eReading Worksheets

 

If you are a teacher of reading, English, or language arts, you have most likely stumbled across ereadingworksheets.com in your search for ready-to-use (or ready-to-adapt) materials. 

This website, created and updated by education enthusiast Donald Morton, offers a plethora of standards-based resources focusing on essential comprehension skills.

Online test item

In addition to hundreds of printable reading worksheets, Mr. Morton has updated his resource site to include interactive assignments! This includes online tests and digital games. Check out Genre Piranha, a literary genre review game, or Poetry Cat, a fun and uniqe approach to learning figurative language!

All resources on the site are searchable by grade level and skill, so finding the appropriate resource to meet your teaching needs is a breeze. Mr. Morton also includes answer key sheets, PDF and RTF options, as well as a preview of each resource. 

The resources on ereadingworksheets.com can be used as is, or altered and adapted to fit your students' learning needs. 

Interactive Review: IXL

We are absolutely loving the IXL 30 day free trial!

Click to sign up for your free trial!

The free trial gives teachers (or parents) and students full access to all of IXL's tools, including real-time progress and student scores by state standard or objective.

IXL is fully aligned to Virginia and other state standards.

IXL is fun and engaging. Students complete questions that reflect TEI (technology-enhanced items), such as multiple answers, open-ended questions, or manipulating answer choices; it's not the typical passage-reading and answering multiple choice questions.

IXL is more of an instructional tool than an assessment tool. It is definitely a mode of formative assessment. Students are able to track their progress, and if they get an item incorrect they get immediate feedback explaining why their answer was wrong and why another answer choice was correct.

Student view: Connotation interactive

This is great to project and do guided questions with a group of students. It also serves as a wonderful computer station for a blended classroom!

Give it a try, and let us know how you use IXL!

Word Mover Station

Word Mover by ReadWriteThink

As we have been implementing poetry stations over the last several weeks, I came across ReadWriteThink's Word Mover activity.

This may be news to you, but I hadn't ever seen it before. What a great station tool! Students can sit at the computer station (or tablet or other electronic medium), and create their own poem interactively!

The only thing I added to the station directions for this station was the poetic form. Depending on how much time you have, and if you choose to have them use one of the pre-loaded texts, including a specific type of poem (haiku being the most simple and a sonnet or multi-stanza ballad being more tedious and time consuming) is a great way to reinforce state and common-core standards. 

They can save their work, share it with you (say, in Google Classroom or Drive) or print a paper copy to turn in. What fun!