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Understood For All

Understood: How to Help Your Child Understand Body Language

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This article provides tips on how teach children to pick up on social cues.
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Handout
Other

Kiddle Encyclopedia: Body Language Facts for Kids

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This resource provide a list of common types of body language. Each type of body language is described.
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Activity
Other

The Responsive Counselor: Body Language and Tone of Voice Lesson Plan

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This blog post from shares several activities that will help students understand how to interpret voice tone and body language.
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Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: The Game

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
After watching this brief interchange over a chessboard, please write what you think the dialogue is for the two players.
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Soft Schools

Soft Schools: Reading Comprehension

For Students 2nd - 5th Standards
Students are to read a fiction paragraph and answer a 10-question quiz about it.
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Soft Schools

Soft Schools: Reading Comprehension: Quiz 2

For Students 2nd - 5th Standards
Students read a fiction paragraph and answer a 10-question quiz about it.
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Unit Plan
Beacon Learning Center

Beacon Learning Center: Web Lessons: Get the Main Idea

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
This resource provides practice finding the main idea by having students read a paragraph and choose the main idea. Then it asks students to take what they have learned and apply it to a book of their choice, and then write a paragraph...
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Interactive
Soft Schools

Soft Schools: The Scary Hike

For Students 5th Standards
Read "The Scary Hike," a short literary text, and then answer ten reading comprehension questions that follow.
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Interactive
Soft Schools

Soft Schools: Cool Chemistry Jobs

For Students 5th Standards
Read "Cool Chemistry Jobs," a short informational text, and then answer ten reading comprehension questions that follow.
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Interactive
Soft Schools

Soft Schools: Blueberry Pancakes

For Students 5th Standards
Read "Blueberry Pancakes," a short literary text, and then answer ten reading comprehension questions that follow.
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Website
Curated OER

Ccss Literacy E Handbook: Literature: Summarize

For Students 5th - 7th Standards
An explanation of summarizing a selection along with a link to a model summarizing activity.
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Other

Super Teacher Worksheets: Reading Comprehension: Great White Sharks [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Read the fifth-grade reading passage entitled "Great White Sharks" by Erin Ryan and answer the comprehension questions over the selection. PDF includes an answer key with explanations.
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Lesson Plan
Other

Lesson Plan: Reading Comprehension Booklets

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Use this online lesson plan for creating reading comprehension booklets. Teachers can use this lesson plan as a spring board for other reading comprehension activities.
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Article
Other

Iseesam: Comprehension Questions

For Students 5th - 7th Standards
This PDF explains what students are asked to do when answering Literal, Inference, and Evaluative comprehension questions.
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ProProfs

Pro Profs: Main Idea Benchmark

For Students 4th - 5th Standards
This is a four-question multiple choice quiz over the main idea; students read nonfiction passages and select the main idea. Links to related quizzes on the same topic are provided.
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English Zone

English Zone: Dolphins Around the World: Dolphins 1

For Students 2nd - 5th Standards
This reading comprehension exercise uses a passage about the lives of dolphins to quiz readers on what they have learned. Students will learn about these animals while also improving their information seeking skills.
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Quia

Quia: Cause and Effect

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Identify cause and effect relationships by matching cards with a cause to cards with the effect. Correct answers are provided and a percentage score is available once the activity is complete.
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eBook
Quia

Quia: Cause and Effect 2

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Five sentences where students are asked to read the effect and then choose the appropriate cause. Answers can be checked after each question and a percentage grade is available at the end of the activity.
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Quia

Quia: Why??? What Caused It to Happen?

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Read the story of "The Three Little Pigs" and pause five times to answer cause and effect questions about the story and the characters' choices within the story. Students can see their percentage score at the end of the activity.
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Developing Inferential Comprehension

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
This lesson plan uses the text "Granddaddy's Gift" in order to develop and improve comprehension, prediction, and discussion skills. Included in the lesson plan is an overview, practice, objectives, resources, preparation, and more.
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eBook
Quia

Quia: Fact or Opinion? Game #2 (Quiz)

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Five sentences where students are asked to read the cause and then choose the appropriate effect. Answers can be checked after each question and a percentage grade is available at the end of the activity.
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eBook
Quia

Quia: Metaphor Quiz

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Read five short paragraphs and choose the main idea of each. Check the answers when finished to see how many were right.
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Interactive
Quia

Quia: Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Wh Questions, Game #1

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Read a short text and then choose the correct answer to "Wh-" questions in this Rags to Riches learning game.
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English Zone

English Zone: Elephants

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
After reading this informative article about elephants, students will hone their reading comprehension skills by answering a series of related questions.