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Reading

Comprehenion

Comprehension Passages -  Select one of the passages and choose the words that best fit the context of the passage.
Get The Idea - Read the text to determine the main idea or essential message and identify relevant supporting details and facts.
Grilled Cheese Please - Read the story and then click on the activities for quizzes over various pages of the story.
Literal Understanding - Interactive quizzes with factual information on planets.

Compare and Contrast

Compare & Contrast Tutorial
Compare & Contrast Tutorial 2

Fact and Opinion

Cheese Chase
Fact and Opinion Game
Fact and Opinion Game 2
Fact and Opinon Game from PBS
Test Tutor
Solar System Game
Binky's Fact & Opinion Game
My Adventures in the Deep Frontier
Babe and the Blue Ox (fact or opinion)
Fact or Opinion?
Distinguishing Between Fact & Opinion
Fact Opinion Game
Polar Bears - A fact or opinion webquest 

Main Idea

Reading Workshop/Main Idea
Identify Main Idea -  Online quiz. Read each paragraph and select the main idea.
What's the Big Idea?
Get the Idea
If You Made A Million - Read the passages and answer the questions about the main idea of the paragraphs.
Main Idea - Read the paragraph and select the main idea.
Main Idea -Read the paragraph and decide what it is mostly about.
Main Idea Mini Lesson followed by interactive quizzes.
Main Idea practice - Eight online interactive quizzes.
Main Idea Page

Author's Purpose

Author's Purpose
Study Zone
Author's Purpose 1
Author's Purpose 2
Author's Purpose 3
Author's Purpose 4
Author's Puspose Matching
Author's Purpose RocketAuthor's Purpose - Website with many Author's Purpose resources and links
Author's Purpose Matching Game
Author's Purpose game- Follow the directions on each screen to complete the activities.
Author's Purpose - Harcourt Game
Author's Purpose Quiz

Context Clues

Vocabulary Matching
Context Clues

Story Elements

Elements of the Story Cinderella
Understanding setting, plot or theme - Read the short story below then read each sentence and decide if it is part of the setting, plot or theme.
Settings (2) - Choose a story to read and decide where the setting for that story is.
Settings - Figure out the setting of each of the stories or plays just by looking at the hints.
Realistic Story Elements - Identify the characters, setting and plot in a story that are real or things that can really happen.
Narrative Elements - Read the passages and answer the questions to determine the characters, setting and plot.
Guess the Setting - Read each description and choose the correct setting.

Cause and Effect

If....then
Cause and effect practice
Quia - Cause and Effect
Cause & Effect
Cause & Effect matching
Cause & Effect matching 2
Cause & Effect 2
Curious George Cause and Effect -- TeacherTube Video

Vocabulary

Reading Workshop/Vocabulary Builder
FREE Rice Vocabulary - For each answer you get right, twenty grains of rice is donated to help end hunger!
Word Central - Play games to test you skills (antonyms, synonyms, vocabulary, usage puzzles)

Words with Multiple Meanings

Funbrain: Word Confusion
Mad Libs - Funbrain Reading
Children's Poems Hundreds or poems  to read and rate
Storyline Online Actors read book to you!
Homophone  Practice
Homophones-Funbrain
Homophone Games

Figurative Language

Eye
on Idioms

Step with Idioms

Idioms
Idioms Game
More Idiom Games!
Figurative
Language

Idioms game - funbrain
Idioms games
Idiom Art-Cool Pictures of Idioms

Making Predictions

Dig It!

Mysteries

Millennium Mystery Madness
The Case of the Barefoot Burglar

Inferences

Inference Battleship
Inferences
Inferences About Character Actions
Inferences About Character Motives
Inference about Story Characters
Inferences: What Can you Infer?
Inferences: What Can you Infer 2?
Drawing Conclusions and Inferences
Inference and Drawing Conclusion Riddles

Fairy Tales, Fables and  Folk Tales

Zwolle - Fairy & Folk Tales, Big List of Resources
Folk Tales & Fairy Tales, List of Links
The Lion and the Mouse - video
Aesop and His Fables
The Fox and the Crow
The Fox and Sick Lion  
Fable Jeopardy
“Do. Or do not. There is no try.”  Yoda