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Reading Comprehension 3 - A Lazy Holiday or an Exciting Holiday?- Test Your Reading Skills
In this reading comprehension worksheet, students read a short passage about a young girl's plans for her summer holidays. They write the answer to 10 questions based on the reading.
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Reading Comprehension 4 - What Shall We Do Tomorrow?- Test Your Reading Skills
In this reading comprehension worksheet, 7th graders read a short passage in which one young lady talks to a young man about their holiday experience in Devon, UK. They answer 10 questions based on the passage.
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Reading Comprehension 5 - Looking for a Job- Test Your Reading Skills
In this reading comprehension worksheet, young scholars read a message that a young woman leaves on the answering machine of a job recruitment agency. They write answers to 20 questions based on their comprehension of the paragraph.
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Clicking Your Way to Poetry: Composing Word Association Poems with the Visual Thesaurus
Use a Visual Thesaurus to compose word association poems. Discuss poetry and word association, create word maps, then practice creating poems based on playful word associations. A perfect way to celebrate "Poem in Your Pocket Day" (April...
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Literary Skills
Develop their literary skills. In this literature lesson, learners collaborate to read portions of books and examine settings, plots, main ideas, and conclusions.
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Stop Sign Punctuation
Students use punctuation and capitalization. In this grammar instructional activity students use stop signs in the place of periods. Students cut out sentences and put stop signs in appropriate places. Students indicate capitalization...
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Beginning and Ending Consonants
Young readers explore consonant sounds. In this beginning phonics instructional activity, learners fill in a beginning/middle/end vertical column chart with the sounds they hear in the pictured object. Practice spelling CVC words.
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Who's Your Hero/Heroine?
Students use research skills on the Internet and write a biographical report and present it to the class. They utilize a worksheet that's imbedded in this plan to guide them in their research. students come to school dressed up as their...
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Historic Journey From Taiwan To China
High schoolers research information about Taiwan. They list information about the relationship between Taiwan and China in the before journey column. In the after journey column, have students predict what happen to this relationship.
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Compounding the Problem
Pupils sharpen their dictionary skills and their understanding of compound words in this plan. Tailor it to the grade level you teach by honing in on specific skills. For older learners, the plan suggests providing a word and having them...
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A Book Is A Window To the World
Second graders listen to pieces of literature that take place in different regions of the world. Using a map, they identify and locate the continents and oceans mentioned in the story. They describe the physical and human characteristics...
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Hula How?
Third graders start writing papers with much more regularity than they did in the previous grades. They are starting to differentiate between the styles of writing and know why each is important. This activity gives the them a chance to...
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Ask a Librarian
Discuss how asking questions is a vital part of not only the research process, but the lifelong process of information literacy. Middle schoolers work in small groups and practice the skill of asking questions. Afterward, they complete...
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Aches and Pains
Being able to distinguish between short and long vowel /a/ sounds is an important skill for young readers. They are introduced to the vowel-consonant-e pattern that changes short vowel sounds into long vowel sounds. They practice reading...
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Say /o/
Ollie the octopus is occupied! Use this tongue twister to help youngsters learn the /o/ sound. After practicing the target sound, learners should print the letter. When they are familiar with the letter and its sound, the group will...
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Get the Chicks in the Coop
Readers work to increase the speed of their out-loud reading to improve overall fluency. They work with partners to time and record how far they read in one minute using the book Click, Clack, Moo Cows That Type. The procedures...
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Semicolons and Commas Review
Young grammarians review the proper usage of colons and semicolons in writing. Given a list of sentences, they determine which are direct characterizations and which are indirect characterizations. They also decide where the punctuation...
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The Beatles and The Rolling Stones
Students exchange information orally about The Beatles and The Rolling Stones during the 1960s until 1970. They work in pairs to complete a gap-fill activity from memory. Students play hangman at the beginning of the lesson.
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Help! I'm Trapped in the Principal's Body
In this reading worksheet, students answer 10 multiple-choice questions about the book. For example, "Who was the principal of Burt Itchupt Middle School?"
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The Birchbark House: Chapter 11
For this The Birchbark House comprehension check worksheet, learners respond to 25 short answer questions covering chapter 11 of "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich in order to help them better understand the novel.
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Walk Two Moons Chapters 43-44
In this Walk Two Moons comprehension check worksheet, students respond to 12 short answer questions covering chapters 43-44 of Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech in order to help them better understand the chapters and the novel.
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Paws in Jobland: An Interview With...
Elementary schoolers listen and watch television or radio interviews in order to learn interviewing skills. They work in pairs, and "interview" their partner to find out about his/her life, job, and any interesting personal facts. Peers...
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Noun Recognition Practice #1
In this nouns worksheet, students learn to recognize nouns in sentences. Students read ten sentences and look for the person or place or thing. Students write down the nouns they find in each sentence.
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Searching for Meanings Beneath the Surface of the Poem
Students analyze poetry. For this cultural perspectives lesson, students read the poem "Soccer Until Dusk" by Mark Brazaitis. Students analyze the poem and consider the cultural perspective it reveals.