Aswaat Arabiyya is an archive of 245 videos in Arabic, listed by difficulty level and accompanied by glossaries and four worksheets each that focus on every aspect of listening comprehension. Selections come largely from Arabic media, with some cultural presentations by native speakers. Videos cover the entire Arabic-speaking world and include MSA and different dialects. Materials are designed to be used both as in-class activities and homework assignments. Videos can be slowed down.

Students will deconstruct ideas, claims, or concepts presented to them, build understanding of those ideas, and show their understanding.

Section 1 - Children will learn to recite and comprehend the rhyme "Jack and Jill" and its vocabulary.Section 2 - Children will learn to track the print in the nursery rhyme, understand the boundaries of words, and identify individual words.  

Section 1 -Children will answer questions and learn vocabulary while enjoying Little Red Riding Hood.Section 2 - Children will build confidence as writers by watching this teacher as she writes about the theme of kindness from Little Red Riding Hood.  This video would be a good introduction to the student's own writing about the story.Section 3 - Children will enjoy a retelling of the story, then work on identifying the beginning, middle, and end of the text.Section 4 - Children will build confidence as writers by watching this teacher draw and write about the character of the wolf.  This video would be a good introduction to the student's own writing about a story character.  

The Three Little Pigs is told orally with pictures only and the children are asked to make predictions based on text features.  At the end, the children are asked to compare the houses from the story to where they live. The children will enjoy a puppet show of the Three Little Pigs.  Teachers can use this video to teach a sequence of events and story elements. 

FreeReading is an open source instructional program that helps educators teach early literacy. Because it is open source, it represents the collective wisdom of a wide community of teachers and researchers. FreeReading contains Comprehension Activities, a page of activities to address important comprehension skills and strategies.

This article discusses how creating Readers Theater scripts from informational text can improve fluency and build comprehension.

As 5th grade students are learning about force and motion in science, these comprehension “mix-ups” are a great way to monitor students’ understanding of the content along with checking reading comprehension.

This video is part of the Learn and Grow with WHRO TV series. Watch Alystra Barefoot teach about making inferences.

This video is part of the Learn and Grow with WHRO TV series. Watch Alystra Barefoot teach about visualizing a story.

This article discusses explicitly teaching and assessing listening comprehension skills in the elementary grades and provides templates for classroom use.

As 5th grade students are learning about matter in science, these comprehension “mix-ups” are a great way to monitor students’ understanding of the content along with checking reading comprehension.

This video is part of the Learn and Grow with WHRO TV series. Watch Alystra Barefoot teach about story elements.

This article provides an overview of questioning as a reading strategy and includes templates and links to books, lesson plans, and web sites for more information.

This video is part of the Learn and Grow with WHRO TV series. Watch Caroline Doughty teach about metacognition comprehension strategies.

This video is part of the Learn and Grow with WHRO TV series. Caroline Doughty teaches about the comprehension skill, questioning.

This article provides an overview of the reading comprehension strategies of summarizing and synthesizing and links to additional professional and instructional resources.

This article discusses the importance of teaching students to reflect on text through direct instruction and modeling. The article includes a template that can be used with elementary students.