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Activities at Randall’s ESL Cyber Listening Lab focus on everyday English comprehension skills at three levels based on content, voices, vocabulary, and natural speed. A combination of adult, teenage, and children’s voices are included.
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English Culture Videos
The English Culture Videos, listed in alphabetical order, are designed to provide additional learning content related to other listening activities on my site. To learn more about this project, read the Frequently Asked Questions below the video titles.
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Understanding and using expressions for daily communication.
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North Carolina Focus lessons: Lessons, short stories, and questions on story elements and literary devices, with answers at the end of the pdf.
North Carolina: Focus Lessons Booklet | PDFFocus Lessons Booklet Reading Strategies Contents:
The Focus Lessons include the following (check answers at end of the booklet):
- Introduction to Reading Strategies and Literary Elements
- Literary Elements Focus Lessons
- Lesson 1: Elements of Fiction
- Lesson 2: Point of View I
- Lesson 3: Point of View II
- Lesson 4: Dialogue
- Lesson 5: Flashback
- Lesson 6: Foreshadowing
- Lesson 7: Irony
- Lesson 8: Style
- Lesson 9: Tone
- Lesson 10: Hyperbole
- Lesson 11: Archetype
- Lesson12: Allusion
- Lesson 13: Symbolism
- Lesson14: Figurative Language
- Lesson 15: Imagery and Motif
- Lesson16: Mood
- Lesson 17: Sound Devices
- Lesson 18: Personification
- Reading Comprehension Exercises 1–5
- Focus Lessons Answer Key
- Exercises Answer Key
- Exercises Answer Sheet
Use the K12 Reader Reading Instruction Resources free, printable reading comprehension passage exercises to improve reading skills! Click on the title to view the printable activities in each grade range K-12, or to read the details of each worksheet. They are free for use in the home or in the classroom. Be sure to check out the spelling words activities too!
Reading Comprehension Story Elements Character Descriptions Character Traits Main Idea Context Clues Cause and Effect Point of View Drawing Conclusions Fact and Opinion Figurative Language Literature Making Inference
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