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Emergency Incident-- Filling Out Forms
For this reading comprehension worksheet, students learn to read for details before filling out forms with important information. Students first read a one page description of a car accident involving a bicyclist. Students then fill out...
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George Washington's Life
In this reading facts about George Washington's life worksheet, learners read a passage for information and use it to answer multiple choice questions. Students answer 5 questions.
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Don't Let Hazardous Waste Be a Hazard to You!
In this recognizing hazardous waste worksheet, learners observe hazard signs, read informational passages, and unscramble the words to identify hazardous waste products. Students unscramble 4 words.
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Balls In a Container
In this probability word problem worksheet, students read a passage about the number of balls of each color and apply the information to solve the problems. Students solve six problems.
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Black History Lesson Plan: Gwendolyn Brooks
Learn more about the work of Gwendolyn Brooks with a language arts lesson. Young learners read an informational passage about the acclaimed poet before attempting a shape poem of their own.
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Reading And Responding: Lesson 15 Nonfiction
Eighth graders examine a nonfiction selection in a teacher led instructional activity. They examine the author's purpose for writing the selection and identify the difference between fact and opinion. The compare and contrast expository...
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Passages of Man and Word
Third graders explore transportation and written communication prior to the Renaissance.
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ReQuest and Motor Imaging with My Side of the Mountain
Fifth graders read "My Side of the Mountain." They create a pantomime using vocabulary words from the story. Students create three questions about the reading. They discuss the passage they read and act out words to help them better...
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Who, What, When, Where And Why is He There?
Students examine the process of asking the 5 W questions in order to increase their reading comprehension while reading non-fiction passages. They review silent reading techniques before listening to a teacher read aloud, and discussing...
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What's the Main Idea?
Young scholars summarize a piece of text. After reviewing the correct way to read and summarize, students work in groups to summarize a piece of text assigned by the instructor. They write a summary paragraph using the process outlined...
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Let's Find the Main Ideas!
Third graders examine how finding the main ideas and summarizing increases their reading comprehension. They read "The Sea in Danger" while applying the six rules of summarization in a modeled lesson. Next, working in small groups, they...
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Short and Sweet
Students explore how to summarize a text while reading. They discuss what it means to summarize. Students read a non-fiction text and practice summarizing the pages they read. They highlight the main ideas and important details within...
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How to Summarize
Young scholars review techniques on how to read a passage smoothly making the words connect, and with expression. They then read the instruction to the chapter in their science book and answer questions that are written on the board....
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Get the Skinny! Summarize a Story!
Learners examine the steps of summarizing text. They silently read an article, then read and discuss the steps to summarizing a passage. Students then write a summary of the article they read, and as a class discuss the main idea,...
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Let Me Tell You What I Know
Fourth graders summarize a selected piece of fiction text. After completing a summary through guided practice, 4th graders, working in groups read a portion of the novel, "Hatchet." They write a summary paragraph using the process...
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Sum Stuff
Students are introduced to informational text. Students explore nonfiction as a genre. They identify the components and text structure of text nonfiction. Students read a nonfiction passage and write a summary of the passage.
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Bible: Aztec Gods
Students create a visual representation of an aspect of Aztec religion. In this Aztec religion lesson, students work in groups to read a passage and create a visual way to remember the important information in it. Students write an...
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Summarizing to Understand!
Learners review the concept of silent reading. Through modeling and guided practice, they follow six given steps in summarizing a written passage. Then they read a passage independently and follow the same steps in summarizing the...
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Parenting 101
Learners distinguish and comprehend the focus in a passage. They research websites to explore parenting resources.
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Short and Sweet
Learners summarize nonfiction text. After reviewing the process for reading in order to summarize, students independently read a nonfiction article. They write a summary paragraph using the checklist outlined by the instructor during...
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Short and Sweet
Young scholars examine how to summarize information from expository text. They read an expository text and identify the important information from the reading. Students identify the topic sentence and write their own topic sentences.
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Historical Background of Nightjohn Lesson Plan
Eighth graders use first-hand slave narratives that show conditions of slavery. They paste text into Appleworks and publish with a picture clipped from web sites. They create a group account of life during slavery to prepare for reading...
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Titanic
Learners conduct research with the purpose of writing a report about the Titanic. They use a variety of resources. The students produce a written document that has plenty of documented information. They also compare the information that...
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Folktales
Fourth graders read a Haitian folktale. They study main characters in Haitian folktales and explore multicultural information about Haiti. They clarify understanding by retelling a sentence (paraphrasing) and a passage in their own...