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What Kind of Ladybug Are You?

For Teachers 1st - 4th
As a class, read different sentences prepared by the teacher, identifying the punctuation that is needed for the appropriate expression. In small groups, have each child assume the role of one or more character in The Grouchy Ladybug by...
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Watch the Road Signs

For Teachers 4th - 6th
What makes a good speaker? Upper elementary learners practice oral fluency by working with a partner to read nonfiction books. While reading, they practice using correct tone of voice, making eye contact, and speaking clearly.
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K12 Reader

Justify Your Answer

For Students 2nd - 3rd Standards
How do you check to see if an answer to a question is correct? Just follow the four simple steps outlined in this reading comprehension learning exercise.
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K12 Reader

Summarize It!

For Students 2nd - 3rd Standards
A key reading comprehension skill is the ability to summarize. Here's a worksheet that not only explains how to summarize, but also explains why summarizing is important.
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K12 Reader

Narrative or Expository?

For Students 2nd - 3rd Standards
Narrative or expository? That is the question readers face on a two-part comprehension worksheet that asks kids to read a short passage about these two different types of writing, and then to answer a series of comprehension questions...
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K12 Reader

Using Prior Knowledge

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd Standards
Sometimes it's hard to relate to a new text. Teach kids to use their prior knowledge when reading something new with a comprehension exercise. A short passage tells them how to think of their brains like filing systems, and provides five...
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Because of Winn-Dixie

For Teachers 3rd Standards
Readers analyze an excerpt from Kate DiCamillo's novel Because of Winn-Dixie. They read silently, and then hear it read aloud. Definitions for underlined vocabulary words are in the margin, and other potentially difficult words are in...
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Measure for Measure: DRTA Strategy

For Teachers 10th - 12th
“The tempter or the tempted, who sins most?” Prediction, verification, judgment, and extensions of thought are all part of a Directed ReadingThinking Activity (DRTA) developed for Measure for Measure. The rationale, assessments...
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K5 Learning

Treasure Hunt

For Students 4th Standards
After reading about a book that leads two friends on a treasure hunt, class members respond to four short answer reading comprehension questions. Skills include describing the characters, retelling the story in their own words, writing...
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Mr. Nussbaum

Butterfly

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
An interactive challenges scholars to read a short informational text about butterflies then answer eight questions. A progress report appears after the last question.
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Interactive
Mr. Nussbaum

North Carolina Colony

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
Ten multiple-choice questions make up an interactive practice designed to increase reading comprehension. The topic of the informational reading is the North Carolina Colony.
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Interactive
Mr. Nussbaum

Mt. Vesuvius and the Lost City of Pompeii

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
Mount Vesuvius and the lost city of Pompeii are the focus of an interactive reading practice designed to increase comprehension skills. Scholars read an informational text, then answer 10 questions.
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Interactive
Mr. Nussbaum

United Kingdom

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
An interactive practice tests scholars' reading comprehension skills. Learners read an informative text, then answer 10 questions.
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Curated OER

Act it Out: Dramatizing Asian American Stories

For Teachers K - 12th
Read and act out folktales, fairy tales, or myths from various Asian American cultures with your class. Each group reads a story aloud and then works together to create a short play or skit about the story. Suggestions for stories are...
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Curated OER

Compound Words - My Baseball Book

For Teachers 1st
First graders examine compound words and what they look like.  In this compound word lesson, 1st graders read the book, My Baseball Book, and compile a list of compound words from their reading. 
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K12 Reader

The Pitch and Volume of Sound

For Students 2nd - 3rd Standards
Primary graders are introduced to the concepts of pitch and volume with a reading comprehension learning exercise that focuses on the physics of sound.
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K12 Reader

Plant Life Cycles

For Students 2nd - 3rd Standards
Plant life cycles are the focus of a life science worksheet that is designed as a reading comprehension exercise. Readers respond to five questions based on the passage.
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K12 Reader

Push and Pull

For Students 2nd - 3rd Standards
For this comprehension exercise, kids read a physical science article about forces that can move an object, and then answer a series of questions about the passage.
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K12 Reader

The Rock Cycle

For Students 2nd - 3rd Standards
This cross-curricular reading comprehension worksheet asks kids to read a passage of the rock cycle and then to use information in the article to respond to a series of questions.
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K12 Reader

Solids, Liquids, & Gases

For Students 2nd - 3rd Standards
Solids, liquid, and gas, the three states of matter, are the subject of a cross-curricular reading comprehension exercise that asks kids to first read an article about these forms, and then to respond to a series of questions based on...
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K12 Reader

3-D: It’s Not Just for Movies

For Students 2nd - 3rd Standards
This two-part reading comprehension exercise asks kids to read a short passage about cubes, rectangular prisms, spheres and pyramids, and then to respond to a series of questions about the article.
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K12 Reader

Displaying Data

For Students 2nd - 3rd Standards
It's important to learn how to display data to make the information easier for people to understand. A reading activity prompts kids to use context clues to answer five comprehension questions after reading several paragraphs about...
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K12 Reader

From Nomad to Farmer

For Students 4th - 5th Standards
The gradual evolution of the earliest settlers in North America from nomads to farmers is the subject of a reading comprehension learning exercise that asks kids to answer a series of questions using information provided in the reading...
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K12 Reader

Meteorologists

For Students 4th - 5th Standards
Meteorologists and the tools they use are the subject of a reading comprehension instructional activity that asks kids to read the attached article and respond to a series of comprehension questions.

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