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A bad case of stripes
 
 
 

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Vocabulary Words

 

 

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prodded virus fungus swamped
remedies herbalist guru therapist

Writing Activities

 

Sensory/Descriptive: Imagine you have just woken up for your first day of school. As you look into the mirror, you suddenly realize that you are covered from head to toe in… polka dots! Write a description of this morning. Why has this happened to you? What is the remedy?

 

Imaginative/Narrative: Poor Camilla had a bad case of stripes. Think about a time when you came down with a bad case of something. It could be an illness, hiccups, butterflies in your stomach, or even a case of the giggles. Write a story about that time.

 

Analytical/Persuasive: At school, Camilla's classmates call her names and make fun of her. Imagine you are a student in her class. Write a persuasive essay to the other students to convince them not to tease her.

 

Practical/Informative: Once reporters heard about Camilla, they camped out on her lawn to report the story. Imagine you are one of those reporters. Write your script for the evening news.

 

 

Discussion/Journal Topics

 

Why won't Camilla eat lima beans even though she loves them? Do you think she is right?

 

What do you think life would have been like for Camilla if she never got rid of her stripes?

 

What lesson did Camilla learn from getting a bad case of stripes?

 

 

 

Online Test

 

Your students can take an online test with immediate results at:

A Bad Case of Stripes Online Test

 

The Professional Development Institute has a complete literature unit for this book. For more information, click the link below.

Bad Case of StripesA Bad Case of Stripes Literature Unit (Check out the sample pages!)

 

 

 

 

 
 
Click to open
 
CharacterTraitsABadCaseofStripes.pdf
 
 
A_Bad_Case_of_Stripes_Project.pdf
 
 
A_Bad_Case_of_Stripes.docx

 

interactive website
 
 
 
http://webs.morton709.org/elementary/RTI%20Final%20Project/Student%20Activity%20docs/Comprehension%20Student%20Activities%204-6.htm#Character

 

Common Core Websites

 

common core websites
 
 
 

Common Core Websites

·       Non fiction texts http://teacher.depaul.edu/Reading_Passages_NONFICTION.html

 

·       Text common core aligned http://www.readworks.org/

 

·       Lessons and text with videos

learnzillion.com

 

·       lessons common core aligned

http://www.readtennessee.org/teachers/common_core_standards/3rd_grade.aspx.

 

·       rubrics

http://blogs.egusd.net/ccss/2012/01/12/ccss-aligned-rubrics-k-12/

·    read write think

http://www.readwritethink.org/

 

·       watch know learn – videos of exemplar texts

http://www.watchknowlearn.org/

 

 

CCSS Games
 
 
 
http://parccgames.com/?page_id=90

 

 

Reading Anchor Charts/Reading Sites
 
 
 
http://www.literacyleader.com/sites/litlead.essdack.org/files/Signal%20Word%20Chart-Rev.pdf

 

 


Great Websites 

 

Reading Web sites 

 

Storyline Online

 

 

 

http://www.storylineonline.net

 

 

 

Developed by The Screen Actors Guild Foundation, Storyline Online features accomplished actors and actresses reading some of their favorite children’s books.  Each story comes with a free Activity Guide and can be viewed on YouTube or SchoolTube.  Rainbow Fish, Wilfrid Gordon Macdonald Partridge, and To Be a Drum are just a few of the books available.

 

 

 

Read to Me

 

http://readtomelv.com

 

Similar to Storyline Online, Read to Me features popular children’s books being read by famous performers.  There are activity guides with hands-on ideas, discussion questions, and lesson plans that can easily be adapted to the Common Core State Standards.  Entirely free, the site is colorful and engaging.

 

 

 

We Give Books

 

http://wegivebooks.org

 

A Pearson Foundation Initiative, We Give Books offers students a unique opportunity to read for social good.  Each book that is read results in a book that is donated to a charity for children.  While the books are not read aloud, they allow students to practice “Read to Self” with a good fit book during center time.  There are books for children in preschool through fourth grade.

 

 

 

Starfall

 

http://starfall.com

 

While some areas of Starfall are part of their premium service, they have many early reader stories available for free.  Students can follow along as the story is read to them and can, in some instances, help create their own story.  The website is highly engaging and a favorite of young readers.

 

 

 

Online Storytime by Barnes and Noble

 

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/u/online-storytime-books-toys/379003588/

 

From The Kissing Hand read by author Audrey Wood toPinkalicious read by Victoria Kann, Barnes and Noble’s Online Storytime has popular children’s books read out loud.  While there are no supplemental materials to accompany the stories, this free site is perfect for “Listen to Reading” stations.

 

Note:  The first story begins right away when the page opens so be sure that your volume is adjusted accordingly before clicking the link.

 

 

 

TumbleBooks

 

http://tumblebooks.com

 

http://www.tcpclibrary.org/tumblebooks.htm

 

http://www.portlandlibrary.com/kidsplace/tumblebooks.htm

 

TumbleBooks is a pay-for-use site that traditionally sells licenses to libraries and schools.  Many public libraries, such as the Tell City, IN Public Library, offer free access to their TumbleBooks account.  Students can follow along as the text is read them to help improve comprehension and fluency.  Choose from picture books to chapter books. Portland Public Library also has free access to TumbleBookCloud which gives access to Middle and High School level books.  If your school decides to purchase a school license, there is also access to the Common Core Portal that includes lessons and quizzes to accompany the books.

 

 

 

International Children’s Digital Library

 

http://en.childrenslibrary.org/

 

Discover books from around the world at the International Children’s Digital Library.  The free site does not read the books aloud, but students can read them independently during Read to Self or free time.  This is a great site for extension activities when learning about different regions of the world and can be used effectively into the middle school grades.

 

 

 

ABCya!

 

http://abcya.com

 

Children can listen to short stories read aloud to them as they follow along with the highlighted text.  ABCya! has a variety of educational games in addition to the featured stories.  Free resources and materials are available for grades K through 5.

 

 

 

Storynory

 

http://www.storynory.com/

 

Storynory features a collection of original, fairytale, and classic children’s audio stories.  Students can follow along with the story as it is read to them, as the text is also included on the site.  There are also some great features available that give you the option of downloading the audio to your computer, listening to “catch phrase” explanations, translating text into different languages (especially helpful for your ELL students!), and more.

 

 

 

National Geographic Young Explorers

 

http://ngexplorer.cengage.com/ngyoungexplorer/index.html

 

National Geographic Young Explorers is a magazine designed specifically for kindergarten and first grade students.  Children can listen to the magazine being read to them as they follow along with the highlighted text.  It is a great way to bring interesting non-fiction stories into reading center time.

 

 

 

Oxford Owl

 

http://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/

 

After registering for a free account, you have access to over 250 children’s audio books that can be used in the classroom.  The book text is not part of the presentation, so students will not be able to follow along as it is read to them.

 

 

 

Teach a Child to Read 
http://www.succeedtoread.com/
Dedicated to the thousands of children who need to improve
their reading skills, and to their parents who want to help them succeed.

 

 

 

 

 


Language Arts
1 
Beginning consonants
  1. Word Families - select the word family to practice and select the correct beginning consonant to match the pictures
  2. Consonant Blends - find the blend that matches the picture
  3. Beginning Consonant Digraphs - select the correct digraph
  4. Paw Park: Sassy Seals - Match beginning sounds - (from Game Goo - Learning That Sticks!)
2 
Ending consonants
  1. Ending consonant practice - for all letters
  2. Ending Digraphs - select the correct digraph ending
3 
Vowels
  1. Short A
  2. Short E
  3. Short I
  4. Short O
  5. Short U
  6. Coconut Vowels - "Coconuts with words in them fall to the beach. The student must match missing letters to the correct word coconut" Use the missing letters to create words.
  7. Long and Short Vowel Match - match words by the vowel sounds that are the same- beware of lots of ads around the box that contains the game.
  8. Match of Mystery - 5 levels, short, long, digraphs, dipthongs and vce pattern. 8-29-08
  9. Vowel Practice - drag the correct vowel into the word to spell it correctly - beware pop-ups!
  10. Short Vowel Practice - select correct spelling of word
  11. Vowel Digraphs - select correct digraph to match picture
  12. When Two Vowels go Walking - song
4 
Phonics knowledge
  1. Blending Dragon - Direct your dragon with the mouse and catch the globes with real words. Choose the phoneme that you wish to work with
  2. Double OO - song
  3. Match of Mystery - 5 levels, short, long, digraphs, dipthongs and vce pattern. 8-29-08
  4. SpellBound - child sees the word spelled correctly, then letters are mixed up and child must put them in order again
  5. Sound it out - click on the word that the cat says aloud (warning-British accent may confuse some students)
  6. Word Families - create new words from word endings
  7. Look, cover and Spell - phonetic family of words to practice.Can change the level from easy to hard.
5 
Sight Words
  1. Dinosaur Eggs - Listen to the voice and choose the egg that shows that word.
  2. Dolch List Practice - online activities to practice sight words
  3. Missing Letters - find the matching sight word and type in the missing letters
  4. High Frequency Words - six activities using sight words - drag correct word to complete the sentences
  5. Magnetic Nursery Rhymes - Put the poem back together again. Identify the words and drag them to recreate the nursery rhyme.
  6. Sight words - read the word before it goes off the screen! Audio reading of word also. 
  7. Sight Words with Samson - Listen to the word has he pronounces it, spells it and uses it in a sentence. 
6
Syllables
  1. The Syllable Factory - break words up into "chunks" (Warning: there are some words that have been separated wrongly. An acitivity for students might be to find the ones that are wrong vs the ones that are right!)
  2. Space Station - Build a space station by using word study skills - Divide the word in blue into syllables and enter it into the box with a '-' between the syllables. Example: fi-nal  ( some words may be too difficult for individual practice)
7 
ABC Ordering
  1. Order Me Around - Click on the words one time according to ABC order, and then click on the Submit button to see if you are right.
  2. ABC Order practice - Pick the list of words that are in order. [not available 6/1/08]
  3. Alphabet Bears - Put the bears in order according to the words on their shirts
  4. Alphabet Zoo - Put the words in order
  5. Alphabetical Order - Put the list in order according to the alphabet, typing in the numbers on the left side. This is a Very Long list!!
  6. ABC Order - People's Names
  7. ABC Order - Christmas Words
  8. ABC Order - Thanksgiving Words
  9. ABC Order - Winter Words
  10. ABC Order - Number Words
8 
Sentence Structure 
  1. Build a Sentence - drag scrambled words to create a sentence
  2. Scrambled Sentences - drag the words in the correct order to create a sentence
  3. Can you make sense of a sentence? - drag the words into the correct sentence order
  4. Parts of a Sentence - select naming part or telling part (subject/predicate)
9 
Comprehension
  1. Grade One Books Online - Children can read to one another from books that are especially designed to match exactly with Grade 1 Reading Vocabulary Lists.
  2. Reading Comprehension - interactive quiz. Christmas story "A special Christmas present"

10
Word Additions

Root Words
Prefixes
Suffixes
  1. S or ES - choose correct spelling
  2. S song - Without an S
  3. ED or ING - choose correct word
  4. Suffix practice - more practice on s/es and ed/ing
  5. Root Words - root quiz
  6. Prefixes - quiz
  7. Suffixes - quiz

11
Compound Words
  1. Compound Words - Select the word that makes a compound word.
  2. Compound Words - Drag and Drop to make compound words
  3. Compound Words - Match the blue word with the red to form a compound word
  4. Compound Words - Quia game
  5. Compound Words - online interactive game
  6. Compound Words - GetReadyToRead on-line game
  7. Gus and Inky's Underwater Adventure Chapter 3 - Find the compound words

 
12 
Main Idea
  1.  Main Idea practice - eight online interactive quizzes on Main Idea from the Manatee School District
13 
Capitalization and Punctuation
  1. Find the correct sentence - choose sentence with correct capitalization and punctuation
  2. Punctuation - find the correct punctuation mark to end the sentence
  3. Special Names - find the correct capitalization of proper nouns
  4. Capitalization - type the correct capital letter of the words in a sentence
14 
Sequencing
  1. Monkey Business: Rain Forest Run Around - Click on the words to put them in correct order. (from Game Goo - Learning That Sticks!)
  2. Sequence the Story - drag the pictures in the correct order - (students can have the story read to them if necessary)
  3. Sequencing - drag the pictures in the correct time order - beware the ads and pop-ups!
  4. Sequencing Lesson and Exercise - read and put the pictures in sequence according to the story
15 
 Contractions
  1. Contraction Practice - interactive contraction practice
  2. Contractions - type the contraction beside the two words
  3. Fly By Contraction Practice - find the correct airplane to match with the contraction
  4. Type the contraction - type contraction form of words
  5. Contraction Concentration - match the words with the contraction

16
Irregular Plurals
  1. Irregular Plurals - match the related words, singular to plural
  2. Irregular Plurals - match related words, oes, os
  3. Plural Nouns - add s or es

17
Synonyms/Homonyms
  1. Tooth Tally with Squanky the Tooth Taker - From Game Goo (learning that sticks)
  2. Super synonym match - Super synonym concentration game
  3. Synonym match - from EZ School (beware of the ad that appears full screen before the game)
  4. Synonym match - concentration style
  5. Synonym match - matching style
  6. Synonym match - from Dosity
  7. More synonyms - from Dosity
  8. Synonym Study - graded practice on synonyms [not available 4/1/08]

18
Grammar
  1. Proofreading Makes Perfect - Capital letters and end marks.
  2. Grammar Blaster - Grade 2 skills
19 
Opposites
  1. Antonym Match - concentration type match
  2. More Antonyms - from Dosity
  3. Opposites/Antonyms - matching game, concentration style
  4. Opposites - drag the words to where they belong
  5. Quiet Quest for Opposites by Squanky the Tooth Taker - From Game Goo (learning that sticks)
20
Spelling
  1. Alien Scavenger Hunt: Letter Bugs - Use the mouse to click on letters that make up the word you hear. From Game Goo (learning that sticks)
  2. Alien Scavenger Hunt: Space Trash - Use the mouse to click on letters that make up the word you hear. From Game Goo (learning that sticks)
  3. Core Spelling Units -The words come from the Sitton Spelling Sourcebook Series by Egger Publishing, Inc. Pick your unit and do the interactive activities!9-7-08
  4. Fearless Frieda - use the keyboard to spell the words Frieda says. Three letter words on level one, four letter words on level 2. - From Game Goo (learning that sticks)
  5. Fearless Frieda the Big Kahuna - Use the keyboard to spell the words Frieda says. Frieda starts with four letter words in this game. - From Game Goo (learning that sticks)
  6. Spell Check - TCAP format - select word that is spelled incorrectly
  7. Spell words - drag letters to create word
  8. Spelling - put the letters in order to create the word that is said aloud
  9. Spelling - click on the misspelled word and then correct it ; here are different words and spelling activities
  10. Spin and Spell - click on the word you wish to spell then click on the letters on the spinning wheel. Click submit to check spellings.
21 
 Online Stories
  1. Between the Lions - stories from PBS Kids
  2. Big Books - read stories online and then answer questions
  3. Children's Storybooks Online - beware of the pop-ups!
  4. Merpy.com Stories - animated stories to be read online
  5. Online Stories and Resources for Kids
  6. Topsy-Turvy Tales - from the Elementary Library
  7. The Reading Room - Read stories on-line.
  8. Scrambled Stories - Read stories online, audio provided if you select Read me; fill in blanks with nouns. from IKnowThat