Lesson Planning Center Let us help you create innovative plans quickly with our large inventory of ideas and...		Question-Answer Relationships Question-Answer Relationships, or QAR, is a reading comprehension strategy developed to...
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,...		Children's Books About Disabilities This extensive list details books for both children and adults that deal with disabilities. The...
Inferences Making an inference involves using what you know to make a guess about what you don't know, or...		Establishing the Main Idea An important task of reading comprehension is to determine the importance and meanings of...
Sequencing Sequencing refers to the identification of the components of a story, such as the beginning,...		Running Records A running record is a way to assess a student's reading progress by systematically evaluating a...
Summarizing Summarizing is more than retelling; it involves analyzing information, distinguishing important...		A Tale of Two Cities This teaching guide includes a brief overview of A Tale of Two Cities followed by...
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.		A Raisin in the Sun Enhance understanding with a teaching guide for Hansberry's Raisin in the Sun contains...
Activating Prior Knowledge Help your students be good readers: those who constantly try to make sense out of what they...		Of Mice and Men Enhance understanding with a teaching guide for Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men contains...
Report Card Comments & Phrases—Language Arts & Reading An assortment of report card comments and phrases focusing on reading, writing, listening, and...		Mad Libs® Teacher Guides (Gr. 1-6) Learn how you can use Mad Libs© in your classroom to...