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This themed section provides hands-on tools to boost reading engagement in your elementary classroom. Discover innovative reading activities, turnkey resources and practical advice!

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Themed section| New Ways to Assess Reading Skills

Yes, it's possible to make assessment drive learning... and it's a win-win for everyone! This themed section provides ready-to-implement ideas and tools to help you rethink reading evaluation in class, ensuring it is more equitable and engaging.

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5 Ideas to Make Reading a Part of Your Elementary Classroom Routine

A must-have at school, reading both boosts success and brings joy. This article gives you simple ideas to build a love of reading and fit it easily into your students' day-to-day.

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How to Foster a Love of Reading in Your Students

Certain students aren't interested in reading. How can you, as a teacher, generate or re-energize that interest daily? Explore this article for actionable ideas to inspire curiosity and the delight of reading.

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How to Help Students Who Struggle With Reading

In any single class, reading difficulties can create major achievement gaps. To effectively support struggling readers and accelerate their literacy progression, this article offers research-based strategies anchored in explicit instruction, structured around three key pillars: decoding skills, deep comprehension and justifying answers (textual evidence).

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Elementary School Book Recommendations

Check out our curated reading lists, sorted by theme! You are sure to discover the perfect next book to recommend to your students!

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Practical tools

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Book of Spells

Explore Book of Spells, an interactive reading comprehension game. Students answer questions, and the more they succeed, the more they collect resources (donuts, soap, etc.) to raise friendly little creatures. A highly engaging way to encourage reading!

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Poster: Questions to help with reading comprehension

Check out two eye-catching posters to put up in your class to support students as they read non-fiction and fiction texts.

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6 Turnkey Worksheets for a Reading Circle

Alloprof has 6 structured reading worksheets for your students to use during literature circles. They detail the preparation task and the instructions for their assigned role, ensuring the activity runs smoothly and efficiently.

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24 Questions to Boost Reading Comprehension at School and at Home!

This resource provides 24 strategic questions for deeper narrative analysis. These questions are designed to cover all 4 key dimensions of reading.

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Reading Strategies

This resource is the main hub for elementary level reading strategy resources. Each strategy page offers definitions, tips, visual support and downloadable tools.

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The Response Process

This resource goes over the different steps of the response process with video explanations, tips, visual supports and downloadable tools.

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Narrative Texts

Help your students understand the different types of narrative texts with these easy-to-use resources! They outline the key features and main tropes for each narrative text type using visual support and printables.

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