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ICDL - International Children's Digital Library 5 Important Things I've Learned About Classroom Blogging 1. Just ship it. Don’t spend too much time worrying about how the blog looks from a design standpoint because you can always tweak it later. When you’re getting started, any of the standard templates from Blogger, WordPress.com, KidBlog, Edublogs, or Weebly will do. 2. 3. 4. 5. All of these lessons and many more will be explored in detail in my upcoming course, Classroom Blog Jumpstart starting on August 17th.

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

PowToon, free business presentation software animated video maker and PowerPoint alternative Premier Skills English 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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