Literacy

The following sites have excellent PowerPoint presentations and fun activities on 12 Reading Strategies that can increase your child’s reading comprehension.

Additional sites to help improve writing skills will be added in the very near future. In the mean time view Mrs. Archer’s website – Helpful Links – Language Arts

12 Reading Strategies (Finding the Main Idea, Recalling Facts and Details, Understanding Sequence, Recognizing Cause and Effect, Comparing and Contrasting, Making Predictions, Finding Word Meaning in Context, Drawing Conclusions and Making Inferences, Distinguishing Between Fact and Opinion, Identifying Author’s Purpose, Interpreting Figurative Language and Summarizing.

Reading Comprehension

Summarizing

Author’s Purpose

• Author’s Purpose
• Woodland Author’s Purpose

Cause and Effect

Context clues

Fact and Opinion

Finding the Main Idea

Making Predictions

Drawing Conclusions/Inferring

Sequencing

Compare and Contrast

Compare and Contrast Map

Figurative Language

1. Figurative Language – Idioms
2. Figurative Language Idioms
3. Figurative Language – Similies