ICDL - International Children's Digital Library Wonderopolis | Where the Wonders of Learning Never Cease Reading Passages on Social Studies Topics <div id="nojs-warning">WARNING: Javascript must be enabled for the correct page display</div> Sign InRegister ReadWorks.org The Solution to Reading Comprehension ReadWorks Reading Passages on Social Studies Topics Share now! Print Kindergarten "Who Is a Good Citizen at School?" "We Are Americans" Lexile: 160 "Enrico Discovers a Globe" Lexile: 150 "Getting Water from a Well" Lexile: 350 "The Pilgrims' Path" Lexile: 190 "The Liberty Bell" Lexile: 190 1st Grade "What is a Law?" "Why Do We Need Rules?" "The Declaration of Independence" Lexile: 550 "Steamboats and Railroads" Lexile: 580 "Building a Railroad to Cross the Country" Lexile: 610 "How Did Pilgrim Children Live?" 2nd Grade "Hello, Mr. "Great Americans" Lexile: 560 "A Great Leader" Lexile: 900 "Cindy Goes to Salvador" Lexile: 980 3rd Grade "A Courtroom in the Classroom" Lexile: 880 "The Old Stone House" Lexile: 770 "John Wesley Powell Maps the Grand Canyon" Lexile: 780 "Oral Histories" Lexile: 900 "Not Just for When You're Lost" Lexile: 840 4th Grade 5th Grade
From Guilt to Google: Experimenting with Tech Tools to Improve Writing Feedback You know the feeling--that “gotta-get-this-grading-done” robotic trance. The blinding feeling of grading close to 180 essays. The guilt of balancing meaningful feedback without taking three weeks to do it. I have graded essays for years. I needed to change the tedious and difficult writing process in my classroom. Google scripts and add-ons to Google Drive drastically changed my approach to giving writing feedback. With these tools (many of which are included in this list), students are placed in charge of their learning. Here are my favorite Google tools that have changed the way I approach writing feedback. Setting up with gClassFolders First, I created gClassFolders (gCF), or electronic portfolios. When my students place their work in this folder, they have multiple drafts of essays, brainstorming charts, notes, photographs, and artifacts of self-reflection. Now, students don’t have to worry about losing their best work. Organizing with Doctopus Giving feedback with Google Docs
Premier Skills English Prompts for reading, speaking, and thinking | Walp 2.0 I have spent a lot of time over the past few years experimenting with different prompts to help aid discussion, writing and higher-level thinking. What I have found to be the most interesting/challenging aspect is the close relationship between those three modes. Students need frequent dedicated time in the classroom to practice speaking and writing at the upper levels of Bloom’s taxonomy to help them develop a habit of insightful and reflective thinking.Speaking and writing are strongly interrelated. The prompts below can easily be used for either mode of communication. However, students need dedicated time to practice both. Reflective writing does not automatically transfer to deep and meaningful conversation…and vice versa.My experience has been that verbal discussion is the hardest of the three modes to facilitate, even when students are writing and thinking at a high level. Pick a Strategy – This is my favorite way to introduce the idea of talking to the text.
Reading Passages for Summer Reading <div id="nojs-warning">WARNING: Javascript must be enabled for the correct page display</div> Sign InRegister ReadWorks.org The Solution to Reading Comprehension ReadWorks Reading Passages for Summer Reading Share now! Print 5th Grade Going into 6th Grade "The Mermaid of Kona, Hawaii" Lexile: 1010 "Water, Water, Everywhere!" "The Ecosystem of the Forest" Lexile: 1000 "The Canadian Beaver" Lexile: 1110 "Marine Biology" Lexile: 890 "Stargazing" Lexile: 960 "Cicadas: No Ordinary Bugs" Lexile: 880 "Honey to the Bee" Lexile: 990 "Growing from Green" Lexile: 1060 "Blue Lightning" Lexile: 765 6th Grade Going into 7th Grade "The Wonders of Flight" Lexile: 920 "How Soccer Can Help Us Understands Physics" Lexile: 1060 "The Inside Scoop" Lexile: 1170 "Lightning and Fire" Lexile: 1080 "The Go-Kart" Lexile: 1020 "The Tree House" Lexile: 850 "The Venus Fly Trap" Lexile: 1200 "Tugboats: Pushers and Pullers" Lexile: 1140 7th Grade Going into 8th Grade "Genetic Basis of Butterflies" Lexile: 1200 "Halau Hula" Lexile: 1120
#.VAeQjtGI70M This is a guest post from Beth Holland of EdTechTeacher.org, an advertiser on this blog. Whether you teach elementary, middle, or high school, a common challenge exists: finding non-fiction content at reading level. This is an especially pressing concern for teachers incorporating the CCSS Standards into their curricula. Given that varied reading levels may exist within a single class, it can seem virtually impossible to have all students access the same content in a way that allows them to comprehend the material. NEWSELA solves the first dilemma by providing teachers with a database of non-fiction articles. Sample NEWSELA article Though it is possible to create classes and push out content from within NEWSELA, by incorporating Google Docs, we can address the second challenge of allowing teachers to virtually be in multiple reading groups, and with multiple students, all at the same time. Sample Google Doc with Comments.
91 Ways to Respond to Literature undefined undefined 91 Ways to Respond to a Book 1.WRITE THE STORY IN THE BOOK FROM A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW. Take an entire story (or part of it) and write a version as someone else would tell it. 2.WRITE THE DIARY A MAIN CHARACTER MIGHT HAVE WRITTEN. 3.WRITE A CHARACTER SKETCH OF SOMEONE IN THE BOOK. 4.REARRANGE A PASSAGE AS A "FOUND" POEM. 5.WRITE A PARODY OF THE BOOK. 6.WRITE A PROMOTION CAMPAIGN FOR A MOVIE ABOUT THE BOOK. 7.WRITE A LETTER TO THE AUTHOR OF THE BOOK. 8.PUT TOGETHER A CAST FOR THE FILM VERSION OF A BOOK. 9.WRITE A REPORT OF RELATED INFORMATION ABOUT ONE TOPIC OR PERSON IN THE BOOK. 91 Ways to Respond to a Book 10.MAKE A NEW BOOK JACKET. 11.CONVERT A BOOK TO A RADIO DRAMA. 12.DO A DRAMATIC READING (READER'S THEATER) OF A SCENE. 13.CONVERT A BOOK INTO A PUPPET SHOW. 14.DO A "YOU ARE THERE" news program reporting on a particular scene, character, or event in the book. 15.WRITE AND STAGE A TELEVISION SERIES EPISODE. 16.PREPARE A TELEVISION COMMERCIAL ABOUT A BOOK.
short stories at east of the web A game of Scrabble has serious consequences. - Length: 4 pages - Age Rating: PG - Genre: Crime, Humor A semi-barbaric king devises a semi-barabaric (but entirely fair) method of criminal trial involving two doors, a beautiful lady and a very hungry tiger. - Length: 7 pages - Genre: Fiction, Humor ‘Bloody hell!’ - Genre: Humor Looking round he saw an old woman dragging a bucket across the floor and holding a mop. - Length: 3 pages Henry pours more coal onto the hearth as a gust of wind rattles through the cracked window frame. - Length: 14 pages - Genre: Horror ulissa Ye relished all the comfortable little routines and quietude defining her part-time job at The Bookery, downtown’s last small, locally-owned bookstore. - Length: 8 pages - Age Rating: U The forest looked ethereal in the light from the moon overhead. - Length: 15 pages - Age Rating: 18 Corporal Earnest Goodheart is crouched in a ditch on the edge of an orchard between Dunkirk and De Panne. - Genre: Fiction - Length: 20 pages
Reading Comprehension Worksheets and Printables: Fiction, Non-Fiction, Holidays page 1 abcteach features over 1,000 multi-page reading comprehension activities. These include biographies, history lessons, and introductions to important concepts in social studies, science, holidays, and more. Fictional stories are also available, providing students with fun and imaginative scenarios to explore. These stories serve as great backdrops for questions about problem solving, emotions, moral and ethical dilemmas, and vocabulary interpretation. Use the subcategories below to find reading activities written for your students’ comprehension level. In addition to the readings, the majority of our worksheets have attached study questions and games that reinforce important vocabulary words and key concepts. Want access to all of the reading comprehension packets on abcteach? Favorite saved.
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