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Reading Skills:
- Characters From A Story
- Skimming and Scanning
- Reading and Understanding
- Story Builder
- GREAT Reading Strategies!
- GREAT Reading Strategies Part 2
Reading Comprehension:
- Reading Comprehension Questions
- Reading Comprehension Questions
- Understand What You Read
- Understand What You Read 2
Quote From a Text:
Citing Evidence:
Mood:
Plot- Conflict & Resolution:
- Conflict & Solution Cinderella
- Name That Literary Element
- Parts of a Story
- Five Elements of a Story Rap
- Allie’s Basketball Dream Story Element
- Plot Rags to Riches
- Plot Jeopardy
Idioms:
Proverbs & Adages:
Theme:
- Read Fables with Morals
- Brainpop Theme
- Theme Rags to Riches
- Flocabulary Theme Video
- Great Theme Practice
Cause & Effect:
- Cause and Effect
- Ice Cream Cause and Effect
- Cause and Effect Quiz
- Cause and Effect Matching Game
- What Caused It?
- Cause and Effect More Matching Practice
- Cause and Effect Practice
- Cause and Effect Jeopardy!
- Cause and Effect Lessons and Practice
Main Idea & Supporting Details: (Topic Sentence, Concluding Sentence, Irrelevant Sentence)
- Uncovering the Main Idea
- The Hamburger Game
- Room Recess Find Main Idea
- Quia The Main Idea
- Main Idea Practice
- Main Idea Practice 2
- Summarizing Main Ideas
- Making an Outline-Brain pop
- Select & Drag the Main Idea
- What is a concluding sentence?
- Where Is The Main Idea?
- Journalist Desk- Main Idea
- What is the Irrelevant Sentence?
- Identifying Main Idea
- I Need Help Locating the Topic Sentence!
- Identifying Irrelevant Sentences
- Practice with Concluding Sentences
Sequence of Events:
- Putting Sentences in Order
- Fun Comic Strip Sequence Of Events
- Sequence Practice 1
- Sequence Practice 2
- Sequence Practice 3
- Sequence Practice 4
- sequencing puzzle
- Gone Fishing Sequence of Events
- Using A Gumball Machine Sequence of Events
- Blinky’s Story Scramble
Story/Text Structure
- Story Structure Practice
- Rags to Riches Text Structure
- Text Structure Basketball
- Interactive Text Structure Practice
- Text Structure Quiz – 4th grade
- Text Structure Quiz – 6th grade
Inferring:
- Inferring
- Detective Notebook Game
- Who Wants to be a Millionaire?
- What Can You Infer?
- Inference Riddle Game
- Tune In To Reading- Inferences Game
- Garfield’s Reading Ring
- GREAT Reading Strategies! Directions: Find the Inferring Activity by Clicking on the Magnifying Glass
- What Can You Infer?
- Strategies for Better Reading: Inferences
- Inference Battleship
Summarizing:
- Solve the Mystery Using Who, What, Where, When, and Why.
- Quia Summarizing Game
- GREAT Reading Strategies! Directions: Find the Summarizing Activity by Clicking on the Flashlight and Dragging it into the Book.
- Select the Best Summary
- TV411 Summarizing Activity
- Summarizing Look to the North
Compare and Contrast:
- Coyote Compare and Contrast
- Advanced Compare and Contrast with Social Studies
- Writing a Compare and Contrast Essay
- Compare and Contrast the Two Stories
- Compare and Contrast Rags to Riches
Text Features: You can find these features in reference sources or for research!
- Reading the Fine Print
- Text Structure Jeopardy
- Using Text Features Game
- Write Your Own Caption
- Text Feature Scatter Game
- Text Structure Battle Ship
- Text or Graphic Game
- Hoop Shoot Text Structure
Figurative Language, Poetry, Rhyme
- Identifying Figurative Langauge
- Fling the Teacher Figurative Language
- Figurative Language Quiz
- Figurative Language Practice Quiz
- Rags to Riches Figurative Language
- Figure of Speech Hangman
- Flash Card Figurative Language
- Quia Figurative Language Jeopardy
- Brain pop- Metaphor and SImile
- Metaphors and Similes
- Help with Writing Similes
- Practice with Metaphors
- Brain Pop- Similes and Metaphors
- Metaphor Battleship
- Quia Metaphor Quiz
- Quia Metaphor Quiz 2
- Simile & Metaphor Jeopardy
- What’s the Meaning of the Simile and Metaphor?
Reference Sources/ Research
- Parts Of A Newspaper Activity
- Table of Contents
- Dictionary & Index Quiz
- Brain pop- Online Sources
- Brain pop- Research
- What Is An Encyclopedia?
- Dictionary Games
- Select The Right Source
- Trapped All About Newspapers
- How Are They Selling It? Advertisements– Not written to provide facts
Point of View/ Tone of Author:
Fact or Opinion:
Author’s Purpose:
- Great Author’s Purpose Practice 2
- Author’s Purpose Jeopardy Game
- Author’s Purpose Rags to Riches
- Author’s Purpose Super Shooter Basketball Game
- Author’s Purpose Test Your Knowledge
- Harcourt Author’s Purpose Practice
- Author’s Purpose Battleship
- Practicing Author’s Purpose
- Practicing Author’s Purpose 2
- Author’s Purpose Video
- Author’s Purpose Practice
- Great Author’s Purpose Practice 1
- Type of Text Quiz
- Type of Text Game
Read Books Online:
- Choose The Adventure As You Go!
- Read Diary of a Wimpy Kid Online
- Read The Wonderful Wizard of Oz online
- Pick from a list of classic books to read online!
Writing Skills/ Transitions:
- Transitional Words Scholastic
- Transition Bank Quiz
- Evaluation Writing Station
- Transitional Words
- More Transitional Words
- Rags to Riches Transitions
- Jeopardy Transitions
- Paragraph Structure
- Guide to Grammar and Writing
- Style of Writing
- Identifying Topic Sentence
- Writing Poetry Machine
- Write Your Own Myth
Citations/ Citing Sources in a Bibliography: