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Reading Passages with Comprehension Questions: Test Prep for 3rd, 4th, 5th Grade

By Deb Hanson

This resource contains SIX reading comprehension passages (3 nonfiction passages and 3 fiction passages). Following each passage, there are six multiple-choice comprehension questions, making them ideal for test prep practice. These reading passages

Subjects:

English Language Arts, ELA Test Prep, Reading Strategies

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, Homeschool

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Activities, Google Apps

CCSS:

RL.4.1, RL.4.2, RL.4.3, RL.4.4, RL.5.1, RL.5.2, RL.5.4, RL.5.6, RI.4.1, RI.4.2, RI.4.5...

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390

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Main Idea and Details FREEBIE: 2 Passages in PDF and Digital Easel

By Deb Hanson

This product contains two passages and a teaching poster that explains the ice cream cone analogy! For each passage, the students have to read the passage and then determine the main idea and three supporting details. They write their statements

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading Strategies, Informational Text

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th, Homeschool

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Printables

CCSS:

RI.3.2, RI.4.2, RI.5.2

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953

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Nonfiction Text Structures: Three FREE Activities

By Deb Hanson

Are you teaching text structures in your upper elementary classroom? You'll definitely want to download these free printables! You will have everything you need to facilitate a complete and thorough text structure lesson! (Well, you'll just need to

Subjects:

English Language Arts, ELA Test Prep, Informational Text

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th, Homeschool

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Printables

CCSS:

RI.4.5, RI.5.5, RI.5.6, RI.6.5

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700

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Punctuating Dialogue Worksheet | PDF and Digital |

By Deb Hanson

This product contains a practice worksheet related to writing sentences with quotation marks. Students are given the opportunity to focus on the punctuation rules required to form written dialogue correctly.Check out my blog post (CLICK HERE!), and

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Grammar, Writing

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, Homeschool

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Printables

CCSS:

W.5.3b, W.6.3b, W.3.3b, W.4.3b

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320

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Author's Purpose PIE'ED Test Prep Passages with Print and Digital with TpT Easel

By Deb Hanson

I created this FREE set of Author's Purpose test prep passages for teachers who want to teach their students the more advanced version of Author's Purpose: PIE'ED! It includes five passages about penguins. After reading the passages, students choose

Subjects:

English Language Arts, ELA Test Prep, Reading Strategies

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Printables

FREE

388

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Character Traits: Three FREE Activities

By Deb Hanson

Are you teaching character traits in your upper elementary classroom? You'll definitely want to download these free printables!It contains three activities:1. An Anchor Chart Activity (The four passages are provided for you to print!)2. A Sorting

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, ELA Test Prep

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th, Homeschool

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Printables

CCSS:

RL.4.3, RL.5.3

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334

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Free Partner Play: A Fun Reading Fluency and Comprehension Activity 4th and 5th

By Deb Hanson

Do your students love to read scripts? Most kids do! Partner play scripts are written for just two readers, so students can find a classmate and begin reading! With just two readers, students do not have to wait forever to read their next line.

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Balanced Literacy, Reading

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Printables, For Parents

CCSS:

RF.4.4, RF.4.4b, RF.5.4, RF.5.4b

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210

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Types of Sentences Posters, Sort, and Notebook Activity: FREE!

By Deb Hanson

This set of four colorful posters focuses on the four types of sentences: declarative, interrogative, imperative, and exclamatory. It also includes two additional activity options.The first activity is an interactive notebook entry. Students cut out

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Grammar, ELA Test Prep

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Printables, Posters

FREE

252

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Nouns & Verbs Worksheet (Multiple Meaning Words) in Print and Digital Easel

By Deb Hanson

This resource contains a practice worksheet related to determining whether a multiple meaning word is a noun or a verb. Six sentences pairs are featured (twelve sentences in all). Students must use the context of the sentence to determine whether

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Grammar, Vocabulary

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th, Homeschool

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Printables

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134

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Halloween Point of View Passages in Print and Digital

By Deb Hanson

This free worksheet packet contains four passages. After students read each passage, they must determine whether the passage was written in first person, second person, third person limited, or third person omniscient. Page 3 of the worksheet

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Literature, Reading Strategies

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th, Homeschool

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Printables

CCSS:

RL.4.6

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274

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Themes in Literature Posters: FREE!

By Deb Hanson

This file contains two posters. I use this when I teach students how to identify themes in fiction. The posters contain about twenty possible themes that might be found in passages and books. I use a cupcake analogy to teach the concept of theme. I

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, ELA Test Prep

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th, Homeschool

Types:

Printables, Posters

FREE

231

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Adjectives and Adverbs Worksheets and Activity in Print and Digital

By Deb Hanson

This activity allows your students to practice differentiating between adjectives and adverbs in sentences. Choose between the print version and the TpT Digital Easel version. PRINT CRAFTIVITY VERSION- Students are given two worksheets filled with

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Grammar, ELA Test Prep

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Internet Activities, Printables

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115

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Free Partner Play: A Fun Reading Fluency and Comprehension Activity 2nd and 3rd

By Deb Hanson

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Balanced Literacy, Reading

Grades:

2^nd, 3^rd, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Printables, For Parents

CCSS:

RF.2.4, RF.2.4b, RF.3.4, RF.3.4b

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128

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Fluency Posters FREEBIE: Improving Reading Fluency

By Deb Hanson

This product contains posters related to reading fluently. They address rate, punctuation, accuracy, expression, phrasing, intonation, or stress. Read my September 17th blog post to read how I would introduce them in the classroom. Here is the

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Balanced Literacy, Reading

Grades:

2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Printables, Posters

CCSS:

RF.2.4, RF.3.4, RF.4.4, RF.5.4

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Text Evidence: Three Activities

By Deb Hanson

Teaching students to find text evidence to support their answers is an important reading strategy and test taking strategy. This packet contains a FREE text evidence lesson! All of the materials are included so that you can easily replicate the

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, ELA Test Prep

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th, Homeschool

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Printables

CCSS:

RL.3.1, RL.4.1, RL.5.1, RI.3.1, RI.4.1, RI.5.1

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Possessive Nouns Memory Game in Print and Digital (singular and plural)

By Deb Hanson

This is a hands-on game your students can play to practice how to correctly use the apostrophe when forming singular possessives and plural possessives.It includes 36 game pieces (18 matches) and directions! It comes in two formats: print and

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Grammar, Spelling

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Games

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180

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Alliteration Worksheet in Print and Digital with TpT Easel

By Deb Hanson

This is a free worksheet for students who are learning about alliteration. The worksheet contains two parts. In Part 1, students will identify alliterative phrases in sentences. In Part 2, students will write sentences that contain

Subjects:

English Language Arts, ELA Test Prep, Writing

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th, Homeschool

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Printables

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Homophone Worksheet and Craftivity for April Fool's Day

By Deb Hanson

Don't be fooled by those tricky homophones! This activity allows your students to practice identifying the correct homophone to use in a sentence, AND it allows them to produce their own sentences!Students begin by completing a worksheet containing

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Spelling, Vocabulary

Grades:

2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th, Homeschool

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Printables

FREE

175

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Context Clues Partner Play: Fluency Activity and Practice Worksheet for 4th 5th

By Deb Hanson

Are you looking for an engaging way for your upper elementary students to practice using context clues? This cooperative reading activity focuses on using context clues with the added bonus of allowing students to practice reading fluency!Students

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Balanced Literacy, Reading

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Printables, For Parents

CCSS:

RF.4.4, RF.5.4

FREE

Digital Download PDF (1.21 MB)

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Context Clues: Three FREE Activities

By Deb Hanson

Are you teaching context clues in your upper elementary classroom? You will definitely want to download these free printables!It contains three activities:A Sorting Activity (14 sentences with highlighted words are provided for you to print!) An

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, ELA Test Prep

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th, Homeschool

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Printables

FREE

189

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

I have 16 years teaching experience. I began my career as a 2nd grade teacher. The majority of my career (13 years), I have worked as an elementary ESL teacher. In that capacity, I worked with students from kindergarten through grade 6 at all language development levels, but I most frequently worked with 3rd, 4th, & 5th grade students. I was an upper elementary Reading Teacher (grades 4-5) for two years, as well. I have also spent some of my summers teaching graduate classes at a local university for teachers seeking an ESL endorsement.

MY TEACHING STYLE

I believe in hands-on activities with lots of visual aids and graphic organizers! Most of my products include picture clues for my ESL students! I am constantly creating and making learning materials that will support the unique needs of my students and engage them so that they can experience success and know that learning can be fun!

HONORS/AWARDS/SHINING TEACHER MOMENT

I have been asked to present half-day professional development seminars at a nearby school district. For my own local school district, I was asked to present two "Teacher Toolkit" seminars for my colleagues, focusing on student engagement and formative assessment. I have served as a mentor teacher to five first year teachers and several teachers new to an ESL position.

MY OWN EDUCATIONAL HISTORY

I have a B.A. degree in Elementary Education with an endorsement in Early Childhood. I have a Master's Degree in Curriculum and Instruction with an emphasis in English as a Second Language.

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English Language Arts, Balanced Literacy, Creative Writing, Writing-Expository, Reading, Grammar, Spelling, Vocabulary, Specialty, Math, Algebra, Basic Operations, Fractions, Geometry, Graphing, Measurement, Numbers, Order of Operations, Science, Earth Sciences, Environment, Physics, Social Studies, Government, U.S. History, Arts & Music, Visual Arts, Drama, ESL-EFL-ELL, ELA Test Prep, Math Test Prep, Geography, Other (ELA), For All Subjects, Literature, Classroom Management, Economics , Character Education, Word Problems, Library Skills, Writing, Reading Strategies, Writing-Essays, Holidays/Seasonal, Back to School, Thanksgiving, Christmas-Chanukah-Kwanzaa, Poetry, Autumn, Mental Math, Halloween, Winter, The New Year, Valentine's Day, Martin Luther King Day, Presidents' Day, Decimals, Black History Month, St. Patrick's Day, Easter, Spring, Place Value, Earth Day, Informational Text, End of Year