Reading Lesson Plans and Resources
Last updated October 6, 2009.
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Sites with Many Reading Lesson Plans 
The Educator's Reference Desk Reading Lesson Plans
More than 30 lesson plans, mostly for the primary grades.

Reading Lesson Plans from the Teacher's Desk
Another long list of reading lesson plans.

Read-Write-Think
A partnership between the International Reading Association (IRA), the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), and the Verizon Foundation, this site offers many lesson plans organized by grade level. Most seem to be of high quality.

Northwest Regional Educational laboratory (NWREL) Reading Lesson Plans
Search for lesson plans by grade "reading traits."

Reading Lesson Plans
From Teach.net, this site consists of a huge number of lesson plans and ideas for activities.

Raising Readers
Lesson ideas and curriculum from the PBS Raising Readers Program.

McGraw-Hill Reading/Language Arts
Activities tied to the McGraw-Hill Language Arts Series

Phonics Lesson Plans
Phonics Lesson Plans
Three primary-grade lesson plans from The Educator's Reference Desk.

A Model Lesson Plan for Teaching Phonics
From Teachnology. See also Lesson Plans: Phonics for more from this site.

Phonics Link
Resource for elementary teachers. See also Phonics Printables and Worksheets, and Downloadable Read and Color Books.

Lesson Plans and Activities for Teaching Phonics
Resources, online activities, and lesson plans from Scholastic.com.

Dinosaur Phonemic Awareness
A kindergarten lesson plan from VA-SOL.

Phonics and Decoding Strategies for Struggling Readers Using Core Knowledge Poems
A unit for emergent readers.

Phonics Fun
A kdg. lesson plan from the Educators Reference Desk.

Phonics with Dr. Seuss
A 1st-grade lesson plan from the above source.

What's It Say?
A phonics-based first-grade unit from Core Knowledge.

Whole-to-Parts Phonics Instruction: Teaching Letter-Sound Correspondence
A K-2 lesson plan from Read-Write-Think. See also Phonic Generalizations in Chrysanthemum, Phoneme Isolation: Building Phonemic Awareness, and Generating Rhymes for other K-2 lesson plans from this source.

Learning the letter "G" Sound
A K-1 phonics lesson plan.

Making Words: Cardboard Letters
A K-1 hands-on activity in which children discover sound-letter relationships.

Phonemic Awareness Activities
Several activities for grades K-1.

Letter Slide
A primary-grade lesson plan teaching children to blend sounds into words.

The Blending Slide
Another primary-grade phonics lesson plan similar to the one above.

The Letterbox Lesson
A lesson plan in which students analyze the phoneme sequence in a word.

Sing Your Way through Phonics
Eighteen primary-grade lesson plans that use music and rhythm to engage young readers.

Sight Word Lesson Plans
Dolch Site Word Printables and Worksheets
From edHelper.com. See also Dolch Word List - Kindergarten, Mrs. Perkins Dolch Words, Dolch Sight Word Activities, and Dolch Kit.

Sight Words
A 1st-grade lesson plan from the Lesson Plans Page.

Activities to Reinforce and Teach Sight Words
Several activities from Teachers.net. See also Sight Word Soup for another lesson plan from this site.

Reading Functional Recreation Sight Words
Students learn to read the words in community settings.

Learning Sight Words
Activities from Suite 101.

Reading Bingo
A 6th-grade reading activity.


Reading Comprehension Lesson Plans
Conquering Comprehension
A 2nd-grade unit in pdf format from Core Knowledge.

Out of Many One: Reading Comprehension and Writing through the Study of Immigration
A ten-lesson unit for grade 2 from Core Knowledge.

Character Point of View
An elementary-grade lesson plan to improve reading comprehension skills.

Reading Comprehension
Lesson plans including daily reading comprehension themes from edHelper.com.

KWL - A Reading Comprehension Strategy
A lesson plan in which students are taught the KWL reading comprehension strategy. See also Using A KWL Chart.  

Celebrate Reading
A year-long program from Core Knowledge to encourage daily reading at home. It include six lesson plans to set up the program and teach the required skills.

What is Reciprocal Teaching?
An overview of this instructional procedure designed to enhance students' reading comprehension. See also Request Reciprocal Teaching, Reciprocal Teaching Model Lesson, Reciprocal Revision: Making Peer Feedback Meaningful, and Holes, by Louis Sachar (A unit plan using reciprocal Teaching).

Whole Language Lesson Plans
Whole Language lesson Plans
A long list of lesson plans from The Educator's Reference Desk.

Get to Know Your Favorite Author
A high school lesson plan from the above site.

Whole Language Experience with Casey at the Bat.
A lesson plan for grades 3-5.

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
A whole language lesson plan developed to promote interest in  reading and literature..

Arctic Animals
A 1st-grade lesson plan from Learn NC.

Literature-Based Reading Lesson Plans
Literature-Based Reading Lesson Plans
Twenty 2nd-grade lesson plans developed by teachers at the Dallas Christian School that use children's books to teach reading.

Introducing 'Communication Talent' with Casey at the Bat
A whole-language lesson plan for grades 3, 4, or 5.

Literature-Based  Reading Activities
A lesson plan for grades 2, 3, and 4 from The Educator's Reference Desk.

Online Elementary Economics Lessons
Many lesson plans integrating children's literature and economics.

Literature Circles Guided Reading Lesson Plans
An annotated list of lesson plans for elementary and middle school.

Reading in Literature Circles
A high school lesson plan from the Educators Reference Desk.

Word Identification Strategies - Shared Reading
A 1st-grade lesson plan using the book If You Give a Mouse a Cookie.

Mini-Lesson on Inferencing
A 3rd-grade lesson using The Five Chinese Brothers in which students learn how to make inferences from narrative text.

Using Poetry in Teaching Reading to Special Education Students
A unit intended for middle school students with limited reading skills.

Reader's Theatre Lesson Plans and Resources
The Power of Reader's Theater
An article from Scholastic. See also Reader's Theater Tips, Implementing Reader's Theater, Reader's Theater Teacher's Guide, and Reader's Theatre Basics for additional information.

Teaching Heart
Reader's theater scripts and plays for K-3.

Reader's Theater Editions
Scripts for 40 books. Read About the Scripts before you begin.

Reader's Theater
Links to scripts and resources from Web English Teacher

Reader's Theatre
A lesson plan for grades 3-5 from Read-Write-Think. See also Reader's Theatre with Jan Brett.

Reader's Theater: Asian Folktales
Activities adaptable to a variety of grade levels from Education World. See also Reader's Theatre Tacky the Penguin.

Around the Water Circle
An elementary reader's theater from Teachers.net. Search their site for many more reader's theater activities including Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss, Ruby the Copycat, and The Whipping Boy.

Columbus Day
Reader's theater from Teacher Link.

Quiet on the Set
A grades 4-6 readers theater for the Great Race of 1908.

Content Area Reading Lesson Plans and Resources
Topic: Content Area Reading
Six elementary lesson plans from Scholastic.com

Prepare to Read Non-Fiction
a lesson plan for grades 2-4 from the above site.

Out of Many One: Reading Comprehension and Writing through the Study of Immigration
A 2nd-grade unit from Core Knowledge.

New York Times Learning Network
Daily lesson plans that use recent New York Times articles as springboards for examining important curricular topics.

Viking Voyages: Navigating Online Content Area Reading
A lesson plan for grades 6-8 from Read-Write-Think.

Survival in Abel's Island: Segment 1
A 5th-grade lesson plan from Learn NC.

Children's Literature and U.S. History
Good source for lesson plans and children's books integrating literature and history.

The Civil War
An upper-elementary or middle grade unit using trade books to integrate history and literature.

World War II as Seen Through the Eyes of Children's Literature
An elaborate unit.

Anticipation Guides Improve Reading Comprehension
An activity from Education World to increase reading comprehension in the content areas.

Content Area Lesson Plans - Science: Rainforest Animals
Two lesson plans for 3rd-grade ELL students.

Reading Strategies that Assist Content Area Reading
Concise information on a number of strategies. See also Middle School Content Area Reading Strategies.

Reading Resources and Articles
Reading Today Daily
Daily literacy news from the International Reading Association.

Teaching Reading - Scholastic.com
View a video of a teacher modeling instructional practices or choose an article describing best practices for teaching and assessing reading. See their Articles for Teaching Reading.

International Reading Association
Their home page.

National Council of Teachers of English
Their home page.

Read-Write-Think
Many resources from this site which is a partnership of the NCTE and IRA.

Literacy Connections
Many resources on reading, teaching and tutoring techniques, ESL literacy, and adult literacy.

Reading Rockets
Resources for teachers including Today's Reading News, The ABCs of Teaching Reading, Classroom Strategies, and a Reading Glossary.

Reading Lady.com
This site is maintained by a PreK-5 literacy coach. Includes reading news and a blog as well as other resources.

Reading Comprehension
Free worksheets from RHL School.

Reading Online
From IRA, this website offers hundreds of articles on reading education.

The Reading Teacher
Reading journal from IRA.

Reading Research Quarterly
Another IRA journal.

Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy
One more IRA journal.

The Reading Matrix
An international online journal.

Reading and Dyslexia
Many articles from LD Online.

ESL, TEFL, TESOL Articles - Teaching Reading
Articles from tesall.com.

Reading Research and Reports
Federal reports on various aspects of reading. See also 2007 Nation's Report Card: Reading.

Handbook of Reading Research: Volume III
For more research articles and summaries, see Effective Reading Instruction (Research Summary) and Texas Reading Initiative - Best Practices.

Research Regarding Phonics
See also Making Friends with Phonemes.

Approaches to Teaching Reading
Basic information about seven approaches to reading instruction. See also Different Approaches to Teaching Reading.

No One Strategy Is Best for Teaching Reading
An article from Science Daily. See also National Panel Reports Combination of Phonics, Word Sounds, Giving Feedback on Oral Reading Most Effective Way to Teach Reading.