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Biography/autobiography

Pre Reading Chart (English Companion)

Non-fiction: bibliography and paraphrasing (book)

Non-fiction: bibliography and paraphrasisng (web source)

Non-fiction Book Report

Outline maker

Primary Sources: Awesome Stories

Tween Tribune(free registration)

Primary Sources: Non fiction

Practice with non-fiction(Skillwise)

Reading Non fiction (BBC)
In the News (BBC)

BBC: BiteSize: Non-Fiction
BBC: BiteSize Interactive

Navigating the newspaper

Fact/Opinion
Fact and Opinion: High School Musical (ppt)

 

Proverb Resources

Chronicling America

How Stuff Works

We've got news for you

Reading Comprehension

Reading powerpoints
Drawing Conclusion ppt
Reading (TV411)

1 Reading for Facts Quia #202725

2 Johnnie's Story page

3 Literacy Works

4 JLab: comprehension

5 Story Archives

6 Dollaraire: 8 English

7 Interlink # 6
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Interlink #8
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Interlink #2

10 Skills review:

11 PHall: Reading Skills (History)

12 Reading Basic Skills History

13 Wild Children

14 Study Zone: Pulp Fiction

15 330 Reading Exercises (Study Zone)

16 JLab Reading Comprehension

17 FCAT: Reading 8th grade
Comprehension: Soft


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Reading Practice
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Reading Practice
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Reading Practice
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Reading Practice
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Reading Practice
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Reading Practice
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Reading Practice
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Reading Practice
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Reading assessment 7
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Reading assessment 8

28In the news - planet (BBC Skillswise)

29ABC: Science

30Beacon Learning Center

31 Reading Practice (LaMagna)

32 Reading Practice (LaMagna)

33 Reading Practice (LaMagna)

34 Reading Practice (LaMagna)

35 Reading Practice (Geek)

36 Reading Practice(Bertha)

37 Reading Practice (Annie)

38 Reading Practice (LaMagna)

39 Reading Practice (LaMagna)

Story Elements

Analogies

Context Clues/connotation 8.4

1 Future City
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Context Clues Quia #192008
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Context Clue Quia #35971
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5 Context Clue: Synonyms Quia #192009
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Context Clue: Quia #1449361
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Context Clues pretest
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TV411; Context is Key
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Words in Context #1 (English Zone)
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Words in context #2(English Zone)
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Context clues (Soft)
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Context clues (rhl)
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Context clues (rhl) #2
14 Context clues (rhl)#3
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Context clue prefix/suffix (LaMagna)
16 Context clues (cows)
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Context clues (Longman)
18
eclassroom
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Fling the teacher: context clues
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Quiz (Lamagna)

Drawing Conclusions
1 Conclusions: Quia # 15023
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Conclusion Quia # G-2
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Conclusion Quia # 7
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Conclusion: New York State/3
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Drawing Conclusions: Quia #412135
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Guess What Comes Next (TV411)
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Making Predictions (Study Zone)
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Drawing conclusions (Soft)
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Purpose: Skillswise/BBC

Identify details
1 World Largest Motorcycle
2
Fast Car
3
Guess What Comes Next (TV411)

Following instruction8.6
eclassroom
Read a recipe elcassroom
Multiple choice (LaMagna)

Idioms
1Idioms
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self study idiom quizzes
3
Mouth of the horse
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Idioms (Grain Valley)
5
Eye of Idiom

Inferences
1 TV411: Be a critical reader
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Study Zone #1
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Study Zone #2
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Study Zone #3
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What Can you infer? Quia #43335
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Inference Battleship Quia #41785
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Inference:Bitesize

Main Idea

Main Idea: explanation

1 Main idea: Reading headlines TV 411
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Main idea: Quia 10023
3
What's the Big Idea
4 Main Idea:

Reading for purpose

1 Skills for life Purpose post test
2
Author's purpose and point of view pretest
3 411:advertisement
4
Looking for the fine print
5 reading charts TV 411
6
What's on a map TV 411

tone/purpose
1 Purpose and Tone
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Purpose: Skillswise/BBC
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Purpose: Glencoe
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How are they selling it (TV 411)
5
Looking for the fine print (TV 41
mood/tone
1 Quia # 343157

Summarizing point

1 Blue Ridge: English 2004 / 8
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Summarize as you read TV411
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Using Multiple meanings(TV411)
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Summarizing (BBC)
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Make a long story short (TV411)
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Study Zone: summary
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eclassroom 8.6
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eclassroom 8.6

Figures of Speech 8.4

1 KidsKonnect:
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literary devices
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figurative language (thinkquest)
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figurative language quiz (Quia 449371)
5 Figurative Language Quia #139966
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Figurative Language Quia #1233785
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eclassroom
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figurative language (Lamagan)
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Figurative language; ClassifyIt (LaMagna)
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Analyzing figurataive language (LaMagna)

Onomatopoeia
Exploring Onomatopoeia

Similes/Metaphors
List of similes
Figurative Language: smilie/metaphor(Worksheet)

1 metaphor quiz (Quia 119849)

2 Similes match

3 Do you know your similes?

4 Simile/Metaphor (Grain Valley)

5 Simile, Metaphor, Personifications # 280843

 

Alliteration
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alliteration/simile(Internet4 classroom)

2 Starship: alliteration

3 Tongue Twisters: Alliteration

4 Alliteration or Simile (Discovery ed)

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