After School Reading Activities, Grade 5

by Hassinger, Mary Rose

• ISBN13: 9780742417755
• ISBN10: 0742417751
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-04-29
• Publisher: Carson Dellosa Pub Co Inc

Summary

After School Reading Activities focuses on building word skills, vocabulary, and reading comprehension through activities that are enjoyable as well as educational. Intended to stimulate interest in reading with approachable, often hands-on exercises, this book is a unique tool to use as extension, enrichment, take-home projects, or as part of your classroom curriculum. The age-appropriate and grade-appropriate materials support national reading standards. Each activity focuses on an integral word or reading skill, or on pertinent vocabulary. The tasks will stimulate students' creativity while providing practice with important reading skills. This book also features a set of flash cards that present high-interest vocabulary and definitions. They are sure to become an often-used part of your program. Use them in groups or as an individual drill.

Table of Contents

General Introduction	p. 4
Fancy Figuring (Phonics)	p. 6
Sound It Out (Phonics)	p. 7
Color Time (Syllabication)	p. 8
A Page for a Sage (Rhyming Words)	p. 9
Classified Ads (prefix ad-)	p. 10
Practice With Prefixes (Prefixes--ad, de, dis, ex, un)	p. 11
You're a Pro! (Latin Prefix pro-)	p. 12
Searching for Suffixes (Suffixes -ed, -er, -ing)	p. 13
Arithmetician/Magician (Suffix -cian)	p. 14
Are You Sure? (Suffixes -ible, -able)	p. 15
Plentiful Plurals (Plurals -s, -es)	p. 16
Perplexing Plurals (Irregular Plurals)	p. 17
Contraction Action (Contractions)	p. 18
Summer Daze (Multiple-Meaning Words)	p. 19
Guidelines (Dictionary Skills)	p. 20
Watch Out! (Dictionary Skills)	p. 21
One of a Kind (Etymology)	p. 22
What's In a Name? (Etymology)	p. 23
It's All in the Word (Etymology)	p. 24
Silence is Golden (Silent Letters)	p. 25
Compound Words (Compound Words)	p. 26
The Subject is Homograph (Homographs)	p. 27
Quite a (Feat, Feet)! (Homophones)	p. 28
Crossword (Synonyms)	p. 29
Crossword II (Antonyms)	p. 30
A Toast to Critters (Animal Vocabulary)	p. 31
Treed Me Right! (Tree Names)	p. 32
Know Your World (Country Names)	p. 33
Fifty States Wordsearch (State Names)	p. 34
Crossword Careers (Career Vocabulary)	p. 35
Which "-ist" Is It? (Career Vocabulary)	p. 36
The Space Race (Space Vocabulary)	p. 37
Cretaceous Crossword (Dinosaur Vocabulary)	p. 38
Math Is It! (Math Vocabulary)	p. 39
Measuring--Let's Compare! (Math Vocabulary)	p. 40
Holiday Hits (Holiday Vocabulary)	p. 41
Your Englightening Library (Library Terms)	p. 42
Build Your Own Thesaurus (Synonyms)	p. 43
Acronym Antics (Acronyms)	p. 44
ION Endings (-ion Ending)	p. 45
Knightly Words (Word Attack)	p. 46
Pick Three (General Vocabulary)	p. 47
Mm-Mm Good! (General Vocabulary)	p. 48
It's in Plain English (General Vocabulary)	p. 49
Can It Get Any Better? (General Vocabulary)	p. 50
Finishing Touches (General Vocabulary)	p. 51
Does a Squab Have Feet? (General Vocabulary)	p. 52
Antsy Antonyms (Antonyms)	p. 53
Explain This (General Vocabulary)	p. 54
Analogy Action (Analogies)	p. 55
It Figures (Idioms)	p. 56
Witty Ditty Ditties (Rhyming)	p. 57
Expansion (General Vocabulary)	p. 58
They're All As (General Vocabulary)	p. 59
What's It All About? (Vocabulary/Context Clues)	p. 60
The Enormous, Endangered Grizzly Bear (Main Idea)	p. 61
Two Holidays (Main Idea)	p. 63
Flower Power (Recognizing Detail)	p. 64
Praying or Preying? (Recognizing Detail)	p. 65
Achievements and Discoveries (Logic)	p. 67
R U to? (Following Directions)	p. 68
Trepidation (Context Clues)	p. 69
Criss-Cross (Context Clues)	p. 70
That's Why (Cause and Effect)	p. 71
Wherefore Art Thou? (Cause and Effect)	p. 72
Castle Days (Classification)	p. 74
Baseball and Apple Pie (Fact and Opinion)	p. 76
Life Near Smoking Mountain (Sequencing)	p. 77
Metaphorically Speaking (Metaphors)	p. 78
Autograph Please? (Inferencing)	p. 79
See the U.S.A. (Inferencing)	p. 80
2-4-6-8 Who Do We Appreciate? (Listening/Following Directions)	p. 81
Can You Tell a Book By Its Cover? (Genres)	p. 82
Moody Blues (Mood)	p. 83
I Have You Pegged (Character Analysis)	p. 84
In Perspective (Setting)	p. 85
What Joy! (Setting)	p. 86
Either Or (Conflict)	p. 87
Lend Me Your Ear (Point of View)	p. 88
What's What? (Mixed Story Elements)	p. 89
Paradise (Compare and Contrast)	p. 90
Hooray for Hair (Author's Purpose)	p. 92
Journey Through the Jungle (Categorization)	p. 94
Tour de France (Summarization)	p. 96
Happy Birthday to Us! (Main Idea/Recalling Facts)	p. 98
The Dark and Stormy Night (Main Idea/Critical Thinking)	p. 100
What Year Is It? (Reading a Chart)	p. 102
Vocabulary Flash Cards	p. 103
Answer Key	p. 123
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