Reading Centers Interactive Activities

This link provides a review lesson of first and third person point of view. Click on the flower at the bottom to practice identifying first and third person sentences.

Students can try to find synonym word pairs.Keep playing, as there are over 60 synonym word pairs

These multiple choice quizzes will give you plenty of practice in determining the author's purpose. Begin with exercise number one and work your way to the end!

'Types of text' is a quiz based game to help you recognise different text types and why they are written in different ways.

Read the story below and try to identify the author's purpose.  Is the purpose of the story to inform or persuade the audience?  Or did the author write this piece for the audience to enjoy?

Carefully read each paragraph below and decide why the author wrote this piece. Click on your choice below each question.   

Read the passage and then answer the questions. Click on the tips button for clue if you get stuck!

Main Idea and Supporting Details

Watch the video lesson and then try an activity and quiz to make sure you understand the main idea.

Try to determine the reason the story was written and choose the best answer.

What's The Big Idea? - Solve a riddle by answering questions about the main idea.

Get The Idea - read text to determine the main idea or essential message and identify relevant supporting details and facts

Reading Headlines - read eight headlines and try to determine what the article is about

Summarize as You Read - When you summarize, eliminate unnecessary details. Focus on the main idea of the whole passage.

Grammar Practice

Plurals Fishing

In this activity you will go fishing with gnomes to practice your plurals spelling rules.

Crystal Castle

Build the castle by answering prefix questions correctly.