ASHLEY, GERI / Reading

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World E-Book

Funbrain

Scholastic

Indianapolis Library Free Read Alouds

Storyline Online

International Children's Library

Storynory

National Geographic Young Explorer

Oxford Owl

North Bergen Free Public Library

Free E-Books

Just Books Read Aloud

Listening Books

Goodreads

Open Library

Mrs. P.

Children's Storybooks Online

Magicblox

Project Gutenberg

World Book Online Username: web support Password: distance learn

Audible Stories

Epic --> Class Code zuy3750

Books' Cool

Lit2Go

Make Connections -- ASK Questions/Have Wonderings

Making connections is like building a bridge from the known to the new. When you read together, help your fifth grader make connections between his or her own experiences and what characters are experiencing in a book. This will help your child understand a character's motives and feelings and will lead to a better understanding of the story.

The three basic types of connections that can be made are: Text-to-self connection compares what happens in a book to a child's own real-life experience. ("Little Bill really wants that video game just like when I wanted one for my birthday.")

Text-to-text connection compares the story that you are currently reading to another story that the child has already read ("Junie B. Jones is like Ramona Quimby. They both get into a lot of trouble.")

Text-to-world connection links a story to larger issues, events, or concerns of society. ("Cam Janson and her friends helped to clean up their school's playground. We should all work together to keep our neighborhoods clean.")

Reading with your child is a perfect time to talk about things that happened to you as a child or experiences that you have had as an adult that relates to the story. Some of the books you read with your fifth grader may have been favorites of yours as a child. Talk to your child about what that story meant to you. This can be a launching point for family stories, family lessons, and lots of family discussions.

Visualize

Use the five senses to help your fifth grader visualize the story you're reading and "make a movie" in his or her mind. Talk to your child about how an author is able to "paint a picture" with their words.

This increases your child's understanding of the story, stimulates imaginative thinking, and brings joy to reading.

As you read a story with your child, point out words and phrases the author uses to paint that picture in their mind.

"It was marvelous rich, sweet, smooth chocolate, chocolatey chocolate!" From The Chocolate Touch by Patrick Catling

"The snow kept coming till it was drifted and banked against the house. In the mornings the window panes were covered with frost in beautiful pictures of trees and flowers and fairies." From Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder

"The air was filled with the terrible gases and smells from the rotten egg. Templeton, who had been resting in his home, scuttled away from the barn. "Good night!" screamed Avery. "Good night! What a stink!" From Charlotte's Web by E.B. White

Books can take you away to distant lands and offer up sights, sounds, tastes, and smells from this and other worlds. Take the journey with your second grader.

Infer/Predict/Draw Conclusions

Can you make an educated guess as to what might happen next? A great reader tries to make predictions as they read by gathering clues in the text.

Inferring is sometimes called "reading between the lines." Explain to your child that authors don't always come right out and tell you what is going to happen or how something happened. Sometimes the reader has to make a guess based on the information the author has given. This can lead to different conclusions, based on the experience and background knowledge that a reader brings to a story. Different readers might come up with different lessons to be learned from the same story. Inferring allows readers to make predictions, evaluate, reflect and make their own discoveries within a book.

Drawing conclusions is putting together a bunch of facts to find the truth. For example: North America used to be covered with forests. Settlers came and cleared forests to build farms, cities, and communities. Now, there are very few forested areas in North America. The conclusion is that people are responsible for North America being largely cleared of forests.

Ask your child:

What lesson did you learn from this story?
What happened in the story that made you think that?
What would you have done if you were the main character in the story?

Remember there is no one right answer to these questions, but discussing the questions will lead to a deeper understanding of the story and a better understanding of how your second grader thinks.

"To infer as we read is to go beyond literal interpretation and to open a world of meaning deeply connected to our lives." From Mosaic of Thought: Teaching Comprehension in a Reader's Workshop by Ellin Oliver Keene and Susan Zimmermann

Synthesize and Evaluate

Your fifth-grader is synthesizing information when he combines something he learned from reading a story with his existing knowledge to produce an original idea, observation, or opinion. A story is full of information, just like pieces of a puzzle. A good reader is able to take all the information, put it together, sift out the unimportant details and understand the "big idea." Synthesizing helps your child think critically and creatively about what she reads and leads to a deeper understanding of a story.

Ask your child:

Can you tell me the most important things that happened in the story?
How could you take what you learned from this story and make it help you in your life?
Did this story give you any ideas that you didn't have before we read it together?
I wonder why the author wrote this story?"
What did you think of the reading? Would you recommend it? Why or why not?

Books OnLine Text Organization

Stories Online Audio Books Online Signal Words for Nonfiction Text Organizations
Just Book Read Alouds Signal Words/Description/Organization Charts
Free Online Books
Electronic Books & Online Reading Author's Purpose
Storyline Online Author's Purpose Study Guide
Traditional Literature Quick Reads
Mystery Quick Reads
Finish the Short Story Fictional Story Elements
Scholastic for Kids Interactive Story Elements with Cinderella
Highlights for Kids Common Fictional Literary Techniques Handout**
Read Kiddo Read
News ELA PROJECT IDEAS
Ideas for Books - Goodreads WORD CLOUDS
Guys Read CREATE A BROCHURE
Story Online
Edu games
MAKE A POLL/SURVEY
Kids National Geographic
Book Adventure
Story Nory
Epic Books
International Children's Library
Free Kids Books
I Storybooks
Read Works
Moby Max Passages
Freckle

Literary Genre Games Academic Vocabulary

FlashCards Reading Academic Vocabulary 1
Matching Reading Academic Vocabulary 2
Concentration Drama Vocabulary Quiz
Word Search Poetry Vocabulary Matching/Flashcards/Definitions
Literary Genre Practice Quiz Poetry Vocabulary Jeopardy
Genre Millionaire Game
Genre Study Guide
Genres At a Glance Handout**
Story Elements Handout**
Literary Elements of Fiction Handout**
Traditional Literature Handout**
Traditional Literature Characteristics Handout**

Fact and Opinion Games Multiple Meaning Words

Fact and Opinion Quiz 1 Multiple Meaning Words Practice 10
Fact and Opinion Quiz 2 Multiple Meaning Words Practice 11
Fact and Opinion Quiz 3 Funbrain's Word Confusion
Fact and Opinion Quiz 4
Fact and Opinion Quiz 5
Fact and Opinion Quiz 6 Media Literacy
Fact and Opinion ***MEDIA LITERACY

The sequence of Events Context Clues

A sequence of Events Context Clue Quai Game
Put the Story Sequence in Order Context Clue Worksheets
Technology Sequence of Events Stories Context Clue Practice
Quia Sequencing Games Quia Context Clue
Room Recess Sequencing Context Clue Quiz
Context Clue Synonyms
Summarizing Context Clue Antonyms
Summarizing Fiction and NonFiction Context Clue Definitions
Summarizing Fiction Context Clue Mixed Clues
Paraphrasing
Paraphrasing vs. Summarizing Context Clue Comparisons

Paraphrase Quiz

Paraphrase/Summarize/Quote

Main Idea Games and Review Nonfiction Text Features

Main Idea Quia Nonfiction Text Feature Game
Main Idea Battleship Nonfiction Quiz
Finding the Main Idea Using NF Text Feature Quiz
Main Idea Millionaire Nonfiction Text Feature Matching
Main Idea and Supporting Game Nonfiction Text Feature Jeopardy
Main Idea and Supporting Details
The Comprehension Crane
Main Idea Brain Pop
Main Idea & Supporting Details
Hamburger Game

Inferencing Figurative Language

IDIOMS FROM AROUND THE WORLD

Inferencing Quia Rags to Riches
Inferencing & Drawing Conclusion Game Quia Rags to Riches 2
Splash the Sub Quia Rags to Riches 3
Quia What Can You Infer Quia Rags to Riches 4
Inference Riddles Figurative Language
Inference Song (YouTube) Figurative Language Quiz
Inference Explained (YouTube) Figurative Language Quiz
Inference Explained (YouTube) 2 Figurative Language Quiz
Inference Explained Comics (YouTube) 3 Figurative Language Quiz
Inference Games FigurativeLanguage Hangman
Idioms
Generalizations/Conclusions/Inferences Matching Idioms
What are Generalizations? (YouTube) Idioms Jeopardy
Generalizations (YouTube) Paint by Idioms
Making Generalizations in Reading (YouTube) Cannonball Cats
Inference/Concl./Generalizations (YouTube) Figurative Lang. Study Guide
Conclusions/Infer/Generalizations (YouTube) Figurative Language Handout**
Conclusions Songs (YouTube) More Idioms
Making Generalizations Jeopardy What is Hyperbole YouTube

Idioms Best Thing Since Bread

The Metaphor Song

Alliteration and Rhyme

Simile and Metaphors

Author's Purpose Cause and Effect

Author’s Purpose Cause and Effect
Author's Purpose/Point of View Quiz Cause and Effect Song
Author's Purpose/Point of View Quiz 2 Cause and Effect Video
Author's Purpose/Point of View Quiz 3 Cause and Effect YouTube
Author's Purpose/Point of View Quiz 4 Cause and Effect Scholastic Cause and Effect Beacon Learning Cause and Effect Signal Words

Cause and Effect

Theme

Understanding Theme Pow Toon

Theme

Theme PowerPoint

Theme 2

Theme 3

General Comprehension Practice Word Work

The Effective Detective Rooting Words Out

Reading Comp Games It's Greek To Me

Comprehension Most Common Prefixes and Suffixes

Radly the ReadBot Prefix and Suffix Game

Comprehension Game Site Useful Latin Roots - Quia Useful Greek Roots - Quia Ghosts and Graveyards-Syn/Ant.

Poetry Analogies

Fantasy Review PowerPoint

A quest in the fantasy genre is a journey towards something—a goal, a place, a person, or something else, but it is specific. On the way to the goal, the hero (antagonist) will travel, which means the reader will experience all sorts of fantastical locations and cultures. Big Thinking Question (TEK 5.7B): A quest can be internal as well as external, so analyze how the characters' internal and external responses develop the plot. Additionally, make connections (TEK 5.6E) to personal experiences, ideas in other texts, and society as you read the text.

Choice Read Alouds (Some book choices are not available on FREE Audio) :(

A Wrinkle in Time Audio by Madeleine L'Engle by Chapter Text Version

Wonder by R.J. Palacio by Chapter (scroll down once you enter the website to get to audio)

The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis (scroll down to get audio)

The Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander

Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson (scroll down to get audio)

The Wizard of Oz by Frank Baum

Dragonmaster by Chris Bunch

Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt

The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate

TEK 5.8A/5.6E: Mini-lesson on comparing themes in fantasy and history.

TEK 5.3B: Context Clue Review Context Clue Song