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Close reading Common Core W.2.1 activities
First Day Jitters Activities | First Day Jitters Book Activities
First Day Jitters Activities-Do you love using the book “First Day Jitters” at back to school time? Then, you and your students will love this engaging and fun First Day Jitters book activities unit! This week-long unit is packed with an emoji writing craft, responding to literature activities, vocabulary, quick prints, and soooo much more!INCLUDES DIGITAL STUDENT ACTIVITIES! _____________________________________________________________✊ Buy the bundle and SAVE BIG!!! ✊Ready to have your student
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1st - 3rd
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Also included in:Â Reading Activities Beyond the Text All Year Bundle
Decodable Passages w/ Reading Comprehension Questions & Activities
Want to get your students excited about reading and writing? In this resource, reading comprehension is paired with decodable phonics passages and writing. Help your students pair phonics w/ vocabulary, reading comprehension, & writing as they write their own ending...the ultimate science of reading approach!30 decodable passages:follow a systematic scope and sequence of the most common phonics skillsStudents read the decodable passage and use their comprehension of the story to answer quest
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1st - 3rd
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Reading Activities Beyond the Text All Year Bundle
Beyond the Text All Year: The Growing Bundle If you LOVE my Beyond the Text Reading Packs then, you’ll love this year-long growing bundle! Close reading in the 2nd and 3rd grade classroom can be challenging. From what stories to pull, to what skills to teach week after week, creating a reading routine that is engaging and full of learning can be difficult. Streamline your planning process with this YEAR LONG GROWING BUNDLE! Save 40% off when you purchase this bundle! ____________________________
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1st - 3rd
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Turk and Runt Activities Beyond the Text
Turk and Runt ActivitiesIf your students love the book, "Turk and Runt" by Lisa Wheeler, they will love these Turk and Runt activities that are specifically built to complement this fun Thanksgiving story! This unit includes digital Turk and Runt Activities that are perfect for your distance learning classroom. This Turk and Runt Activities unit is designed to save you time while helping you build your students' reading comprehension as they learn to look Beyond the Text (TM) This Turk and Runt
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1st - 3rd
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Also included in:Â Reading Activities Beyond the Text All Year Bundle
A Bad Case of the Stripes Activities Back To School Reading Lessons & Worksheets
This Back to School Read Aloud for A Bad Case of the Stripes Picture Book Reading includes EVERYTHING you need for fun reading activities, crafts, and lesson plans to go along with the book: A Bad Case of Stripes. These week-long read aloud lessons make teaching character traits, reality and fantasy, and cause and effect fun using differentiated reading and writing activities, worksheets, and graphic organizers. EVERYTHING you need is included to help you teach and provide practice lessons for y
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K - 2nd
Johnny Appleseed Activities Print and Digital Beyond the Text
Johnny Appleseed Activities: Print and DigitalIt's apple time! That means time to learn more about Johnny Appleseed! Ready to engage your students while learning more about Johnny Appleseed and American Folktales? Then, they'll love this engaging and fun Beyond the Text unit about Johnny Appleseed! This unit includes tons of fun Johnny Appleseed Activities. This week-long unit is packed with printable and digital versions of crafts, responding to literature activities, vocabulary, quick prints,
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1st - 3rd
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Also included in:Â Reading Activities Beyond the Text All Year Bundle
Chester's Way Book Study
Chester’s Way by Kevin Henkes teaches an important lesson in friendship. This book study includes a wealth of easy-to-differentiate resources to assist you and your students in close reading, writing, and thinking deeply about this story. These activities work well as literacy centers, or can be done as a whole class.
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The table of contents is as follows:
• Vocabulary (p. 6) - Pre-teach key vocabulary from the story with this list or copy for students to paste into notebooks. Words, d
Grades:
1st - 2nd
Click, Clack, Moo Cows That Type (Book Study)
This resource is filled with comprehension and literacy center resources to pair with Click, Clack, Moo Cows That Type by Doreen Cronin. Great for grade 1 and grade 2!
Here’s what you will find inside:
• Vocabulary List (p. 4)
• Story Map (p. 5-6)
• Comprehension Strips & Recording Sheets (p. 7-20)
• Opinion Writing Prompt (p. 21-22)
• Fantasy vs. Realism Chart (p. 23-24)
• Summary Writing (p. 25-26)
• Letter Writing Activities (p. 27-28)
*Story map, comprehension strip recording sheets
Grades:
1st - 2nd
Amos and Boris Book Study
Amos & Boris by William Steig is a classic friendship tale your class is sure to love!This book study includes a wealth of easy-to-differentiate resources to assist you and your students in close reading, writing, and thinking deeply about this story. These activities work well as literacy centers, or can be done as a whole class.The table of contents is as follows:Vocabulary (p. 5) - Pre-teach key vocabulary from the story with this list or copy for students to paste into notebooks. Words
Grades:
1st - 3rd
Test Prep ELA Performance Task BUNDLE 2
This is a bundle of NINE ELA performance tasks designed to help prepare your students for what they'll see on the test. Save 30% by purchasing the bundle!Included are:* 2 PTs for 2nd-3rd Grades (Lemonade Stands and Endangered Species)* 2 PTs for 3rd-4th Grades (Video Games and Getting/Preventing Illness)* 5 PTs for 4th-5th Grades (The Red Planet, Elizabethan Explorers, Roman Mythology, Yellowstone National Park, American Revolution)All PTs in the bundle include:- Part 1 directions- 3 sources wit
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2nd - 5th
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Banksy Activities - Famous Artist Biography Art Unit - Graffiti Artist Unit
Banksy Biography and Art Activities. Famous graffiti artist activities unit includes close read biography passages, reading skills activities, vocabulary words, creative writing sheets, art appreciation responses, and drawing and coloring pages. Great addition to monthly themes like Black History Month, Women’s History Month, Hispanic Heritage Month, etc. This unit is also available in SPANISH. Click HERE.Updated to include two differentiated reading comprehension assignments for use with the ar
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2nd - 6th
Opposing Views Opinion Articles- Distance Learning Added!
*Newly updated to include Google Slide versions of the articles for distance learning!*This set of 10 articles on kid-friendly debate topics is perfect for your opinion or persuasive writing unit. The articles range in length from 147-222 words and the lexile levels vary from 500-1000 LL. These articles show two differing opinions for the following five topics:School UniformsHomeworkClass PetsCats vs. DogsYear-round vs. Traditional SchoolsIn addition to the articles, I have included note-taking
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2nd - 6th
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The Great Fuzz Frenzy Read Aloud Activities with Crafts for Forest Theme
The Great Fuzz Frenzy is a forest animal read aloud favorite! These The Great Fuzz Frenzy activities, woodland or forest crafts, reading responses, writing prompts and worksheets will make your classroom fun and ready to learn about woodland or forest animals! These The Great Fuzz Frenzy activities are all differentiated for K-3. Please note, you will need a copy of the book The Great Fuzz Frenzy in order to use this resource.There are 7 The Great Fuzz Frenzy reading response activities:Making P
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K - 3rd
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Also included in:Â 43 Read Aloud Activities, Crafts and Discussion Questions FOR THE YEAR
Super Storms Activities Weather Beyond the Text
Super Storms Activities Weather Beyond the TextLooking to incorporate weather science curriculum and reading together? This rand writing activity is based on Super Storms. It's the perfect addition to your weather unit or spring activities! This unit includes 5-day reading and writing lesson plans all centered around the nonfiction book, Super Storms by Seymour Simon. This Super Storms unit is designed to be used as part of a repeated reading routine, with each day building on the previous day’s
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1st - 3rd
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Also included in:Â Reading Activities Beyond the Text All Year Bundle
Back to School Read-Aloud Reading Response Journal: First Day Critter Jitters
Are you looking for a meaningful back to school reading response journal to start off your school year? This resource accompanies the read-aloud First Day Critter Jitters by Jory John and is a perfect way for you to take a look at the reading response skills your new learners are coming in with this year. This response journal is perfect for first, second, and third grade learners practicing their writing in response to literature.In this differentiated resource, you will find meaningful questio
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1st - 3rd
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Jabari Jumps Interactive Read Aloud and Writing Activity
This Jabari Jumps by Gaia Cornwall interactive read aloud and writing activity pack has everything you need to dive in deep and build rigor for your students with text-dependent questions, targeted skills, and writing practice. This pack includes:-3-Day, 4-Day, and 5-Day Lesson Plan Options-Detailed Standards-Standards Overview-Story Preview-Pre-Reading Discussion Questions-Lesson 1 (with Answer Key)-Activity 1-Lesson 2 (with Answer Key)-Activity 2-Writing Activity (with Rubrics)-Post-Reading
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K - 2nd
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Candy Corn Day | National Holiday | OCT 30th
National Candy Corn Day is October 30th! Have some fun with your kids and surprise them with Candy Corn Day. You can include these candy corn activities into math, reading, and writing time or add them to your Halloween Classroom Party. This product includes:-candy corn find-candy graph-candy corn adjectives -candy corn symmetry -goodie bag tags-candy corn word finder-candy corn mazes-candy corn word maker-close reading passage about candy corn with questions-redesign request for candy corn (art
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1st - 3rd
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Also included in:Â Halloween Week Survival Bundle- Easy Prep
Tapenum's Day
This book study includes comprehension and writing activities for the book Tapenum’s Day, written by Kate Waters.
Six comprehension strip questions are provided, along with a recording sheet. Students will return to the text to find specific information as they answer the questions. These can be done individually or in pairs and work well in literacy centers.
A sequencing activity, Venn diagram, compare and contrast writing prompt and an opinion writing prompt are also included.
Writing
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1st - 3rd
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If You Plant a Seed Book Companion Activities
If You Plant a Seed by Kadir Nelson is the perfect read aloud to add to your spring books this year. The main character, Rabbit learns a hard but valuable lesson about kindness and unfortunately had to learn the hard way how to be a good friend. This story would be a great read to focus on SEL, reading strategies that focus on the Common Core State Standards. Students will have just as much fun as mine did with the writing crafts and planting activity. This activity pack is such a great addition
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PreK - 2nd
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FULL YEAR STORY BUNDLE - Journeys 2nd Grade Non Fiction and Fiction Texts
This is a BUNDLE for ALL of the weeks of Journeys Second Grade supplemental materials Weeks 1-30Grab your bundle of supplemental materials for every week of Journeys second grade 2014 edition. Each resource is more than 100 pages and includes comprehension, vocabulary, grammar, phonics, essential questions and fluency activities.This bundle does not include activities for stories from PREVIOUS Journeys editions, sorry! Supplemental materials for EACH story average more than 100 pages. They cove
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2nd
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Arnie the Doughnut Read-Aloud Activities Response Journal for 1st 2nd Grade
Are you looking for read-aloud activities to accompany Arnie the Doughnut by Laurie Keller? This reading response journal is perfect for kindergarten, first, and second grade learners practicing their writing in response to literature.In this differentiated resource, you will find meaningful questions tailored to the story as well as writing templates and graphic organizers.Pick and choose the activities that best suit the needs of your class for a week-long study of the book, plus the cover to
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K - 2nd
American Heroes Close Reading & Opinion Writing
Teach Close Reading, Opinion Writing, & Social Studies all in one with this American Heroes topic. It has been updated for use during distance learning, and can be used for Presidents’ Day, Black History month, or any time of year. This download comes with 5 reading passages that can be used for Close Reading and note-taking/annotating. You can choose to either print pages with single spacing (save paper by copying onto one page) or double spacing (to leave space for students to make annotat
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1st - 3rd
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Also included in:Â American Heroes Bundle: Close Reading, Writing, and Project
The Very Cranky Bear Literacy Unit Worksheets and Activities
The Very Cranky Bear by Nick Bland is the perfect winter read aloud for your students to become engaged and fall in love with reading. The unit is a print and go for teachers that want to dive deeper into a read aloud and teach the standards in an engaged hands-on way. This read aloud allows for students to fully understand the reading standards such as story elements, retelling, character traits, SEL, etc. all pair with different versions of each worksheet to all for all types of learners. This
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K - 2nd
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Little Red Riding Hood Read Aloud Activities with Crafts for Fairy Tale Unit
Little Red Riding Hood is a fairy tale unit read aloud favorite! These Little Red Riding Hood activities, fairy tale crafts, Little Red Riding Hood crafts, reading responses, writing prompts and worksheets will make your classroom fun and ready to dive into your fairy tale unit! These Little Red Riding Hood activities are all differentiated for K-3. Please note, you will need a copy of the original version of Little Red Riding Hood in order to use this resource.There are 7 Little Red Riding Hood
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K - 3rd
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Also included in:Â 43 Read Aloud Activities, Crafts and Discussion Questions FOR THE YEAR
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