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No Prep Emergency Sub Plans - Substitute Activities 3rd, 4th, 5th Grade Teachers

By Kalena Baker - Teaching Made Practical

These no prep emergency sub plans make sick days much less stressful because the activities can be used over and over again; easily use these substitute plans to create 3 day of emergency sub plans (or more)! There are 2 sets of substitute plans -

Subjects:

For All Subject Areas, Literature, For All Subjects

Grades:

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

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Worksheets, Activities, Printables

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$6.25

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Main Idea & Supporting Details Activities - Central Idea - Passages, Worksheets

By Kalena Baker - Teaching Made Practical

Teaching main idea and supporting details / key details can be frustrating for teachers and difficult for students to understand. This resource is scaffolded to help all of your students - even your struggling students - better understand main idea

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Reading Strategies

Grades:

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

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Worksheets, Activities, Printables

CCSS:

RI.2.2, RI.3.2, RI.4.2

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Equivalent Fractions Activities, Worksheets & Review , Games, Coloring, Practice

By Kalena Baker - Teaching Made Practical

Help make teaching equivalent fractions easier and more understandable for your students with these low prep activities and worksheets. This unit starts with a basic introduction to equivalent fractions, and then is scaffolded with visuals to help

Subjects:

Math, Fractions, Math Test Prep

Grades:

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

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Printables

CCSS:

3.NF.A.3a, 3.NF.A.3b, 4.NF.A.1, 4.NF.A.2

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2,026

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Summarizing Nonfiction & Informational Text - Teaching How to Write Summaries

By Kalena Baker - Teaching Made Practical

This no prep resource contains nonfiction reading passages and activities to help students build a better understanding of what makes a good summary when summarizing informational text. The activities build on each other to help you scaffold and

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Informational Text

Grades:

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

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Activities, Printables, Google Apps

CCSS:

RI.4.2

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Probability Activities - Fun Review Worksheets, Spinners, Dice, Task Cards

By Kalena Baker - Teaching Made Practical

These low prep probability activities and worksheets make a great introduction or review. Students will practice probability vocabulary - certain, impossible, possible, likely, unlikely, and equally likely - and apply these words in a variety of

Subjects:

Graphing, Other (Math), Statistics

Grades:

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

Types:

Worksheets, Printables, Centers

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1,177

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No Prep Character Traits Activities - Character Trait Passages and Worksheets

By Kalena Baker - Teaching Made Practical

This character trait resource contains no prep reading and writing activities to help you teach character traits. Students practice identifying character traits within both shorter and longer texts. There are activities / graphic organizers to go

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Reading Strategies

Grades:

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

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Worksheets, Printables, Google Apps

CCSS:

RL.3.3, RL.3.4

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Summarizing Activities & Worksheets Practice / Lessons - Reading Passages, More

By Kalena Baker - Teaching Made Practical

This summarizing bundle has everything you need to help your students be successful with this difficult skill! It combines 2 resources for summarizing practice - Summarizing Nonfiction and Summarizing Fiction. These no prep lessons and activities

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Informational Text

Grades:

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

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Printables

CCSS:

RL.4.2, RI.4.2

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$8.75

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Nonfiction Text Features Activities Bundle - Centers, Posters, Reading Passages

By Kalena Baker - Teaching Made Practical

This nonfiction text feature resource encourages students not only to identify text features found in nonfiction text, but to explain the purpose of the informational text features and how they help the reader. There are posters, charts, worksheets,

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Informational Text

Grades:

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

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Printables

CCSS:

RI.3.5, RI.3.7, RI.4.7

$13.75

$8.50

1,997

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Parts of Speech Activities, Worksheets, Sorts & Game - Practice & Review

By Kalena Baker - Teaching Made Practical

This low prep resource helps introduce students to nouns, adjectives, verbs, and adverbs, and then allows them to practice and review their understanding of these parts of speech through activities, centers, a cut and paste sort, a scavenger hunt,

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Grammar

Grades:

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

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Printables

CCSS:

L.3.1a

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404

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Compare & Contrast Nonfiction Text - Activities, Passages, Worksheets, 2 Texts

By Kalena Baker - Teaching Made Practical

This resource makes it easy for you to teach comparing and contrasting in nonfiction texts / informational texts so that your students develop a thorough understanding. Students will have the opportunity to compare two topics in the same text, as

Subjects:

Reading, Reading Strategies, Informational Text

Grades:

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

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Printables

CCSS:

RI.3.9

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1,524

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Summarizing Fiction Text / Stories - Reading Passages & Practice Worksheets

By Kalena Baker - Teaching Made Practical

This no prep resource includes fiction reading passages and activities to help students build a better understanding of what makes a good summary and to help them better summarize stories. The activities build on each other to help you scaffold and

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Informational Text

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Printables, Google Apps

CCSS:

RL.4.2

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817

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Figurative Language in Poetry - Worksheets, Practice, Activities with Poems

By Kalena Baker - Teaching Made Practical

This figurative language resource contains 24 no prep worksheets to help your students practice reading, understanding, and writing figurative language in poetry - poems included! This resource covers the following types of figurative language

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Poetry

Grades:

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

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Printables

CCSS:

RL.5.4

$5.00

594

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Cause and Effect Passages, Task Cards, No Prep Worksheets, Activities Bundle

By Kalena Baker - Teaching Made Practical

This cause and effect packet provides a huge assortment of activities to help students come to a thorough understanding of cause and effect. In order for students to truly understand the complex skill of cause and effect, they must experience it in

Subjects:

Reading, ELA Test Prep, Reading Strategies

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Printables, Centers

$9.25

$7.25

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Compare and Contrast Fiction Texts - Comparing Characters, Stories, Two Texts

By Kalena Baker - Teaching Made Practical

This 50 page resource helps students to compare and contrast fiction passages in a variety of ways and provides many no prep resources. Students will compare characters to themselves, compare two characters in a story, compare different versions of

Subjects:

Reading, Literature, Poetry

Grades:

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

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Printables

CCSS:

RL.3.9

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419

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Fractions on a Number Line Activities - Fraction Worksheets, Games, Centers

By Kalena Baker - Teaching Made Practical

This mostly no prep resource is scaffolded to help students develop a thorough understanding of fractions on a number line. It includes worksheets, activities, task cards, centers, and more that cover this skill in a variety of ways to help make

Subjects:

Math, Fractions, Tools for Common Core

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Printables, Centers

CCSS:

3.NF.A.2, 4.NF.A.1, 4.NF.A.2

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872

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Decoding Multisyllabic Words Activities, Games, Worksheets, Word Lists - No Prep

By Kalena Baker - Teaching Made Practical

This no prep decoding multisyllabic words bundle includes worksheets, games / center activities, word lists, charts, and more to give your students fun practice with multisyllabic words. This resource includes:Prefix, Suffix, and Base Words

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Phonics

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Printables

$14.25

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Rounding Whole Numbers Activities, Worksheets - Rounding to the Nearest 10 & 100

By Kalena Baker - Teaching Made Practical

Help your students build the place value skills necessary to be successful at rounding numbers to the nearest 10 and 100. These mostly no prep scaffolded rounding activities start from very basic and become increasingly more difficult, making it

Subjects:

Math, Place Value, Tools for Common Core

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Printables, Centers

CCSS:

3.NBT.A.1, 4.NBT.A.3

$12.00

$8.25

486

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Natural Disasters / Severe Weather Reading Passages, Worksheets, Activities

By Kalena Baker - Teaching Made Practical

This no prep natural disasters / severe weather resource gives students a chance to learn about tornadoes, volcanoes, hurricanes, wildfires, floods, and earthquakes while also practicing different reading comprehension skills. Save 25% when you buy

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Science, Informational Text

Grades:

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

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Printables

$12.00

$9.00

204

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Point of View Activities in Fiction - Worksheets, Reading Passages, Perspective

By Kalena Baker - Teaching Made Practical

This point of view & perspective resource covers essential point of view skills within fiction / narratives. The reading passages, worksheets, and activities encourage students to think about the character's perspective and how that might differ

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Reading Strategies

Grades:

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

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Printables

CCSS:

RL.3.6, RL.4.6

$5.00

1,474

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Point of View Activities Bundle, Author's Perspective, Reading Passages and More

By Kalena Baker - Teaching Made Practical

Teaching students about point of view is more important than ever. Students need to learn that they can disagree with an author or character, how to consider thoughts and actions from a different perspective, and how an author's own biases might

Subjects:

Reading, Reading Strategies, Tools for Common Core

Grades:

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

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Printables

CCSS:

RL.3.6, RI.3.6

$12.00

$8.00

487

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

I have been teaching for 6 years. Most of this time was spent in 3rd grade, but I have also worked with Kindergarten, 2nd grade, and 4th grade.

MY TEACHING STYLE

Many of my products are geared toward struggling students who need additional scaffolding in order to be successful. I love building confidence and ability in students who don't have it!

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MY OWN EDUCATIONAL HISTORY

I have a Bachelor's Degree in Elementary Education, and am currently working on my Master's Degree in Curriculum and Instruction, with an emphasis on ELL learners.

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1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th, Homeschool, 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, Other (Math), Science, Astronomy, Environment, Social Studies, Government, U.S. History, Arts & Music, Visual Arts, ELA Test Prep, Math Test Prep, Canadian History, Geography, Other (ELA), Life Skills, Critical Thinking, For All Subjects, Literature, Classroom Management, Professional Development, Statistics, Character Education, Word Problems, General Science, Library Skills, Short Stories, Writing, Oral Communication, Reading Strategies, Writing-Essays, Holidays/Seasonal, Back to School, Thanksgiving, Christmas-Chanukah-Kwanzaa, Poetry, Autumn, Mental Math, Halloween, Winter, Valentine's Day, Martin Luther King Day, Black History Month, Easter, Spring, Place Value, Tools for Common Core, For All Subjects, Summer, Informational Text, Test Preparation, End of Year, Phonics, Classroom Community