Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Synthesize Information in Charts and Graphs (English Ii Reading)
Synthesize information that you find in charts and graphs.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Analyze Graphical Sources: Practice 2 (English I Reading)
You will look at each of these types of graphs: bar graph, line graph, pie charts, as you work your way through the lesson.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Read Picture Graphs (Multi Step Problems)
Interpret picture graphs to answer questions about a context. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Read Bar Graphs and Solve 1 Step Problems
Interpret bar graphs to answer questions about a context. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Math: Tea Store: Reading a Table
Students will demonstrate how to interpret information in a table.
NASA
Climate Kids: What Do All These Graphs Mean?
Learn how to make, read and interpret a graph based on information regarding climate change. Understand the need to think globally and to take action!
Other
The Topic: Charts and Graphs
Brief descriptions of charts and graphs, followed by links to larger sites on the same subject.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois: Bar Graphs
Two bar graph examples are shown and explained at this website. You can learn what kind of data is best represented using a bar graph.
Texas A&M University
Wtamu Virtual Math Lab: Beginning Algebra: Reading Graphs
A good introduction to reading bar, line, and double line graphs, and drawing and reading Venn diagrams. Contains definitions and examples of these types of charts and graphs as well as practice exercises that ask you to answer questions...
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Math: Orange Trees, Olive Trees: Line Graphs
Explore even and odd numbers, fractions, counting, and line graphs with Scott amidst the olive and orange trees.
Read Works
Read Works:north America:comparing Data From Different Countries Around the World
[Free Registration/Login Required] A chart with land and population data from Canada, the United States of America, the United Kingdom, and Japan. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Rice University
Rice University: Cynthia Lanius: Interpreting Graphs: The Hot Tub
The graph of the water level of a hot tub is presented and students are asked to tell the story of how the water level changes. Explanations of slope and functions accompany the problem.
Read Works
Read Works: Genre Studies: Informational Text Kindergarten Unit: Labeled Diagrams
[Free Registration/Login Required] Lesson uses Bats by Gail Gibbons to teach students how to identify facts learned from labeled diagrams within an informational text. Ideas for direct teaching, guided practice, and independent practice...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Do You Really Want to Visit the Arctic?
This jigsaw activity is designed for students to become familiar with several datasets of Arctic weather data, collected in Eureka on Ellesmere Island. Students join a role-playing activity to read and interpret graphs while considering...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: F if Warming and Cooling
Students are presented with a graph showing temperature over a period of 20 hours and are asked to read and interpret the graph. Aligns with F-IF.B.4.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: F if Influenza Epidemic
Students are presented with a graph showing the spread of an influenza epidemic through a city. They are asked to read and interpret the graph and the equation for its function. Aligns with F-IF.B.4.
English Zone
English Zone: Chart Reading Practice 1
Practice reading and understanding information when it is provided in chart format. This website provides a simple chart and asks questions about the chart's information, which can be answered and checked.
Other
La Rue Literacy Exercises: Reading a Map: Quiz 12
In this quiz, students are given sections of a map with locations like the school, post office, back, etc. They are asked questions about directions from one place to the other.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Appendices: The Use of Mathematics in Principles of Economics
This appendix should be consulted after first reading "Welcome to Economics." Though economics is not math, there is no important concept in this course that cannot be explained without mathematics. That said, math is a tool that can be...
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: Urban Systemic Initiative/oceans of Data
This site includes questions related to reading and understanding graphs. There are links on this site to lesson plans, benchmarks, and other webpages all of which mostly center about probability and statistics.
English Zone
English Zone: American Presidents: Reading for a Specific Purpose
In this activity, information about American presidents is provided in chart format on the left and asks students to use the chart to answer the questions on the right. Note: the last president listed is George W. Bush. Java is required.
English Zone
English Zone: Reading Maps 1
Using the map provided, students are to answer questions such as how far is it from one town to another.
ProProfs
Pro Profs Quiz Maker: Map Reading Awareness Quiz
This is a nine-question quiz about information on maps and parts of a map. The questions are timed, but not limited.
Fun Brain
Funbrain: What's the Point?
Challenge your graph-reading skills. Levels of difficulty are available.