William & Mary
Inferential Reading Comprehension Considerations Packet
Don't forget to read between the lines! Educators learn tips and activities to help scholars learn to infer to increase reading comprehension. Activities suggested include think alouds, backwards words, and who's who. the packet includes...
Free Reading
Free Reading: Free Reading: Sounding Out Activities
A wonderful site full of tips for teaching the skills of sounding out words. This site has a plethora of links that provide an excellent way to practice and memorize the essential skills of sounding out words. The links using every...
Read Works
Read Works: Sequence Kindergarten Unit: Order of Events
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students learn about putting events in order with a short text. Then they complete guided and independent sequencing activities with The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle. Short texts and handouts...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Sequencing a Strategy to Succeed at Reading Comprehension
Contains plans for lessons that use the story of Paul Bunyan to teach about sequencing and order of events. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as well as...
Free Reading
Free Reading: Word Form Recognition Activities
A wonderful site full of tips for teaching Word-form recognition activities. This site has a plethora of links that provide an excellent way to practice and memorize the essential skills of recognizing words without sounding out each...
Free Reading
Free Reading: Irregular Word Activities
This extensive site has links to games and activities that teach students to read 30 high-frequency irregular words. There are over 20 activities and games at the bottom of the site in additional to sequenced irregular word activities....
Other
Reading Quest: Strategies for Reading Comp.: History Frames: Story Maps
This activity will help you teach students chronological order as well as identifying key people and events. Printable worksheets.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Harcourt: School Publishers: Test Tutor: Sequence
Students will increase their reading comprehension skills and understanding of story sequence by reading a passage of text and then answering questions about the order of events.
E Reading Worksheets
E Reading Worksheets: Differentiated Reading Instruction Worksheets, Activities
A collection of differentiated reading activities are provided in this collection. Worksheets for the following reading topics are included: climax, story structure, elements of a story; fact and opinion; summarizing, narrative sequence;...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Identifying Sequence of Events Using Dr. Seuss
After listening to a reading of Dr. Seuss' Bartholomew and the Oobleck, students use graphic organizers and comic strips to practice sequencing. In a fun activity, small groups follow directions to make oobleck.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Buddies Create Power Point Stories
Contains plans for five lessons that ask students to create PowerPoint presentations about shared experiences like field trips or other activities. Students take pictures of what happen, and then explain the sequence of events in words...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: Shape Sequence Search
This activity tests the student's understanding of patterns. The teacher will read a pattern and the student will find the row or column that contains each sequence. Example included.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Sequence Flower Reports
This is a hands-on book report project. It will be an extension activity that occurs after the reading of the stories The Secret Gardens and/ or The Gardener. Paper Flowers will be designed and put together by each student. Story events...
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: By Car, Train, or Bus! The Sounds of Language on the Go
Come and check out this awesome pre-reading resource. This site offers examples of simple word games you can play with kids to increase their ability to recognize and use letters and sounds. Try these games the next time you're in the...
SEDL
Cognitive Framework: Instructional Resources Database: Instructional Activities
This professional resource includes a database to find the answer relative to the best instructional practices related to alphabetic literacy. This site offers activities in English and Spanish to help teach literacy topics.
Free Reading
Free Reading: What's the Secret? Oral Segmentation Accuracy Activity
In this activity, the teacher says three words and has the students identify the common sound. This site includes a link to a Word List Generator.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Graph the Sounds: Oral Segmentation Activity
A small group activity. Each group receives a Graph the Sound page (link included on site). The teacher holds up a picture and the group must graph each sound they hear when they pronounce the word.
Free Reading
Free Reading: "Aliens of Paz" Picture Activity: Oral Segmenting Accuracy
An exciting activity that helps pre-readers identify sounds and break down words into segments. The students pretend to be "Aliens of Paz" who pronouce words very slowly. This activity also incorporates movement as the student touches...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: The Day Jimmy's Boa Taught Cause and Effect
Contains plans for five lessons that teach about cause and effect relationships using Trinka Hakes Noble's books about Jimmy and his boa constrictor. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to...
New Zealand Ministry of Education
Nz Ministry of Education: Violent Delights and Violent Ends: Romeo and Juliet
This lesson uses drama games and role playing to enhance the reading and understanding of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. It includes pre-reading role play and information about Shakespeare's life and times, during reading drama games,...
University of Victoria (Canada)
Reading Exercises: Comprehension, Sequencing & Summary
Choose your story, then answer the multiple choice questions, recreate the story in the proper order, and summarize the action using the interactive exercises.
Other
Intervention Central: Early Math Fluency Generator
Three activities to help students with early math fluency: Quantity Discrimination (QD): The student is given a sheet of number pairs and must verbally identify the larger of the two values for each pair. Missing Number (MN): The student...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: "Nuts" About Peanuts! (Reading)
The lesson will be implemented as part of a unit about plants. The students will learn about the growth cycle of a peanut and use a Five-Step Sequence Think-sheet to sequence the steps. They will also make predictions and complete...
Free Reading
Free Reading: Letter Writing Activities
This invaluable site helps instructors teach students how to handwrite each letter of the alphabet. It includes the amsti sequence to introduce letters, followed by fluency-building activities and accuracy-building activities. Additional...