Reading

Visiting Authors [|Erin Devlin] [|Bruce Potter] [|Bruce Potter]

Stories Read Aloud [|Radio NZ Stories] [|Refugee Stories]

Reading Comprehension http://www.brainpop.co.uk/humanities/research/readingskills/ Choose Brainpop clips that relate to our classroom learning - don't forget to do the quiz!

[|main idea] [|reading skills] [|inferring] [|fact and opinion]

http://www.brainpop.co.uk/english/seeall/ Scroll down on these sites to find comprehension activities that are at your level and relate to our learning http://mrnussbaum.com/readingpassageindex/ http://www.readers.com/resources/education/kids-online-reading-games/ Writers' Tools - Literary Devices http://www.wartgames.com/themes/languagearts/figurative.html http://www.funtrivia.com/playquiz/quiz1068229a8.html http://www.internet4classrooms.com/grade_level_help/literature_literary_devices_language_arts_fifth_5th_grade.htm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXlTrFjmBFc https://www.englishclub.com/esl-games/vocabulary/matching-similes.htm https://www.studyladder.co.nz/games/activity/similes-22773 http://www.english-online.org.uk/games/similiframe.htm http://www.turtlediary.com/game/metaphor-and-simile.html http://reviewgamezone.com/games/supershooter/index.php?1635
 * Activities on variety of writer's tools/literary devices **
 * Similes/Metaphors **
 * Personification **

**[|*similes and metaphors]** **[|*poetry]**
 * Brainpop **

Reading and Language Activities [] [] []

[|http://everblue-comic.com/archives/#volume-1] http://www.funenglishgames.com/readinggames.html http://www.funenglishgames.com/readinggames.html https://sites.google.com/site/easygrammar4kids/homophones http://tx.english-ch.com/teacher/olay/kids-b/homophones/ http://www.newton.k12.ks.us/tech/fifth_grade_internet_activities1.htm http://www.internet4classrooms.com/skills-5th-langbuilders.htm


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 * ===The Potter Games A mixture between the Harry Potter and Hunger Games book. Pick the path you want to follow=== || ===Inanimate Alice===
 * ===The Potter Games A mixture between the Harry Potter and Hunger Games book. Pick the path you want to follow=== || ===Inanimate Alice===

Follow the travels of Alice through different countries and solve the tasks.
|| ===National Geographic for Young Explorers=== || ===Based on Newspaper articles. Read the most current story and the ones that came before. Comment on the Discussion Board.=== || ===The Secret in the Cellar. Story based on an authentic forensic case.=== ||
 * [[image:literacyandict/Screen_Shot_2011-08-01_at_5.21.13_PM.png width="360" height="216"]] || [[image:literacyandict/Screen_Shot_2011-08-08_at_7.31.11_PM.png width="308" height="203" link="@http://www.nieonline.co.nz/NikkiDiary.html"]] || [[image:literacyandict/Screen_Shot_2011-08-01_at_9.54.12_PM.png width="343" height="199" link="@http://anthropology.si.edu/writteninbone/comic/XPlayer.html"]] ||
 * ===Learn how to play chess reading instructions in a comic form in Chess Comic=== || ===Nikkis Diary===
 * ===Learn how to play chess reading instructions in a comic form in Chess Comic=== || ===Nikkis Diary===
 * [[image:literacyandict/Screen_Shot_2011-08-31_at_6.41.10_PM.png width="328" height="150"]] || [[image:literacyandict/Screen_Shot_2011-09-06_at_2.05.11_PM.png width="285" height="107" link="@http://www.dogonews.com/"]] || [[image:literacyandict/Screen_Shot_2011-10-02_at_4.14.05_PM.png width="344" height="257" link="@http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/"]] ||
 * ===Youngzine - Online magazine, newspaper for kids=== || ===DOGO news - Online magazine, newspaper for kids=== || ===CBBC News Round===

News and fun facts for kids
|| =Comic about adventure, camaraderie and exploration in a world with a potentially bleak future= || = The Battle against Boredom= =Story is read to you.= || = The Munchy Crunchy Bugbook= ||
 * [[image:literacyandict/2011-09-29_1135.png width="218" height="300" link="@http://everblue-comic.com/2010/01/01/volume-1-cover/"]] || [[image:literacyandict/Screen_Shot_2011-10-05_at_8.09.47_AM.png width="358" height="256" link="@http://www.fraboom.com/ibooks/book-boredom.php"]] || [[image:literacyandict/Screen_Shot_2011-10-05_at_8.14.28_AM.png width="391" height="257" link="@http://www.fraboom.com/ibooks/book-bugs.php"]] ||
 * =Everblue=
 * [[image:literacyandict/Screen_Shot_2011-10-05_at_8.16.28_AM.png width="384" height="298" link="@http://www.fraboom.com/ibooks/book-body.php"]] || [[image:literacyandict/Screen_Shot_2012-05-30_at_10.39.47_AM.png width="376" height="316" link="@http://www.rocketrobinson.com/RR_home_01.html"]] || [[image:literacyandict/Screen Shot 2012-08-04 at 1.12.35 PM.png caption="Screen Shot 2012-08-04 at 1.12.35 PM.png" link="@http://marvelkids.marvel.com/comics"]] ||
 * =The Internal adventures of Marcus Snarkis= || =Rocket Robinson and the Pharoah's Fortune Graphic Novel mystery= || =Marvel Digital Comics Read about your favourite superheroes= ||
 * [[image:literacyandict/Screen Shot 2013-02-13 at 10.26.29 AM.png width="336" height="282" link="@http://storynory.com/"]] || [[image:literacyandict/Screen Shot 2013-05-21 at 6.44.57 AM.png width="392" height="180"]] || [[image:literacyandict/Screen Shot 2014-07-21 at 8.10.49 am.png width="355" height="272" link="@http://wormworldsaga.com/index.php"]] ||
 * =StoryNory Listen to stories, if you have an iPad use head phones= || =StoryBee listen to a story= || = Wormworld Saga. Graphic novel= ||
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 * =Children's Storybooks. Scroll down to Books for Older Children= || = Free kids book= || = Free children books online= ||