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Free Reading Worksheets | Ereading Worksheets. Ereading Worksheets has the best reading worksheets on the internet, and they’re all free. These worksheets are skill focused and aligned to Common Core State Standards. You are free to save, edit, and print these worksheets for personal or classroom use. Many of these assignments can now be completed online. You’re going to like this. Fictional Passages Jacob the Great Comprehension Test – Students read a short story about a kid cycling through hobbies and then answer comprehension, inferential, and literary element questions. Suggested reading level for this text: Grade 5-9Jacob the Great Comprehension Test RTFJacob the Great Comprehension Test PDFPreview Jacob the Great Comprehension Test in Your Web Browser Nonfiction Passages These activities will help students become successful readers.

Nonfiction Texts with Review Questions Chess | Nonfiction Reading Test – Chess is more than a board game, it is an intellectual activity. Seat Belts | Nonfiction Reading Test – Seat belts save lives. Literature UK | LearnEnglish Teens. Culture - The 25 greatest British novels. The Solution to Reading Comprehension. Edgar Allan Poe: Storyteller | American English. Letters of Note. How to Analyze a Short Story - Internasjonal engelsk. EWE - Easy World Of English // HOME. Simple checklist for evaluation of websites - digital literacy. A little ahead time I put these up here just to get you acquainted with them. During week 10 we will work with digital literacy and the checklist below. We will also do certain parts of Skolverket's exercises about digital literacy as well as their self-assessment.

If you want to, have a closer look at it already.. Self-assessment from Skolverket: Digital läsförståelse på engelska genom UDL | Jennis skolblogg. UDL Editions har tillsammans med CAST utvecklat ett läsverktyg som följer några av de principer som finns i UDL ramverket. I detta verktyg kan man välja att läsa/lyssna på sex olika texter och samtidigt få hjälp med att förstå och reflektera runt texten enligt reciprocal teaching, RT I övre högra hörnet finns det talsyntes eller och olikfärgade understrykningspennor som kan vara till hjälp för en del elever. Talsyntesen skulle kunna vidareutvecklas och i många fall är det nog bättre att använda talsyntesen i datorn. När man valt en bok kan man i förväg högst upp på hemsidan t.ex. läsa på glosor, gå igenom begrepp för litteraturanalys, bekanta sig med bakgrunden till berättelsen, läsa en sammanfattning av berättelsen och persongalleriet.

Innan man börjar läsa så väljer läsaren nivå 1-3 på hur mycket stöd läsaren behöver med att reflektera runt läsningen. Under läsningen får läsaren stanna upp och svara på frågor samt uppmärksammas på olika fraser och litterära begrepp. Podtips. CommonLit. The Most Read Book Among High School Seniors From Each State, in One Surprising Map. Native Americans living in the Northeast, like Game of Thrones fans, knew one thing at this time of year: Winter is coming. As such, now was the time for one last glut of food before a four-month-at-least period of traveling along with migrating prey in order to hunt for fresh food. In that sense, yes, Native American harvest feasts are a clear primogenitor to today's Thanksgiving.

But the truth is more complex. As Thanksgiving matured as a holiday in the Americas, many of the inhabitants in the United States — Native Americans, settlers and enslaved Africans — contributed elements of our modern Thanksgiving meal to the table. If Thanksgiving is an American tradition, then its roots are as varied and widespread as America, as well. To put it simply: There are a lot of ingredients in this melting pot. He added, "And when you know and you understand that it becomes a lot harder to make pronouncements about people or even yourself when you understand how things really came to be. "

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Book project/Book club. News. Short stories. Books. Reading tests. Literacy-across-the-curriculum: Support reading in all subjects. Close Reading. Featured Lessons. Jump to a Section Close Reading Model Lessons Sign up to receive updates from us. Featured Lessons Download All Date Added: 09/16/13 Save to FavoritesRemove from Favorites Share Send us your feedback These sets of 2-6 lessons include: Complex TextsText-dependent QuestionsVocabularyWriting AssignmentsAssessment Questions* *Not all lesson sets include assessment questions Close Reading Model Lessons "The Wind" by James Reeves Grades K-2 fiction lesson (relevant for Grades K-2); written by classroom teacher Diana Leddy.

View Details "The Moon": Research Project Grade K-2 fiction and nonfiction (relevant for Grades K-2); written by classroom teachers Pat Fitzsimmons, Diana Leddy, Lindy Johnson, Sue Biggam, and Suzan Locke. View Details "Because of Winn-Dixie" by Kate DiCamillo (with mini-assessment) Grade 3 fiction lesson. View Details "The Fisherman and His Wife" by Lucy Crane Grade 3 fiction (relevant for Grades 2-4); written by classroom teacher Diana Leddy. View Details View Details Grade 6 nonfiction lesson. Reading Comprehension Exercises - Testing. ESL English Listening & Adult Literacy - News - Audiobooks - Songs - Radio Dramas. 1) Without Your Memories, Are You Really Still You? (Listening time = 28 - 25 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed) 2) Bring Back the Woolly Mammoth!

(Listening time = 10 - 13 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed) 3) DNA Tests, the Golden State Killer and Your Privacy (Listening time = 11 - 14 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed) 4) To Keep Women From Dying In Childbirth, Look To California (Listening time = 14 - 18 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed) 5) 70 Years Of Life In Mosul (Listening time = 8 - 10 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed) 6) The Man Putin Wants To Interrogate (Listening time = 5 - 7 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed) 7) The Career Advice You Probably Didn't Get (especially women) (Listening time = 14 - 18 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed) 8) Frankenstein - It’s alive!!! Upper intermediate reading comprehension exercises. Literacy-across-the-curriculum: Support reading in all subjects. Study break. Google Lit Trips for High School.

Extensive Reading Central | The go-to place for all our Extensive Reading needs. Reading Rockets. Adult Learning Activities | California Distance Learning Project. Teaching Literary Analysis. Literary analysis is a vital stage in the development of students' critical thinking skills. Bloom's Taxonomy illustrates that analysis should come at the fourth level, right after comprehension and application. What this means is that students must be able to understand and describe the text before they are able to analyze its elements. Teaching literary analysis is often a daunting and overwhelming task. After all, it is essentially guiding students slowly through the process of critical thinking and understanding literature. That’s not a simple undertaking. Most importantly, with so many ways to go about doing it, where to begin? To guide students toward discovering literature all on their own, the steps of this process need to be introduced in a simplified form. 1.

Some students need guidance when choosing a topic, but others have ideas that they would like to explore. Characters Themes Literary devices Setting Narrative. 2. 3. Identify common themes, repetitions, and patterns. 4. 5. ReadWriteThink: Student Materials: Literary Elements Map. Newsela | About. LearnZillion. A Hunger for Dystopia: Critical Thinking on the Journey to Self-Discovery. I was in high school in the mid '90s when I first read George Orwell's dystopian novel 1984. It lifted the veil of my childhood innocence, opening my eyes to the injustices of the adult world. Once I finished the chilling, final sentence of the novel, there was no going back to my naive self. New dystopian books are dominating the bestseller list. The Hunger Games trilogy has spent more than 260 consecutive weeks (more than five consecutive years to date) on The New York Times Best Seller list and has more than 65 million copies in print. 2013 was officially the year of Divergent. 1984 helped me uncover dark truths about the adult world.

Today's stories resonate with teenagers in a similar way. Dystopian novels belong in our classrooms because they hold a mirror up to our fears and flaws. For those of you that read 1984, Fahrenheit 451, or Brave New World in high school, here are five updates to the dystopian genre that will captivate you and your students. The Handmaid's Tale The Giver. Understand what you read. Log In - The New York Times. Newseum | There's more to every story. Newsela | Nonfiction Literacy and Current Events. Home - World Stories. Skills. A Huge Collection of Famous Celebrity Romantic Love Letters. Oxford Owl - Welcome. ★ Browse Books by Title ★ Adult Learning Activities | California Distance Learning Project.