PHS Digital Library: Literacy Resources for Teachers: Reading Informational Text

Strategy Guides

Strategy guides define and provide examples of effective teaching and learning strategies, in brief, easy-to-read documents. Most include examples and advice for classroom application.

Preparing Students for Success with Reading in the Content Areas

From ReadWriteThink
In this strategy guide, you'll learn how to determine the level and type of support you need to provide students based on careful preparation as a content area expert.

Making the Reading Process Visible through Performance Assessment

From ReadWriteThink
Effective differentiation begins with purposeful assessment. In this strategy guide, you'll learn how to construct an authentic performance-based reading assessment that will give you access to students' thinking before, during, and after reading.

Anticipation Guides

From Adlit.org
An Anticipation Guide is a strategy that is used before reading to activate students' prior knowledge and build curiosity. Can be used for fiction and nonfiction texts.

Helpful Websites

These websites contain helpful resources that are both student-facing and teacher-facing

ReadWriteThink.org
Here at ReadWriteThink, our mission is to provide educators, parents, and afterschool professionals with access to the highest quality practices in reading and language arts instruction by offering the very best in free materials.
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Lots of High School Resources, including web-based student interactive tools for brainstorming, composition planning, and more!
NewsEla
You don’t have to choose between engaging content and delivering standards-aligned instruction. Every teacher should have accessible, standards-aligned content that excites at their fingertips so they can focus on what matters - inspiring a love of learning for life.
The Smithsonian Learning Lab
The Smithsonian Center for Learning and Digital Access created the Smithsonian Learning Lab to inspire the discovery and creative use of its rich digital materials—more than a million images, recordings, and texts. It is easy to find something of interest because search results display pictures rather than lists. Whether you've found what you were looking for or just discovered something new, it's easy to personalize it. Add your own notes and tags, incorporate discussion questions, and save and share. The Learning Lab makes it simple.
TeachingHistory.Org
About Teachinghistory.org
Teachinghistory.org is designed to help K–12 history teachers access resources and materials to improve U.S. history education in the classroom. With funding from the U.S. Department of Education, the Center for History and New Media (CHNM) has created Teachinghistory.org with the goal of making history content, teaching strategies, resources, and research accessible.