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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. Readings about popular topics are written for multiple grade levels. 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.
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
10 Free Reading Tests for Students in Grades 5 Through 9 Introduction As noted above, I am offering 10 free reading tests on this page. All of them are short--students can complete them in about 15 minutes or so. Once everyone is finished, papers can be exchanged, checked, and returned for instant feedback. This allows time for students to ask questions about items they missed or to find out why their own answers were incorrect. A second advantage is that all of these tests can be copied one per page--a savings in copier paper. Please note, however, that a few of them DO have a second page. In the very near future, I will be adding several reading tests that are longer--students will need the majority of a standard class period to complete them. However, these longer tests are more thorough and include a larger scope of reading skills than the shorter tests. All these tests feature either high-interest and/or informative reading passages. Please feel free to use any or all of these tests in whatever way best suits your needs. Here are the tests.
Resources for Teachers Step 1: Choose a Skill Each lesson can be used multiple times with the same students. Choose different reading material each time. This gives the students a chance to become comfortable with the format and the expectations so they can focus on the skill. | Grades 3-10 | RIT 171-230 | Literature, Informational Text:Cause and Effect Match events to their outcomes. | Grades 3-12 | RIT 171-230+ | Informational Text:Fact, Opinion, Drawing Conclusions Students identify facts and write a fact-based summary of an article that includes or evokes strong opinions. | Grades 2-10 | RIT 171-220 | Informational Text: Main Ideas, Supporting Details Identify the most important ideas in a piece of text and the details that point to those ideas. | Grades 3, 6-8 | RIT <171-220 | Literature/Informational: Sequence Events Students identify and defend the beginning, middle and end events in a story or article. Literature: Sequence Events Students line up strips of paper with events from a story. Featured Articles:
Understand what you read #.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. Creating differentiated reading groups may seem equally unrealistic since it is impossible for a teacher to work with multiple students or groups all at the same time. NEWSELA solves the first dilemma by providing teachers with a database of non-fiction articles. Sample NEWSELA article With Google Docs, you can leave comments as reading prompts to which your students can reply as well as give them the opportunity to highlight and comment on the text themselves.
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ICDL - International Children's Digital Library Extensive reading: why it is good for our students… and for us. What is Extensive Reading (ER)?Extensive Reading is often referred to but it is worth checking on what it actually involves. Richard Day has provided a list of key characteristics of ER (Day 2002). Students read a lot and read often.There is a wide variety of text types and topics to choose from.The texts are not just interesting: they are engaging/ compelling.Students choose what to read.Reading purposes focus on: pleasure, information and general understanding.Reading is its own reward.There are no tests, no exercises, no questions and no dictionaries.Materials are within the language competence of the students.Reading is individual, and silent.Speed is faster, not deliberate and slow.The teacher explains the goals and procedures clearly, then monitors and guides the students.The teacher is a role model…a reader, who participates along with the students. The model is very much like that for L1 reading proposed by Atwell (2006). So what are the benefits of ER? a) Insufficient time.