Reading Lesson Plans Mrs. Judy Araujo, M.Ed., CAGS

Comprehension Questions for Leveled Texts Pick a book, and use these or these:

Incredible site! It has tons of guided reading lesson plans organized by level! Warsaw Schools’ INCREDIBLE site!

This site has 40 WEEKS worth of sequential lessons for grades K or 1 or struggling readers in any grade. FreeReading.net

Speaking of the Common Core, some complex texts are leveled. Click this link and scroll down to FYI for Kids. Use these corresponding lessons for each article: Comprehension Response Sheets by Pat Cunningham. There are also generic comprehension guides: Comprehension Guides.

Check out ReadWorks! Make a free account. Enter in grade level and skill, and you will get free passages and worksheets! Readworks has Skills and Strategy Units. They have Comprehension Units. They also have Novel Study Units for 5th and 6th Grade!

Read Write Think is another excellent resource! Make a free account. Go to Classroom Resources and then go to Lesson Plans. You can search for lessons on a particular book, or click the 3 lines on the left and select the grade, content, and objective that you are seeking.

Education.com You may need to sign up for a free account. You can search lessons by grade.

PBS Learning Media has excellent lesson plans! Sign up for free. There are videos with support materials and transcripts.

Tons of FCRR Preschool Lessons – alphabet, language, phonological awareness

Tons of FCRR Kindergarten and 1st Grade Lessons – phonological awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension

Tons of 2nd and 3rd Grade Lessons – phonological awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension

Tons of 4th and 5th Grade Lessons – advanced phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension

Literature-Based Reading Lessons – There are several books to pick from with comprehension questions.

Teachnology – There are lots of topics and lots to see on this site.

Free Lessons Aligned to the CCSS – Make a free account. You can browse by standard.

Try Reader’s Theater. These lessons are not free, but students love reader’s theater and it’s a great way to assess oral reading and get every child involved. Check out my Reader’s Theater page!

This site has excellent content area lessons: Kennedy Center.

Teachers Pay Teachers has a lot for varying small fees. You can also search for a book you are teaching on TPT as many people have units to sell.

I have 100s of free worksheets that you can create a lesson from!

I frequently purchase units for my 4th and 5th graders from Bookrags. You can’t beat those! There are lesson plans, themes, questions, quotes. . . Some units have lengthy multiple choice packets. Watch what you are buying – there are Study Guides and there are Lesson Plans – two separate things, but both are great. Shmoop is another excellent resource for summaries, themes, quotes, and more and Sparknotes is helpful for chapter book planning. (If there is a fee, don’t forget to cancel your subscription immediately, or you will be billed monthly.)

Teach phonics with decodable texts! My FAVORITE set of decodable texts is from UFLI!

UFLI is based on the SCIENCE OF READING – and their materials are FREE!

* Here are 128 FREE UFLI lesson plans WITH decodables and sight words to be taught in order.

* Here are the decodables in one PDF. Decodables go from Lesson 8-128: ALL Decodables 8-128

*ALL Roll & Reads 13 – 128

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* TEACHERS! Make a file crate of the lessons – attached are labels that were free on the UFLI Facebook page called UFLI Foundations Community: Building Strong Readers! Join their FB page! UFLI Labels

* TEACHERS! I HIGHLY recommend buying the UFLI manual for $70. It is well worth it and has more lesson specifics than the free slideshow lesson plans! As a reading specialist, this is the #1 resource I use!

Watch these videos to learn how to be a pro at teaching UFLI decodables! These videos also show how to use their FREE AMAZING digital Word Work mats!

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UFLI training video 1.

UFLI training video 2.

Free literacy assessments

Core Phonics Survey OR CORE-Phonics-Survey-2008 – This version is to progress monitor all year.Free literacy assessments

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Trueflix

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Go to Resources and Tools to get the lesson plans. “Trueflix is an award-winning online resource that leverages the award-winning True Books content to help students hone literacy skills, build knowledge of subject-area content, and cultivate 21st Century skills through the inquiry process.” There’s a video to watch, a text to read, a lesson plan, and a quiz!

Edited on 03/07/2024