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Understanding and acknowledging the validity of different cultural behaviors and beliefs can present challenges for some teachers. This article addresses some of those issues.

Great Resource for 1 page fiction passages. Also strategies for comprehension.

One-Page Non Fiction Reading/Thinking Passages

For Common Core resources, teacher videos, strategies and lesson plans, go to Teaching Channel. Find great ideas and strategies in classroom teaching videos covering Math, Science, English, History and more.

Word Games Online for Kids, Teachers & Parents. FunBrain is the Internet's premier location for interactive, educational games (math, grammar, science) for children and kids of all ages.

This article is about teachers using technology to assist their students in learning to read.

Book clubs, meetings where adults get together in person or online to discuss books that they have read, have gained popularity in recent years. Book clubs for kids and their parents, including mother-daughter book clubs, father-son book clubs, and parent-child book clubs, have also become popular.

Children's Literature Network connects, informs, and educates those who have an interest in children's and teen books, authors, and illustrators. Our community includes people who are passionate about encouraging young people to read.

This week's announcement of a new initiative called TED-Ed caused a flurry of excitement about the new videos TED is creating to spread powerful lessons beyond the classroom walls.

Good way to introduce character, setting terms to first graders.

I like how he goes through the text with them and he is explicitly teaching them ways to mark the text to go back and re-read or get clarification.