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Skimming Exercise
In this skimming for information activity, students read a passage quickly to find the main ideas. Students have a short period of time to read the passage and complete the questions.
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Finding Information in the Library
In this Finding Information in the Library activity, students write down something they want to find out about and then read 8 steps to help them in their search. Students discover web addresses of three sites where they can find out...
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Scan It
In this reading strategies worksheet, learners will learn how to scan for information. Then students will scan a non-fiction passage about weather and complete 4 short answer questions.
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Skimming and Scanning Information
In this career worksheet, students practice the real life application of reading skills. They specifically cover the tasks of skimming and scanning a text.
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News Quiz: October 21, 2011
What does your class know about the events occurring on October 21, 2011? Have them skim this issue of the New York Times to answer each of the five related multiple choice questions. A perfect task for early finishers.
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Preview Reading
Scanning a text before getting started is a reading strategy that your pupils can use to get a general idea about a text before diving in. Give some direction to their scanning with a worksheet that includes items to check for and space...
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Nonfiction Books: Table of Contents and Index
How do you find what you're looking for when reading a nonfiction book? Even first graders can learn how to use a table of contents and an index. They use the provided images of each to locate information and answer nine questions.
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Understanding the Chapter
In this understanding chapter seven worksheet, students read a story, skim for information, answer four literal questions, four inferential questions and two opinion questions.
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Making Predictions
Read efficiently and effectively with a passage about making predictions and using headlines and visual aids as clues. After kids read a few paragraphs in the passage, they answer five comprehension questions on the side of the page.
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Mosquitoes
In this mosquitoes information worksheet, learners read for comprehension and vocabulary assessment. In this multiple choice worksheet, students answer twelve questions.
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Produce a Nonfiction Text
In this language arts activity, students look for the facts and create several nonfiction texts while including useful information for the reader.
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Nonfiction Book Report
In this Language Arts worksheet, students complete a chart and answer six questions about a nonfiction book. For example, students list three facts they found out from the book.
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Math 121 - Mixture Problems
In this mixture problem instructional activity, students read story problems, identify necessary information, and solve mixture problems using the mixture formula. This one-page instructional activity contains ten problems. Answers are...
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Worksheet 7/7 on Prepositions
In this prepositions practice learning exercise, students read a brief story and then identify all of the prepositions in the story by circling them.
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Mrs. Wilson's Secret Reading Comprehension Questions Chapter Three
In this language arts worksheet, students respond to reading comprehension questions pertaining to Mrs. Wilson's Secret. Students answer nine questions with literal, inferential, and opinion responses.
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Chapter 9 Summary
In this literacy worksheet, students summarize the events in chapter 9 and take the questions as sources of remembering the events described.
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A Biography of Amir Khan
In this literature worksheet, students read a biography about Amir Khan, a middleweight boxer who won an Olympic bronze in Athens. They identify whether each statement is true or false. Then, students look at his career and respond to...