Curated OER
Lewis and Clark Encounters with Native Americans
Learners research what the exchange was between the various Native American groups and Lewis and Clark. They are able to write reflections after truly considering the issue with the help of research.
Curated OER
Code Crackers
Students work in teams creating and posing math rules and trying to guess them using a formula controlled worksheet they create with Excel. Student pairs take turns to see who can crack the other's code the fastest.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Teaching Fluency Using Reader's Theater
This lesson engages students in fluency stories related to Dr. Seuss' stories. Students will engage in reading these texts with meaningful phrases, intonation, and expression. The Sneetches, Yertle the Turtle, Gertrude McFuzz, What Was I...
University of Oregon
Big Ideas in Beginning Reading
The goal for teachers from the academic content standards is every child to be reading by 3rd grade. This site will help teachers to teach the "big ideas" in reading: phonemic awareness, alphabetic principle, fluency with text,...
Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center
Wisconsin Rt I Center: Reading Resources [Pdf]
This site provides a collection of reading strategy teaching resources. Strategies are arranged according to the ELA Common Core Curriculum Standards and grade level bands.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Read Well Letter Chant Podcast
This activity guides students through creating a Podcast that provides video and audio of the Read Well Letter Chant. Students take pictures of the cards and record the chant to go along with the cards.
Other
Lauri Fried Lee: Readings for Esl Students
This site offers a list of links to leveled, adapted readings for the English language learner. It provides self-scoring comprehension questions to accompany each story.
Chase Young, PhD
Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: The Frog Prince Continued
Improve students' reading fluency while providing fun and purposeful practice and performance through Reader's Theater Scripts. The focus is on reading the text with expressive voices and gestures - no memorization required! Have fun...
Chase Young, PhD
Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: Clever Lucy
Improve students' reading fluency while providing fun and purposeful practice and performance through Reader's Theater Scripts. The focus is on reading the text with expressive voices and gestures - no memorization required! Have fun...
Chase Young, PhD
Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: Dinorella
Improve students' reading fluency while providing fun and purposeful practice and performance through Reader's Theater Scripts. The focus is on reading the text with expressive voices and gestures - no memorization required! Have fun...
Chase Young, PhD
Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: Grandpa for Sale
Improve students' reading fluency while providing fun and purposeful practice and performance through Reader's Theater Scripts. The focus is on reading the text with expressive voices and gestures - no memorization required! Have fun...
Chase Young, PhD
Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: How to Steal a Dog
Improve students' reading fluency while providing fun and purposeful practice and performance through Reader's Theater Scripts. The focus is on reading the text with expressive voices and gestures - no memorization required! Have fun...
Chase Young, PhD
Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: If You Give a Pig a Pancake
Improve students' reading fluency while providing fun and purposeful practice and performance through Reader's Theater Scripts. The focus is on reading the text with expressive voices and gestures - no memorization required! Have fun...
Chase Young, PhD
Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: Jessica
Improve students' reading fluency while providing fun and purposeful practice and performance through Reader's Theater Scripts. The focus is on reading the text with expressive voices and gestures - no memorization required! Have fun...
Chase Young, PhD
Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: The Magic Flamingo
Improve students' reading fluency while providing fun and purposeful practice and performance through Reader's Theater Scripts. The focus is on reading the text with expressive voices and gestures - no memorization required! Have fun...
Chase Young, PhD
Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: My Friend Is Sad
Improve students' reading fluency while providing fun and purposeful practice and performance through Reader's Theater Scripts. The focus is on reading the text with expressive voices and gestures - no memorization required! Have fun...
LD Online
Ld Online: Learning Disabilities Online: Phoneme Awareness Activity
What do you know about phoneme activities for collaborative classrooms? This site will show how to develop your own activities to sharpen your students phonemic awareness skills. This informative resource will support any teacher's work...
abcteach
Abcteach: Fictional Reading Comprehension Grades K 2
[Free Registration/Login Required] Teachers may choose from over 20 short stories that have printable worksheets for checking comprehension.
Randall Davis
Esl Cyber Listening Lab: Basic English Quiz: Phone Numbers
This listening-for-numbers exercise for English language learners (ELLs) tests survival listening skills and listening fluency. Students must choose the correct telephone number from a multiple-choice list after listening to an audio clip.
TESL Journal
Activities for Esl Students: Self Study Idiom Quizzes
Vast array of quizzes and self-study exercises based on idioms and idiomatic expressions, categorized in a variety of ways (beginning with A, B, etc., by keyword, or by association with other groupings). Great practice for the ELL/ESL...
International Reading Association
Using Bilingual Books in Esl and Mainstreamed Classrooms
The authors explain strategies for using bilingual books to foster literacy development with ESL learners. They argue that the presence of books in other languages in the classroom library sends a clear message about the value of...
International Reading Association
Using Bilingual Books in Esl and Mainstreamed Classrooms
The authors explain strategies for using bilingual books to foster literacy development with ESL learners. They argue that the presence of books in other languages in the classroom library sends a clear message about the value of...
Other
A (Simplified) Midsummer Night's Dream for Ell Readers
A simplified version of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" developed for English language learners by an ESL teacher.
Starfall
Starfall: Not Too Little to Help
This online storybook is for very early readers; the child has the option to click on a word they don't know to have it read to them. A list of words in the story are provided.