abcteach
Abcteach: Picture Sentences
[Free Registration/Login Required] Reproducible worksheets with colorful pictures that help early readers to practice their comprehension by choosing the correct sentence.
TES Global
Blendspace: Text Features
A nine-part learning module with links images and videos for use while learning about nonfiction text features.
TES Global
Blendspace: Reading Comprehension Visualizing
A five-part learning module with links to images and web sites to help student improve reading comprehension by visualizing.
Other
Worksheet Plus: Give and Get
Read a short literary text called "Give and Get," and then choose the correct answer for comprehension questions at the end of the selection.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Nonfiction Comprehension: Making Personal and Textual Connections
This is a lesson plan to help elementary students connect to nonfiction text as they read.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Three Little Pigs
[Free Registration/Login Required] Using copying and pasting, a flipchart retelling the traditional tale. Use the reveal blind and spotlight to highlight text, and pictures to stimulate discussion.
Courseware Solutions
Worksheetsplus: 1st and 2nd Grade Sight Word Reading Comprehension: Hot Spell
Read a short literary text titled "Hot Spell," and answer the multiple choice reading comprehension questions that follow.
Room Recess
Room Recess: Author's Purpose
Read short texts and determine whether their purpose is to inform, entertain, or persuade in order to move around the board in this online learning game. Click on video lessons for an understanding of author's purposes including types of...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Answering Questions in Complete Sentences
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will create visual images to comprehend/remember what they have read. Students will answer comprehension questions in complete sentences.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Dolphins
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart integrates a science and reading lesson on dolphins. The lesson includes wonderful interactive activities for the students activating prior knowledge and what they learn in the chart.
Can Teach
Can Teach: Word Race
In this activity for grades 1 and 2, students practice examining, copying out, and reading words that are written in the classroom.
Can Teach
Can Teach: Storyboard Frames
In this lesson plan students will be able to focus on the main events of a book by drawing a storyboard. Lesson plan indicated for 2nd grade and above.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Setting
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart introduces setting to students using picture clues first and then using only contextual clues. Activotes are also used to check for understanding.
Quia
Quia: Parts of a Book
This is a matching game in which parts of a book are matched with their definitions. Java is required.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Context Clues
[Free Registration/Login Required] The flipchart focuses on context clues.
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Scholastic
Scholastic: Informational Text: Reading Response: Kwl Chart [Pdf]
This graphic organizer can be used with students when they read informational text. Students will write what they already know about the topic and what they want to know about the topic by reading. After reading, students will record...
abcteach
Abcteach: Nonfiction Reading Comprehension for Grades 2 4
[Free Registration/Login Required] With more than twenty pieces from which to choose, teachers can print out comprehension checks for their students. Each printable document includes an informational piece and questions to determine the...
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Writing Development
Tour a portfolio of writing samples by one child from babyhood to third grade that help illustrate how writing develops naturally as well as the relationship between reading and writing. Consider literacy signposts at each level.
Quizlet
Quizlet: 2nd Grade Unit 2 Reading: Main Idea: Flashcards
This interactive set of flashcards, helps students learn the terms and definitions associated with the main idea. These terms include the following: topic, topic sentence, main idea, supporting details, summary, summarize, retell,...
Quizlet
Quizlet: Plot 2nd Grade Test
A test with seven matching questions, seven multiple choice questions, and six true/false questions over twenty plot terms and their definitions.
Quizlet
Quizlet: Plot 2nd Grade Match
Race against the clock to match twenty plot terms with their definitions.
Quizlet
Quizlet: Plot 2nd Grade Learn
Practice your knowledge of twenty plot terms by typing the term for each definition.
Quizlet
Quizlet: Plot 2nd Grade Flashcards
Twenty flashcards with plot terms with their definitions.
Starfall
Starfall: A House in a Tree
This is an online children's picture book for early readers. It includes story word list.