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Our reading comprehension worksheets teach students to think critically, draw inferences, understand scope and global concepts, find or recall details, and infer the meaning of useful vocabulary words. © COPYRIGHT NOTICE: The below publications contain copyrighted work to be used by teachers in school or at home. Grade 1 - Find more here! Phew! You really really like reading comprehension. Critical Thinking Reading Comprehension Worksheets Short Story Reading Comprehension Worksheets Answers for this series are included at the end of each worksheet. " Easy reading comprehension exercises. (vocab activities including build your owns') Teach Children Vocabulary. Teach Vocabulary Children A study in 2005 by world famous magazine Readers Digest discovered nearly half of all adults believed vocabulary skills among America’s youth were being decimated by text messaging, e-mail, and cell phones.
Forty-five percent of the 1,000 adults surveyed felt these modern means of communication were leading to a decline in the vocabularies of young people, while 26% thought the words used to teach vocabulary children was improving. Twenty-one percent of those surveyed were of the opinion that there was no change in vocabulary skills among young people. The magazine’s National Word Power Challenge, a college scholarship competition aimed at improving vocabulary skills in U.S. students, conducted the survey. Other research has revealed that on average a one year-old child has a three-word vocabulary. By the age of two, that child might know around 270 words. A year later, and the amount have shot up to nearly 900. Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test, Fourth Edition. The PPVT-4 test offers many enhancements to a vocabulary assessment that has been well respected for 50 years. This latest edition has been co-normed with the Expressive Vocabulary Test, Second Edition (EVT™-2), allowing you to make direct comparisons between receptive and expressive vocabulary performance.
Quick and easy to administer, the PPVT-4 saves you valuable time—so that you can focus on implementing successful interventions. Ideal for progress monitoring! Unlike some other measures of vocabulary, the PPVT-4 supplies two equivalent forms of the test which contain different vocabulary items—helping ensure the individual has not “learned” the test. One form can be used prior to intervention to assess individuals’ vocabulary knowledge and the alternative form can be used for re-testing to evaluate and document progress. PPVT-4 also includes a unique Growth Scale Value (GSV) which is sensitive to small changes over time. Users & Applications Features & Benefits New! Individual Reports. (Contains Lesson plans for Vocab and other course long ideas) Reading Rockets| ABCs of Teaching Reading.
(lesson plans) ReadWorks.org | The Solution to Reading Comprehension. Understanding and Assessing Fluency. Let's cut through the buzz around fluency and review what reading fluency is, why it is essential to ensure that our students have sufficient fluency, how fluency should be assessed, and how to best provide fluency practice and support for our students. We'll start by defining fluency. While the National Reading Panel's definition of fluency as the ability to read text with accuracy, appropriate rate, and good expression (NICHD, 2000) is widely accepted among fluency researchers, these experts continue to debate the more subtle aspects of fluency (Stecker, Roser, and Martinez, 1998; Wolf and Katzir-Cohen, 2001). However it is defined, this much is certain: Fluency is necessary, but not sufficient*, for understanding the meaning of text.
When children read too slowly or haltingly, the text devolves into a broken string of words and/or phrases; it's a struggle just to remember what's been read, much less extract its meaning. Student placed vocal emphasis on appropriate words. Reading Brain (Contain Fluency Activities) (Contains Fluency Lesson Plans) WeAreTeachers - Teacher Grants - Teaching Resources and More.
PhonicsPlay - Phonics games, planning, assessments and printables. Phonics Activities. Lesson Plans and Activities for Teaching Phonics. Want to try phonics in your classroom but don't know where to start? These free resources, including lessons and activities, will help you use phonics to promote reading success. Professional Development Resources Explicit Systemic Phonics by Wiley Blevins (PDF) This detailed article describes the critical components of a good phonics lesson.
Preventing Reading Failure This Q&A provides information on how to integrate phonics lessons with teaching reading. Decoding Multisyllabic Words by Wiley Blevins This article from Instructor Magazine provides the information you need to start teaching your class about syllable spelling patterns. Professional Workshop Review our summer workshop, "Supporting Emergent Literacy: Developing Story Language Phonemic Awareness, and Phonics. " Spelling Strategies: Make Smart Use of Sounds and Spelling Patterns This article from Instructor Magazine offers advice on how to build phonemic awareness as a base for spelling skills. Online Activities Which Letter? Phonemic Awareness Assessment Tools. Recognizing Rhyme Assessment Here are two different versions of the Rhyming Assessment tool: Recognizing Rhyme Assessment NO QuickTime movie version Recognizing Rhyme Assessment QuickTime version: Watch Patti do a demonstration of the rhyme assessment.)
Isolating Beginning Sounds Isolating Final Sounds Phoneme Blending Assessment Phoneme Blending Assessment (No QuickTime required) Phoneme Blending Assessment (QuickTime movie version: Watch Patti demonstrate the assessment.) Yopp-Singer Test of Phonemic Segmentation (No QuickTime required) (Contains Phonemic Awareness activites) Elkonin Boxes. Lesson Plan: Phonemic Awareness, Say it and Move It. Most people have never heard of a part of the reading process called Phonemic Awareness. Everyone knows that phonics is the actual sounds of the letters.
Phonemic awareness is carrying this a step further and putting the letters together. Some people learn this with little practice, while others have to be taught. This is a lesson plan showing a teacher or parent how to help a child in the active learning of phonemic awareness. A lesson plan is of course broken down into the objective, what materials you will need, what the activity is that is being carried out, and how you are going to evaluate whether or not the child understood the lesson and achieved the objective. Lesson Plan for Phonemic Awareness Objective: Students will complete a phonemic awareness activity, clapping out the distinct sounds, and counting the sounds in specific words. Activity: The teacher or parent will explain that letters and sounds are different in words. Here is an example of how this game would be played.