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A View from the Bridge Quiz

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
In this online interactive reading comprehension instructional activity, students respond to 25 multiple choice questions about Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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A Yellow Raft in Blue Water Quiz

For Students 10th - Higher Ed
In this online interactive reading comprehension worksheet, students respond to 25 multiple choice questions about Michael Dorris's A Yellow Raft in Blue Water. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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2001: A Space Odyssey Quiz

For Students 11th - Higher Ed
In this online interactive reading comprehension worksheet, students respond to 25 multiple choice questions about Arthur C. Clarke's 2001: A Space Odyssey. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Chronicle of a Death Foretold Quiz

For Students 10th - Higher Ed
For this online interactive reading comprehension worksheet, learners respond to 25 multiple choice questions about Chronicle of a Death Foretold. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Diary of a Young Girl Quiz

For Students 8th - 12th
For this online interactive reading comprehension worksheet, students respond to 25 multiple choice questions about Anne Frank's Diary of a Young Girl. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter Quiz

For Students 10th - Higher Ed
In this online interactive reading comprehension learning exercise, students respond to 25 multiple choice questions about McCullers' The Heart is a Lonely Hunter. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Let's Retell a Story

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this retelling a story instructional activity, students review and discuss all the components involved in retelling a familiar story. Students choose a favorite story/book and fill out a graphic organizer retelling it in their own...
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Quiz

For Students 10th - Higher Ed
In this online interactive reading comprehension worksheet, students respond to 25 multiple choice questions about Tennessee Williams's Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

For Students 10th - Higher Ed
In this online interactive reading comprehension worksheet, students respond to 25 multiple choice questions about Joanne Greenberg's I Never Promised You a Rose Garden. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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A Conventional Family

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students explore writing techniques by analyzing their own families. In this family values lesson, students view the film "The Incredibles" in class and discuss the different types of modern-day families. Students write about their...
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Talking Trees: Earth Day

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars complete a tree poster activity to learn about Earth Day, stewardship, and the environment. In this environmental stewardship lesson plan, students read The Story of the Tree and discuss stewardship with trees. Young...
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Darwin Day

For Students 7th - 8th
In this Darwin Day activity, students read or listen to a tape passage about Charles Darwin, then match phrases, fill in the blanks, choose words, unscramble words and sentences, put sentences in order, write discussion questions and...
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Expression Makes Reading Exciting!

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students examine how reading with expression makes stories more interesting by listening to a reading in monotone and one with expression. Reading in pairs, they practice with passages of Judith Voirst's, Alexander and the Terrible,...
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Free Reading Project

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students participate in a free reading project to improve their reading skills. In this reading project lesson, students spend 30 minutes reading each day and complete journal entries for the lesson. Students complete a short in-class...
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Making the World A More Beautiful Place: Earth Day

For Teachers K
Students study ways to take care of the environment as part of an Earth Day activity. In this environment lesson, student listen to a read aloud of Barbara Cooney's, Miss Rumphius, before discussing how she works alone but is part of an...
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It's All in the Family with Mother's & Father's Day

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students interview family members to make a family tree for a Mother's or Father's Day card. For this family tree lesson, students read Love You Forever and discuss love within families. Students view Genealogy Resources on the Internet...
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International Women's Day

For Students 7th - 8th
In this International Women's Day worksheet, students read or listen to a passage, then match phrases, fill in the blanks, choose the correct words, unscramble words and sentences, put sentences in order, write discussion questions and...
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Fantastic Fluency!

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Young scholars participate in repeated readings of an assigned passage to increase their reading fluency. They are assisted in their reading by seeing the words and hearing them read while working with a partner. After practicing, they...
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School-Home Links: Book Links 5

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this reading comprehension learning exercise, learners read each story aloud and then answer the questions about the specific story to check for understanding. Parents or guardians must sign each learning exercise.
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Race into Reading

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Students create a career exploration experience for elementary students. In this career exploration lesson, students select a career field d to read about to elementary children. Students then present the Career Exploration Day to the...
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Mother's Day

For Students Pre-K - K
In this holiday worksheet, students color in a bouquet of flowers and illustrate a poem about Mother's Day. The poem begins with, "You fill my days with rainbow light..."
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A/An

For Students 3rd
For this grammar worksheet, 3rd graders use the articles a and an. Students complete 18 fill in the blank sentences and 4 short answer questions using the correct word where appropriate.
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Zooming into Fluency

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students read and reread decodable words in connected text. In this language arts lesson, students focus on improving their fluency to help them gain more meaning from the text. The story focused on is Arthur's Loose Tooth.  
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Speedy Reading!

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Learners work to improve reading fluency by practicing oral reading skills. They read and reread sentences, noticing the effect repeated reading has on their speed and accuracy. In groups, they complete timed readings and work to...