A simple comprehension lesson that teaches young kids to retell a story in three parts: beginning, middle, and end.

Help older elementary readers notice the difference between someone who experienced an event and someone who is reporting on it later.

Help older elementary readers slow down and actually use tables and charts instead of skipping past them. This lesson shows kids how visual information supports the main text.

Building reading confidence with the next 20 essential sight words - the ones kids encounter daily in books and around town.

Kids learn to identify what a story is really about, not just the details. They practice asking What is this story mostly about? and answering with one sentence.

Help early readers notice that reading happens everywhere, from stop signs to library labels to grocery aisle markers.

Teach your child to read a simple weather forecast and use it to make real decisions about clothes, gear, and plans.

Reading fluency with a read-along partner. Your child times themselves reading and practices smooth pacing with your guidance.

Discover the three main reasons authors write and practice identifying purpose in real texts.

Read a child-friendly biography of Tennessee's own Dolly Parton, focusing on her love of reading and the Imagination Library. Includes discussion questions.

Study the real life of Davy Crockett, a true East Tennessean, and learn to separate historical fact from legend.

Learn to identify how two things are the same and different. Introduce Venn diagrams and practice comparing short passages and characters.

Learn to find the main idea in a paragraph using a simple strategy, then practice with short passages and discussion questions.

Learn what inferences are and practice combining text clues with prior knowledge to read between the lines.

Learn what reading fluency is, why it matters, and practice with short repeated-reading passages at the grade 2 level.

Discover how informational text is different from stories. Learn to use headings, bold words, and captions, then practice with a nonfiction passage about Tennessee wildlife.

A simple reading log to track books, authors, dates, and reflections, plus a summer reading challenge idea to keep kids motivated.

Learn to navigate nonfiction text using headings, subheadings, captions, bold words, indexes, and glossaries - with a Tennessee geography practice text.

Practice retelling stories in order using who, what, where, when, and why. Build comprehension by putting events in your own words.

Learn to put story events in the correct order using signal words like first, next, then, and last. Includes a cut-and-sort activity idea.

A graphic organizer with who, what, where, when, why boxes and beginning-middle-end sections for retelling stories after reading.

Learn the difference between retelling and summarizing, then practice writing a strong summary using a simple template.

Discover how Latin and Greek word roots unlock the meaning of unfamiliar words, and start a Word Detective journal.

Learn to figure out the meaning of unknown words using context clues in the sentence. Includes modeling and practice sentences.