Reading

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Why Can't I Skip My Twenty Minutes of Reading Tonight?"

Student A reads 20 minutes five nights of every week.
Student B reads only 4 minutes a night...or not at all!

Step 1: Multiply minutes a night x 5 each week.
Student A reads 20 minutes x 5 times a week = 100 mins. a week.
Student B reads 4 minutes x 5 times a week = 20 minutes.

Step 2: Multiply minutes a week x 4 weeks each month.
Student A reads 400 minutes a month.
Student B reads 80 minutes a month.

Step 3: Multiply minutes a month x 9 months a school year.
Student A reads 3600 minutes a school year.
Student B reads 720 minutes a school year.

Student A practices reading the equivalent of ten whole school days a year. Student B get the equivalent of only two school days of reading practice.
By the end of 6th grade, if Student A and Student B maintain these same reading habits, Student A will have read the equivalent of 60 whole school days. Student B will have read the equivalent of only 12 days.

One would expect the gap of information retained will have widened considerably and so, undoubtedly, will school performance.

How do you think Student B will feel about him/herself as a student?

Some questions to ponder:

Which student would you expect to read better?

Which student would you expect to know more?

Which student would you expect to write better?

Which student would you expect to have the better vocabulary?

Which student would you expect to be more successful in school...and in life?

Which student are you?

Article borrowed from Mrs. Barth,
2nd grade teacher, Resurrection School, KY

Good Readers Will

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http://www.kidzone.ws/dolch/index.htm

http://www.readinglady.com/ww/Dolch_List/dolch_list.html

Clifford

Main idea

http://www.manatee.k12.fl.us/sites/elementary/palmasola/rcmi1.htm


Context Clues
http://www.manatee.k12.fl.us/sites/elementary/palmasola/ccdirect.htm

http://www.oswego.org/testprep/ela4/o/contextcluesl.cfm



Story Elements
http://www.oswego.org/testprep/ela4/h/storyelements.cfm



Compare and Contrast
http://www.manatee.k12.fl.us/sites/elementary/palmasola/rcccon1.htm

http://www.oswego.org/testprep/ela4/h/elements1.cfm



Cause and Effect
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/book_buddy/montigue/skill.html

Inference
http://www.manatee.k12.fl.us/sites/elementary/palmasola/rcinf1.htm

http://www.oswego.org/testprep/ela4/o/inferencel.cfm

Drawing Conclusions
http://www.oswego.org/testprep/ela4/h/Inferences.cfm



Reading workshop

http://www.manatee.k12.fl.us/sites/elementary/palmasola/rcompindex.htm

/http://www.vocabulary.co.il/



4block
http://www.teachersdesk.org/4block_activities.html

http://www.readinglady.com/ww/Word_Wall_Songs/word_wall_songs.html

http://www.k111.k12.il.us/lafayette/fourblocks/word_wall_chants.htm#Songs%20to%20Sing

http://www.readinglady.com/ww/Shower_Curtain/shower_curtain.html

Prefixes

http://www.manatee.k12.fl.us/sites/elementary/palmasola/prefixesk2.htm

http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/book_buddy/arthur/skill.html

http://www.manatee.k12.fl.us/sites/elementary/palmasola/SRW2.htm

<http://www.readingrockets.org/lp.php?SID=5

<http://www.caringforkids.cps.ca/behaviour/Reading2Kids.htm


Reading Comprehension

http://www.rhlschool.com/reading.htm

http://www.ed.gov/pubs/CompactforReading/table2.html

http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/200/reading/index.htm

Sequencing
http://www.oswego.org/testprep/ela4/a/sequencel3.cfm

Practice Tests

http://www.longman.com/ae/marketing/sfesl/practicereading.html







Reading Strategies

http://www.emints.org/ethemes/resources/S00001436.shtml
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http://www.soundpuzzle.com/index.html 

http://games.funschool.com/game.php?g=1141&t=j&w=620&h=360&section=g1

http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/bll/index.htm

http://www.funbrain.com/funbrain/cgi-bin/gg.cgi?A1=m&A2=0&A3=0&AFUNCT=1&ALEVEL=0
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Search for a Book

http://www.home2school.com/booklist/index.asp

http://www.readingrockets.org/books/findabook.php



Reading Lists
http://nancykeane.com/booktalks/

http://users.rcn.com/schene.ma.ultranet/index.html#lists

http://www.multcolib.org/kids/read3.html

http://www.aadl.org/kidspg/bibs/first.htm

http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/Literature/Genres/Children_s/Recommended_Reading_Lists/

http://www.bookadventure.com/

http://www.marcias-lesson-links.com/ChildrensLit.html

http://www.kidbibs.com/growareader/index.html



Leveled Reading List
http://www.bookadventure.org/more/nea_read_across.asp

http://registration.beavton.k12.or.us/lbdb/default.htm

http://faculty.tamu-commerce.edu/espinoza/s/ellis-b-rdlevl.html

http://users.oasisol.com/daireme/book.htm

http://www.lakelandschools.org/EDTECH/teacher/LGorman/home.htm

http://www.lakelandschools.org/lt/LSchrot/reading.html

http://home.comcast.net/~ngiansante/

http://www.llion.org/schools/maplecrest/ar/index.htm



Summer Reading List

http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/curr244.shtml

http://www.educationworld.com/summer_reading/

http://www.pkwy.k12.mo.us/panda/subjectlinks/elemreading.html

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/misunderstoodminds/reading.html

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http://www.mury.k12.ut.us/PKS/lauwerda/files/links.html

http://www.uen.org/utahlink/activities/view_activity.cgi?activity_id=6757

http://www.quizlist.net/(gfn241evk4ikq0n0hfur3ufz)/search.aspx?id=12%20

Here is the information about calculating readability in WORD.

1. Go to tools.
2. Click on options
3. Click on the Spelling and Grammar tab.
4. Towards the bottom of the box there will be the word readability.  Click on the empty box beside the word.

When you want to know the reading level of a book or passage you can type a paragraph into a word document.  When you are finished you can click on the ABC check.  Make the necessary corrections as you would normally.  When the check is complete another box will pop up with a ton of information about the paragraph.  This includes things such as the reading level, words in a paragraph, words in a sentence, etc.

 

Type in a Book or Author

Discover the Reading Level

http://www.quizlist.net/(gfn241evk4ikq0n0hfur3ufz)/search.aspx?id=12%20

For Parents

http://www.ed.gov/pubs/CompactforReading/tablek.html

http://www.uen.org/utahlink/tours/tourElement.cgi?element_id=23363&tour_id=14120&category_id=19722

 

 

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