Sophia Learning
Sophia: Planning Your Answer
In this slide show tutorial, students will review how to approach answering short answer and extended response essay questions. Marking strategies examples are included.
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Reading Constructed Response Organizer [Pdf]
This exercise provides guiding questions that will help learners develop constructed responses.
University of South Florida
Fcat Express: Butterfly Poetry
After reading the poem, check your comprehension with the multiple choice questions. Compare your short answers to model answers. Even if you do not know how to answer, the models will help you learn and improve your writing.
University of South Florida
Fcat Express: Fcat Practice Reading Tests
Provides nine interactive, online practice tests for the fourth grade Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT). Each test uses a number of reading skills and uses both multiple choice questions and short written responses. It...
Live Wire Media
Good Character: School to Work: Ethics in the Workplace
Students can become involved in "thorny scenarios" that showcase the need for various workplace ethics such as honesty, personal responsibility, positive attitude, teamwork, and professionalism. The site offers a video-based learning...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: A Directed Listening Thinking Activity
Lesson which requires students to listen to The Tell-Tale Heart read aloud, answer prediction questions during the reading, and write written responses after. Excellent for beginning a mystery unit.
University of South Florida
Fcat Express: Mary Mc Leod Bethune
An excellent biographical sketch of Mary McLeod Bethune. It is followed by comprehension questions: multiple choice, short answer and extended response, with immediate feedback. Printable version available from the home page menu or site...
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Guidebooks: Organizational Frames for Writing
This strategy helps students prepare and organize thoughts about text, develop a written response in the form of a short or extended response, and use standard English grammar, usage, and conventions in writing.
E Reading Worksheets
E Reading Worksheets: The Fir Tree
Read the story "The Fir Tree" by Hans Christian Andersen, and test your comprehension by answering the ten multiple choice questions and two extended response questions that follow. Answers can be printed, emailed, or saved.
E Reading Worksheets
E Reading Worksheets: The Cowardly Lion and the Hungry Tiger
Read the fable of "The Cowardly Lion and the Hungry Tiger" and test your comprehension by answering the ten multiple choice questions and two extended response questions that follow. Answers can be printed, emailed, or saved.
University of South Florida
Fcat Express: "The Crow" by Margery Bianco
"The Crow" is a short story which has been adapted from the original. It is followed by multiple choice comprehension questions, and corrections so you can correct your own answers. There are also some extended response items with model...
E Reading Worksheets
E Reading Worksheets: Nonfiction Passages and Functional Texts Worksheets
In this learning module, students will practice reading nonfiction passages. Students will also have the opportunity to answer multiple choice comprehension questions, answer short and extended response questions, and take a test. This...
BBC
Bbc Bitesize Revision: Discursive (Analytical) Writing
Short tutorial about discursive, or analytical, writing from a Scottish Standard Grade examination preparation site. Contains seven pages of information about the following: organising, essay examples, finding information, planning,...
Randall Davis
Esl Cyber Listening Lab: Basic English Quiz: Family Relationships
This site has a question-and-answer exercise that reinforces social listening and basic social skills. Students listen to a question in a conversation and then choose the best response from the three choices given. Designed especially...
Randall Davis
Esl Cyber Listening Lab: Basic English Quiz: Introductions
This site has a question-and-answer exercise that reinforces social listening and basic social skills. Students listen to a social question and then select the appropriate response from the three given. Designed especially for English...