Elementary English

Castle Learning Online's Elementary English includes questions covering reading skills, grammar, spelling, and vocabulary targeted to the upper elementary grades (3-5).

The Critical Reading Passages unit contains interesting reading passages with related questions, testing a student's comprehension skills. Passages vary in length and are categorized into the following main genres: Prose and Short Stories, Poetry, Information and Chart, Informational Prose, Biographies and Autobiographies. Each passage is also assigned a difficulty level (Basic, Intermediate, or Advanced), relative to reading levels appropriate for upper elementary students.

In addition to asking questions of a factual nature, the Critical Reading Passages unit tests students’ ability to make an inference, draw a conclusion, use contextual clues to identify vocabulary, and interpret negatives.

The Critical Reading Skills unit consists of shorter passages covering the same skills.

Units: (click to view Sections)
  1. Critical Reading Passages
  2. Critical Reading Skills
  3. Grammar: The Sentence
  4. Grammar: Internal Punctuation
  5. Grammar: Usage
  6. Vocabulary
  7. Spelling
 Themes:
  1. Identifying Factual Information
  2. Making Inferences and Drawing Conclusions
  3. Understanding Vocabulary Usage Based on Context
  4. Identifying Main Idea or Theme
  5. Identifying Mood
  6. Identifying Multiple Levels of Meaning
  7. Grammar
  8. Spelling
  9. Vocabulary
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