Students have an opportunity to learn about Easter in French. During the learning activities, students will become familiar with Easter vocabulary, discuss the origin and meaning of Easter, and play numerous games to reinforce the vocabulary. They even do a hunt on the Internet related to Easter. For the experiential goal, students will plan and perform an Easter egg hunt. The teacher’s guide includes learning objectives, a list of resources and step by step suggestions on how to teach the unit. In addition, the guide includes answer sheets, suggested vocabulary and motivational games, supplementary activities, flashcards, model letter to parents, evaluation grids and activities, and website addresses.

For elementary students from grades 4-6.

QuestionWell provides an unlimited array of questions, allowing teachers to concentrate on what truly matters. Simply enter some text, and the AI will generate key questions, learning objectives, and corresponding multiple-choice questions.

Here's how it works: Paste your reading material, specify a topic, and include any learning objectives or standards. The AI will then produce learning objectives and questions that you can easily export.

*Exports to Moodle

This is a fabulous read aloud routine to use with practically any age of students. This routine takes about a half hour while reading one passage.

This routine can help build language comprehension, fluency, vocabulary and background knowledge.

Rewordify.com helps with reading comprehension and vocabulary development by simplifying English to a lower reading level. It lets you reword a sentence or reword a paragraph. It will simplify English by reducing text complexity. It's a dictionary alternative that will improve comprehension and teach vocabulary. It's an important part of reading instruction and vocabulary instruction for ESL students, people with reading disabilities, people with a learning disability, or anyone who wants to improve reading skill.

Rewordify.com simplifies difficult English. Enter hard sentences (or whole chapters) into the yellow box at the top of the page. (You can also enter a web site URL.) Click Rewordify text and you'll instantly see an easier version, for fast understanding. The reworded words are highlighted— click them to hear and learn the original harder word. You can change how the highlighting works to match the way you learn!

Rewordify.com can display simplified versions of web pages. Our state-of-the-art web filtering technology blocks millions of inappropriate sites and questionable language, to protect kids online and keep them reading only what they should be reading.

Amori wants to move her reading up a level so she'll be ready for more difficult material in 6th grade. Rick shows her how certain spellings can help her with pronunciation, an area shes been having trouble with.

While students read silently in class, Rick has time to focus on individual students and their particular reading challenges. He works on vocabulary, comprehension and reading speed, using a variety of methods to help his students improve.

Start your day with the Science of Reading! The free, downloadable Scarborough’s Reading Rope placemat is the perfect addition to your classroom table or desk.

Designed for educators who are passionate about research-based literacy practices, this placemat breaks Scarborough’s Reading Rope down into the key elements of skilled reading and includes quick teaching tips for integrating each into your instruction.

Students use the Semantic Impressions and Possible Sentences strategies to write about Patricia Polacco's books "Chicken Sunday" and "Rechenka's Egg", complete a character study, and write using a WebQuest.

This thematic unit from Comox Valley Schools (SD71) in B.C. is aimed at Grade 6 Core French students, but is suitable for younger grades and would be easily adaptable for older ones. It is focused on oral practice and participation and would also be useful in primary French Immersion classes!Content Authors: Comox Valley Schools, Learn71, Beth Peddle

"Teachers can use the site as in-class reading material to supplement units in science, math, and language arts. The readings are streamlined, age-appropriate versions of articles on the adult Science News site and provide helpful tools for tackling the task of reading scientific texts. The Going Deeper link for each article takes students to a related article on the companion Science News site with more detailed information. Kids can also use the simpler readings on Science News for Students as support articles to build their basic understanding before moving on to more complex text of the same topic. If you scroll to the bottom of the articles, many of them contain “Power Words” and their definitions. Reviewing the words in advance can help kids better understand the text. Some articles also contain questions for kids to answer while reading." (Common Sense Media)

Really Great Reading offers free webinars to educators to learn about how to teach reading and vocabulary.

This thematic unit from Comox Valley Schools (SD71) in B.C. is aimed at Grade 6 Core French students, but is suitable for older grades and would be easily adaptable for younger ones. It is focused on oral practice and participation and would also be useful in French Immersion classes!Content Authors: Comox Valley Schools, Learn71, Beth Peddle

Early-childhood learning can help prepare students for better academic engagement. This Spotlight will help you discover how coding exercises can enhance preschooler’s academic skills; learn how to support young students’ language growth; understand the gaps in preschooler’s language development since the pandemic; examine the impact of early education programs on high school performance; investigate challenges facing school readiness; and evaluate Pre-K programs from multiple lenses.

Download the PDF file.

The Starfall reading program is designed to be fun, exciting, and to instill confidence in young children as they learn to read. The website and companion printed materials are clear and effective tools to help you implement proven teaching methods. Our website was created by carefully observing the way children learn using a computer. The Starfall Website is easy for students to navigate independently, but it is not intended as a surrogate for the teacher.

Primarily designed for first grade, Starfall is also useful for pre-kindergarten, kindergarten and second grade.

There are a wealth of downloads available on this site that are very useful for Structured Literacy in Grades 3+
You will need to provide an email to download the resources.

Scroll down to find:
*Interactive Text Experience Planning Template - maximize shared reading and read alouds
*Strategic Thinking Moves - for language comprehension
*Reciprocal Teaching Tips & Grid - 4 key moves
*Lesson Template for Explicit Vocabulary Instruction
*Lesson Template for Morphology Instruction
*Example of Morphology Multi-Year Plan
*Phonics Template & Skills Progression
*Routine for Big Words
*Word Mapping Tools
*Fluency Self-Assessment Tool
*Decoding Inventory
& More!

Overview: There are a wealth of downloads available on this site that are very useful for Structured Literacy in Grades 3+
You will need to provide an email to download the resources.

Scroll down to find:
*Dialogic Conversation to Develop Oral Language
*Phonemic Awareness Skills Development Tools
*Phonemic Awareness Progress Records
*Sound-Spelling Charts & Frieze Cards
*Sound Pronunciation Videos
*Short Vowels, Blends, Digraphs: Decodable Word Lists and Sentences
*Long Vowels: Decodable Word Lists and Sentences
*Phonics Lesson Template
*100+ Word Chain Lists
*109 Power Words List
*Look Before You Leap Routine for Word Solving
*Science of Reading resources

This 1 hour webinar looks at tools and intervention strategies for students between grades 4-12. These are things you can use right away!
*Word Reading
*Fluency
*Background Knowledge, Vocabulary, Language Structure
*Comprehension

Slide Deck (copy and paste this web address into your browser) https://drive.google.com/file/d/101wp9pG1KyP6Ualr5SjXalgGI_qOxNKj/view

These short videos (about 5 minutes on average) teach all about how words and reading works!

There are videos for:
*Phonemic awareness
*Syllable types
*Blending words
*Grammar skills
*Vocabulary
*Story elements

I suggest you click "playlists" as well to find playlists for: fluency, comprehension, vocabulary, syllable types, etc.

This lesson for English Language Learners (ELLs) introduces the traditional food of Japan, sushi. In this lesson, learners will practice reading, listening, speaking and writing. All activities are automatically graded with feedback provided to the learner upon submission.

"The website includes clusters of task-based lessons and examples of tasks that fit within each of Willis’ (1996) six types of tasks. The LCD Group is also dedicated to promoting intercultural communicative competence (see Foundations section) in the second language classroom and has included a section of activity ideas and lesson plans to demonstrate how intercultural themes can be embedded in and complement second language instruction."