We are excited to offer everyone access to our new Foundational Literary Concepts Lesson Plan Toolkit created by Shanara Hawkins, Language, Literacy & Dyslexia Ed Consultant and the Step by Step guide to using the lesson plan created by Payton Dison. This toolkit offers teachers a detailed lesson trajectory [...]
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Understanding the Doppler Effect This Read Ahead lesson plan aims to enrich students' intuitive understanding of the Doppler effect with a theoretical understanding. First, students will take turns in pairs demonstrating the effect. Then, they will reflect on what they think caused their observations. Finally, they will read the Read Ahead [...]
One of the easiest but most powerful ways teachers are using Read Ahead: breaking reading assignments into sections so students can take in smaller "chunks" as they navigate through the text. It also makes it easier to read on your phone. It's a simple extra step but requires [...]
This Read Ahead lesson plan asks students an important question: What 3 words are most important in the 2nd amendment? Then invites students to share and compare the words they chose by demonstrating the words that should jump off the page. A shared reading experience. Next students provide a rationale [...]
Top 5 ways to ruin a reading experience 1) Interrogate: Turn every reading assignment into a test. Do you look forward to activities where you are stopped and questioned? a) Yes, I enjoy being questioned, especially when I’m in the middle of something. b) Yes, I like the challenge [...]
Our mission at Read Ahead is to provide easy access to literacy for everyone. At any age. And any reading level. We are grateful to Clever for making it possible for us to now extend our free, evidence-based literacy tool to over 60,000 schools. And to school districts where easy [...]
Are your students practicing reading strategies like how to identify supporting details or sequence of events? What if you could simulate the process of focusing on the right cues for these reading strategies while your students were reading? You can. Read Ahead lets you block out screen distractions and zoom [...]
