A 16-slide PowerPoint presentation introduces readers to the themes, motifs, and literary devices used by Octavia E. Butler in her time-travel, first person slave narrative.

In this reading practice worksheet, learners read four different passages and answer nineteen total multiple choice questions related to the plot, meaning, and information from the passage.

In this Regents High School Examination Comprehensive Examination worksheet, students listen to a passage and study a graphic and answer comprehension questions.  Students then compose a letter using information from both passages.

In this Regents High School Examination Comprehensive Examination in English worksheet, students listen to a passage and answer reading comprehension questions.  Students then write an essay using information from the passage.

For this reading for information worksheet, students read facts about the flag of Japan and color it according to the information in the passage. Students color one flag.

Students take a closer look at the Women's Suffrage Movement in America. In this women's rights lesson, students research suffrage leaders and write papers about them. Students then read and discuss information about Susan B....

Students explore the topic of summarizing. They read the book, Dolphins at Daybreak, to practice summarizing. They determine what information is important and choose sentences to summarize the passages they read. They write a summary...

For this reading comprehension worksheet, students read a passage on the United States "new president", George W. Bush. They then answer 7 questions on what they read. This information is not current.

This short reading activity is a quick way to have younger students practice comprehension skills. Learners read a conversation between two friends and then answer 4 comprehension and vocabulary questions.

In this dinosaurs reading comprehension worksheet, students read a text about dinosaurs. Students answer 10 true/false questions.

In this microscopes worksheet, 7th graders read information about microscopes and how they work. Students then complete several questions about the passage. Students study the diagram of a microscope using the letter definitions.

In this reading a speech worksheet, students read the words of Chief Seattle from 1857. Students analyze the words in bold type and answer 6 multiple choice questions.

In this problem solving worksheet, 5th graders read a short passage and use the given information.  Students solve for three problems showing all work and explaining the reasoning for how the problem was solved.

In this learning to summarize learning exercise, students interactively answer 10 multiple choice questions about summarizing information from a given passage, then click to check their answers.

Students discuss a Biblical passage and how to apply it to their lives.  In this Biblical community lesson, students read I Corinthians 12:12-27 to discover that all people and churches are parts of the body of Christ, and work...

In this reading comprehension worksheet, students read a passage about security cameras and answer four multiple choice questions based on the information from the text.

One skill essential to reading comprehension, is learning how to summarize a text. After reading a biography of Abraham Lincoln, readers demonstrate this ability by crafting a brief summary of Lincoln's life.

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...

Students get rid of unnecessary information. They pick out the most important information. Students write a sentence that covers everything that is important information from the passage. They fill out a check list to check behind...

Students, through teacher modeling and guided practice, explore four steps/rules of summarizing. In groups, they read a short passage and then, by applying the summarization rules and skills, write an effective summary of it.

Students open their Alabama history book to the chapter on the Civil Rights Movement noticing how the chapter is broken into headings. They read a passage and as a class, create a story map focusing on the main ideas and details.

Twelfth graders examine how to identify the main idea and supporting details in a reading passage. They read an article, answer who, what, when, where, and how, discuss the answers, and identify the main idea and supporting details.

Students practice their reading skills by reading information about estuaries. As a class, they discuss what they read and answer discussion questions. As they read, they use the right hand column of their paper to write down any words...

Students study how to summarize a reading passage to improve their comprehension. They read a non-fiction passage and use five steps to summarize it while working in groups of three. Next, as class, they decide which group provided the...