Comprehension+Strategies

[|Fifth Grade LA Activities]
[|Language Arts Activities] [|Earth Link Reading Passages]

[|A strategy for reading novels] [|Aesop Fables] [|Know it All Reading Skills] || [|Kids! Get into the Book] [|The Keys to Success] [|Comprehension test] || [|Story Pyramid] [|Brainchild] [|Online Practice reading tests] || [|Text quiz] [|Reading for purpose] || [|Comprehension Activites] [|Main Idea] || [|Name that genre] [|Genre matching] || Greek and Latin Root Word Games Activity 1: [|Matching] Activity 2: [|Root Word matching] Activity 3: [|Learn Anytime] Prefixes [|Activity 1]
 * [|Reading activities]
 * [|Types of text]

Inference Activities:
[|Activity 1] [|Readquarium] [|Be a critical thinker] [|article inference] || [|Be a critical thinker] [|article inference] [|What can You Infer] Study Zone Study Zone 2 || [|Readquarium] ||
 * [|What can you infer]

__Context Clues:__

[|Readaquarium 1]
= **__Summarizing: __** Writing a shorter version of the story. Yes, finding the most important details and writing it in your own words, brief, precise, and meaningful. I can and will summarize in my own words what I read. I can and will summarize correctly.= [|Summarize as you read]

**__Visualizing:__** Remember R.S.V.P. **Read, Study, Visualize, and Ponder**. Think or picture yourself in the story. Using the five senses to capture the emotion of the character/s. I can and will visualize while I read.

__**Determining Importance: **__ Reading Comprehension [|Activity 1]

__**Questioning: **__ Try playing **The Question Game** with your kids. To start, two participants decide on a topic to question. One person starts with an open-ended question, then the other person responds with a related open-ended question. This goes back and forth as long as they can continue without making a statement or repeating a previous question. For example, the topic might be an object in the room, such as a light bulb:

A: Why is it important to have light? B: Where does light come from? A: How does light help people? B: Where is light used? A: What would happen if there were no light?

Try asking a question and going around the room, each person asking a question based on the one before.  [|Tips on Questioning] [|Question Tool kit]

Questioning Activities

 * __A Bad Case of Stripes__ (flip books) - []
 * Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day - []
 * Jack and the Beanstalk - []
 * Australia - []
 * National Geographic for Kids - []
 * Bear Bandits - []
 * Nature Videos - []
 * PBS Eeko World - []
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">PBS for Kids - [|http://pbskids.org/]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Zoboomafoo
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">PBS Science - []
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Healthy Kids - []
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Sesame Street Podcast in iTunes.

=__Fact or Opinion__= = = [|Activity][|1] [|Activity 2] [|Activity 3 Quiz] [|Activity 4 Quiz] [|Activity 5] [|MLK WS] [|Binky's Fact or Opinion]

=__Predicting__= [|Activity 1] [|Activity 2]