This information came from http://www1.fccj.org/shughes.

Reading        

http://www.andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/

This is an interesting site with a wealth of literary material.

http://www.flreads.org/Reading%20Websites.htm

This is a website that lists many reading websites for different areas.

 

SQ3R - These sites give additional information

            about this method.

 

 http://www.ucc.vt.edu/stdysk/sq3r.html

Study Habits

 

http://www.prenhall.com/success/StudySkl/studying.html

Patterns of Organization

Reading help and practice site created by Barbara S. Doyle, Arkansas State University

General Developmental education site with clicks for main idea, structural analysis, patterns of organization, active reading, critical reading, summarizing, and context clues.

http://www.clt.astate.edu/bdoyle/dev__reading.htm 

Patterns of Organization created by M. Nielsen

http://www.daltonstate.edu/faculty/mnielsen/patterns_practice_2.htm

http://www.daltonstate.edu/faculty/mnielsen/patterns_practice_1.htm

Reading Room – created by Barbara Mezaki, at Mt. San Antonio College, American Language Dept.

information about finding main idea, details, context clues. figurative language, inferences

http://elearn.mtsac.edu/amla/readingroom/

Note taking - These sites give great information about

                      outlining, note taking, summarizing, and

                      mapping

http://www.prenhall.com/success/StudySkl/notetake.html

Fact and Opinion

Information

1.    Read the power point.  http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/words/reading/fact_and_opinion/factsheet.shtml These are very good.

2.    Read the power point.

Go to this site. http://wps.ablongman.com/long_henry_er_2/81/20934/5359168.cw/index.html

     3.   If you need additional information, read the fact sheets at http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/words/reading/fact_and_opinion/factsheet.shtml

4.http://mcckc.edu/longview/ctac/opinion.htm

 http://www.auburn.edu/academic/education/reading_genie/Fact-opinion.html

      5. http://academic.cuesta.edu/acasupp/as/403.htm

http://www.zu.ac.ae/infoasis/modules/mod6/8_evaluating.htm  

Practices  

http://www.bcps.org/offices/lis/models/biog/images/factopinionppt 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/apps/ifl/skillswise/mod_quizzes/words/reading/fact_and_opinion/quizengine?quiz=simplequiz3;templateStyle=simplequiz;pagerType=pages;pagerData=1  

http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/words/reading/fact_and_opinion/worksheet.shtml

There are some British terms here, but it still may be fun.

http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/TM/WS_MLK_248a.shtml 

http://www.quia.com/jq/24723.html 

http://www.quia.com/pop/12709.html 

http://cuip.uchicago.edu/www4teach/97/jlyman/default/quiz/factopquiz.html 

http://www.montgomerycollege.edu/~steuben/factopinion.htm 

http://www.umassd.edu/specialprograms/info_lit/quiz_fo.html 

http://www.auburn.edu/~murraba/fact.htm

Evaluating online sites

For further information about evaluating online sites read

http://www.education-world.com/a_curr/curr194.shtml

 

Inference, Figurative language

http://vclass.mtsac.edu/amla-51/Skills%20Exercises/anthropology.htm

http://vclass.mtsac.edu/amla-51/Skills%20Exercises/caweather.htm

http://vclass.mtsac.edu/amla-51/Skills%20Exercises/speaking.htm

Tone

http://www.geocities.com/garbisproject/tone.html

http://www.frostfriends.org/tone.html

 

Critical Analysis

http://lib.nmsu.edu/instruction/evalcrit.html

Find an editorial and critically analyze it
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/25/opinion/25MON1.html
 
Find support for a research article
http://www.fccj.edu/library/
 
Learn about poets

Learn how to map

Use sites for additional practice for a class objective

http://english-zone.com/grammar/adjective-find01.html      http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/hacker/exercises/       http://iws.ohiolink.edu/~sg-ysu/transiti.html
Find exercises from other schools and companies
Find a poem to share with the class

Reading Education

Brain based information

http://www.flreads.org/Reading%20Websites.htm