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Reading activities for Easel Assessments
Nonfiction Text Structures: Task Cards with 32 Informational Passages
This set of 32 task cards will give your upper elementary and middle school students an opportunity to practice reading nonfiction passages and determining which of the five types of text structures was used by the author. Just print and go! Identifying the structure of a nonfiction text is a critical reading skill that students often struggle with. These nonfiction text structure task cards have been designed to help your students gain proficiency and confidence in their ability to read an info
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4th - 6th
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Finding the Theme Task Cards with 16 Practice Passages: Reading Fiction 4th 5th
Theme Task Cards: This resource contains 16 finding the theme task cards. Each task card contains a short fiction narrative. After reading each engaging passage, students are tasked with identifying the theme of each narrative. This resource also includes a poster that explains the theme-filled cupcake analogy.Included are TWO options for student responses:Students write a sentence describing the narrative's theme.Students complete a multiple-choice worksheet, identifying the correct theme from
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4th - 5th
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Types of Clouds Activities Worksheets Reading Passages Weather Flip Book Spring
Make learning all about clouds fun with these hands-on activities. This unit has passages and activities to learn about cumulus, stratus, cirrus, and cumulonimbus clouds. Updated with reading passages with three different levels of difficulty.This unit includes reading passages and activities:Cumulus StratusCirrusCumulonimbusWeather Bulletin Board KitVocabulary posters can be printed in black and white or in color. These are great for introducing the unit or displaying an attractive bulletin boa
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2nd - 4th
American Civil War Reading Passages Worksheets Unit Causes Battles Maps Timeline
Make history come to life in your classroom with our Civil War Activities Complete Unit! Immerse your students into the American Civil War with this comprehensive collection of interactive activities, leveled reading passages, comprehension questions, and vocabulary posters. Step back in time as you teach your students about the events and people that were part of this crucial moment in history.Go Digital--A Digital Version of This Unit is Now Available:A DIGITAL version of this unit for Google
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3rd - 5th
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American Revolutionary War Reading Passages Activities Worksheets Complete Unit
Making teaching about the American Revolutionary War fun with these engaging and hands-on American Revolutionary War activities! This resource highlights the causes, main events, important people, and results of the Revolutionary War all in one!**Newly Updated with Three Different Levels of Reading Passages**Students will learn about the American Revolutionary War. This unit includes lots of hands-on activities for students related to the causes, events, battles, influential people, and major re
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3rd - 5th
Fact and Opinion Task Cards | Print & Digital | Google | Easel Self-Checking
Your students will love these 32 Fact & Opinion Task Cards!Use these 32 task cards to help students learn the difference between fact and opinion. Each card features three related sentences. Students must select which one is either a fact or an opinion. The multiple-choice format makes these cards ideal for test prep. If you want your students to go a little deeper, there are also two challenge cards that can be added to any of the other cards and answered either verbally or on notebook pap
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3rd - 5th
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Problem and Solution Reading Passages Task Cards with Anchor Chart & Challenges
This resource includes 32 task cards for practicing the problem and solution text structure. Each passage is presented two times on adjacent cards. On the odd-numbered cards, students must identify the problem. On the even-numbered cards, they identify the solution. Cards 1-16 feature relatable, fictional situations. Cards 17-32 are informational texts and feature passages about a problem in the world and how it was solved. The cards also include differentiated answer sheets. The first answer sh
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3rd - 5th
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Story Elements Task Cards Set 2 - Setting, Character, Conflict, and Resolution
Use these 32 multiple choice Story Elements task cards to increase your students’ understanding of the building blocks that make up a story: setting, character, conflict, and resolution.WHAT’S INCLUDED:✍️ PRINT:32 Task Cards (prints 4 to a page)Black-lineColorRecording SheetsAnswer KeysDIGITAL:Google SlidesEasel Assessment - Self-CheckingDIFFERENTIATION OPTIONS:Digital or Print5 Challenge Cards to extend the lessonGreat for 3rd, 4th, or 5th grade! CHECK OUT THE PREVIEW TO SEE A LOT MORE!This res
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3rd - 5th
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Story Elements Task Cards Set 1 - Setting, Character, Problem, and Solution
Use these 32 multiple choice Story Elements task cards to increase your students’ understanding of the building blocks that make up a story: setting, character, problem, and solution.WHAT’S INCLUDED:✍️ PRINT:32 Task Cards (prints 4 to a page)Black-lineColorRecording SheetsAnswer KeysDIGITAL:Google SlidesEasel Assessment - Self-CheckingDIFFERENTIATION OPTIONS:Digital or Print5 Challenge Cards to extend the lessonGreat for 1st, 2nd, or 3rd grade! CHECK OUT THE PREVIEW TO SEE A LOT MORE! This resou
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1st - 3rd
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Point of View Task Cards: 24 Practice Reading Passages for 4th, 5th, 6th Grade
Point of View Task Cards: This set of 24 task cards will give your upper elementary students an opportunity to practice reading a passage and identifying the point of view used by the author. Students will differentiate between four common points of view: first person, second person, third person limited, and third person omniscient. Each task card consists of an engaging fiction passage and four multiple-choice options.✅ First Person✅ Second Person✅ Third Person Limited✅ Third Person Omniscient
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4th - 6th
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Author's Tone Task Cards in Print and Digital: 24 Practice Passages
Author's Tone Task Cards: This set of 24 task cards will give your upper elementary and middle school students an opportunity to practice reading a passage and identifying the author's tone. Each task card consists of an engaging passage and four multiple-choice options. The answer choices consist of words often associated with mood and tone, giving your students an authentic opportunity to interact with these terms and expand their vocabulary. Students will complete the following steps as they
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4th - 6th
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Figurative Language Worksheets - Similes, Metaphors, Idioms and Easel
This figurative language pack includes a types of figurative language handout that defines different figures of speech like similes, metaphors, idioms, personification, and hyperbole and gives an example of each. On the first worksheet students have to identify ten sentences that use metaphors or similes. There are nine additional practice worksheets with practice with similes, idioms, metaphors, personification and hyperbole. No prep. Print and go. Keys included. Ten worksheets in all. Great ac
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4th - 7th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in: Idioms Bundle - PowerPoints, Worksheets, Easel Activities and Boom Cards
Character Traits Task Cards with Print and Digital: Practice Passages 4th & 5th
Character Traits Task Cards: This resource contains 24 task cards that focus on identifying the correct character trait term for a character in a passage. Each task card contains a short fiction passage. After reading each engaging passage, students are tasked with choosing the character trait that best describes a given character. The answer choices consist of words often associated with character traits, giving your students an authentic opportunity to interact with these terms and expand thei
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3rd - 5th
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September 11th Lesson Plans - Digital or Print Patriot Day Activities for 9/11
These digital Patriot Day activities are easy to use as traditional classroom lesson plans, centers, homework, independent work, or they’re great for fast finishers in first and second grades. Busy teachers love these low-prep lessons and activities that are sure to engage their students! With print & digital options, Learning Quests provide a balance of face to face and device-based learning styles for your modern classroom.Why do teachers and students love our Learning Quests?We all know k
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1st - 2nd
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Also included in: Literacy and Research Digital Curriculum - A Year Long Printable Units
Mood Task Cards: Practice Inferring the Mood with 24 Short Stories
Mood Task Cards: This set of 24 task cards will give your upper elementary and middle school students an opportunity to practice reading a passage and identifying the mood of the passage. Each task card consists of an engaging passage and four multiple-choice options. The answer choices consist of words often associated with mood and tone, giving your students an authentic opportunity to interact with these terms and expand their vocabulary.Students will complete the following steps as they work
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4th - 6th
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Mexico Mini Book for Early Readers - A Country Study
This Mexico Mini Book is perfect for your students to learn about Mexico! This book can be used for a very basic country study in lower elementary grades! This is perfect for Pre-k, Kindergarten, and 1st Grade. Each page has a basic fact about Mexico and a scene or illustration to get students to connect to the words. The scenes can be colored in as a fun activity for the students! This printable interactive activity includes:A black/white half page mini book for students to color and readA colo
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PreK - 1st
AUTHOR'S PURPOSE Google Slides P.I.E. Reading Comprehension ACTIVITIES Passages
These interactive Google Slides make teaching about Author's Purpose fun, engaging & hands-on! Students review the 3 key points of PIE – Persuade, Inform & Entertain – using 27 Google Slides & a 24 question EASEL quiz with audio. By identifying the author's point of view, your students will be able to delve deeper into the texts they read, extract meaning, and enhance their overall understanding. It's like giving your students a superpower in reading comprehension! By understanding t
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2nd - 4th
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The Gingerbread Man Lesson Plans - Digital Gingerbread Man Sequencing Activities
These digital Gingerbread Man activities are easy to use as traditional classroom lesson plans, centers, homework, independent work, or they’re great for fast finishers in first and second grades. Busy teachers love these low-prep gingerbread man sequencing lessons and activities that are sure to engage their students! With print & digital options, Learning Quests provide a balance of face to face and device-based learning styles for your modern classroom.Why do teachers and students love ou
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K - 2nd
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Multiple Meaning Words Task Cards: Homographs Practice for 3rd, 4th, & 5th
Multiple Meaning Words Task Cards: This set of 24 task cards is designed to give your upper elementary students an opportunity to practice recognizing how a multiple meaning word (homograph) is being used in a sentence. Each task card consists of a sentence with an underlined word and three multiple-choice options. Some of the underlined words are: grave, part, face, wave, screen, and sink.The directions on each of the 32 task cards are always the same. They say: Which of the following sentences
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in: Multiple Meaning Words Bundle: Task Cards, PowerPoint, Worksheet
The Cay PowerPoint Introduction
The Cay Introduction PowerPoint is an engaging and interactive preview of The Cay by Theodore Taylor. If you are reading The Cay, this digital resource introduces students to the setting, characters, plot, theme and vocabulary, and builds background knowledge needed to comprehend the book. Great book for hurricane season. Students can discuss with partners how they would survive on a desert island in severe weather. They can also write about this and share with each other. Then discuss how dif
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4th - 7th
Also included in: The Cay by Theodore Taylor Bundle - Novel Unit
Jamaica Mini Book for Early Readers - A Country Study
This Jamaica Mini Book is perfect for your students to learn about Jamaica! This book can be used for a very basic country study in lower elementary grades! This is perfect for Pre-k, Kindergarten, and 1st Grade. Each page has a basic fact about Jamaica and a scene or illustration to get students to connect to the words. The scenes can be colored in as a fun activity for the students! This printable interactive activity includes:A black/white half page mini book for students to color and readA c
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PreK - 2nd
Self-Grading Main Idea Task Cards +Print Plus Video Game (Leveled Cards J,K,L,M)
~Self-Grading Leveled Task Cards (Four Ability Levels -40 Task Cards-) Plus an Animated, Digital Main Idea Video Game Are Included~ (Printable Option Too) The Task Cards (Digital and Printable Versions)Contain carefully constructed decodable and leveled passages for guided reading levels J,K,L,M to build phonics and comprehension skills simultaneously.The task cards range from middle second grade level to early third grade level reading abilities.40 task cards are included. There are 10 for eac
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1st - 4th
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Inside Out and Back Again Novel Activities, Tests
This teaching unit is designed to accompany Thanhha Lai's novel Inside Out & Back Again. This powerful novel is divided into four parts. This teaching unit includes a vocabulary list for each of the four parts, an activity for each part, and a test for each part. Post reading activities are also included! With this packet, no prep is needed! All of the work is planned out for you! Use these activities and tests to teach the novel as a whole-class read, for homework, for group work in l
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: 8th Grade ELA Mega Bundle ~ Everything Needed to Teach 8th Grade ELA
Christmas Making Inferences Bingo Game
Are your students convinced of their right answers without using all available text evidence? This game uses 3 clues to prompt students to make inferences about a Christmas or winter word or character. During the game, the teacher reads the clues aloud, pausing between each clue to allow thinking time. I deliberately created riddles that could have more than one answer...until the third and last clue is read. Students make a final inference and cover the answer if it is on their bingo cards. 24
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2nd - 4th
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Also included in: Reading and Language Arts Bingo Games Mega Bundle
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Not only is reading a core concept in the study of English language arts, but it’s also a cornerstone skill for proficiency in many other subjects (for instance, without strong reading skills, students won’t be able to solve math word problems or read through primary sources for social studies class).
If you’re a teacher or parent looking for printable and digital reading resources to help your student learn a reading concept, look no further! TPT has an extensive collection of resources, created by other teachers, that are designed to help with any need across grade levels.
Elementary students just learning to read can practice the basics with some simple, fun phonics practice activities or small-group reading centers focused around sight words. Students in middle and high school can read novels and complete hands-on, interactive assignments that build their comprehension and critical thinking skills. With plenty of TPT resources at your fingertips, you can sharpen your student's reading skills in no time.
Fun and engaging reading activities to try
Engaging reading activities can energize your students and foster a love of reading. Here are a few ideas for reading activities from our teacher-created resources that you can find on TPT and try in your classroom:
Interactive Phonics Activities
Use hands-on activities such as sorting, matching, or building words with manipulatives to help students recognize phonics patterns and learn word families.
Word Hunts
Encourage students to find specific words either in a text or around the classroom to help reinforce sight word recognition.
Reader's Theater
Bring short stories, books, poems, or plays you’re reading in class to life by assigning roles to students and having them act out scenes. This can help enhance fluency and comprehension.
Interactive Read-Alouds
Engage the class by pausing during read-alouds to discuss the story’s theme, reflect on a character’s motivations or actions, or to ask students questions.
Comparative Analysis
Explore different adaptations of the same story (book versus movie, classic version versus a modern retelling) to encourage analysis of interpretation and presentation. You can also pair texts that are similar in theme, like poems and songs.
By incorporating these (and other!) reading activities into your lesson plans, you can nurture a love for reading while enhancing comprehension, critical thinking, and communication skills.
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What types of reading resources are available on TPT?
There are many different types of reading resources sold by Sellers on TPT. Some popular reading lessons include: phonics, vocabulary, spelling, and balanced literacy.
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Educators can save time preparing reading lessons with resources created by experienced teachers. Simply start a search for reading resources on the TPT marketplace, and filter by grade level, price, and/or resource type to find materials that've been proven to work in classrooms like yours. No matter what you’re teaching, there are plenty of reading lessons and activities sold by Sellers on TPT that are tailored to meet your students' skill levels.
How can I make my reading lessons fun and engaging?
Students learn best when they're engaged! Sprinkle a little fun into your reading lessons by using manipulatives, pairing unusual texts like poems and short films together, or doing an escape room activity.
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