Interactive Lessons for Ta-Na-E-Ka (6th) and The Landlady (8th)

6th Grade

Part 1

Main Idea Practice

Directions: Go to the following websites and complete the online practice activities.

1. Quia: Reading: Finding the Main Idea
http://www.quia.com/pop/120023.html

2.The Hamburger Game
http://www.pspb.org/blueribbon/games/burger/burger.html

3. Strategies for Better Reading/ TV 411
http://www.tv411.org/reading/understanding-what-you-read/strategies-better-reading

4. Identifying Main Idea
http://www.studyzone.org/testprep/ela4/h/mainideap2.cfm

5. Who, What, When, Where, Why and How
http://www.studyzone.org/testprep/ela4/h/whowhatp.cfm

6. Kid's Lab
http://www.manatee.k12.fl.us/sites/elementary/samoset/rcmi1.htm


Part 2

Ta-Na-E-Ka  Story Review Questions

Directions: Copy the following questions in Cornell style and answer the questions regarding
Ta-Na-E-Ka.

1. Explain what Ta-Na-E-Ka is.

2. Who are the main characters in the story?

3. How long does Ta-Na-E-Ka last for?

4. In what season does the story take place? What is the weather like?

5. What did Grandfather think Mary would look like when she returned?

6. What's Grandfather's opinion about Ta-Na-E-Ka?

7. How do Mary and Roger feel as the time for Ta-Na-E-Ka draws near?

8th Grade Activities

Part 1: The Landlady Review

Directions: Go to the following website, using your own paper, copy the questions (Cornell style) and respond.

http://www.nexuslearning.net/books/holt-eol2/collection%203/landlady%20HW.htm

Part 2: Reviewing Common Assessment Activities

Directions: Complete the Online Review for the Common Assessment to be turned in today.

8th Grade- The Landlady Review Activity

Go to the following website, using your own paper, copy the questions (Cornell style) and respond.

http://www.nexuslearning.net/books/holt-eol2/collection%203/landlady%20HW.htm

Common Assessment Interactive Review

Directions: Please go to the following websites and practice to prepare for the common assessment on Monday.

Context Clues

Directions: Go to the following websites and respond to the questions. Number your papers from 1-10 for the Pretest and the Posttest.

1. Context Clues Pretest

http://www.shsu.edu/~txcae/Powerpoints/prepostest/contextclues1pretest.html

2. Quia Context Clues Activity

http://www.quia.com/pop/117579.html

3. TV 411 Activity

http://www.tv411.org/lessons/cfm/reading.cfm?str=reading&num=7&act=1

4. Word Clues Activity

http://wps.ablongman.com/long_licklider_vocabulary_1/0,1682,11855-,00.html

5. Context Clues Posttest

http://www.shsu.edu/~txcae/Powerpoints/prepostest/cluesdefinepostest.html

Making Predictions

       1. Making Predictions Practice 1

       2. http://www.philtulga.com/Riddles.html

       3. http://www.studyzone.org/testprep/ela4/o/makingpredictionsp.cfm


Organizational Structures

        1. http://www.laflemm.com/dynamic/online_practice.php?practice_id=26

Subject Verb Agreement

      1. http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/cgi-shl/quiz.pl/sv_agr_quiz.htm

      2. http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/cgi-shl/quiz.pl/agreement_add1.htm

      3. http://www.chompchomp.com/hotpotatoes/sva01.htm

      4. http://www.chompchomp.com/hotpotatoes/sva02.htm

"Just Once" selection test

Directions:

1. Click on the following links to take you to the selection tests using Quia.
2. Enter your username and password.
3. Begin taking the test.
4. When you are finished, return your laptop to its correct spot and begin reading your AR novel.

http://www.quia.com/quiz/4392002.html

Context Clues Activities

Context Clues Activities

Directions: Go to the following websites and respond to the questions. Number your papers from 1-10 for the Pretest and the Posttest.

1. Context Clues Pretest

http://www.shsu.edu/~txcae/Powerpoints/prepostest/contextclues1pretest.html

2. Quia Context Clues Activity

http://www.quia.com/pop/117579.html

3. TV 411 Activity

http://www.tv411.org/lessons/cfm/reading.cfm?str=reading&num=7&act=1

4. Word Clues Activity

http://wps.ablongman.com/long_licklider_vocabulary_1/0,1682,11855-,00.html

5. Context Clues Posttest

http://www.shsu.edu/~txcae/Powerpoints/prepostest/cluesdefinepostest.html

SRI Information

                                                     SRI Student Access Website

Student website:

http://r180:55880/slms/studentaccess/read180ng

Directions: 

1. Click the above link.   
2. Choose the blue Scholastic Reading Inventory icon.  
3. Using the username and password, log into the site.   
4. Choose 3 genre's and move on. 
5. Begin taking the test. 
6. When you are finished, raise your hand.

September 13, 2013

Directions: Please visit the following websites to practice fact and opinion, making predictions, plot, setting and theme.

Once you are finished each activity, write your score on a sheet of paper.

Fact and Opinion

Use a sheet of notebook paper to write your answers and score for each lesson.

1. http://www.teachingandlearningresources.co.uk/factoropinion.shtml
2. http://wps.ablongman.com/long_henry_mrup_1/33/8660/2217196.cw/index.html
3. http://cuip.uchicago.edu/www4teach/97/jlyman/default/quiz/factopquiz.html

Part 2

Directions: Copy and Paste the following web addresses into the browser to go to each site. Continue to use your own paper to identify the answers for the items in red ink.

Making Predictions

1. http://www.studyzone.org/testprep/ela4/o/makingpredictionsp.cfm
2. http://www.studyzone.org/testprep/ela4/o/makingpredictionsl.cfm
3. http://www.philtulga.com/Prediction.html
4. http://teacher.scholastic.com/lessonrepro/reproducibles/litplace/r980109f.htm

Plot, Setting, and Theme

1. http://www.rcs.k12.va.us/csjh/woody/Parts_of_a_Story.htm
2. http://www.studyzone.org/testprep/ela4/h/plotsettheme.cfm
3. http://www.studyzone.org/testprep/ela4/h/setting.cfm
4. http://www.studyzone.org/testprep/ela4/h/plotp.cfm