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Reading Genre Study - A Teacher's Guide & Materials for Fiction + Poetry + More

By Chrissy Beltran Buzzing with Ms B

Over 200 pages of teacher background pages, planning tools, and graphic organizers, anchor charts printables for teaching reading genre study for an entire school year. Fiction, poetry, drama, expository, persuasive, and procedural materials

Subjects:

Reading, Literature, Informational Text

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th

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Teacher Manuals, Printables, Centers

$26.00

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Reading Responses for Drama and Plays

By Chrissy Beltran Buzzing with Ms B

This product is designed to support readers in responding to drama and plays. It includes over 45 pages of strategies with a graphic organizer to record their evidence and thinking and sentence starters to respond to the text using their organizer.

Subjects:

Balanced Literacy, Reading, Literature

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th

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Printables, Interactive Notebooks

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Character Traits, Conflict, and Change posters, activities, and worksheets

By Chrissy Beltran Buzzing with Ms B

To understand a fiction story, we need to understand the character: their traits, emotions, conflicts, relationships, lessons, and changes. This pack includes 41 different tools to use when teaching character analysis in fiction stories and books in

Subjects:

Balanced Literacy, Reading, Literature

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th

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Activities, Printables, Graphic Organizers

$7.50

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Wonder Novel Study: Graphic Organizers, Reading Responses & Projects - 4th & 5th

By Chrissy Beltran Buzzing with Ms B

This novel unit is full of 102 pages of tools to use to engage kids in thinking, comprehending, making personal connections to and responding to the novel Wonder by R.J. Palacio. Engage students in discussion, reflection, and writing to deepen their

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Literature

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th

Types:

Printables, Literature Circles

$9.75

290

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One Pager Genre Graphic Organizers

By Chrissy Beltran Buzzing with Ms B

Using this resource, students will identify and apply the important structures and elements of each genre. The graphic organizers help students summarize and identify author's purpose and other important characteristics of genre.This is a zip file

Subjects:

Balanced Literacy, Reading, Literature

Grades:

4^th, 5^th

Types:

Activities, Printables, Graphic Organizers

$3.25

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Reading Responses for Fiction

By Chrissy Beltran Buzzing with Ms B

This product is designed to support readers in responding to fictional text. It includes almost 40 pages of strategies with a graphic organizer to record their evidence and thinking and sentence starters to respond to the text using their organizer.

Subjects:

Balanced Literacy, Reading, Literature

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th

Types:

Printables, Interactive Notebooks

$4.00

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Reading Genre Study Graphic Organizers + Vocabulary for 12 reading genres

By Chrissy Beltran Buzzing with Ms B

This genre study printable is aligned with third grade TEKS in Texas and includes genre that are important for students to understand and read widely, Each genre allows students to record characteristics and important components. In addition to

Subjects:

Balanced Literacy, Reading, Literature

Grades:

2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th

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Activities, Printables, Literature Circles

$4.50

176

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Scaffolded Reading Responses for Nonfiction

By Chrissy Beltran Buzzing with Ms B

This product is designed to support readers in responding to informational text. It includes over 30 pages of strategies with a graphic organizer to record their evidence and thinking and sentence starters to respond to the text using their

Subjects:

Balanced Literacy, Reading, Literature

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th

Types:

Printables, Interactive Notebooks

$4.00

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Fiction Lap Book: Folded Flapbook

By Chrissy Beltran Buzzing with Ms B

Lapbooks are a fun way to have students process information. Each of the following folded flapbooks are included in this fiction lapbook set:Elements of Fiction Sidefold FlapbookCharacter Analysis Diamond Folded FlapbookCharacter Relationships

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Balanced Literacy, Literature

Grades:

4^th, 5^th

Types:

Activities, Printables

$3.00

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One Pager Reading Genres - Graphic Organizers in Spanish for Each Genre

By Chrissy Beltran Buzzing with Ms B

Subjects:

Balanced Literacy, Reading, Literature

Grades:

4^th, 5^th

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Activities, Printables, Graphic Organizers

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Scaffolded Reading Responses: Fiction for Google Drive™

By Chrissy Beltran Buzzing with Ms B

This collection of 32 fiction reading responses with sentence starters is created for use with Google Slides™ and Google Drive™. Perfect for remote learning! Use Google Classroom to create assignments and students can complete one every day for

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Balanced Literacy, Reading, Literature

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th

Types:

Interactive Notebooks, Google Apps

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Scaffolded Reading Responses: Nonfiction for Google Drive™

By Chrissy Beltran Buzzing with Ms B

This resource includes 23 responses to nonfiction books and articles for use with Google Classroom™ and Google Slides™. Students can complete one organizer in response to their reading each day for almost two weeks! Perfect for virtual and distance

Subjects:

Balanced Literacy, Reading, Literature

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th

Types:

Interactive Notebooks, Google Apps

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Interactive Read Aloud Signs for Nonfiction

By Chrissy Beltran Buzzing with Ms B

Easy to prep signs to use during interactive read alouds. Students hold up their sign as you get a part that relates to their topic: text features, text structures and more! Easy way to engage students during interactive read aloud! Signs can also

Subjects:

Balanced Literacy, Reading, Literature

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th

Types:

Lesson, Centers

$3.75

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Interactive Read Aloud Signs for Fiction

By Chrissy Beltran Buzzing with Ms B

Easy to make signs to use during interactive read alouds. Students hold up their sign as you get a part that relates to the topic of their sign: character analysis, fiction summary elements, character traits, and more! These signs include sentence

Subjects:

Balanced Literacy, Reading, Literature

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th

Types:

Lesson, Centers

CCSS:

RL.3.3, RL.3.5, RL.4.2, RL.4.3, CCRA.R.2, CCRA.R.3

$4.00

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Interactive Read Aloud Signs for Reading Comprehension

By Chrissy Beltran Buzzing with Ms B

Easy to prep signs to use during read alouds or any reading lesson. Use these signs to set a purpose for the lesson, provide students with a visual for the strategy or skill, and have them respond using academic language. Once the skill or strategy

Subjects:

Balanced Literacy, Reading, Literature

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th

Types:

Lesson, Centers

$3.75

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Reading Genre Posters and Handouts

By Chrissy Beltran Buzzing with Ms B

This poster set includes 18 posters designed to help students understand the structure, features, and purpose of different reading genres. Great for grades 3 - 5. Each poster includes the name of the genre, an explanation of its purpose, and an

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Literature

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th

Types:

Printables, Posters

$3.00

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Fiction Notes for Notebooks

By Chrissy Beltran Buzzing with Ms B

Help kids learn about important reading strategies and skills in fiction with these handy reading notes! Three versions of each page: one complete version, one with blanks for students to fill in, and one with the filled-in-blanks in red for an

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Literature

Grades:

4^th, 5^th

Types:

Printables, Scaffolded Notes

$3.00

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Interactive Read Aloud Signs for Figurative Language

By Chrissy Beltran Buzzing with Ms B

Easy to prep signs to use during read alouds. Students hold up their sign when they hear an example of the kind of figurative language listed: similes, metaphors, alliteration, and more! These signs are a fun way to engage students during an

Subjects:

Balanced Literacy, Reading, Literature

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th

Types:

Lesson, Centers

CCSS:

L.3.5, L.4.5, CCRA.L.5

$2.25

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Elementary school is the best and I spent 14 happy years there! I taught fourth grade for eight years, spent a year in third, and then I served as an Instructional Coach/Leader for my campus. As an instructional specialist for reading and writing, I created tools my own teachers find useful when working with real kids and real learning. Now, as an educational consultant and an instructional coach's coach, I use the best practices I used with my own students to support coaches, teachers, and kids in elementary schools!

MY TEACHING STYLE

I love to work with all content areas and develop my own units rather than use textbooks or programs. Real reading, real writing, real experiences, real conversations :)

HONORS/AWARDS/SHINING TEACHER MOMENT

I was Teacher of the Year for my campus for the 2010 - 2011 school year and the 2012-2013 school year. I've presented at IRA conferences as well as a National Writing Project National Meeting.

MY OWN EDUCATIONAL HISTORY

Partway through my reading masters!

ADDITIONAL BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

I live in El Paso, Texas with my husband, two kids, a dog, and a cat! I love coffee, tea, gardening, reading, and crafting!

GRADES

PreK, Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Adult Education, Staff, Not Grade Specific

SUBJECTS

English Language Arts, Balanced Literacy, Creative Writing, Writing-Expository, Reading, Grammar, Spelling, Vocabulary, Specialty, Math, Arithmetic, Basic Operations, Fractions, Geometry, Graphing, Measurement, Numbers, Science, Basic Principles, Earth Sciences, Environment, Social Studies, Civics, Government, U.S. History, World Languages, Spanish, Arts & Music, Drama, Career and Technical Education, ELA Test Prep, Other (Social Studies), Other (ELA), For All Subjects, Literature, Classroom Management, Professional Development, School Counseling, Study Skills, Instructional Technology, General Science, Physical Science, Writing, Reading Strategies, Writing-Essays, Holidays/Seasonal, Back to School, Thanksgiving, Christmas-Chanukah-Kwanzaa, Poetry, Autumn, Halloween, Winter, The New Year, Valentine's Day, Black History Month, St. Patrick's Day, Easter, Spring, Place Value, For All Subjects, Summer, Informational Text, For Administrators, Coaching, Test Preparation, End of Year, Phonics, Close Reading, Classroom Community