Franklin TIS Blog

Reading Ideas

These are Reading Comprehension Ideas from myself and other TISs around the state.

Great site with WV Specific resources attached to CSOs. Plus, there is a pretty cool Countdown to the Westest timer: http://sites.google.com/site/westestrev/


Interesting Ideas for mainly 5th grade, but ideas can be adjusted based on grade level: http://docs.google.com/present/view?id=dhn2vcv5_549f83rrtk4

Inferences (5th grade)- http://www.fffbi.com/games/perp/
Author Purpose (5th grade) - http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/words/reading/typesoftext/flash0.shtml

You could do video conferences or skype. We could do a writing/drawing activity where one class explain what a "monster" looks like then the other class draws it - compare/contrast. You could give a situation to a class and the other class would come up with causes. One class provides a summary of the book the other comes up with the genre

I have done a compare contrast activity with 3-8 grade that is simple but the kids seem to like. You take index cards and put everyday things on them like dog/cat, lemon/banana, pencil/pen, horse/cow, book/magazine ..... whatever. You split the students into groups and have them brainstorm how the items are alike and how they are different. Make them really think outside the box- beyond the obvious. It is amazing some of the things they come up with, especially the older kids. Then have them present it to the class and let the class add any more they think of to the list. It sounds kind of too easy but really we have had some aha moments doing this

If you go to our school website (no passwords needed), you can find links to what you need. I've linked to Jennifer Filopovich's site as well as some others that give assignments sorted by grade level, CSO, & subject. Don't forget about Thinkfinity!

http://edline.net/pages/Glade_ES
http://edline.net/pages/Glade_MS

Fayette County Schools have correlated many of the CSO's with web activities. Go to http://boe.faye.k12.wv.us/maps/cso_website_correlations/cso_website_correlations.htm for some ideas.
Thinkfinity is another good place to look: http://thinkfinity.org/
Check out Kingwood Elementary website, too. You may find ideas under teacher links, student links or parent links . Be sure to check out their Portaportal.

Collection of resources wrapped around CSOs: http://sites.google.com/site/georgewardcsoswestest/home

http://www.smarttech.com/ I am trying to buy a piece of Smart technology so we could have access to the Smart software and put it on every laptop and with every mimio/intelliboard.