Teach your class five reading strategies to help them with reading informational texts and literary texts. This packet, designed to help learners prepare for the CAHSEE, provides specific strategies that could be used to help prepare for...

If you need an array of worksheets to augment your science lessons, peruse a collection of assignments that is sure to fit your needs. With topics such as metric conversion, the scientific method, textbook features, research skills,...

Bloom's Taxonomy is a great way to address the many levels of comprehension. With explanations and examples of each level, you can create questions that focus on knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation.

Promote the most positive reading test-taking strategies to your third graders. A six-question practice test suggests using context clues, underlining words, rereading, and using process of elimination to choose the best answer when...

Get the most out of your guided reading lessons with this collection of literacy materials. Offering a system for using color-coded tags to mark pages while reading books, as well as an assortment of comprehension and grammar...

Take an in-depth look into the vocabulary from the novel, Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan. With a list of words to choose from, scholars discover the definition, origin, stories associated with...

This reading resource discusses the strategy of identifying an author's viewpoint. A list of guiding questions is provided to help students as they analyze the author's viewpoint.

This reading resource discusses the strategy of comparing and contrasting ideas. Students will learn definitions and explanations for similes, metaphors, and analogies. A list of guiding questions is provided to help students as they...

Learn how to identify the main ideas and supporting details in an informational text by using a list of guiding questions.

Learn how to go beyond the literal meaning of a text by using a list of guiding questions to make inferences and draw conclusions.

Learn how to paraphrase a text by using a list of guiding questions.

Learn how to identify the cause and effect relationships within a text by using a list of guiding questions.

Learn what a summary is and how to write an objective summary of an informational text by using a list of guiding questions.

Learn how to distinguish facts from opinions by using a list of guiding questions.

Learn how to identify the text structures of chronological/sequence, cause/effect, problem/solution, compare/contrast, description, and directions by using a list of guiding questions.

A reference article showing reading strategies to understand text structure of comparison and contrast.

For any reading teacher, take some time to examine these programs for helping students in grades 2-5 improve their reading skills. These programs listed are all scientifically evaluated by researchers from Johns Hopkins University. Find...

Looking for opportunities to improve your readers or to help your readers get ahead? BEE presents a number of programs that have been evaluated by their researchers to bring educators the best programs on the market. Learn about programs...

This resource provides information about how to improve reading instruction, especially for those students who need remediation.

This resource provides information about how to improve reading instruction, especially for those students who need remediation.

This resource features a biography of the author Laura Numeroff. Students and teachers will benefit from this inside look at the life and work of this children's author.

Here, parents and teachers can find tips for helping young readers understand the expository writing found in textbooks.

The first question in most Reading Comprehension sets will ask you to identify the statement that best expresses the central idea or the main point that the passage as a whole is designed to convey.

A reference page that shows you how to use context clues to figure out the meaning of unknown content words.