Lesson Planning Center Let us help you create innovative plans quickly with our large inventory of ideas and...		Report Card Comments & Phrases—Language Arts & Reading An assortment of report card comments and phrases focusing on reading, writing, listening, and...
Sample Essay Outlines These sample outlines will help students organize their ideas before writing an essay, a good...		Research Paper: How to Write a Bibliography How to write a bibliography for a research paper.
Questions Before, During, and After Reading To encourage critical reading, teachers should ask students questions about the text before,...		Establishing the Main Idea An important task of reading comprehension is to determine the importance and meanings of...
Inferences Making an inference involves using what you know to make a guess about what you don't know, or...		Children's Books About Disabilities This extensive list details books for both children and adults that deal with disabilities. The...
Sequencing Sequencing refers to the identification of the components of a story, such as the beginning,...		A Tale of Two Cities This teaching guide includes a brief overview of A Tale of Two Cities followed by...
Summarizing Summarizing is more than retelling; it involves analyzing information, distinguishing important...		Running Records A running record is a way to assess a student's reading progress by systematically evaluating a...
Story Elements The ability to identify the elements of a story (plot, characters, setting, and theme) aids in...		Ethan Frome Enhance reading comprehension with a guide that contains an overview of each chapter of...
The Great Gatsby Chapter Questions Questions for each chapter of The Great Gatsby.		Of Mice and Men Enhance understanding with a teaching guide for Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men contains...
Activating Prior Knowledge Help your students be good readers: those who constantly try to make sense out of what they...		A Raisin in the Sun Enhance understanding with a teaching guide for Hansberry's Raisin in the Sun contains...
Question-Answer Relationships Question-Answer Relationships, or QAR, is a reading comprehension strategy developed to...		The Pearl Enhance understanding with a teaching guide for Steinbeck's The Pearl provides...