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Reading Comprehension

Categorizing titles
DO NOT PRESS ANY FLASH BUTTONS!!
Planets
Comprehension questions (EASY!)
Real or Make-Believe?
Can you tell which is real? Can you name what you see?
Insect (Creepy Crawlies!)
Reading Comprehension
Solar System Readings
Challenging Reading! Keep track of your scores.
Fact or Opinion?
After you finish this, write 3 examples of your own. Use the names of your friends!)
Inference Activities
Now write 3 examples of your own!
3 great reading comprehension stories
Try all 3 activities for each story!
What are they selling?
Can you understand the ads?!
MANY different readings
REMEMBER to write down the activity you do!
Snowman, compare and contrast
Great readings - keep track of what you read and your score!
TV4
For adults, so some stuff may be too hard...
NEW and FUN!!
Look at a picture, and pick the best caption

Listening Activities

Telephone Company
test

Poetry Templates

I AM....
Great template to start writing poetry!
Bio-poem
Template

ESL Activities

ESL ACTIVITIES
INTERESTING THINGS
Flash hangman, word games, etc
OPPOSITES
MATCHING - FUN!!

TIME for Kids NonFiction

Time for Kids

GRAMMAR

Identify Verbs 1
Froggy
Comparative and Superlative Cloze
LOTS of Grammar practice
Remember to write down what activities you did, and the new words you've learned!
Nouns and Verbs
NEW play a few times and write down nouns and verbs

WORDS

Syllable practice 1
WORD GAMES
Learn the words as you watch!
Synonyms and Antonyms
Write down the synonoms and antonyms in your notebook!
Feelings
Write down the name of the feeling and draw your own picture!
What's different?
Keep track of these questions and answers by writing them in your notebook!
DICITONARY ONLINE
Use this to look up words.
Root words powerpoint
Root words - Fun Brain!
3 levels Write down 10 roots!
Root words quiz
For the 'expert', 3 levels of quizzes
Root words Fact Sheets
Go here for information...
Prefix, root, suffixes
'Fish Tank' Interactive fun!
Prefix/Suffix quiz - 3 levels
Try each level!
Suffixes (same form as Prefixes above)
Three levels - start with the EASIEST!
Root words (same form as the 2 above)
Another great 3 level practice...
Prefixes on line game
NEW and Lots of Practice!
This link has links to many practice activities
Words with GREEK ROOTS
Word endings '-ing' and '-ed'
Try to make 100% in both games, copy the words to turn in

MAIN IDEA PRACTICE

Many Main Idea Activities
Do the whole page!
http://www.manatee.k12.fl.us/sites/elementary/palmasola/mainideasheet.htm
Main Idea record sheet PRINT!

COLORING ONLINE

COLORING
MAKE YOUR OWN PICTURE
For artists only! Very cool!

MAPS (formerly 'Map of US States', but now there's more!)

http://www.pibmug.com/files/map_test.swf
interactive map
Name the 50 states
Try THIS experts!! (Edwin, Yasmin...)
Map of North America
Do you think you can do THIS?? Go for it!!

DOLCH WORD WORK

Dolch word work activities

ABC word order

ABC Word Order

Categorizing Practice

Categorizing Practice
Which one doesn't belong?

pounce

pounce

Animal Report

Report Builder - GREAT!!
Animal Information - ZOO
Look here for information about your animal
Animal Information
EnchantedLearning, More animal information
Aquarium resource
Look here for information about fish

PUZZLE MAKERS

Scramble SRDOW (words)

Music

Songs for practice
Try it, these are just samples

Grammar Practice

Beginning grammar quiz 1
The first in a series. Keep track of your score!

BRAIN POP

Brain Pop
Great source of information and activities!

FABLES

Aesop's Fables
Nice illustrations
The Eagle and the Arrow
2 versions. Watch the 1st on 1st...
The Fisherman and the Little Fish
Another 2 version set...2nd with SOUND!!
The Hare With Many Friends
The traditional version has the sound...watch both!
The Lion in Love
No sound, but interactive! Try it!
The Rooster and the Pearl
One version has sound!
The Sick Lion
Interactive controls (but no sound)!
The Woodsman and the Serpent
3 versions, the last has sound!
WEBQUEST
EXTRA CREDIT...!!

PUZZLEMAKER

Make your own wordsearches!
Use your new vocabulary!

Dictionaries

Spanish -English
Use it!!

Writing Paragraphs

Order the Paragraphs
3 fun games!

Reading/Writing

A Fishy Tale COMPARE AND CONTRAST
Read the story, then follow the links

SEQUENCING

Put stories in order
Arthur stories, easy and fun!
Sequencing, with tutorial
Try it, and practice those transition words!
Sequencing Daily Activities...
Great Practice!
Sequencing multiple choice
Pretend this is a BIG test! And ace it!

seedfolks

Math

Magic Gopher
He can read your mind!! (Or is there a mathmatical explantion???)
For the experienced...
Link explains HOW the gopher does it!

FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

simile and metaphor #1
First worksheet of 2 (answers included!)
Personification
Definition and examples
Hyperbole
Definition and examples (try the link!)
Simile quiz
Only takes a minute!
Metaphor quiz
Another short one
SIMILE AND METAPHOR QUIZZES
Try this link, scroll down till you see the quizzes
Simile/Metaphor/Hyperbole
Good descriptions - no tests
Personification
You identify the PERSONIFICATION!
Personification Quiz
Can you identify the examples of Personification?
Simile test
Metaphor Practice

Enchanted Learning

Little Explorers Dictionary
Use this with the quizzes

8TH GRADE MATH

A plus Math
Try the flashcards!
AAA Math (has Spanish too!)
EXCELLENT 8th grade practice!

Three Little Pigs

The 3 Little Pigs - read aloud
Very nice illustrations!
3 Little Pigs
This one goes with the coloring book!
The 3 Little Pigs - Read aloud
The easiest, try this one first!

8th Grade Science

2 Great Stories, read and listen online

2 stories

Hi Omar! Lottery Rose information

Lots of things to think about
Try some of these activities

Past tense sounds

explanation read alound
Listen to this (open the link below too)
The words of the explanation
Open this and read along with the link above
Past tense quiz
Cool Quiz
New in Spring 09

chemistry

crosswords

8th Grade Science

Jefferson Lab
complete 15 review questions

Interactive Reading

3 Fun Activities
Clifford Home Page
Lots of fun links!

Sea Turtles

Turtle time
Multi media
Turtletime
Good for kids, lots of stories
sea world turtles
pictures of dangers...

Literacy Fun

Fun Activities
Categorizing words
Matching Letters
Identify the initial letters
Rhyming words
Find words that rhyme
SOUND MATCH
March 22 2010
Middle SOUND MATCH
March 22 2010

WEATHER!

Weather Facts
Information about weather
Weather Maker,
Make weather happen!
Weather Detective Web Quest
Follow the clues to find the answers...
Severe Weather and Natural Disasters
Links to information, with pictures
Gather Data about Weather
Use meterology tools to gather information

Question formation

Wh- questions
Try this!
Yes/No questions
Yes/No and Wh- questions
This is a mix of both kinds of questions!
Another mix
Now YOU write the questions!

RAZ-KIDS

Bookroom

SOL activities

SOL Pass
Lots of SOL practice
Science and Math SOL practice
J-lab
SOL practice tests
Released tests

Cause and Effect

Cause and Effect
Practice

Write your own COMICS!!

Make a comic strip...
Too cool!

Tongue Twisters

tongue twisters

GREAT ACTIVITIES

ESL GALAXY
GREAT INTERACTIVES
Let's try this!!

CIVICS

Cool link!
Lots of fun quizzes, etc

POETRY

ANALOGIES

Online activity
Click on the correct word
Online Practice
Online practice and tests
Read the page, and follow the links

3 cities

3 cities

ONLINE ENGLISH

USA English
Very interesting! Remember to register.

Sounds of Past Tense Verbs

HOT POTATOES

Hot Potatoes TESTING...

Simulations for Math and Science

Simulations, Math and Science
From Mr. Wesner

QUOTATION MARKS

You have to write the correct punctuation
Again, punctuate the sentences
Maybe easier than the link above
DO THIS FIRST!!
This is a 'lesson' about quotation marks

Santa's Reindeer

Name the Reindeer

WORD MATRIX

Cool connotation work!

EAGLES

ENCHANTED LEARNING
Read this, then do the quiz!
EAGLE QUIZ
Write out the question and the answer...
Web cam to eagles' nest
watch and ask questions!

DESCRIPTIVE WORDS

List of words
And you can play the games!

Online Strange Stories

Strange News Stories...True or Not?
Enjoy reading!

SADAKO

SADAKO
a story
WWII QUIZ

LITERACY ACTIVITES

PBS Kids

APOSTROPHES

New...fact sheet, game and quiz!

Create Your Own Comic Strip!

Create Comic!
Create your own comic!
Another site
I hope you can open one of these!

STORY OF STUFF...EARTH DAY

Watch the video, then make a poster!
Make a poster response to the video

ANIMALS

National Geo for Kids, ANIMALS
Easy facts! Copy the info and highlight the facts!
ANIMALS National Geo info and quizzes
Read the info about the animal, then take the quiz!

ORIGAMI CRANES

Instructions
Good luck!
PEACE CRANE
THE BEST!!
Good instructions!
Try this!

Julissa

This is a cool interactive adventure!
Video Channel
Can you try to do two of these?

Santos

Try it!
An interactive adventure!
Video Channel
Pick one, and do the activities

Yoshimi

Have a great trip!
Try this adventure!
Video channel
Pick one and do the activities!

Social Studies SOL Practice

TRY THIS!
You KNOW you can pass!