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Dia de Los Muertos
Students construct concept maps after reading an article. In this Dia de Los Muertos activity, students read about the celebration in Spanish and create concept maps explaining what they learned. Students share with their peers.
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Miley Cyrus Quits Twitter
In this Miley Cyrus quits Twitter instructional activity, 6th graders read or listen to a passage, discuss 5 warm up exercises, answer 30 pre-reading, while reading and post-reading questions included fill ins, synonyms, matching,true...
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We Wish You a Merry Something, America
In this we wish you a merry something, America instructional activity, 8th graders read or listen to a paragraph explaining that the term merry Christmas is not politically correct in America. Students discuss 4 warm up...
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FIFA World Cup 2010 Spain vs. Switzerland
In this FIFA World Cup 2010 Spain vs. Switzerland activity, 7th graders listen to or read about the game, then fill in 10 blanks, correctly spell 10 scrambled letters, unscramble 10 sentences, complete a survey and write discussion...
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What Can I Do...?
In this place vocabulary worksheet, students read the terms for each example and write a short sentence describing what can be done in each of the places.
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Regents High School Examination Comprehensive Examination in English Session Two (2008)
In this Regents High School Comprehensive Examination worksheet, students read a poem and an excerpt from an autobiography and answer comprehension questions. Students then write a unified essay based on both passages.
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Regents High School Comprehensive Examination English Session One
For this Regents High School Comprehensive Examination worksheet, learners listen to a passage and answer ten multiple choice questions to check comprehension. Students then complete an essay response.
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Regents High School Comprehensive Examination in English Session Two (2007)
In this Regents High School Comprehensive Examination worksheet, pupils listen to two passages and answer ten multiple choice questions to check comprehension. Students then complete an essay response based on both passages.
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Regents High School Examination Comprehensive Examination in English Session One (2006)
In this Regents High School Comprehensive Examination worksheet, students listen to a passage and answer ten multiple choice questions to check comprehension. Students then complete an essay response.
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Regents High School Comprehensive Examination in English Session Two (2005)
Int this Regents High School English Comprehensive Examination young scholars read passages from a short story and a poem and write an essay based on both passages.
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Regents High School Examination Comprehensive Examination English Session One (2005)
In this Regents High School Comprehensive Examination worksheet, students listen to a passage and answer ten multiple choice questions to check comprehension. Students then complete an essay response.
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Arthur Meets the President
Pupils discuss the role of the President. In this government lesson, students read Arthur Meets the President and complete a story map. Pupils develop new vocabulary related to the story.
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Freckle Juice- Lesson 6
Students read Freckle Juice. In this comprehension lesson, students complete a story map and discuss cause and effect based on readings from Freckle Juice.
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Reading Comprehension: Famous Inventors-Henry Ford
In this reading comprehension learning exercise, students use a reading passage on another page to answer seven questions about Henry Ford.
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Puzzle
In this language arts worksheet, students locate words from the book Winnie the Pooh. Students find names of main characters. Other words are verbs and main objects such as the honey pot.
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Go Fish Chapter 1 Comprehension Questions
In this reading comprehension worksheet, students answer 10 fill-in-the-blank questions based on the reading of "Go Fish." The reading is not included with the worksheet.
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It's ALL Good!
Students work on summarization as a skill to increase their comprehension of full texts. They focus on determining the most important ideas from the texts they read by using the four steps to summarization. Using an online article, they...
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Going, Going, Gone!
Second graders discover the meaning of reading comprehension. They get a partner and practice readng sentences aloud to them, starting slow to make sure they read all the words correctly. They then try to say the sentences faster and...
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Strength in Summarizing
Third graders practice summarizing passages while creating a fishbone map of important details in non-fiction text. They examine how to tell the difference between important and less important details by highlighting them in reading...
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Speedy Reading
Students review the cover-up and crosscheck method of reading words before practicing rereading to become more fluent readers. They listen as the teacher reads both with and without fluency to determine which is easier to understand....
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Jump on the Expression Express
Young scholars read for comprehension and practice reading fluently with expression. After a reading demonstration, and discussing how to recognize punctuation, students read given stories to a partner. Young scholars rate their...
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Let's Sum It All Up
Fourth graders watch a modeled lesson on summarizing the main ideas of a non-fiction passage. They silently read a passage about sharks before making a class summarization chart. Next, they read a small passage and summarize it...
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What Do You See?
Students, through teacher modeling and guided practice, explore the concept of visualization and how it works to help them comprehend what they read. They read the first chapter of the book, 'Sarah, Plain and Tall' and visualize what...
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Do You See What I See?
Pupils, through teacher modeling and guided practice, explore the concept of visualization and how it works to help them comprehend what they read. They read a story, visualize what has happened in the story, and then draw a picture of...