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Braindance: Reading More Selectively
Gives specific advice on the most effective way to gain information through reading, especially necessary because the glut of information has created "an increasing need for the ability to scan." There are suggestions on how to decide...
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Definition: Fiction v. Nonfiction
This writing and reading tutorial provides a detailed explanation of the difference between fiction and nonfiction in rhetoric.
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How the Language Really Works: Poetry
Poetic techniques, the poet's "arsenal" of techniques, and links to literary terms are features of this text-based page.
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Lesson Plan: Decoding: Context Activity
What does it mean to decode words in a context activity? Explore this lesson plan to find the answer to this question and more.
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Lesson Plan: Decoding: Context Activity
What does it mean to decode words in a context activity? Explore this lesson plan to find the answer to this question and more.
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Lesson Plan: Reading Comprehension Booklets
Use this online lesson plan for creating reading comprehension booklets. Teachers can use this lesson plan as a spring board for other reading comprehension activities.
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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.
Courseware Solutions
Got Kids Games: Magic Phonics Wizard: Find the Wizard
This is a phonics game in which students listen to a sound and then click on all of the words containing that sound. If they make three mistakes, they must start over. When finished, they find the magic wizard.
English Zone
English Zone: Dolphins Around the World: Dolphins 1
This reading comprehension exercise uses a passage about the lives of dolphins to quiz readers on what they have learned. Students will learn about these animals while also improving their information seeking skills.
Quia
Quia: Awesome Antonyms Match Up
Match up pairs of antonyms using a concentration, simple matching or flashcard approach. Site claims that over 90 pairs are used, so multiple plays are possible.
Quia
Quia: Synonym Sticks I
Matching, concentration, and flashcard activities for practicing synonym skills. Word search reviews the vocabulary but does not connect to the synonym concept.
TVOntario
Tvo Kids: Gisele and the Letter Tree
A letter is missing from the ABCs! Kids can learn their alphabet while going on a missing letter adventure with Gisele.
Austin Independent School District
Austin Independent School District: Quick and Easy Word Study Routine [Pdf]
When older students struggle with decoding difficult words, the word study routine described in this slide presentation can teach them to chunk bigger words into smaller parts to learn pronunciation skills.
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Live Worksheets: Wh Questions
On this interactive instructional activity, students will complete questions with the correct question word. Students will type in one of following words or phrases into each sentence: who, what, where, why, when, or whose Students will...
abcteach
Abcteach: Nonfiction Reading Comprehension for K 2
[Free Registration/Login Required] Teachers can use this site to print from over twenty informational pieces with comprehension questions for their students. Subjects range from Earth Day to mothers to George Washington's birthday.
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Papa Jan: Five Essential Components of Reading
Can you name the five essential components of reading? Check out this informative site from Papa Jan.com to learn more about phonemic awareness, phonics, reading fluency, vocabulary development and reading comprehension.
Charlotte Mecklenburg Library
Story Place: Which Is Bigger?
In this interactive story, Engine Nine asks which is bigger from a variety of things and the reader selects the bigger of the two things.
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Jl Resource: The Reading Room
Find creative ways to help students learn to read. Links to online stories and activities.
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Hubbard's Cupboard: The Enormous "Kinder" Garden
In this unit from Hubbard's Cupboard, an elementary class will read several books together, each having a strong connection to the next. There are ideas for cross-curricular lessons, so this could be a site that shapes the next several...
TES Global
Tes: My Reading Record
[Free Registration/Login Required] This collection of blank reading records will help with the assessment of reading comprehension. Students write about what they have read during a teacher-determined period of time. The reading record...
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Jeopardy Labs: Text Structure
Practice answering text structure questions in this Jeopardy-style learning activity.
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Prezi: Main Idea and Supporting Details
Learning how to determine what is the main idea and what are the details in a story helps you become a better reader.
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Prezi: Beginning, Middle, and End
Based on the story, Harry the Dirty Dog, this slideshow introduces the different elements of the beginning, middle, and end of a story.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Pride and Predjudice Chapter One
[Free Registration/Login Required] Using the first chapter of Pride and Prejudice, students read the chapter and work through multiple choice questions that get at various reading skills and strategies. Based on the results, the teacher...