February
25
Website Worth Sharing WPSU Reading Comprehension Interactives
It’s pretty easy to find interactive sites for phonics and decoding skills, but activities that build comprehension skills are harder to find. PBS Media has a collection of sites that address these skills which were created by WPSU. The activities address skills like-
Making Inferences with
Detective’s Notebook
Finding the Main Idea with
the Hamburger Game
Monitoring and Clarifying with Fridge Magnets
Questioning with the Question Cube Game
Sequencing with the Train Game
and the Making Connections Game
You might want to display these on a Smart board or interactive projector or model them for students before giving them the chance to practice on their own. There are built in audio supports that you can’t turn off, so more competent readers might want to mute the activities. Most of the games don’t reward guessing which is a great feature. I found a few errors, but overall, it isn’t bad. It might not take the older students long to figure out that the right answer on the “Fridge Magnets” activity is always the one on the top. Hopefully they’ll fix that soon.
The “Share to Google Classroom” button on the information screen is a handy way to post a link on your Google Classroom. You can connect to all 6 or just one at a time by going to the description page for each game.
