Reading Activities
Help combat the "summer reading slump" that occurs in between the end of one academic year and the beginning of the next.
Activities (2)
Comprehension: Ask and Answer Questions
Writing: Create a free account on scribblitt.com. Click on "write it" to select a story starter. Select any story starter and write you own book. You can add pictures and sounds to your book before you publish it. After you have published your book, create questions to quiz your friends or family members. Share you story with another person and ask them to answer the questions you created.
http://scribblitt.com/
Activities (3)
Vocabulary: Antonyms
Comprehension: Main Idea
Writing: Write a fantasy story using Scholastic story starters.
http://www.quia.com/cb/148904.html?AP_rand=530770574
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/book_buddy/rosie/skill_pre.html
http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/story-starters/
Activities (3)
Vocabulary: Prefixes
Comprehension: Visualization
Writing: Select a book from www.storylinonline.net and create trading cards for each character in the story. First, you will need to listen and read closely in order to do this. After listening/reading the book you choose, use a piece of paper to sketch out a character map or planning sheet and label the characteristic of the of character that would be important to include on your character trading card. Then, you will click the link to create your own character trading card at www.readwritethink.org .
http://www.quia.com/rr/37717.html
http://www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/psu11la.reading.brrvis/blue-ribbon-readers-the-visualizing-game/
http://www.storylineonline.net/
http://www.readwritethink.org/parent-afterschool-resources/games-tools/trading-card-creator-a-30181.html
Print & Complete Planning Sheet (Below)
http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/lesson_images/lesson932/planning-sheet.pdf
Activities (2)
Comprehension: Following Directions
Writing: Choose a book fromwww.storylineonline.net and create a digital comic strip for it using the link from www.readwritethink.org.
http://www.funenglishgames.com/readinggames/directions.html
http://www.storylineonline.net/
http://www.readwritethink.org/parent-afterschool-resources/games-tools/comic-creator-a-30237.html
Activities (3)
Vocabulary: Prefixes and Suffixes
Comprehension: Identifying and Using Rhyme, Rhythm, and Alliteration in Poetry
Writing: Interactive daily writing prompt using Scholastic Story Scrambler
http://www2.smarttutor.com/player/swf/Vocab_PrefixSuffix_L3_V1_T3a.swf
http://www2.smarttutor.com/player/swf/RC_Poetry_L3_V1_T1a.swf
http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/story-starters/writing-prompts/
Activities (3)
Vocabulary: Synonyms
Comprehension: Making Inferences
Writing: Write a science fiction story using scholastic story starters
http://www.quia.com/hm/245107.html
http://www.gameclassroom.com/game/45133-3286/inferences-conclusions-and-generalizations/inference-battleship
http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/story-starters/
Activities (2)
Comprehension: Author's Purpose & Text Features
Writing: This activity will focus on Point of View. You will use the link from www.readwritethink.org to create a fairy tale from the "bad guy" point of view. You will write an alternate point of view of the "bad guy" in the fairy tale.
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/trophies/test_tutor/grade4/skill1/important_day.html
http://www.readwritethink.org/parent-afterschool-resources/games-tools/fractured-fairy-tales-a-30186.html
Activities (3)
Phonics: Syllabification
Comprehension: Meaning of Unfamiliar Words Using Context Clues, Main Idea, & Sequencing
Writing: Write an adventure story using Scholastic Story Starters
http://www2.smarttutor.com/player/swf/PH_syllabification_L3_V1_T1a.swf
http://www.professorgarfield.org/pgf_ReadingRing.html
http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/story-starters/
Activities (2)
Vocabulary: Words in Context
Comprehension: Locating Information - Read and answer the questions with each passage.
http://www.toonuniversity.com/flash.asp?err=191
http://mrnussbaum.com/readingpassageindex/#3
Activities (3)
Vocabulary: Synonyms & Antonyms
Comprehension: Compare & Contrast
Writing: Using Scholastic Story Starters to Create Digital Comic Strips of Your Story. You will use student interactive Comic Creator from www.readwritethink.org to create your comic strip.
http://www2.smarttutor.com/player/swf/Vocab_SynonymAntonym_L4_V1_T1a_2.swf
http://www.fcatexplorer.com/media/parent/tiplister/flash/tip114a.swf
http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/story-starters/
http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/student-interactives/comic-creator-30021.html
Comprehension: Ask and Answer Questions
Writing: Create a free account on scribblitt.com. Click on "write it" to select a story starter. Select any story starter and write you own book. You can add pictures and sounds to your book before you publish it. After you have published your book, create questions to quiz your friends or family members. Share you story with another person and ask them to answer the questions you created.
http://scribblitt.com/
Activities (3)
Vocabulary: Antonyms
Comprehension: Main Idea
Writing: Write a fantasy story using Scholastic story starters.
http://www.quia.com/cb/148904.html?AP_rand=530770574
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/book_buddy/rosie/skill_pre.html
http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/story-starters/
Activities (3)
Vocabulary: Prefixes
Comprehension: Visualization
Writing: Select a book from www.storylinonline.net and create trading cards for each character in the story. First, you will need to listen and read closely in order to do this. After listening/reading the book you choose, use a piece of paper to sketch out a character map or planning sheet and label the characteristic of the of character that would be important to include on your character trading card. Then, you will click the link to create your own character trading card at www.readwritethink.org .
http://www.quia.com/rr/37717.html
http://www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/psu11la.reading.brrvis/blue-ribbon-readers-the-visualizing-game/
http://www.storylineonline.net/
http://www.readwritethink.org/parent-afterschool-resources/games-tools/trading-card-creator-a-30181.html
Print & Complete Planning Sheet (Below)
http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/lesson_images/lesson932/planning-sheet.pdf
Activities (2)
Comprehension: Following Directions
Writing: Choose a book fromwww.storylineonline.net and create a digital comic strip for it using the link from www.readwritethink.org.
http://www.funenglishgames.com/readinggames/directions.html
http://www.storylineonline.net/
http://www.readwritethink.org/parent-afterschool-resources/games-tools/comic-creator-a-30237.html
Activities (3)
Vocabulary: Prefixes and Suffixes
Comprehension: Identifying and Using Rhyme, Rhythm, and Alliteration in Poetry
Writing: Interactive daily writing prompt using Scholastic Story Scrambler
http://www2.smarttutor.com/player/swf/Vocab_PrefixSuffix_L3_V1_T3a.swf
http://www2.smarttutor.com/player/swf/RC_Poetry_L3_V1_T1a.swf
http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/story-starters/writing-prompts/
Activities (3)
Vocabulary: Synonyms
Comprehension: Making Inferences
Writing: Write a science fiction story using scholastic story starters
http://www.quia.com/hm/245107.html
http://www.gameclassroom.com/game/45133-3286/inferences-conclusions-and-generalizations/inference-battleship
http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/story-starters/
Activities (2)
Comprehension: Author's Purpose & Text Features
Writing: This activity will focus on Point of View. You will use the link from www.readwritethink.org to create a fairy tale from the "bad guy" point of view. You will write an alternate point of view of the "bad guy" in the fairy tale.
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/trophies/test_tutor/grade4/skill1/important_day.html
http://www.readwritethink.org/parent-afterschool-resources/games-tools/fractured-fairy-tales-a-30186.html
Activities (3)
Phonics: Syllabification
Comprehension: Meaning of Unfamiliar Words Using Context Clues, Main Idea, & Sequencing
Writing: Write an adventure story using Scholastic Story Starters
http://www2.smarttutor.com/player/swf/PH_syllabification_L3_V1_T1a.swf
http://www.professorgarfield.org/pgf_ReadingRing.html
http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/story-starters/
Activities (2)
Vocabulary: Words in Context
Comprehension: Locating Information - Read and answer the questions with each passage.
http://www.toonuniversity.com/flash.asp?err=191
http://mrnussbaum.com/readingpassageindex/#3
Activities (3)
Vocabulary: Synonyms & Antonyms
Comprehension: Compare & Contrast
Writing: Using Scholastic Story Starters to Create Digital Comic Strips of Your Story. You will use student interactive Comic Creator from www.readwritethink.org to create your comic strip.
http://www2.smarttutor.com/player/swf/Vocab_SynonymAntonym_L4_V1_T1a_2.swf
http://www.fcatexplorer.com/media/parent/tiplister/flash/tip114a.swf
http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/story-starters/
http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/student-interactives/comic-creator-30021.html