Author's Purpose
http://www.manatee.k12.fl.us/sites/elementary
/palmasola/ps4gles2b1.htm
Interactive lesson, along with worksheets for reinforcement
Skills for Life
http://www.citycol.com/basic_skills/Quizzes/Purpose/
reading_purpose.htm
9 activities to check understanding about the purposes of different sorts of text.
Skillwise
http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/words/reading/typesof
text/quiz.shtml
Do you understand the purpose of different text types and the main differences between them? Online quizzes.
Skillwise
http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/words/reading/typesoftext/game.shtml
Online game helping learn about the different text types such as persuasion, informative, descriptive, or instructive
PowerPoint Presentation - Grades 3-5
Fact/Opinion
Read the statements and determine if they are facts or opinions. Select your answer from the popup menu. This site checks answers and keeps total score.
Scores results.
Primary Resources
http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/english/fact1.htm
For primary grades from Primary Resources
Fact or Opinion
http://www.worsleyschool.net/socialarts/factopinion/f
actopinion.html
Upper grades- online worksheet, answers given at the bottom.
Fact or Opinion
http://www.oswego.org/testprep/ela4/h/factopinionp.cfm
Read story then answer questions as to a fact or opinion. Interactive
Fact or Opinion
http://www.thomsonlearning.com.au/impact/impact1/techa
cts/tech11u11/fact_or_opinion.htm
Upper grade activity. Read stories and decide upon fact or opinion. This site integrates technology into this lesson.
Teaching and Learning Resources
http://www.teachingandlearningresources.co.uk/factoropinion.shtml
Take this quiz. It is scored online.
Fact or Opinion
http://www.oswego.org/testprep/ela4/h/factopl.cfm
Discuss the lesson, then let students take the matching quiz.
Compare/Contrast
Ralph And Sammy Snowman
http://www.manatee.k12.fl.us/sites/elemen
tary/palmasola/rcfic1.htm
Ralph and Sammy Snowman: Reading Sheet/Venn Diagram
Compare & Contrast
http://www.manatee.k12.fl.us/sites/el
ementary/palmasola/rcccon1.htm
Online Tutorial from Reading Workshop
Winter Prediction
http://www.manatee.k12.fl.us/sites/elementary/palmasola/arctic3.htm
Sleet and Freezing Rain: Venn Diagram/Short Answer Explanation
Epiphytes: Venn Diagram: Extended Answer Explanation
Cyber-Safari Elephant Hunt!
http://www.manatee.k12.fl.us/sites/elementary/p
almasola/Gr3H12.htm
Cyber Safari Elephant Hunt: Research mini-quest
Something Fishy: Comparison/Contrast Activity... from Scholastic.com
Aesop Fables
http://www.umass.edu/aesop/contents.html
Two versions of each story to compare and contrast.
Cause and Effect
Seeing Reason
http://www.intel.com/education/seeingreason/index.htm
Excellent site for middle/high school. Seeing Reason is a classroom workspace for investigating cause and effect relationships in complex systems. At the heart of Seeing Reason is an interactive mapping tool that helps students map relationships and construct models of their understanding.
Book list on stories to use for cause and effect lessons
Online audio lesson Grade 3-5. Quiz link follow-up
Online audio lesson Grade 6-8. Quiz link follow-up.
3-5 Grade
Online lesson and quizzes at the end.
Online Cause and Effect Sentence Quiz
http://a4esl.org/q/h/mb/adv_cause.html
Ideas for Cause Effect Essays
http://www.siskiyous.edu/class/engl1a/reynoldss/ideas4csef.htm
Intermediate
Print these out to practice this skill.
Comprehension
This section features original grammar worksheets for teachers and parent-teachers to copy for their kids. Use them for teaching, reinforcement, and review. |
Grade One and Two Reading Strategies
Title and Illustration Worksheets
Dolch Word Flashcards
Fact or Fiction (Real or Unreal)
Print and Read Books (K-1)
Locate Specific Information
Science Skill Builders
Following Directions
Summarizing
Online activities including tutorials, worksheets, and reading practice
Phonemic Awareness
Rhyming
Counting Syllables
Where is the sound?
From Words to Sentences
Making Oral Predictions
Categorizing Words
Noun or Verb
Main Idea/Supporting Details
Beginning Consonants
Ending Consonants
Activities which encourage children to become aware of the sounds of their language are, in fact, pre-reading activities.
From abcteach.com, free worksheets for grades k-12
Online reading passages and worksheets with strategies addressed
A site designed for ESL. Good interactive quizzes on basic skills.
Teach-nology
http://worksheets.teach-nology.com/language
_arts/reading_comp/
Many, many activities for elementary students on reading passages and answering the questions.
Reading Comprehension Strategies Toolbox
http://www.manatee.k12.fl.us/sites/elementary/pal
masola/rcdowni3.htm
From the Palma Sola Elementary School Website -. Each grade level from 3-5 is organized with beginning, intermediate, and mastery level sheets. For example, say you choose a comprehension sheet about the rainforest. There are three levels of that sheet which all contain the same content. What differs is the format and how the questions are presented.
Context Clues
A lesson in remembering which clue words help interpret the text. Seven key words are introduced and examples are shown of each to clarify what to look for when dealing with context clues. A very good review lesson for 3rd and up
Here you will find a review lesson and worksheets to go along with the lesson above as well as flash cards to review clue words that will help in interpreting text.
Main Idea
Interactive tutorials on supporting details and main idea, in addition to interactive quizzes on literal questions and inference questions, and numerous worksheets to practice the skills following the online activities. For intermediate elementary.
Grades 1-8 -Questions are designed to have students process the information in the passage, analyze it, and organize it for the answer. In this way, these practice questions test students’ analytical abilities, not just comprehension. Bubbling format very similar to Standardized testing format.
Reading Exercises
http://depts.gallaudet.edu/englishworks/exercises/main/reading.html
Intermediate/High School
ESOL Worksheets
http://www.geocities.com/frankie_meehan/index.html
Some worksheets, some online quizzes
Sequencing
Teach-nology
Many various topics to read, discuss and put in sequential order.
Answer the questions to sequence the events
Make tea through this interactive site.
Practice your cooking skills and put the steps in order
Put these sentences in order to make a story. (Scroll down the page to find numerous stories.)
Spelling
Online interactive practice, in addition to worksheets
Mr. Bowtie teaches -s and -es
Synonyms Page
http://www.manatee.k12.fl.us/sites/elementary/palm
asola/synonyms.htm
Online interactive practice, along with a concentration game and worksheets
Interactive match activity- find the two words that have the same meaning
Interactive game matching contractions with meanings
Vocabulary
Sentence Completion
http://www.vusd.k12.ca.us/vhs/resource/sat/sentcomp_quiz1.html
Fill in the missing vocabulary words. Middle/High School level.
http://www.vusd.k12.ca.us/vhs/resource/sat/sentcomp_quiz2.html
Fill in the missing vocabulary words. Middle/High School level
Analogies
http://www.vusd.k12.ca.us/vhs/resource/sat/analogy_quiz1.html
Determine which choice has a relationship similar to the original words or phrases. HS Level
http://www.vusd.k12.ca.us/vhs/resource/sat/analogy_quiz2.html
Determine which choice has a relationship similar to the original words or phrases. HS Level
Grammar
Grammar Blast
http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hme/k_5/quizzes/index.html
A site from Houghton Mifflin English that reviews many basic grammar skills such as punctuation, verbs, subject-predicate, capitalization, adverbs and many more.
Correct these sentences with punctuation and capital letters. This site is produced by Harcourt School Publishers
Power Proofreading
http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hme/k_5/proofread/index.html
Proofreading skills practice for grades 2 through 5 in all areas of English, such as plurals, sentence structure, verbs, possessive nouns, past tense and too many more to list
Education World
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/archives/edit.shtml
Use Every-Day Edits to build language skills, test scores, and cultural literacy. Great whole class activity.
Proofreading Makes Perfect Grade 2
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/language_arts/pmp/interac
tive_guide/g02/g02home.htm
Proofreading Makes Perfect Grade 3
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/language_arts/pmp/i
nteractive_guide/g03/g03home.htm
Proofreading Makes Perfect Grade 4
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/language_arts/pmp/inte
ractive_guide/g04/g04home.htm
Proofreading Makes Perfect Grade 5
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/language_arts/pmp/int
eractive_guide/g05/g05home.htm
Harcourt School also has interactive proofreading. This site is less extensive that the site above, but an advantage is that Shockwave is not required.
Offers a variety of interactive games to practice such skills as sentence structure, verbs, plurals and nouns. Grades 3-5
Grammar Blast
http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hme/6_8/quizzes/index.html
A site from Houghton Mifflin English that reviews many basic grammar skills such as prepositional phrases, complex sentences, modifiers, clauses and many others. Grades 6-8
Interactive online practice activities for contractions, along with worksheets
Middle/High School. Interactive site