In this ESL comprehension worksheet, students read or listen to the passage, then complete a variety of warm up, before listening/reading, while reading/listening, listening, after reading, homework and discussion activities. 

First graders learn the importance of listening carefully and why to follow oral directions carefully by playing Simon Says. They learn the importance of waiting your turn.

Students make predictions regarding the subject of a news article, based on its title. They read the article and discuss it, answering various comprehension and thought questions.

Students comprehension should be a major emphasis when studying how to read. They summarize as one effective strategy that helps students comprehend what they are reading. Students build summarization skills that build comprehension...

Students remember that the main purpose of reading is to comprehend what they have read as they read a section in their history book with the expectation that they answer questions at the end. They answer comprehension questions using...

Students play instruments that reflect sounds in the story: hoots, toots, creaking, shrieks, clacking, crunching, whooshing, etc. They make vocal sounds from the story: whispered, sniffled, sigh, giggled, croaked, laughed. The...

In this ESL worksheet, learners ask a partner 14 questions and write their responses. Students also discover how they can ask 6 questions in a different way.

In this ESL looking for a job worksheet, students work in pairs to ask questions that will elicit information that is missing from their page.  Each page contains ten gaps in job advertisments from a local paper.

Student practice decoding skills and phonological awareness. In this vocabulary development lesson, student identifies new vocabulary through word association and flash cards. Student also reads How he Chick Tricked the Fox making...

In this English worksheet, students discuss walking. Students conduct a survey about walking, write a short piece on walking, listen to and read an article about walking.

In this history worksheet, students read a one page biography about Frederick Douglass. Students then answer 15 short essay questions about the text.

Play a music game with your budding musicians! They pick various sound cards out of a bag and make those sounds in different ways. 

Listening to this piece of music will foster the students ability to recognize individual instruments and the sounds they create. The art of music inspires the students to become sensitive listeners able to make aesthetic judgements and...

Students identify that comprehension is an essential component or reading and in order to be efficient and fluent readers. They interpret what they have read through various strategies. Finally, students use one of the strategies,...

Young scholars play reading comprehension games. In this guided reading lesson plan, students play a comprehension game made by the teacher. Young scholars may play the game before or after reading the story. 

Teacher will read the story Casey and the Amazing Good Finder and ask comprehension questions and begin a discussion on the effect of labels and how the story relates to their lives and how they can prevent the use of negative labels.

Fourth graders complete a comprehensive review of a reading selection. Through various activities, 4th graders practice pre, during, and after reading strategies. At the culmination of the unit, students summarize their reading and...

In this close reading worksheet, students read a report about large fires in the western United States. Students then answer several questions to determine their comprehension of the text.

In this ESL comprehension worksheet, students read or listen to a passage, complete warm-up activities, then a wide variety of before, during, after and homework activities. Answers are included.

In this comprehension worksheet, students read a page about the unicellular organisms called euglena and complete 10 short answer questions.

Students review an overview of mediation techniques and listening skills. They practice good listening skills which are needed for the mediation process and discuss icebreakers in pairs to better utilize good listening skills.

Students interview a family other than their own to learn about oral history. In this oral history lesson plan, students also create a newspaper article about Leschi and pretend they interviewed him back in the past.

In this reading comprehension learning exercise, students read a three paragraph story and answer three comprehension questions provided at the end of the story. The directions ask for complete sentences.