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3rd grade short stories centers under $5
Story Elements Task Cards
16 DIFFERENTIATED Half-Page Story Elements Task Cards! Each task card includes an original short story as well as open-ended question prompts for each story element including Characters, Setting, Problem, Key Events, and Solution.This resource includes the following formatting options:Half page task cardsFull-Page printable versions with lines for answersDIGITAL version via Google SlidesThese Story Elements Task Cards are differentiated for your convenience.The first set of task cards (16 cards
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3rd - 5th
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Short Story Creative Writing (Roll-a-Story)
Introductory PowerPoint covering the elements of a short story plus silly story starters for creative writing in a "Roll-a-Story" format. These four "Roll-a-Story" cards allow for 864 different story combinations! Students first roll a die to select a character, then roll to select a setting and one more roll to select the conflict. Then let the creative writing fun begin.I suggest laminating the "Roll-a-Story" cards. Students only need to use a card briefly, for three rolls of the die. The
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3rd - 6th
Compare & Contrast Characters- A Fantasy Short Story for Reading Comprehension
Students compare and contrast characters in the delightful fantasy world of Garlok the Terrible. The product includes a short story, student response pages, as well as conversation guides, roles, and guiding questions to help generate authentic discussion. Story Synopsis: It's showtime for Garlok- a hero has finally arrived! But things don't go quite according to plan, for either of them!This product is sold as a PDF file which includes: - Title Page- 2-page teacher guide for story implementatio
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3rd - 5th
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Sequence of Events- Activities
⭐️✅Looking for a way to engage your students with retell and sequencing? This is perfect for students to show what they know! Answer keys included!✔️Cut and paste, worksheets, and activities✔️Susie works at the Zoo and loves her job. Mr. Farmer has a busy day! Molly is having a birthday party! Read the stories and order the events.✔️Maria is baking a cake, help her make her cake in the correct order✔️Sequence task cards for whole group or small group reteach if you like. Use as an intro to your
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K - 4th
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The True Story of the Three Little Pigs Readers Theater Script Point of View
Students of all ages enjoy “The True Story of the Three Little Pigs,” and will love performing this clever Readers’ Theater play which takes place after the story ends. This script lets your students practice fluency in a fun, engaging way. All you have to do is print and get started! It's perfect for small groups, short weeks in between units, or for sub plans.Play features the wolf, 1 pig, and 3 news reporters. Your students will laugh at the banter between the characters as the wolf tries, y
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3rd - 6th
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Short Stories WH Questions for Auditory and Reading Comprehension
❤️ This WH Question Short Stories Set includes 60 WH Questions ❤️Each story asks Who, What, Where, When, Why and How! ❤️ Perfect for Auditory and Reading Comprehension and LEVEL 1 includes picture supports!This set of 10 short stories is designed to develop auditory and/or reading comprehension skills. Developing auditory comprehension skills will improve students abilities in the area of attention, discriminating important information, and later developing skills such as note taking! The stori
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K - 3rd
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Tell Me A Story Narrative Writing Prompts + Worksheets
Do you have some reluctant writers? Writer's block can be a struggle for many children when it comes to writing narratives. This pack of picture based writing prompts will help develop strong oral and written storytelling skills in your classroom!Designed with early writers in mind, use just the three type of picture cards (where? who? what?) as visual support to prompt rich oral storytelling or combine their use with our helpful templates and writing sheets to capture their narratives as they b
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K - 3rd
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Making Inferences Multiple Choice Passages - 3rd and 4th Grade RL.3.1, RL.4.1
This multiple-choice reading passage set comes with 3 differentiated passages for the Inferences standards. This covers the RL.3.1 and RL.4.1 standards. There are three passages that come with 3 different levels. The 3 standards-based passages are focused on making inferences in a fiction text.Your students will practice their reading comprehension skills by reading the passage, then answering the multiple-choice questions. You can choose to differentiate these passages within small group or for
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3rd - 4th
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Theme and Summarizing Multiple Choice Passages - 3rd 4th Grade - RL.3.2 RL.4.2
This multiple-choice reading passage set comes with 3 differentiated passages for the Theme and Summarizing standards. This covers the RL.3.2 and RL.4.2 standards. There are three passages that come with 3 different levels. The 3 standards-based passages are focused on identifying the theme in a fiction text.Your students will practice their reading comprehension skills by reading the passage, then answering the multiple-choice questions. You can choose to differentiate these passages within sma
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3rd - 4th
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MATH CURSE Task Cards and Activity Packet
Engage your students this fun and challenging resource to supplement the book Math Curse, which emphasizes the idea that math is everywhere!Packet includes:Story Elements graphic organizerStudent Tracking SheetScratch Paper32 Math Curse Task Cards (print and digital)4 blank task cards (for you to customize)Math Curse: create your own problemMath Curse: plan your own story graphic organizerMath Curse: plan your own story writing template #1Ideas for classroom use:Print and cut out cards. Place ea
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3rd - 6th
Reading Comprehension Passages with Text Dependent Questions
Engage readers with high-interest realistic fiction passages and comprehension questions! Students will practice their close reading skills with a variety of other fiction reading skills. Each of the five passages has a set of multiple choice questions and short answer questions that require students to use their text evidence skills.Grades: 2nd and 3rd grade readers but has been used with intervention, at-risk and enrichment groups at other grade levels This product includes:5 fiction passages5
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2nd - 4th
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Sequencing Strips - 6 Fiction Stories Sequence of Events Activity
This activity includes 6 fiction stories for students to cut out in strips and order them correctly based on the context and sequencing key words. Perfect for centers, independent work, sequencing key word identification, group work, or as an informal assessment. NO PREP NECESSARY! Print paper copies then students individually cut out their story and then sort it correctly by glueing it on the recording sheet. Or you can print the sequence stories on card stock and laminate to use as a center.
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3rd - 5th
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Morphology Decodable Passages: 10 Common Prefixes - Orton Gillingham
It is difficult to find advanced decodable passages so I decided to make my own! I am an active tutor across grade levels so I wanted to write passages while teaching morphology. These passages support fluency and your Orton-Gillingham curriculum all while practicing the meaning of prefixes and comprehension skills. These decodable passages are an amazing supplement for your morphology lessons. Buy this set or as part of the morphology mega bundle. Your students will be engaged and appreciate th
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3rd - 7th
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Story Elements Multiple Choice Passages - 3rd and 4th Grade RL.3.3 RL.4.3
This multiple-choice reading passage set comes with 3 differentiated passages for the Story Elements and Character Traits standards. This covers the RL.3.3 and RL.4.3 standards. There are three passages that come with 3 different levels. The 3 standards-based passages are focused on story elements in a fiction text.Your students will practice their reading comprehension skills by reading the passage, then answering the multiple-choice questions. You can choose to differentiate these passages wit
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3rd - 4th
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Short Story Listening Comprehension Scaffolded with Visuals for Speech Therapy 2
Listening comprehension is a vital skill for all children. Providing visuals is the perfect way to scaffold the task, while gradually increasing the difficulty. This resource contains 3 different levels of difficulty: 1, 2, & 3 sentence mini-stories. Each story comes with a visual support to assist in answering the questions. Use these visuals as needed and fade them when possible.This resource is perfect for targeting listening comprehension, reading comprehension, and Wh- questions - maki
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PreK - 9th
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ROLL A STORY Literacy Writing Center No Prep Activity Task Cards
There is no better hands-on fun way to encourage creative writing than to have students ROLL-A-STORY: perfect for literacy centers, fast finishers, free writing or homework! To use simply print, cut, laminate and THAT'S IT! Students use dice to roll a character, setting, problem or items in a story.This product includes • Roll A MYSTERY • Roll A HOLIDAY • Roll A SUPERHERO • Roll A SCHOOL STORY • Roll A CHRISTMAS STORY • Roll AN ADVENTURE • Roll A MAGIC STORY • Roll A FAIRY TALEEach task
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1st - 3rd
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Also included in: Writing Resources Scaffolds Support
Reading Comprehension Passages and Questions with Phonics Activities - Digraphs
I don't know about you, but I love activities that target more than 1 skill at a time! This resource targets reading comprehension and phonics in one! It contains 20 no prep comprehension passages and phonics activities for consonant digraphs and trigraphs, with 2 bonus passages and activities for 'soft c' and 'soft g' included.The comprehension passages focus on developing students’ skills to find evidence in the text to support their answers to comprehension questions. Each reading passage has
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1st - 3rd
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Compare and Contrast Two Texts Multiple Choice 3rd 4th Grade - RL.3.9, RL.4.9
This multiple-choice reading passage set comes with 3 differentiated passages for the Compare and Contrast Two Texts standards. This covers the RL.3.9 and RL.4.9 standards. There are three passages that come with 3 different levels. The 3 standards-based passages are focused on comparing fiction texts.Your students will practice their reading comprehension skills by reading the passage, then answering the multiple-choice questions. You can choose to differentiate these passages within small grou
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3rd - 4th
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Social Skill Activities and Story about getting angry.
Getting Angry story. Social skills narrative with Interactive activities and Behaviour Poster. (NEWLY ADDED A "FIRST AND THEN" chart for behaviour management) "No Hitting" Plus accompanying activities are designed to redirect children with ASD and Special ED by targeting particular behaviours through describing the situation and explaining other people’s perspectives. There are also some handy activities that students can either do as a focused or as an independent task.Included in this unit ar
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PreK - 4th
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Weekly Reading Passage Reading Comprehension Writing ELL Reading Context Clues
Summary of Story:Two friends who never bend the rules try sneaking out of school just once before they graduate eighth grade... Unfortunately, that day happens to go terribly wrong.About this Resource:This is one story that is split into five passages. Each passage has seven questions (5 multiple choice, 1 short answer, and 1 extended response). Questions look at vocabulary, context clues, synonym/antonym, and other aspects of close reading.Whether you use these reading passages as homework, par
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2nd - 10th, Adult Education
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Also included in: Summer Reading Comprehension Context Clues Daily Reading Writing Bundle
The Poppy Lady Veterans Day Activities
Looking for a fun, engaging, and festive packet to discuss Veterans Day with your students? Well, look no further - this packet includes resources to supplement your reading of the book "The Poppy Lady" by Barbara Walsh, the incredible and inspiring life of Moina Michael. The packet is also meant enrich your students' study of Veteran's Day (November 11th).Resource includes:The Poppy Lady*Charting the Story Details: Beginning, Middle, End*Charting the Story Details: Sequencing (Answer Key includ
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3rd - 5th
Figurative Language Passages - Similes - 2 Digital and 2 Printable Versions
If you are looking for stories and poems designed to help students identify and practice figurative language, then this resource is for you!!Included in this Figurative Language Set:2 stories with custom illustrations for practicing similes.2 poems with custom illustrations and tons of similes.A/B multiple-choice questioning.Open-ended evidence-based question.Challenge activity to find evidence in the text.Custom Illustrations from Three Birds Art. IG: Threebirds_art2 Google Drive digital versi
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2nd - 6th
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Personal Narrative Writing Prompts with Graphic Organizers
Here you will find fun, ready-to-go writing prompts and graphic organizers to help create an engaging writer's workshop that will help your students practice writing personal narratives. Digital option using Google Slides included! Save some money, buy the Writing Bundle here!Product includes:Posters - 1 focused on What is Personal Narrative? 1 focused on Editing Marks36 Writing Station Task Cards for use in Writing Station7 Writing Graphic Organizers for brainstorming 5 Writing Templates for ge
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K - 3rd
Also included in: Personal Narrative and Persuasive Writing Practice Bundle
Text Organization and Connections R.I 3.8
This packet contains 10 pieces of text aligned to
R.I 3.8 -Describe the logical connection between sentences and paragraphs in a text.
The first FIVE texts focus solely on comprehension and looking back in the text (R.I 3.1), as well as identifying the organization style of the text. (R.I 3.8)
The last FIVE texts focus on comprehension as well and have graphic organizers to aid in identifying the different text organization. (R.I 3.8)
Text 1: Ponies and Horses-Compare and Contrast
Text 2: P
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2nd - 3rd
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