With our Letter Sounds, Patterns, and More lesson plan, students learn strategies for using letter sounds and patterns to identify and read multisyllabic words. They learn how to use their existing knowledge of all letter-sound correspondences, syllabication patterns, and roots and affixes to help them do this during this lesson.
Our Library Skills lesson plan teaches students how to properly and effectively use a library for research or to find a book they are looking for. Students also practice looking words up in the dictionary as a part of this lesson.
Our free downloadable PDF Literal and Nonliteral Language lesson plan introduces students to the differences between literal and nonliteral language and how each is used. During this lesson, students are asked to work in pairs to explore the meaning, use and an image representing their assigned idiom, engaging their creativity as they are a
With our Literature Comprehension lesson plan, students learn how to better understand the literature that they read, including stories, dramas, and poems.
With our Logical Connections/Sentences and Paragraphs lesson plan, students learn how to make and recognize logical connections between sentences and paragraphs, improving their reading comprehension and writing skills.
In our Main Idea lesson plan, students learn about main ideas and why they are important in literature and other texts. Students practice identifying main ideas in text and locating the supporting details.
With our Main Idea – Nonfiction lesson plan, students learn strategies for identifying and reiterating the main idea and supporting details of nonfiction texts. Students practice reading nonfiction texts using the methods described in the lesson and writing down the main idea.
In our Main Ideas lesson plan for grades 1-2, students learn what a main idea is, how to identify them, and why they are important in a text. Students practice identifying the main idea and supporting ideas in a text.
In our Main Idea lesson plan for grades 3-4, students learn how to determine the main idea of a text and how to identify supporting details. Students are asked to differentiate between main ideas and supporting details.
Our Main Idea with Details lesson plan teaches students to identify the main idea of a text and supporting detail. Students practice explaining how the supporting details support the main idea.
Our free downloadable PDF Making Inferences lesson plan introduces students to how to make inferences from context clues and other textual evidence, along with what you already know, and why that is an important skill for them to have. During this lesson, students are asked to read given passages and use their new inferencing steps to answe
Using our Match Quotations with Themes lesson plan, students learn how to effectively identify the themes of a text and find quotations to support that theme.
With our Meaning Through Words and Phrases lesson plan, students learn about roots and affixes and how to use them, along with context clues, to determine the meaning of words.
In our Media Literacy lesson plan, students learn about media literacy and why it’s so important in a world with so much media. Students learn how to fact-check claims and how to choose reputable media sources.
Our Morals, Messages, and Lessons lesson plan teaches students the basics about the messages, lessons, or morals of a story, and how to identify them. Students practice identifying each in examples and write their own stories with a message.
Our Mythology lesson plan teaches students about myths, including their histories, their purpose, their structure, and their lasting influence. Students practice using what they learned by writing their own myths in the style and tradition of myths they learned about during this lesson.
Our Narrator/Speaker’s Influence lesson plan teaches students about how the narrator and the narrator’s point of view can influence a text and the way events in a text are described. Students practice writing about events from the point of view of different narrators.
The Clarendon Learning reading lesson plans are convenient and valuable as the starting point to help every elementary school-aged child to become a better reader. A wide variety of topics are available with specialized reading lesson plans for beginning readers in primary school, more advanced readers in the middle elementary grades, and of course, concept-specific lessons for students in upper grades.
Whether you are seeking to introduce your students to new vowel sounds, understanding myths, and fables, or the skills and strategies needed for comprehending stories, or other reading concepts, Clarendon Learning offers effective teaching resources and ideas for classroom teachers and homeschooling parents.
Our detailed lesson plans have been written by experienced educators and curriculum experts. They have been thoroughly researched and reviewed for accuracy and efficiency and can be used almost immediately. There is little preparation time necessary, allowing the busy educator more time to teach the content of the lesson.
The reading lesson plans include step-by-step instructions, procedures for teachers, options, matching Common Core State Standards, content for students, activity and practice pages, a list of Internet resources to enhance learning, and much more.
All of our reading resources may be searched by topic or grade level (k-6). You’ll find that these teaching resources truly are beneficial to all elementary-aged students, and the plans will allow teachers and homeschooling parents to become more effective educators.
The Clarendon Learning reading lesson plans are convenient and valuable as the starting point to help every elementary school-aged child to become a better reader. A wide variety of topics are available with specialized reading lesson plans for beginning readers in primary school, more advanced readers in the middle elementary grades, and of course, concept-specific lessons for students in upper grades. Whether you are seeking to introduce your students to new vowel sounds, understanding myths, and fables, or the skills and strategies needed for comprehending stories, or other reading concepts, Read more
