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Reading Comprehension 3 - A Lazy Holiday or an Exciting Holiday?- Test Your Reading Skills
In this reading comprehension worksheet, students read a short passage about a young girl's plans for her summer holidays. They write the answer to 10 questions based on the reading.
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Reading Comprehension 4 - What Shall We Do Tomorrow?- Test Your Reading Skills
In this reading comprehension worksheet, 7th graders read a short passage in which one young lady talks to a young man about their holiday experience in Devon, UK. They answer 10 questions based on the passage.
Aladdin Paperbacks
Running Out of Time: The Cloze Procedure
Determine if the reading level of Running Out of Time is too easy, to difficult, or just right for your pupils with a cloze reading exercise. After listening to the teacher read the passage, learners fill in the blanks on the cloze...
Teacher Web
Sign of the Beaver Chapter Questions
Helpful for your unit on Elizabeth George Speare's Sign of the Beaver, a list of reading questions are a good way to check for understanding after your class finishes a chapter. Each two chapters have three or four questions,...
Curated OER
Dogs: Reading Comprehension
This reading comprehension worksheet includes a 2-page selection about dogs, as well as ten short answer questions.
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Lord of the Flies: Chapter 1 Reading and Study Guide
In this comprehension check worksheet, students define 13 vocabulary words, define 5 literary terms, and respond to 23 short answer questions pertaining to chapter 1 of The Lord of the Flies in order to help them better understand the...
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English Exercises: Reading Comprehension, Australian Rules Football
To start, read the article titled "Australian Rules Football," and then respond to 12 multiple choice questions about the selection and complete a word search. Because of its online format, users may submit their answers...
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At Play Long Ago and Today: comprehension skills
In this comprehension skills learning exercise, learners read the book At Play Long Ago and Today and complete comprehension activities. Students complete 5 activities including note taking, compare and contrast, predicting, and...
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Big Bushy Mustache: comprehension skills
In this comprehension skills worksheet, students read the book Big Bushy Mustache and complete comprehension activities. Students complete 5 activities including note taking, making inferences, fiction and non fiction, drawing...
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Rain Forest Babies: comprehension skills
In this comprehension skills worksheet, 2nd graders read the book Rain Forest Babies and complete comprehension activities. Students complete 5 activities including note taking, compare and contrast, and personal opinion.
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Reading Comprehension Worksheet: Plants
In this reading comprehension about plants worksheet, learners study an informative text about the medicinal use of plants. Students answer 4 short answer questions.
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A Bus Ride to Remember: Reading Comprehension
In this reading comprehension worksheet, students read 4 separate selections and respond to questions regarding each selection.
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Maniac Magee: Questions to Foster Discussion
This resource provides 11 short answer questions and a couple of extension ideas related to part one of Jerry Spinelli's novel about a feisty runaway. Not reproducible, but the questions (which address vocabulary, inference, recall,...
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Hoot: Bloom's Taxonomy- Questioning Strategy
What better way to examine a text than to ask your own questions? Use Bloom's taxonomy to guide kids through Carl Hiaasen's Hoot by asking questions based on knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation.
DePaul University
Chicago Changer: Jane Addams
The power of a single person to change a community is amazing. Read about about how Jane Addams witnessed people living terrible lives in Chicago and chose to do everything she could to help them. When finished, young learners identify...
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The Kite Runner: Problematic Situation
To conclude their study of Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner, class members assume the voice of Amir and write a letter to Hassan, Amir's childhood companion.
Maine Content Literacy Project
Process of Reading
Assist your pupils with literary analysis by discussing and exploring theme. This plan, the twelfth in a series of fourteen, builds in some time to explore theme as a class. Learners also blog about the main event in their stories and...
California Education Partners
Follow the Water by Arthur Dorros
Assess scholars' reading and writing capabilities with an exam that challenges learners to respond to an informative text. Through note-taking and peer discussion, pupils analyze a passage from the story, Follow the Water from Brook to...
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Oral Reading Fluency
Accuracy, phrasing, flow, and pace, the four traits of of oral reading fluency, are the focus of a series of exercises that are designed to help readers develop these comprehension and literacy skills.
California Education Partners
Telescopes
An assessment challenges scholars to read an informative text then respond with an explanatory essay. The exam begins as participants read a text passage twice then take notes, making sure to jot down key details. Following the...
Open Oregon Educational Resources
How to Learn Like a Pro!
What's the best way to ace an exam or pass a difficult class? Scholars find out using an information-packed eBook. Pupils read about learning styles, study skills, test-taking strategies, and other topics associated with maximizing...
Worksheet Web
Where do Bears go in Winter?
Do bears really sleep for an entire season? Six multiple choice questions and a drawing activity make up a worksheet that tests scholars' comprehension skills after reading about bears during winter.
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Comprehension: Compare and Contrast Topics in Two Texts
A scripted instructional activity can be a big help for new teachers. This fully scripted three-day learning activity provides teachers with the means to demonstrate how to compare and contrast two topics in two texts. Learners will work...
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Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck: Chapter 1 Reading Check
Good worksheets pinpoint key events and get readers thinking about the choices writers make when crafting a story. Here's a good learning exercise. Designed to be used with the first chapter of Of Mice and Men, consider having your...