English Links
Comprehension
General Comprehension Sites
Seussville
http://www.seussville.com/
Loads of fun reading activities from the Cat In The Cat.
Edhelper Reading Comprehension
http://www.edhelper.com/ReadingComprehensions_Grade1.html
Reading comprehension passages for K-8 students.
RHL Reading Comprehension
http://www.rhlschool.com/reading.htm
Free reading comprehension worksheets for teachers.
Order of Events
http://worksheets.teach-nology.com/language_arts/sequence/
Collection of worksheets where students order the events from a story.
K-2
What\'s In The Bag
http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/in_the_bag/index.html
Online game that provides clues about what is in the bag.
Comprehension 1-2
http://www.manatee.k12.fl.us/sites/elementary/palmasola/rcompindex2.htm
Click to explore our reading comprehension printables.
3-4
Fact Fragment Frenzy
http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/factfrenzy/index.html
Find fact fragments in these online stories.
Comprehension 3-5
http://www.manatee.k12.fl.us/sites/elementary/palmasola/readcompindexa.htm
Click to explore our reading comprehension sheets.
5-6
Dog Sled Race
http://literacynet.org/cnnsf/iditarod/storyweek.html
Read this story and answer the online questions.
Proverb Search Engine
http://creativeproverbs.com/
Search for proverbs and find their meaning.
TV411
http://www.tv411.org/reading/
Reading comprehension activities for a variety of genres.
CNN News Stories
http://literacynet.org/cnnsf/
Each module includes the full text of each story and interactive activities to test comprehension.
New York Times Learning Network
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/index.html
Connections for students, teachers and parents.
Time for Kids
http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/
Discover the world with Time Magazine for Kids.
Lessons General
Literature Circles with Primary Students Using Self-Selected Reading
http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=44
For self-paced literature circles, students choose their own reading material, respond to reading in a journal, and talk about their books daily in small groups.
Fun Reading Comprehension Activity
http://iteslj.org/Lessons/Akgun-ReadingComp.html
Simple, easy-to-prepare activity.
K-2
Fact or Fiction: Learning About Worms Using Diary of a Worm
http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=778
This lesson presents a framework for using a variety of reading comprehension strategies in a scaffolded manner.
Deeper Reading Response: A Template for Teachers
http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=156
This lesson details the five expressive and performative engagements for responding to text.
Book Sorting
http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=145
This sorting activity addresses critical-thinking skills, observation and categorization processes, and reading comprehension and writing skills, while at the same time providing teachers with a vast array of diagnostics through observation of student interaction and conversation.
Tell me the story: Sequencing
http://www.curriculum.edu.au/download/lesspln/englisep.htm
The study of visual texts can assist students to develop the ability to interpret information (pictures), involving skills of identification and prediction.
Giant Story Problems
http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=146
This activity focuses on reading comprehension skills as they apply to mathematics story problems, as well as on written and verbal mathematics communication skills.
Responding to Literature
http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=87
This lesson invites students to respond to literature by challenging them to predict and illustrate the ending of a story.
Creating a Wall Story
http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/content/2286/
In this lesson, students create a wall story as a means of retelling a story.
3-4
Guided Comprehension: Visualizing
http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=229
Students visualize the descriptions and events in texts and describe how this strategy helps enhance their comprehension.
Guided Comprehension: Summarizing Using the QuIP Strategy
http://www.marcopolosearch.org/mpsearch/url_redirect.asp?orgn_ID=9&session_id=&log_type=7&Record_id=&URL=http~~//www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp!!id=231&txtSearchFor=COMPREHENSIONS%7CCOMPREHENSION
Students reflect on the summarizing strategy and how it helps to improve their reading comprehension.
Guided Comprehension: Making Connections
http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=228
Students make connections and react to various texts using a double-entry journal.
Guided Comprehension: Knowing How Words Work
http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=240
Students reflect on how using the strategy of knowing how words work helps them to better understand what they read and how they can apply it in the future.
Developing Inferential Comprehension
http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=288
This lesson uses the narrative text Granddaddy\'s Gift by Margaree King Mitchell to help students improve their inferential comprehension, prediction, and discussion skills.
Guided Comprehension: Monitoring
http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=230
This lesson introduces students to the comprehension strategy of monitoring.
Guided Comprehension: Self-Questioning
http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=227
This lesson introduces students to the comprehension strategy of self-questioning.
Demonstrating Comprehension Through Journal Writing
http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=313
This lesson invites students to demonstrate comprehension by responding to open-ended questions based on the 1939 Newbery Honor chapter book, Mr. Popper\'s Penguins.
5-6
Sun Herald: Class Scoop
http://www.classscoop.sunherald.com.au/lessonssummary.asp?intlessoncategory=1&intsectionid=3
Lessons using The Sun-Herald as a teaching text to help students improve their language and literacy skills.
Stop press! Newspaper headlines
http://www.curriculum.edu.au/download/lesspln/englisup.htm
A unit of work in this area helps students to understand that news and documentaries are never completely objective because, like all other visual messages, they are the result of a process of selection and organisation.
Using QARs to Develop Comprehension and Reflective Reading Habits
http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=232
This lesson provides a foundation for building reflective reading habits, which enables students to develop these higher-level comprehension strategies.
Building Reading Comprehension Through Think-Alouds
http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=139
Through this lesson, the teacher will model the think-aloud strategy for students.
The Resource Room: Reading Comprehension
http://www.resourceroom.net/Comprehension/index.asp
Lessons to assist in developing reading comprehension.
Teacher Reference
Reading A-Z
http://www.readinga-z.com/newfiles/preview.html
30 free books and worksheets to accompany them.
Strategies for Reading Comprehension
http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/readquest/strat/
Creative ideas for reading comprehension.
Beyond Worksheets: Making Reading Make Sense
http://pw1.netcom.com/%7Efmaxsc/research.html
Ideas for improving classroom reading comprehension activities.
How to Improve Reading Comprehension
http://www.familyeducation.com/article/0,1120,23-28928,00.html?relinks
Ideas for parents to help their children improve reading comprehension.
Improving Reading Comprehension
http://www.marin.cc.ca.us/%7Edon/Study/7read.html
Good reading means building frameworks for connecting words to thoughts.
Identifying Proficient Readers
http://208.183.128.8/read/proficient.htm
Chart that identifies characteristics of proficient readers.
Alan Cooper\'s Homonyms
http://www.cooper.com/alan/homonym.html
Extensive list of homonyms with their meanings.
Multisensory Vocabulary Guidelines and Activities
http://www.resourceroom.net/Comprehension/vocabactivities.asp
Vocabulary is a weak area for many students, but much \"vocabularyinstruction\" ends up being handwriting practice.
Low-Level Texts: Do They Support Comprehension?
http://www.resourceroom.net/Comprehension/idahilocomp.asp
This article looks at reading materials available for adolescents with reading problems.
Project LITT
http://edtechfm.sdsu.edu/SPED/ProjectLITT/LITTinfo.html
Project that examines the roles that technology plays in improving reading skills of students with learning disabilities.
Real life Reading Comprehension
Real-Life Reading Materials
http://www.eastsideliteracy.org/tutorsupport/RW/RW_Reallife.htm
Search the newspaper, your house, a brochure rack, the web, etc. or ask your student to bring something from home.
Real Reading Activities
http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/try/readtry/read_activites.shtml
Practical activities to help students with reading.
Using Real Life Materials
http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/adulted/lessons/lesson14.html
Ideas for using real life reading materials.
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