Starfall
Starfall: Dune Buggy
Learn the long U sound in English while paging through this read-aloud story about a day at the dunes. Great graphics, unlimited repetition, and learner controlled.
Love To Know Media
Your Dictionary: Examples of Open Ended and Closed Ended Questions
Explains the difference between open and closed questions. Gives examples and situations where each might be used.
Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media: Education: Story Elements Retelling
In this lesson plan, students will learn to retell a story using story elements to improve their comprehension of the story. The students will actively listen to a story and complete a graphic organizer to share and discuss with a partner.
College Claparede (Switzerland)
College Claparede: English Exercises Online: Adjectives & Prepositions2
This is an interactive English cloze-style exercise using adjectives and prepositions. It offers hints, allows corrections, shows the correct answers, and provides a percentage score. It is part of an extensive extensive interactive...
College Claparede (Switzerland)
College Claparede: English Exercises Online: Adjectives & Prepositions1
An interactive English cloze-style exercise using adjectives and prepositions is the content of this site. It offers hints, allows corrections, shows the correct answers, and provides a percentage score. It is part of an extensive...
CommonLit
Common Lit: I Practiced
A learning module that begins with the poem "I Practiced" by JonArno Lawson, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Clerihew Poetry
Cooperative poetry writing assignment. Students will write and share poetry using the Clerihew style. Students will also give a group presentation of their poems.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Let's Write a Cinquain
During this lesson plan, third grade students will navigate the Internet to learn about cinquains. They will use their new knowledge to create their own cinquains while learning important word processing skills.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: What Does the Reader Want to Know? Creating Research Questions
In this instructional activity, students will change a research topic into questions that they will specifically answer while doing their research.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: "Sticky Note Reading" the Art of Questioning While Reading
Third graders will learn the importance questioning has on comprehension of a text. Students will use sticky notes and an interactive reading notebook while working with an informational text.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Story Add Ons
This is a technology-rich lesson plan which allows students to explore proper language conventions while utilizing portable keyboards for word processing.
Josie's Poems
Josie's Poems: "Expressing Ourselves"
A poem about how animals communicate and how humans are different because of the way we can communicate.
Josie's Poems
Josie's Poems: "Homes"
A poem about the different types of things and places animals call home.
Soft Schools
Soft Schools: Reading Comprehension
Students are to read a fiction paragraph and answer a 10-question quiz about it.
Soft Schools
Soft Schools: Reading Comprehension: Quiz 2
Students read a fiction paragraph and answer a 10-question quiz about it.
PBS
Pbs Kids: Fern's Poetry Club
An excellent site for children about the definition, examples, and types of poetry. Students can click nodes such as "What's a Poem?", "Read More Poems," or even "Write a Poem."
Beacon Learning Center
Beacon Learning Center: Get the Idea
Learn about and practice finding the main idea in short reading passages.
Other
New Poets Press: Writing Tips
Provides some good, practical advice on writing poems. Written in a simple, down-to-earth style that is easily accessible. An outline at the top of the page will lead you to different sections of the page. Part of a larger poetry...
Other
Fiction teachers.com: How to Write a Mini Mystery
Use the ideas on this page to help your students create mini-mysteries.
Other
Sebastian Swan: Read a Book!
Looking for a new way to get young students reading? This interactive reading site provides online stories and accompanying questions for students to explore.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Diamante Poem
Use this printable template to teach students how to create a diamante poem.
Pearson
Pearson Education: Practice Reading Section
This resource provides short reading selections that encourage reading comprehension. Students are challenged with questions about the selection to test their understanding.
EL Education
El Education: Kids Book of Poetry
Students write acrostic name poems, sensory poems, and how-to poems and compile them into a class book of poetry.