Third graders use the strategies in Reciprocal Teaching: predicting, clarifying, questioning, summarizing, and visualizing. They utilize these reading strategies when reading "Eddie Miranda Looks at New York."

Fourth graders use techniques involved in Reciprocal Teaching: predicting, clarifying, questioning, summarizing, and visualizing. They use these reading strategies while reading "The Migrants."

In this pre-reading activity activity, learners respond to 3 questions that require them to list main ideas, generate questions, and clarify unclear items prior to reading a selection.

Young scholars present the outline of the mystery story they are writing while working in reciprocal teaching groups. They respond to group members writing before they continue to finish revisions.

Fifth graders investigate the qualities of a good reader by participating in a role play with the provided scripts. They focus on the five main strategies of good readers -- predicting, clarifying, questioning, summarizing, and...

Eleventh graders demonstrate how to study for exams using Reciprocal Teaching technique. They apply new reading strategies when studying for an exam. They demonstrate a variety fo strategies before, during, and after reading to increase...

Students, five of the "best" readers in the class, get a script and read over their part of the lesson before they begin to "teach" the class.

Students play a game of questioning with the teacher after reading silently a beginning passage of text. They and teacher request specific information from each other until students are able to summarize and predict the outcome of the...

Learners on the autism spectrum can have difficulty maintaining a two-way, reciprocal conversation. Support these students with the Conversation Box activity, in which they practice conversations with their peers using the prompts and...

How do you solve for a variable? This slideshow provides definitions, key concepts, and guided practice to teach learners how to solve literal equations for a specified variable.

Young scholars examine the elements of mystery stories and read Rage in Harlem. In reciprocal teaching groups, they discuss the author's development of the story, and complete dialectical journals.

Expand your pupils' understanding of the short story genre with a study of John Updike and his story "A&P." This instructional activity, the fourth in a series of fourteen, invites learners to examine literary terms and read and...

"The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson is a great story to share with your class, and this lesson focuses on just that story! The eighth in a fourteen-lesson series on short stories, the plan has learners study some vocabulary, read the...

Young scholars conduct research and teach each other about the eruption of Mount St. Helens and identify the major components of the eruption, their characteristics and their effects. They simulate the eruption dramatically.

What is a white elephant, and what does it have to do with Ernest Hemingway? Study "Hills Like White Elephants" in-depth by following the procedures outlined in this lesson, the fifth in a series of fourteen. Learners start the day with...

How did the struggle for Civil Rights during the 1950s transform American society and politics? Why are American schools integrated today? Class members explore these essential questions by examining a series of primary and secondary...

Students use reading fluency, comprehension, vocabulary, written expression to write in journals as reading "Holes" by Louis Sachar. Some days are set aside for tests and/or food tasting.

Students practice their badminton skills while trying to achieve the three levels of performance designated by the teacher. Students work with partners and assess each other using the leveled sheets.

Students are responsible for producing works for, coordinating (with the teacher?s assistance) and mounting an exhibition to be presented at a parent-teacher open house. They examine literature by Henry David Thoreau and other writers....

Students create a definition for the term resistance. Once a definition has been created, they create a visual image to correlate with their definition. Working in groups, students read several different resistance poems and classify...

Students summarize and make predictions about the novel, "Huckleberry Finn". They discuss their opinions with the class. They give a one-minute novel evaluation about another novel and choose a novel based on their classmate's...

Students explore homelessness through the reading of "Homeless" by Anna Quindlen. They discuss their thoughts about homelessness and how they feel about the problem. They complete a reader response sheet.

Students explore tropical herpefauna. They discuss the story "Tropical Herpefauna...Tropical What?" by Lori Bruckeim. Students discuss any concepts of the essay that need clarification and they predict, visualize, question, and summarize.

Third graders read four books related to the past and memories. With a partner, they complete a graphic organizer for each story in English or Spanish. To end the lesson plan, they write a short paper summarizing the material and...