part II)
Designed for grades 6-8, these lessons help students understand the difference between fact and opinion and provides practice.

Fact vs. Opinions in Advertisements
Students develop criteria for determining statements of opinion and practice discerning statements of opinion in advertisements.

Fairy Tales & Folklore
Links to fairy tales like Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, and Snow White.

Finding Faulty Logic
Students analyize political ads and commercial ads, looking for generalizing, scare tactics, and exaggeration. This interactive lesson is designed for adult learners and may work with high school students, too.

Four Blocks
Information and teaching ideas.

Four Blocks Teacher Resources
Information, bulletin boards, lesson plan ideas, and related links.

Five Quick Games Build Reading Skills
Appropriate for grades K-8, these quick activities help develop a variety of reading skills.

Fry's Readability and Other Readability Information
Kathy Schrock presents Fry Readability directions and graphs, along with links to other readability formulas.

Ghost Forest
Follow the links here for an interactive book, free worksheets, printables, coloring books, and more.

The Gingerbread Man
Designed for kindergarten students, this series of lessons introduces children to fairy tales, sequencing, and the difference between real and make-believe. Comes complete with a recipe for gingerbread and printable outlines of the gingerbread man.

Guided Reading through Children's Literature
Strategies for improving reading comprehension using excerpts from children's literature.

Humpherlinks Educational sites
From the UK, this site lists a variety of sites for elementary students, from learning letters and sounds to a literacy centre.

Is it Fact or Opinion?
As a result of this activity, students will distinguish between fact and opinion in a published diary. This lesson is designed for grades 6-8.

Language Arts Downloads
Preschool to Age 8 and up, free language arts games. If you have a Mac, click on the link at the bottom to find a nice assortment.

LatticeWork Software
Award-winning games to help children learn reading and math, including the free download, "Roxie's ABC Fish."

Learning Page
Free worksheets, lesson plans, activities, and interdisciplinary units for preschool through third graders.

Literacy Center
A wealth of online activities with letters, numbers, shapes, colors, and more.

Literacy Checklist
A checklist to help preschool teachers consciously incorporate literacy activities into their classrooms.

Literacy Matters
Ideas for developing reading skills for middle and secondary students. This site has separate sections for students, parents, and teachers. Be sure to check the online activity, "Help Lee Decide."

Literature-Based Reading Activities
A unit designed for grades 2 - 4 and using a variety of books.

Mother Goose
Lesson plans and activities, crafts, game, stories, and printables for preschool through age 12.

Online practice reading tests
Students in grades 1-8 can take practice reading tests online. The site includes suggestions for scoring the test and tips for students taking a standardized reading test. Items include both multiple-choice and open-ended questions.

Open Court Resources
Free resources to support the Open Court program, pre-K through grade 6.

Phonics
A collection of teaching resources.

Prediction Cards
This activity integrates art and writing to strengthen the reading skill of prediction.

Print and Read Books
These materials about frogs, colors, days of the week, flowers, counting, and the senses are for beginning readers. Some are meant to be printed, and some are online.

Rain, Rain, Go Away!
A weather WebQuest for "reading to be informed." Students learn about the water cycle.

Reader's Theater
Background, scripts, and ideas for using RT in the classroom.

Reading and Language Arts Resources on the Internet
Resources on these topics: What to Read and How to Encourage It, Reading Research, Reading Disorders, Lesson Plans, and others.

Reading and Writing via the Myths
Strategies to motivate students to read, write, and follow their interests into other areas. This unit is designed for grades 4-6 and includes an extensive related reading list.

Reading: Instructional Philosophy and Teaching Suggestions
This extensive page has to have one or two ideas for teaching reading skills that you haven't tried yet! This list was compiled for grades 6-9 but has ideas that can be adapted to many levels.

Reading Plans from The Teacher's Desk
A variety of activities related to different reading skills. Designed for grades 5 and 6.

Reading Response Journals
Links to use response journals as effective teaching tools.

Shared Reading
Description of the strategy and tips for success.

Songs 4 Teachers
Free, original theme-related songs and poems for educators to download, activities, books suggestions, midis, links and more.

Star Words
Designed for kindergarten or grade 1, this lesson combines astronomy and study of word families ig, at, and it.

Story Station
Online texts of contemporary stories for children and young adult readers.

StoryPlus
This site offers some free stories and some tips on building reading skills and dealing with reading and learning disorders.

Ten Myths of Reading Instruction
This article explores beliefs regarding the teaching of reading.

Theme Units from abcteach.com
Printable activity sheets, puzzles, facts, and related links for elementary/primary students. New units are under construction, so check back often.

Using Poetry to Teach Reading
Suggestions from a veteran teacher, including day-by-day activities, management tips, a reminder about copyright, and suggested poets.

A Variety of Elementary Language Arts Activities from Teachers Helping Teachers.
Scroll down the page for a variety of language arts activities, including reading and spelling.

[ Geri Dön ]