Standards Practice

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Context Clues from TV411
This interactive web site uses a slide show, quizzes, and graphic organizers to help students use context to figure out new words, practice using context clues, and define words in sentences.

English Works Reading Practice
This interactive site has several reading passages at the intermediate level. There are comprehension questions and vocabulary questions about the passage.

Fiction and Nonfiction
This web site explains the differences between fiction and nonfiction and includes an interactive quiz.

Genres
This web stie teaches about different literary genres including Modern Realistic Fiction, Historical Fiction, Fantasy, and Informational. An interactive quiz is included.

Headings
This web site teaches about headings and what can be learned from them. An interactive quiz is included.

Main Idea Practice 1
This web site presents the student with four reading passages about Ben Franklin. After each one they are asked to identify the main idea in an interactive quiz.

Main Idea Practice 2
This web site presents the student with six reading passages.

Parts of a Book
This web sites teaches about getting info from the parts of a book including Title, Author and Illustrator, Title Page, Table of Contents, Index, and Chapter Headings. Interactive quizzes are included to test what has been learned.

Similes and Metaphors from BrainPOP
Here you can watch a cute but informative animated video about similes and metaphors. In addition you can take a quiz, do some activities, and more.

Summarizing from TV411
This interactive web site uses a slide show, quizzes, and graphic organizers to review the basics of summarizing, identify main idea statements and detail statements, and use categories to summarize lists.

Supporting Details
This web site teaches about finding the supporting details to a main idea in a reading passage. Several examples are given and an interactive quiz is provided.