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42. Bruening Books reading comprehension questions for children's literature and abstract mathematic games. http://brueningbooks.pair.com

Inc. Challenging lessons that appeal to the imagination, relate to a whole, and fascinate the intermediate student. Meet your curriculum needs and give your students choices! About the Author Bruening Books Workshops and Consulting Service Information Employment Opportunities is a corporation founded to provide teachers, parents, students, and librarians with materials to use when instructing Reading, Writing, and Mathematics, and the Content Areas. Available Novels Sample Questions and Answers Sample Tests Comprehensables are Reading Comprehension Questions for novels. The novels include the Harry Potter series, The Chronicles of Narnia series, The Wrinkle In Time series, plus many other classic literature pieces and children's favorites. Comprehensables emphasizes all levels of Bloom's Taxonomy. Available Lessons Notables are manipulative Writing and History lessons. Available Lessons Abstractables are manipulative mathematic lessons that challenge students.

43. Animal Worksheets, Reading Comprehension, Puzzles, Vocabulary, Spelling, And Mor Mammals Mammal reading comprehensions Mammal Picture Puzzles Mammal Vocabularyand Spelling Birds Bird reading comprehensions Bird Picture Puzzles Bird http://www.edhelper.com/animals.htm

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44. BatQuest Internet treasure hunt helps upper elementary and middle school students develop reading comprehension and research skills while learning about bats. http://www.cccoe.k12.ca.us/bats/batquest.html

image from Bats are Beautiful (http://users.mildura.net.au/users/dgee/) Go on a BatQuest Bats are unusual animals and endangered. They are the only mammal that flies. They also use an advanced system of echolocation for navigation. Did you know that there are almost 1000 kinds of bats located all around the world. There are some bats as small as a jelly bean and some as large as a small dog. On this BatQuest, it is your mission to find out the truth about bats. There are many myths about bats. You've heard of "blind as a bat." In this quest, it will be your duty to find out many of the wonders of bats and dispel these myths. Work with a partner to have more fun searching and sharing what you find about bats. Find out why bats should be recognized as an important animal and should be treated with respect.. Introduction to Bats Go visit this Bat site (http://www.batbox.org/Bats_Around_the_World.html#Bats_Around_the_World) and see how many different kinds of bats there are. Are there any that live close to where you live? Describe what a bat looks like and draw a picture of one of the bats you found.

45. Mindplay Educational Software - Phonics, Reading Comprehension And Free Reading Products Test4free.com is our FREE online reading assessment for parents who needto know exactly what their children's reading comprehension needs are. http://www.mindplay.com/company.html

Save Now! Buy My Reading Coach and get a One-Pick Pack FREE. (limited time offer, web orders only) CEO Judith Bliss in 1986. Both Judith and her son have struggled with learning disabilities and understand what kinds of teaching methods work with special needs learners. Our mission is to develop, publish and distribute cost-effective learning tools that support individual growth and skill development with clear objectives, inviting graphics and modern technological innovations. Our educational software appeals to multiple learning styles, identifies needs and customizes lesson plans to teach only what each student needs to learn. Vision Statement Products Test4free.com is our FREE online reading assessment for parents who need to know exactly what their children's reading comprehension needs are. Our current spotlight product, My Reading Coach (formerly Larrabee's Bridge to Literacy) teaches phonics and comprehension skills to these types of learners: Children who are learning to read.

46. Celebrating Thanksgiving At The Holiday Zone Seasonal crafts, songs and fingerplays, language arts activities, educational games, discussion topics, reading comprehension exercises, and poetry. http://www.theholidayzone.com/thanks/

The Pilgrims who landed on Plymouth Rock in December of 1620 found the New World much different than they had expected. Amid the hard New England winter, 46 of the 121 persons who made the voyage perished. But the fall of 1621 brought a bountiful harvest, giving those who remained a change to survive the coming winter. The surviving Pilgrims, along with 91 Native American guests celebrated the first Thanksgiving with wild game and vegetables. Throughout Colonial history, similar celebrations occurred whenever settlers felt an overwhelming sense of gratitude toward God. In fact, George Washington even declared a national day of Thanksgiving in 1789. But Thanksgiving did not become a regular holiday until 1863 when Abraham Lincoln signed into law a bill proclaiming the last Thursday of each November to be Thanksgiving Day. In 1941, Congress amended the law to make the fourth Thursday of each November Thanksgiving. Activities added 11.10.02 Arts and Crafts Discussion Topics Games Language Activities Notable Quotes Reading Comprehension Poems Songs and Fingerplays Recommended Books Recommended Links New Year's Day Martin Luther King Day Black History Month Valentine's Day ... St. Patrick's Day

47. Reading For Understanding: Toward An R&D Program In Reading Comprehension Reading for Understanding Toward an R D Program in reading comprehensionCatherine Snow Chapter 3 Variability in reading comprehension. http://www.rand.org/publications/MR/MR1465/

Catherine Snow $20.00 (paperback, 160 pp.) ISBN: 0-8330-3105-8 All contents below are free, downloadable PDF files. You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view them. You may also view the Full Text Contents Preface Figures Tables Executive Summary ... Chapter 1 : Introduction Chapter 2 : Defining Comprehension Chapter 3 : Variability in Reading Comprehension Chapter 4 : A Research Agenda for Improving Reading Comprehension Chapter 5 : Strategies for Developing a Research Program on Reading Comprehension Afterword Appendix A : An Expanded Review of the Research on Variability in Reading Comprehension Appendix B : Outline of a Sample Request for Application References Biographical Sketches This research was conducted within RAND Science and Technology and RAND Education Permission is given to duplicate this on-line document for personal use only, as long as it is unaltered and complete. Copies may not be duplicated for commercial purposes. RAND is a nonprofit institution that helps improve policy and decisionmaking through research and analysis. RAND's publications do not necessarily reflect the opinions or policies of its research sponsors. Summary: The Department of Education's Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI) asked RAND to examine how OERI might improve the quality and relevance of the education research it funds. The RAND Reading Study Group was charged with developing a research agenda to address the most pressing issues in literacy and the teaching of reading.

48. Welcome To Reading Online reading comprehension on the Internet Expanding Our Understanding of reading comprehensionto Encompass New Literacies A Reprint From The Reading Teacher by http://www.readingonline.org/

Peer-reviewed articles, invited contributions, and book reviews A regular feature from editors Bridget Dalton and Dana L. Grisham Ideas and information about applying technology in literacy instruction Practice and research from literacy leaders worldwide Discussions of media literacy, critical literacy, visual literacy...and more Join in conversations about issues in literacy and technology (visit the sections above for more new postings) April 2003 Volume 6, Number 8 Talking About Visual Texts With Students by Jon Callow Taking a Broad View of Literacy: Lessons From the Appalachian Trail Thru-hiking Community by Leslie S. Rush Audiobooks: Ear-resistible! An Electronic Classroom Web Watch by Denise Johnson Empowering Teachers and Students Through Technology: An Interview With Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach Part of the Teachers' Voices series by Michael Milone Knowing How: Researching and Writing Nonfiction 3-8 A Book Review by Nancy Witherell The Media Literacy Clearinghouse A New Literacies Web Watch by Susan Deysher Reading Online , www.readingonline.org

49. TOEFL - Practice Questions Section 3, Reading Comprehension Section 3 reading comprehension. The reading comprehension sectioncontains reading passages and questions about the passages. http://www.toefl.org/toeflsup/rc-pq.html

This site will look much better in a browser that supports web standards but it is accessible to any browser or Internet device. Section 3 - Reading Comprehension The Reading Comprehension section contains reading passages and questions about the passages. The questions are about information that is stated or implied in the passage and about some of the specific words in the passages. Because many English words have more than one meaning, it is important to remember that these questions concern the meaning of a word or phrase within the context of the passage. Directions and Practice Questions for Section 3 The following are directions and examples of the types of questions you will find in the Reading Comprehension section of the TOEFL test. If you would like to see the correct answers for the Reading Comprehension questions, use the answer key to check your answers. This section is designed to measure your ability to read and understand short passages similar in topic and style to those that students are likely to encounter in North American universities and colleges. This section contains reading passages and questions about the passages. Directions: In the Reading Comprehension section you will read several passages. Each one is followed by a number of questions about it. You are to choose the

50. Pre-Toefl Vocabulary And Reading Comprehension PreTOEFL, Section 3 - Vocabulary and reading comprehension. Vocabulary. DirectionsEach sentence has an underlined word or phrase. reading comprehension. http://www.toefl.org/onsitetst/pretsec3.html

This site will look much better in a browser that supports web standards but it is accessible to any browser or Internet device. Pre-TOEFL, Section 3 - Vocabulary and Reading Comprehension Vocabulary Directions: Each sentence has an underlined word or phrase. Below each sentence are four other words or phrases, marked A, B, C, or D. You are to choose the one word or phrase that best keeps the meaning of the original sentence if it is substituted for the underlined word or phrase. Then, on your answer sheet, find the number of the question and fill in the space that corresponds to the letter you have chosen. Fill in the space so that the letter inside the oval cannot be seen. Look at the following example It is difficult to get young people to plan for their old age, which seems very distant to them impossible faraway observable fearful The correct choice is B. Practice Questions Receptors for the sense of smell are located at the top of the nasal cavity. upper end inner edge mouth division Passenger ships and aircraft are often equipped with ship-to-shore or air-to-land radio telephones.

51. Simply Phonics Reading Program: A Teaching Phonics Program For Teaching Reading Phonics program for teaching reading comprehension and improving literacy skills in English. Created by Sylvia Brown. http://www.simplyphonics.com

Educators, parents, and tutors will enjoy this simple and effective phonics reading program, created by a public school educator, to simplify the process of teaching reading skills and teaching English. Seminars Teachers, administrators, parents, volunteers, home school teachers, tutors, day care providers, and preschool teachers are using this reading program with great success and enthusiasm by teaching phonics. The lessons in this phonics program are sequentially designed for use with preschool to adult students and provide consistent practice in alphabetics, phonics, reading, comprehension (through teaching reading comprehension), speaking, writing, and spelling to help learning to read with phonics a positive experience. Simply Phonics Reading Program is designed to make learning to read with phonics a simple, joyful, and effective process. Simply Phonics Simply Reading can help ensure that your child will become a successful reader. Also with this phonics program, teachers will have more tools to assist with teaching reading skills as well as teaching reading comprehension. With teaching phonics to our children, we will be increasing their reading skills which will help them to adapt to the future and assist in a more complete literacy program.

52. Department Solicits Proposals For Reading Comprehension Research educational practices in the nation's schools, the US Department of Education isrequesting applications to conduct studies on reading comprehension and how it http://www.ed.gov/PressReleases/04-2002/04122002a.html

Mouseover preload - not necessary for function Skip Navigation Privacy, Security, Notices About ED A-Z Index ... Contact Us Search: Advanced My Profile Add to My.ED.gov Bookmarks Inside OPA OPA Home Press Releases Speeches Radio Broadcast News ... ED Budget Department Solicits Proposals for Reading Comprehension Research FOR RELEASE: APRIL 12, 2002 Contact: David Thomas In keeping with the Bush administration's goal of using evidence-based research to enhance educational practices in the nation's schools, the U.S. Department of Education is requesting applications to conduct studies on reading comprehension and how it is taught and assessed. "Ultimately, what we want to do with this program is lay a scientific framework for teaching and learning methods by supporting research on reading comprehension that could improve students' academic achievement," said Grover "Russ" Whitehurst, U.S. assistant secretary for the Office of Educational Research and Improvement. "We need more research in this area. Although we know a great deal about how children learn the alphabetic code, we know far less about how children read and learn from subject matter texts in areas such as science and history." With this in mind, the Program of Research on Reading Comprehension is designed to expand scientific knowledge of how students develop proficient reading comprehension, how it is most effectively taught, and how it can be assessed.

53. Department Awards Grants For Research On Reading Comprehension The US Department of Education has awarded six grants under the Program for Researchon reading comprehension (PRRC) to support studies designed to provide a http://www.ed.gov/PressReleases/09-2002/09162002a.html

Skip Navigation Privacy, Security, Notices About ED A-Z Index ... Contact Us Search: Advanced My Profile Add to My.ED.gov Bookmarks Inside OPA OPA Home Press Releases Speeches Radio Broadcast News ... ED Budget Search press releases (Help with search) These press releases are provided by the Office of Public Affairs. Most documents contain a contact name and telephone number. Education-related press releases and statements from the White House are located on a separate page. Department Awards Grants for Research on Reading Comprehension FOR RELEASE: September 16, 2002 Contact: David Thomas , (202) 401-1576 The U.S. Department of Education has awarded six grants under the Program for Research on Reading Comprehension (PRRC) to support studies designed to provide a scientific foundation for improving reading instruction. "For the past 10 years, our national assessment of educational progress has shown that significant numbers of children are unable to understand what they read at a proficient level," said U.S. Secretary of Education Rod Paige. “We must do better if all children are to get the world class education they deserve. That is why our plans call for a significant investment in the new Program of Research on Reading Comprehension to be carried out by the department's Office of Educational Research and Improvement." "The challenge is to establish a program of research that will answer questions about reading comprehension in a way that is translatable into practice," said Assistant Secretary for Educational Research and Improvement Grover "Russ" Whitehurst. "I am pleased that new PRRC grantees can begin the long-term work needed to meet this challenge."

54. Hot Text -- Web Writing That Works Articles from trainerwriter team Jonathan and Lisa Price. Incorporating research on usability, readability, reading comprehension, and writing methods. http://www.webwritingthatworks.com

H O T T E X T Andrew King reviewed our book, with a rave, in his newsletter Web Reference Update Newsletter Web Writing That Works More raves: Roy Johnson, at Mantex . Also: Internet Writing Journal. Excerpt , too! Welcome About Us Reviews Media Info Price Points ... Poster Contents Overview Net Spirit Human Style Genres ... Resources The Book Order now ! The book brings together all the analysis, guidelines, writing tips, and career advice in a single interface. "Best Web Publishing Title of 2002," BookBytes from John Nemerovski, at MyMac.com We help you write faster, better, and brighter, for the Web! Yo! We're talking directly to you, if you are a professional Web writer, such as A journalist A marketing copywriter A PR maven A Webzine writer A customer support team member A technical communicator Anyone who has to create text content for the Internet To help you figure out what will work for you and your audiences when you start tapping out electronic text, we bring together the results of research on usability, readability, reading comprehension, and writing methods. Jonathan and Lisa Price Welcome to participants in the Danish workshop, Skriv webvenligt!

55. WS2000: Reading Comprehension Final Report (.pdf) TEAM MEMBERS.Name, EMail, Affiliation. Light, Marc, light@mitre.org, MITRE. Riloff......TEAM GOALS Project http://www.clsp.jhu.edu/ws2000/groups/reading/

CLSP Homepage Workshop Homepage TEAM GOALS Project Description Final Report (.pdf) TEAM MEMBERS Name E-Mail Affiliation Light, Marc light@mitre.org MITRE Riloff, Ellen riloff@cs.utah.edu University of Utah Rooth, Mats mats@ims.uni-stuttgart.de University of Stuttgart Mann, Gideon gsm@cs.jhu.edu Johns Hopkins University Thelen, Mike thelenm@cs.utah.edu University of Utah Anand, Pranav anand@fas.harvard.edu Harvard University Brown, Brianne bbrown@brynmawr.edu Bryn Mawr College Breck, Eric ebreck@mitre.org MITRE GROUP PUBLICATIONS Light, M., Mann, G.S., Riloff, E. and Breck, E. "Analyses for elucidating current question answering technology." Natural Language Engineering, 7(4). Cambridge University Press, 2001. ( pdf The Center for Language and Speech Processing The Johns Hopkins University 3400 North Charles Street, Barton Hall Baltimore, MD 21218 Telephone: (410) 516-4237 Fax: (410) 516-5050 E-mail: clsp@clsp.jhu.edu

56. English On-Line Reading Comprehension Project For learners who want to improve their reading comprehension with reading exercises and comprehension tests. http://www.geocities.com/philliptowndrow/

57. WS2000: Reading Comprehension Group Project Description reading comprehension. Group Consider designing a computer system thatcan take the following third grade reading comprehension exam. How http://www.clsp.jhu.edu/ws2000/groups/reading/prj_desc.shtml

CLSP Homepage Workshop Homepage Reading Comprehension Group Homepage Group Leader: Marc Light Building a computer system that can acquire information by reading texts has been a long standing goal of computer science. Consider designing a computer system that can take the following third grade reading comprehension exam. How Maple Syrup is Made Maple syrup comes from sugar maple trees. At one time, maple syrup was used to make sugar. This is why the tree is called a "sugar" maple tree. Sugar maple trees make sap. Farmers collect the sap. The best time to collect sap is in February and March. The nights must be cold and the days warm. The farmer drills a few small holes in each tree. He puts a spout in each hole. Then he hangs a bucket on the end of each spout. The bucket has a cover to keep rain and snow out. The sap drips into the bucket. About 10 gallons of sap come from each hole. 1. Who collects maple sap? (Farmers) 2. What does the farmer hang from a spout? (A bucket) 3. When is sap collected? (February and March) 4. Where does the maple sap come from? (Sugar maple trees)

58. Redirect File Psycholinguistics, language and reading comprehension. (University of Rochester, USA) http://www.bcs.rochester.edu/bcs/people/faculty/mtan/mtan.html

59. TESL/TEFL/TESOL/ESL/EFL/ESOL Links - ESL : Reading exercises. English Channel reading comprehension (Arnoud Thuss) Skimmingand Scanning, Non-verbal Signals, Structure of Texts, http://iteslj.org/links/ESL/Reading/

iteslj.org/links ESL : Reading This is a sub-page of The Internet TESL Journal's TESL/TEFL/TESOL/ESL/EFL/ESOL Links There are currently 9673 registered links. Main Page Links for Students Links for Teachers What's New Our Web Sites Activities for ESL Students a4esl.org The Internet TESL Journal iteslj.org Interesting Things for ESL Students www.manythings.org 5,000 Newspapers on the Web Web links to on-line newspapers. Requires JavaScript to use. A Midsummer's Night's Dream - Simplified for EFL Students (Nada AbiSamra) By William Shakespeare Aesop's Fables - Online Collection - Over 650 Fables (John R. Long) Try the easier-to-read selected fables first. Some have RealAudio Files, Some Lesson Plans (Requires the Flash Plugin) Illustrated and retold by art students at the University of Massachusetts Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts (Eric Lease Morgan) For native English readers. Abbot, Alcott, Alger, Aristotle, Austen, Browning, and many other authors BBC - Tweenies Favorite Stories Listen the the stories and read along. Requires Flash. BBC News Online Read news: World, UK, Business, Sci/Tech, Health, Education, ...

60. ESL/EFL Resources Offers quizzes on grammar, business English, Japanese culture and reading comprehension. Also a list of links to other material. http://www.tesol.net/schweiz/exams/esl.html

Quizzes Test your English! Reading Comprehension: Test your reading comprehension with this quiz. Grammar: Enjoy this short and easy ESL grammar quiz: the grammar test Which should you use A, AN or THE For this exercise you must put in ' the ' where necessary. Are these things Countable or Uncountable? JavaScript Required! Here's a test for my, your, his, her, our and their. Japan and Japanese things: How much do you know about Business English Care to take Business English Test #1 or Business English Test #2? Misc: Here's one for common everyday expressions. JavaScript Required! And a chance to see how well you know nationalities. Why not try to match the questions and answers. As you will see from the tests above, I've been looking at different ways to use the Web for testing. Some use CGI, some JavaScript and some are simple forms. Which do you or your students prefer? WWW Links The Internet TESL Journal "World Wide Web Activities that Work (and Why!)" The ESL cafe The Virtual English Language Center You can jump directly to some of their pages below or visit the top page. The Weekly Idiom Fluency Through Fables English Language Links The E-Mail Key Pal Connection ... ESL Special Projects at UVic - ESL email exchange and student home pages schMOOze University -An ESL MOO. (Requires Telnet.)

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