Instructional Technology Resources
Reading Grade Five
Content Standards |
| Topic | Resource | Resource Type |
| D. Vocabulary | http://132.208.224.131/ListLearn/2000_quiz_menu.htm - This site contains 12 cloze stories using high frequency words. After completing the activity/story, the student can obtain his/her score and see what words were correct and incorrect. | Interactive Website |
| D. Vocabulary | http://www.wordsmith.org/awad/index.html - This site presents a new word and it definition every day. There is also an archives section of words from the last 10 years. | Informational Website |
| E. General Reading Comprehension | http://bookadventure.org/ - This site is a free reading motivation program for students. Students create a booklist from more than 6,000 titles and then take multiple choice quizzes on the books after they have read them. They then earn points toward prizes. | Interactive Website |
| E. General Reading Comprehension | http://www.kidsreads.com/ - This site allows students to find information about good books, series, and authors. Reviews and interviews are included, as well as trivia games and contests. | Interactive Website |
2.0 Comprehension of Informational Text
| Topic | Resource | Resource Type |
| A. Comprehension of Informational Text | http://www.nytimes.com/learning/students/quiz/index.html - This site allows the students to see what they know about today's news. Each question and image below relates to an article published on The New York Times on the Web from Monday through Friday. Students access the article and then answer the informational questions. | Interactive Website |
| A. Comprehension of Informational Text | http://www.linkslearning.org/Kids/2_Reading/2_Audio_Stories/ - This site has informational stories about animals that students can read or have read to them and at the end of each story, students can access more informational text about the animals. | Interactive Website |
| A. Comprehension of Informational Text | http://www.weeklyreader.com/ - This site is the online version of the "Weekly Reader" student periodical | Informational Website |
| A. Comprehension of Informational Text | http://myhero.com/myhero/ - This site contains informational text about people throughout the world who would be considered heroes. Students choose the hero in which they're interested and click to read information about him/her. | Informational Website |
| A. Comprehension of Informational Text | http://literacynet.org/cnnsf/archives.html - This site contains stories from CNN, SF, and CBS. After reading the story, the student has a choice of 5 Comprehension modules from which to choose for assessment. Many of the stories also contain the original audio/video clips that the student may access. | Interactive/Informational Website |
| A. Comprehension of Informational Text | http://www.factmonster.com/encyclopedia.html - This website is an online student encyclopedia from which the students can read informational text about many different subjects. | Informational Website |
| A. Comprehension of Informational Text | http://www.factmonster.com/almanacs.html - This website is an online student almanac from which the students can read informational text. Articles contain the text features as outlined in the curriculum. | Informational Website |
| A. Comprehension of Informational Text | http://www.nationalgeographic.com/kids/index.html - This site is the online version of the "National Geographic for Kids" magazine. | Informational Website |
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3.0 Comprehension of Literary Text
| Topic | Resource | Resource Type |
| A. Comprehension of Literary Text | http://www.elko.k12.nv.us/ecsdtc/ppp/summer.ppt - This PowerPoint game is based on "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" but all questions are from the novel Summer of the Monkeys. Teacher assistance will be required as this is a whole-class activity. | Interactive PowerPoint |
| A. Comprehension of Literary Text | http://jc-schools.net/write/CINQUAINS_files/frame.htm - This PowerPoint presentation explains what Cinquains are and how they are created. | PowerPoint |
| A. Comprehension of Literary Text | http://www.nebo.edu/misc/learning_resources/ppt/6-12/story_elements.ppt - This PowerPoint presentation goes step by step through the elments of a story and explains each. | PowerPoint |
| A. Comprehension of Literary Text | http://www.storiesfromtheweb.org/sfwhomepage.htm - This site contains online stories and accompanying activities for the students. | Interactive PowerPoint |
| A. Comprehension of Literary Text | http://www.netrover.com/~kingskid/rattic/rattic1.html - This online, entertaining story is read by the students, with a few sounds effects online, and then there is an online comprehension quiz following the story. | Interactive Website |
| A. Comprehension of Literary Text | http://www.learninginhand.com/lessonplans/genre/genre.ppt - This PowerPoint presentation introduces and explains the various literary genres. | Informational PowerPoint |
