Reading+and+Language+Arts+Links

Analyze Character
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/scrapbook/ Character traits slideshow: https://www.teachingmadepractical.com/character-traits-slideshow/ =Author's Purpose= [|Author's Purpose - Author's Purpose Activity] - Learn and practice author's purpose. [|Author's Purpose - Author's Purpose Online Quiz] - Take an online quiz on author's purpose. =Cause and Effect= [|Cause & Effect - Social Studies Skills Tutor] - Click on Cause & Effect and practice the skill. [|Cause & Effect - What Caused It?] - Learn and practice cause and effect.

=Compare and Contrast:= [|Compare & Contrast - Social Studies Skills Tutor] - Click on Comparing and Contrasting and practice. =Details= [|Details - Fact Frenzy] - Learn and practice how to find facts/details in what you read. [|Details - Identifying Information: Elephants] - Practice identifying specific information. [|Details - Indentifying Information: Dolphins] - Practice identifying specific information.

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=Fact or Opinion= fact or opinion game: https://www.quia.com/rr/280139.html [] [] [] [] [|http://web.archive.org/web/20120206010938/http://www.worsleyschool.net/socialarts/factopinion/factopinion.html] [|Fact & Opinion - Binky's Facts and Opinion] - Play the fact and opinion game. [|Fact & Opinion - Social Studies Skills Tutor] - Click on Distinguishing Between Fact and Opinion and practice.

=Figurative Language= Context Clues: https://www.quia.com/rr/914542.html Context Clues: https://www.quia.com/rr/151544.html [|Figurative Language - Eye on Idioms] - Learn about and practice idioms. [|Figurative Language - Paint by Idioms] - Practice determining the meaning of idioms.

=Inference= [|Inference - Social Studies Skills Tutor] - Click on Drawing Inferences and Conclusions and practice.

=Main Idea= http://www.roomrecess.com/pages/MainIdea.html https://www.quia.com/pop/120023.html http://www.pspb.org/blueribbon/games/burger/burger.html Choose Main Idea activities: http://www.internet4classrooms.com/skill_builders/main_idea_theme_language_arts_third_3rd_grade.htm http://www.softschools.com/quizzes/language_arts/main_idea/quiz1510.html https://www.brainpop.com/english/writing/mainidea/ Main Idea and details, many choices, short quizzes: http://www.studyzone.org/testprep/e3topic.cfm?TopicID=119 [|Main Idea - Did I Read It or Not?] - Learn about the main idea skill and practice. [|Main Idea - Get the Idea] - Learn and practice the main idea.

=OST Practice=

American Institutes for Research (AIR) State Test Practice Sites Below you will find links to state test practice sites for state utilizing AIR. Click on the state name to go directly to the website. [|__Ohio Test Resources__] __ [|Ohio’s State Tests: Technology Skills and Readiness Resources Portal] __ [|__Connecticut__] [|__Idaho__] [|__South Dakota__] [|__Vermont__] Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut, and Idaho are the same tests with about 30 questions. We did the grade 3 practice tests.

MAP practice: Teacher led or student
Click on the Links and learn! NWEA has now provided sample questions follow this [|NWEA link]  to do some whole/small group direct instruction on vocabulary sample questions, teaching students how to navigate these types of questions. MAP type questions (by RIT level) are also available in the [|prepdog free website] again this could be demonstrated whole/small group to teach students how to answer specific questions. Vocabulary test prep by RIT level - available through the [|quizlet free website] Click on “Scatter” for a game you could play on the Smartboard. [|English Language Arts- Lesson/quizzes covering various topics] [|Dictionary- uses explained & quiz] [|Thesaurus- Video] [|Using Prefixes- Lesson with a quiz.] [|Using Suffixes- Lesson with a quiz.] [|Theme v. Central/Main Idea - Video]

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=Summarize= [|Summary - Paraphrase Craze] - Learn and practice paraphrasing. Dr. Seuss: []

Testing online practice site- just enter without logging in (bottom choice.) There are reading and math practice tests.- [] Testing practice games: [] Typing practice: [] Variety of games and typing activities too: http://www.vocabulary.co.il/typing-games/

=Trickster Tales:= Collection: http://americanfolklore.net/folklore/tricksters/ Links to this site: http://kevpass.weebly.com/index.html Anansi stories to read:http://anansistories.com/ Native American trickster tales: http://www.native-languages.org/trickster.htm Informational site: http://kidworldcitizen.org/2014/01/17/trickster-tales-around-world/

**Fairy Tales:**
[] The Princess and the Pea [] Cinderella [] The Frog Prince [] The Brementown Musicians [] Myths, Folk Tales, and Fairy Tales - student and teacher -http://teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/mff/ Online fairy tales: http://www.lancsngfl.ac.uk/curriculum/literacy/lit_site/html/fiction/fairytale2/fairytale.htm Grimm's: http://www.grimmfairytales.com/en/main Spoonerism: http://www.fun-with-words.com/prinderella.html =Tall Tales:=

Animated: http://www.animatedtalltales.com/ Some: http://42explore.com/talltale.htm http://americanfolklore.net/folklore/tall-tales/ =Fables:= Collection: http://www.umass.edu/aesop/fables.php http://read.gov/aesop/001.html Games related to Aesop's fables: http://www.wartgames.com/themes/aesop.html =Folk Tales:= on Starfall: http://www.starfall.com/n/level-c/folk-tales/play.htm?f http://www.americanfolklore.net/ss.html http://americanfolklore.net/sindex.html Myths, Folk Tales, and Fairy Tales - student and teacher -http://teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/mff/ Listen: https://www.speakaboos.com/stories/folk-tales# Collection: http://www.kidsgen.com/stories/folk_tales/

== Word Study – Spelling word lists and our weekly focus. These are all your spelling words for the year. We will use this order although we may not have a spelling list every week, especially during 3-day weeks. ==

Compound Words Adding -ing to Words with VC and VCC Patterns Adding -ing to Words with VCe and VVC Patterns Adding -ing to Words with VCe and VVC Patterns Words with -ed Ending Spelling Unusual Past Tense Words Adding Plural Endings -es, -ies Words with Irregular Plurals Adding Inflectional Endings to Words Ending in -y VCV and VCCV Pattern Words Words with VCV and VCCV Patterns Introduce the V/CV, VC/V, and VVCV syllable patterns. Syllable Juncture in VCCCV and VV Patterns Open and Closed Syllables and Inflectional Endings Long a Patterns in Accented Syllables Long i Patterns in Accented Syllables Long o Patterns in Accented Syllables Long u Patterns in Accented Syllables Long e Patterns in Accented Syllables Unaccented Final Syllables -le Unaccented Final Syllables -le, -el, -il, -al Unaccented Final Syllables -er, -ar, -or Unaccented Final Syllables -er, -ar, -or Words with Final -y, -ey, -ie Words with Hard and Soft c Words with Hard and Soft g /k/ Spelled ck, ic, x Prefixes re-, un- Prefixes dis-, mis-, pre- Suffixes -y, -ly, -ily Comparative Suffixes -er, -est Words with Anagrams
 * Unit 1:** **sometime**, **anytime**, **lighthouse**, **daylight**, **touchdown**, **downtown**, **baseball**, **ballpark**
 * Unit 2: stopping**, **working**, **standing**, **dropping**, **grinning**, **laughing**, **swimming**, **learning**
 * Unit 3:** **speaking**, **writing**, **escaping**, **dreaming**, **arriving**, **joining**, **reading**, **smiling**
 * Unit 4: thanking**, **groaning**, **feeling**, **watching**, **getting**, **jogging**, **using**, **trading**
 * Unit 5: skipped**, **hopped**, **wished**, **waited**, **treated**, **closed**, **pleased**, **surprised**
 * Unit 6: throw**, **threw**, **know**, **knew**, **write**, **wrote**, **sleep**, **slept**
 * Unit 7: trays**, **minutes**, **classes**, **boxes**, **lunches**, **stories**, **families**, **pennies**
 * Unit 8: knives**, **scarves**, **hooves**, **women**, **teeth**, **geese**, **salmon**, **scissors**
 * Unit 9: destroyed, displaying, delays, enjoying, applied, studies, supplying, multiplying**
 * Unit 10: blizzard, summer, pattern, mammal, paper, moment, basic, program**
 * Unit 11: fever, legal, vacant, driver, insect, problem, chapter, dentist**
 * Unit 12: human, nation, demand, planet, limit, denim, reason, creature**
 * Unit 13: flashlight, halfway, hundred, subtract, purchase, trial, poem, violin**
 * Unit 14: admitting, occurred, arguing, huddled, followed, appeared, existing, repeated**
 * Unit 15: crayon, display, rainbow, complaint, bracelet, awake, label, potato**
 * Unit 16: surprise, polite, minus, rival, silent, supply, dryer, cyclone**
 * Unit 17: explode, suppose, rowboat, snowfall, unknown, stolen, rotate, notice**
 * Unit 18:** **include, useful, lukewarm, compute, fuel, musical, fluid, humor**
 * Unit 19: needle, between, feature, increase, extreme, complete, meter, secret**
 * Unit 20: title, table, eagle, apple, puzzle, simple, purple, circle**
 * Unit 21: fossil, pencil, pupil, kennel, cancel, camel, journal, signal**
 * Unit 22: calendar**, **dollar**, **grammar**, **harbor**, **mirror**, **flavor**, **weather**, **proper**
 * Unit 23: instructor, editor, director, speaker, designer, listener, adviser, beggar**
 * Unit 24: money**, **hockey**, **goalie**, **movie**, **apply**, **occupy**, **classify**, **twenty**
 * Unit 25: center**, **advice**, **sentence**, **circus**, **office**, **decide**, **recess**, **cider**
 * Unit 26: gallon**, **gymnast**, **arrange**, **danger**, **message**, **guilty**, **gently**, **gingerbread**
 * Unit 27: attack**, **traffic**, **complex**, **prefix**, **ticket**, **freckle**, **limerick**, **electric**
 * Unit 28: rebuild**, **rewrite**, **recharge**, **reprint**, **unable**, **unequal**, **unclear**, **unwrap**
 * Unit 29: disagree**, **dishonest**, **misspell**, **misplace**, **mislead**, **preteen**, **pretest**, **prehistoric**
 * Unit 30: sunny**, **thirsty**, **quietly**, **smoothly**, **suddenly**, **happily**, **easily**, **noisily**
 * Unit 31: thicker**, **slimmer**, **coolest**, **funnier**, **bravest**, **saddest**, **weaker**, **silliest**
 * Unit 32: three/there**, **sister/resist**, **friend/finder**, **earth/heart**