Reading Comprehension

Lessons:

Vocabulary exercises: Word Parts - Learn to understand Greek roots and Latin roots, not just definitions.
Comprehension Companion for Rodman Philbrick's Freak the Mighty, selected chapters. Vocabulary, conflict, signal word, character description exercises and more.
- What am I saying? Here's the PDF for the whole book. Thought I'd shared this ages ago.
Holes Comprehension Companion: In Progress
Chapter-by-Chapter comprehension exercises to accompany Louis Sachar's Holes.
Understanding Phrases: Ideas and exercises for improving fluency and comprehension. Includes PDF files of exercises ready to print and use
What's the Big Idea? Categorizing words by concepts (identifying Main Idea)
NEW: Outlining lesson -- one with lines if you want to print it out and write on it, and one to download and type on.
Stone Fox Comprehension Companion:
Chapter-by-chapter comprehension exercises to be used while reading Gardiner's Stone Fox (first half).
Chapter-by-chapter comprehension exercises for Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (samples from the Harry Potter Comprehension Compendium).
Signal Words -- a list and exercises
Examples and non-examples higher-level vocabulary comprehension
Video Guide: Glory
18 questions for students to answer as they watch the film.

Lowering the Language Barriers in Middle and Secondary Content Areas by Susan Jones, M.Ed.
Multisensory Vocabulary: Guidelines and Strategies.
Book Reviews: Literature with "emerging" readers in mind
Looking More Closely at High-Interest, Low-Level Texts: Do They Support Comprehension? This article has a fair amount of undefined educational jargon in it, but brings up excellent points about the complexity of choosing good books for our students.