Reading Comprehension
Stickybear Reading Comprehension
By Stickybear Software
Designed to improve reading comprehension skills, Stickybear Reading Comprehension is a multi-level program that is ideal for students in grades 1 - 4, and for remediation. The program features more than thirty level-appropriate stories, providing practice in recognizing main idea, defining sequence, finding details, using context to identify words, and more!
Available from www.stickybear.com
Hand Held Tape Recorder
A hand help tape recorder is a great way to help with improving a reader's comprehension of what he/she has read. Tape record the child while he/she is reading and play back the story. This will help with recognizing the key facts of the story read. These tape recorders can be purchased at your local electronics store.
Books On Tape
Books on tape are a great for a child to work on word recognition and comprehension skills. All one needs is a tape recorder/player and a pair of headphones.
Great book on tape titles can be found at www.booksontape.com
Cosmic Reading Journey
By Sunburst Software
This reading
comprehension program provides meaningful summary and writing activities to the
100 books early readers and their teachers love most! In this language arts
adventure with a space travel theme, your students will read for meaning as
they: answer reader response questions, write
short essays, take quizzes on plot and character,
build vocabulary skills, identify
homophones, antonyms, and synonyms, and play
a parts of speech sorting game
Your students engage in
activities that are specific to the book they are reading. Easy-to-navigate and
adaptable to a variety of instruction situations, these activities can be
modified to suit your curriculum themes and your students’ skill levels.
Customizable teacher options allow you to add vocabulary words, track student
performance, print completion certificates, and address your students’
individual needs.
Available from www.sunburst.com
Writing/Reading (Language Arts) Games from www.funbrain.com
Here are some neat writing and reading games and lesson ideas from www.funbrain.com. Just click on the link below and start surfing for the game that best matches your lesson.
http://www5.funbrain.com/cgi-bin/getskill_s.cgi?A1=selects&A2=la&A4=4&A7=4
Unique Lessons That Are Developed by Fellow Teachers
By Track Star
Trackstar helps instructors organize and annotate Web sites (URLs) for use in lessons. One can find information about any concept of any content area. All one has to do is go to the Trackstar main page (link is provided below) and perform a search by keyword, author, or themes/standards. One can choose to view the information from their search in either frames or text.
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