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.

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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. 

Poetry Stations Page Updated

Poetry Stations Updated!

 

As promised, the Poetry Stations are now posted! Student directions, materials, and printables are now available for download on the "Poetry Stations" page. 

Click for Poetry Presentation Guided Notes

Click for Poetry Presentation

You can also access the downloadable Poetry Stations Book, as well as the Poetry Presentation with guided notes, below!

Click here to download Poetry Stations Book.

Mood and Tone: Analyzing Different Poems on the Same Topic

Mood and Tone:  Analyzing Different Poems on the Same Topic

After reading and viewing videos of poems on the same topic with different moods and tones (and discussing the differences as a class), students independently completed a classwork assignment in which they were given words that represented each tone and mood and asked to match the descriptor to the appropriate poem.

This will lead into a word choice activity that moves from the poetry unit to a unit that encompasses diction and word choice in various types of prose. 

Click to download handout.

Click to download handout.

A copy of "Ode to Mi Gato" can be accessed here.

Antonym Sort

Go beyond basic antonym recognition with this higher-order thinking antonym sort. This can be a color-coded sort, a cut-and-paste sort, or students can fill in a blank sort with the words on a separate sheet. 

*The example is color-coded as an answer key.

With this activity, students must apply their knowledge of word meanings and word relationships, as well as connotation and diction. 

Find this and other word study sorts and activities on the Stations: Word Study page!

Click to download Antonym Sort.

Synonym Sort

Click to download Synonym Sort.

This synonym sort reflects the types of a analytical word study questions asked on state tests.

This sort can be used as a station or as a partner or whole-group activity, and it can be a cut-and-paste sort or a color-coding sort. Adapt as needed to differentiate for your students.

You may want to give students access to a print or electronic thesaurus or dictionary for this sort.

This goes great with the "One of These Words is NOT Like the Other Words" presentation with activities found in the earlier post. Find more word study activities to help students practice connotations, synonyms, and antonyms on the Stations: Word Study page!

Close Reading with "Thank You, Ma'am"

I may be behind the curve, but I am so excited to have been introduced to Kylene Beers's Notice and Note Signposts close reading strategies! 
No, I don't have the students use sticky notes to post all over a text - but I so think the "look fors" are wonderfully effective for close reading.
With my seventh and eighth-graders, we did a "cold read" of Langston Hughes's very short story, "Thank You, Ma'am" (after viewing a presentation and taking brief notes on each signpost). We did a second - close - read of the text with the graphic organizer below. Instead of asking why the signpost (event) is important, I found it more effective to ask students to make an inference, draw a conclusion, or make a prediction about either the future events of the story, the character, or the impact on the plot, conflict, or theme. 
It was great! The students were engaged, knew clearly what their goals were for the close read, and were able to analyze and understand the text much more deeply than with any other fiction reading strategy I have tried.
Have you tried this strategy? I'm excited to hear about other texts that teachers have tried with the signposts and what kind of graphic organizers you've adapted that work for students! Please share!

Click here for strategy handout.

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