PBS
Pbs Learning Media: The Game
After watching this brief interchange over a chessboard, please write what you think the dialogue is for the two players.
Soft Schools
Soft Schools: Reading Comprehension
Students are to read a fiction paragraph and answer a 10-question quiz about it.
Soft Schools
Soft Schools: Reading Comprehension: Quiz 2
Students read a fiction paragraph and answer a 10-question quiz about it.
Beacon Learning Center
Beacon Learning Center: Web Lessons: Get the Main Idea
This resource provides practice finding the main idea by having students read a paragraph and choose the main idea. Then it asks students to take what they have learned and apply it to a book of their choice, and then write a paragraph...
Soft Schools
Soft Schools: The Scary Hike
Read "The Scary Hike," a short literary text, and then answer ten reading comprehension questions that follow.
Soft Schools
Soft Schools: Cool Chemistry Jobs
Read "Cool Chemistry Jobs," a short informational text, and then answer ten reading comprehension questions that follow.
Soft Schools
Soft Schools: Blueberry Pancakes
Read "Blueberry Pancakes," a short literary text, and then answer ten reading comprehension questions that follow.
Curated OER
Ccss Literacy E Handbook: Literature: Summarize
An explanation of summarizing a selection along with a link to a model summarizing activity.
Other
Super Teacher Worksheets: Reading Comprehension: Great White Sharks [Pdf]
Read the fifth-grade reading passage entitled "Great White Sharks" by Erin Ryan and answer the comprehension questions over the selection. PDF includes an answer key with explanations.
Other
Lesson Plan: Reading Comprehension Booklets
Use this online lesson plan for creating reading comprehension booklets. Teachers can use this lesson plan as a spring board for other reading comprehension activities.
Other
Iseesam: Comprehension Questions
This PDF explains what students are asked to do when answering Literal, Inference, and Evaluative comprehension questions.
ProProfs
Pro Profs: Main Idea Benchmark
This is a four-question multiple choice quiz over the main idea; students read nonfiction passages and select the main idea. Links to related quizzes on the same topic are provided.
English Zone
English Zone: Dolphins Around the World: Dolphins 1
This reading comprehension exercise uses a passage about the lives of dolphins to quiz readers on what they have learned. Students will learn about these animals while also improving their information seeking skills.
Quia
Quia: Cause and Effect
Identify cause and effect relationships by matching cards with a cause to cards with the effect. Correct answers are provided and a percentage score is available once the activity is complete.
Quia
Quia: Cause and Effect 2
Five sentences where students are asked to read the effect and then choose the appropriate cause. Answers can be checked after each question and a percentage grade is available at the end of the activity.
Quia
Quia: Why??? What Caused It to Happen?
Read the story of "The Three Little Pigs" and pause five times to answer cause and effect questions about the story and the characters' choices within the story. Students can see their percentage score at the end of the activity.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Developing Inferential Comprehension
This lesson plan uses the text "Granddaddy's Gift" in order to develop and improve comprehension, prediction, and discussion skills. Included in the lesson plan is an overview, practice, objectives, resources, preparation, and more.
Quia
Quia: Fact or Opinion? Game #2 (Quiz)
Five sentences where students are asked to read the cause and then choose the appropriate effect. Answers can be checked after each question and a percentage grade is available at the end of the activity.
Quia
Quia: Metaphor Quiz
Read five short paragraphs and choose the main idea of each. Check the answers when finished to see how many were right.
Quia
Quia: Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Wh Questions, Game #1
Read a short text and then choose the correct answer to "Wh-" questions in this Rags to Riches learning game.
English Zone
English Zone: Elephants
After reading this informative article about elephants, students will hone their reading comprehension skills by answering a series of related questions.
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Teaching Tools to Assist Your Instructional Efforts
This site provide background information for the site Daily Teaching Tools. The author's mission and rationale for the site are included. The author provides 20 categories of materials are connected to this page, each with downloadable...
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: 10 Free Reading Tests
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides ten free reading comprehension tests with a corresponding answer key and list of reading skills covered. All passages are high interest for middle school students.
American Forum for Global Education
American Forum for Global Education: Talking With Our Hands
This lesson plan from the American Forum for Global Education is designed to help children understand that using hands to "convey messages" is a form of communication.