NWT Literacy Council
Nwt Literacy Council: How to Kit: Reading Circles & Story Extenders [Pdf]
Ideas on running reading circles for family literacy events are given. The ideas can be used in the classroom as well.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Give Me Five; Letter Sound Accuracy Activity
An exciting game to build students' understanding and accuracy of producing words that begin with the same letter. Students sit in a circle and the teacher says the sound of the letter. One student must pass a bean bag around the circle...
Free Reading
Free Reading: The Ship Is Loaded With: A Game Identifying and Generating Rhyming Words
A fun classroom game that helps students come up with words that rhyme with a word given to them by the teacher. Students sit in a circle, the instructor gives them a sentence and asks what word rhymes with the last word. Students raise...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Girls Read: Online Literature Circles
In this lesson designed especially for girls, students read a work of realistic fiction and get to know strong female protagonists through online literary circles and writing activities.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Annotating to Deepen Understanding (English Iii Reading)
Good readers underscore or circle important information, write summaries and definitions in the margins, and note questions or disagreements to help them understand and participate in their own reading. This lesson will help you learn...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Statistics: Interpretation of Circle Graphs Grades 6 7
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Read and interpret circle graphs.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Family Reading Activities
This site features family reading activities that will guide parents with their children's reading development.
Read Works
Read Works: North America Dear Pen Pal
[Free Registration/Login Required] A letter from Sara Makpah who lives in Canada to her pen pal living in New York City. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Read Works
Read Works: The Wonders of Flight
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a girl named Maria who is afraid to fly. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Other
Hoover Online!: Circular No. 4
A detailed description of three major attempts made by Herbert Hoover and his administration to get money back into circulation and stem the tide of the Great Depression. Read about the Reconstruction Finance Corporation and the...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Reading Circle Graphs
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students are asked to figure out the size of the shaded portions of a circle graph. They then complete a chart showing the fraction, decimal, and percentage equivalents.
PBS
Wgbh: Peep and the Big Wide World: Read and Discuss: Ten on the Sled
Discussion and integrations ideas for the read aloud book, Ten on the Sled by Kim Norman.
Other
Circle of Blue: National Security Assessment: Water Scarcity Disrupts Continents
Read this U.S. State Department report which finds a global confrontation between growing water demand and shrinking supplies, in addition to predictions for the next thirty years of water security.
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.
University of Maryland
University of Maryland: Romantic Circles
Extensive site dedicated to Romantic Studies. Best to use the search function. Includes modern poets reading Romantic poetry.
Other
Fun Lesson plans.com: Reading Lesson P Lans: Literature Circles
Improve your students' reading comprehension with these free literature circle worksheets.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: The Sled Dogs of the Arctic Circle
In this video segment from Nature, learn about the role of dogs in the Inuit culture.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Thoughtful Threads: Sparking Rich Online Discussions
Today's students love chatting online with friends. This lesson combines that love with literature. Students form literature circles and have meaningful online discussions about a literary work.
Other
Literature Circles: Lesson Plans and More
What are the major roles in literature circles? Check out this site to learn more about the individual roles needed to form a literature circle. Includes links to various reading handouts and lessons.
abcteach
Abcteach: Literacy Circles
[Free Registration/Login Required] Learn what literacy circles are, how they work and some suggestions for planning. Included are reproducible worksheets that define the student roles of various jobs within the literary circle.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Elements of Literature: A Guide to Let the Circle Be Unbroken [Pdf]
Useful background information, classroom considerations, post-reading suggestions and chapter summaries make this a handy guide. Four pages in .pdf format.
Other
Fallacy Files: Begging the Question
Discusses the error in logic behind the fallacy of Begging the Question (also known as Circular Argument, Circular Reasoning, Circulus in Probando, Petitio Principii, or Vicious Circle). Although a great deal of information about the...
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, University of California Santa Barbara
Ucsb / Pie Graphs (Piece of Cake)
This page gives an example and easy-to-understand description of a pie graph (circle graph.) Also provides an opportunity for students to test their abilities to read a pie graph.
ICT Games
Ict Games: Viking Full Circle
Practice reading and writing words with the consonant - vowel - consonant spelling pattern. Then, select the vowel and the endings to review a variety of patterns.