Reading+Strategies

toc books other book links

Choose your own adventure stories
[|Larry Ferlazzo]

[|The Best Places To Read & Write “Choose Your Own Adventure” Stories]
Posted at 11:43 pm under [|best of the year], [|writing] A key concept that’s important for students to learn is the importance of engaging with the text — not just being a passive reader.

=Comprehension=

Book Adventure- http://bookadventure.org

[|English Works! Reading Exercises]

[|How to improve reading comprehension]

Into the book

Treasures- http://activities.macmillanmh.com/reading/treasures/

[|Reading Comprehension] Throughout each lesson students receive constructive feedback, and a detailed end-of-round report is displayed after several passages have been completed Content on this web site is based on Merit Software's popular reading skills programs: [|Accu-Reading], [|Developing Critical Thinking Skills for Effective Reading], and [|Vocabulary Fitness].

=Games=

[|Adrian Bruce's reading games]

[|Kids games, videos, stories, crafts, lesson plans - worlds of stuff for kids!]

[|Virtual traveller] travel the globe and record your experiences

=Strategies=

[|BBC Skillswise]
fact and opinion, Summarising, Types of text, Your stories, Scanning,Skimming

[|Big Ideas in Beginning Reading]

[|Bitesize] Deduction, dictionary, Non-fiction, Poetry

[|English]

[|English-Zone.Com - the BEST English-Learner&apos;s site on the &apos;Net!]

[|General English sites compiled by sue lemmer]

[|Go to readwritethink.org-calendar-index.asp]

[|How to Improve Reading Skills]

[|Instructional Strategies Online - Guided Reading]

[|Links - For Students]

[|Links - Teaching Ideas and Strategies]

[|Literature Circles - Student Roles Passage Picker]

[|Literature Circles] [|literature map] provides a web of authors you might like based on authors that you already enjoy reading. To use Literature Map just type an author's name into the search box and webbed list of authors will be displayed. The authors' names closest to the author whose name you entered are the authors whose work you're most likely to enjoy.

[|Literature Learning Ladders]

[|Mrs A's Reading Room] == Here you will find information about reading tips, reading websites, upcoming events, and much more! Use the tabs above or the links to the right to find what you need.

[|MyRead Guide – Guided Reading]

[|Primary Literacy Resources]

[|Primary Resources English]

[|Puppets Unit Plan [English Online]]

[|Read, Click and Win with BookAdventure!]

[|Readers Circle]

[|Reading Comprehension Games]

The site is primarily a Skills for Life resource but may be relevant if you are working with Adult Entry level groups on developing reading and story writing skills. It has a section on Story telling which has lesson plans and ideas as well as a Professional Development Unit

[|Reading Rockets 103 Things to Do Before-During-After Reading]

[|Reading Strategies] (A Think Aloud) [|Reading Strategies] (PowerPoint)

[|Read, Write, Think] High quality resources for reading and language development.

[|Scholastic.com]

=Tools=

**[|ReadPlease]**
ReadPlease is suitable for those who have a visual impairment and/or experience dyslexia. By simply copying and pasting information from a word document or Internet page, ReadPlease will read or echo back the copied text.As well as changing background colours, text can also be magnified to meet a range of needs.[|Download ReadPlease] (11 MB)

**[|ReadingBar]**
ReadingBar is the latest addition to the ReadPlease collection. ReadingBar seamlessly integrates into your web browser and will read information on the screen. It reads any web page, makes mp3/wav files, zooms any page, text-only version web pages, translates and much more! This is a 30 day trial.[|Download ReadingBar] (18 MB)

[|Stories From The Web - Stories] [] strategies for teaching reading skills
 * Literature Circles ** []

starfall
free public service to motivate children to read with phonics. Our systematic phonics approach, in conjunction with phonemic awareness practice is perfect for preschool, kindergarten, first grade, second grade, special education, homeschool, and English language development (ELD, ELL, ESL). Starfall is an educational alternative to other entertainment choices for children.