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4th grade oral communication literature circles
Book Club Activities | Reading Discussion Cards | Literature Circles | Questions
Encourage speaking and listening during book clubs or literature circles with these Reading Discussion Cards. This resource includes everything you need to facilitate book discussions in your classroom. There are 40 discussion prompts for fiction and nonfiction texts, which will make it easy for students to engage effectively in collaborative discussions. What’s included:20 Discussion Cards for fiction texts20 Discussion Cards for nonfiction texts2 "Come Prepared" Cards (fiction and nonfiction)
Grades:
3rd - 5th
Common Core Rules for Discussion {Speak Up!} Speaking & Listening 1.a
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Not only are speaking and listening skills one fifth of the Common Core standards for ELA, and not only cooperation and collaboration included in the line-up of skills for 21st century education...the tools and skills needed to have and hold intelligent conversations with others is an essential life skill. Every grade level, K-5 includes the speaking and listening standard of "having collaborative
Grades:
K - 5th
Literature Circles Made Easy Step by Step Lessons and Printables
Classroom Book Clubs: Literature Circles Made Easy includes 5 short videos for teachers plus the printables you need to set up and run Literature Circles in your classroom. This method does not include Literature Circle roles, so the program is easy to implement in a flexible manner. Kids love this method because it's more fun than traditional forms of Literature Circles, and teachers love it because it's easy and effective! After you purchase Classroom Book Clubs, look for the PDF with directio
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Also included in: Literature Circles Made Easy | Classroom Book Clubs Discussion Bundle
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Reader's Theatre/Radio Play Script
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Synopsis:Charlie Bucket and Grandpa Joe join a small group of contest winners who get to tour the magical and mysterious factory of eccentric candy maker Willy Wonka. Aided by his diminutive Oompa Loompa workers, Wonka has a hidden motivation for the tour, one that he will reveal only after the children in the group (Veruca, Augustus, Violet, Mike and Charlie) show their true personalities.Included in the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Unit:251 pages and 30 c
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4th - 12th, Adult Education
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Accountable Talk Collaborative Conversation FlipBook
This collaborative conversation flip book is a great tool for students to use during small group discussions! It can also be a resource to send home with parents to support at home. The flip book style allows students to focus on the sentence starters they need to support what they want to say instead of becoming overwhelmed by too many words on a page!I use a small binder ring to attach the flip book pages together. This allows students to easily flip through the pages during a discussion, whil
Grades:
K - 5th
Think, Pair, Share Graphic Organizer
Think, Pair, Share Graphic Organizer Great for encouraging classroom discussion and developing English Language Skills for your multilingual students. This awesome graphic organizer has helped my students with the new Speaking and Listening Anchor standards under Common Core, specifically having discussions, while tying it to the Writing Anchor Standards. After reading a text excerpt from a fiction or nonfiction book, newsela.com, or Scholastic Weekly, I give my students a question to discuss wi
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Grades:
2nd - 12th
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Common Core Aligned Collaborative Discussions (Grades 3-6)
This resource is aligned to Speaking and Listening standards from the Common Core standards. I use this with my 5th graders, but it is broad enough to apply to grades 3-6. This resource is intended to assist teachers in implementing effective collaborative discussions about the text.
This resource includes:
- Overview and Key Components to Implementation Description
- Student Responsibilities (Roles) Cards
- Sentence Starters aligned to Roles
- Discussion Participant Checklist
- Self-Evalu
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Accountable Talk Bubbles for Literacy & Problem Solving
BEST SELLER! This 24 page packet includes 20 accountable talk bubbles with conversation stems, a "Talk with Respect" poster with mini talk bubbles, a mini lesson, and 4 mid size blank talk bubbles. Student led conversations accountable to the learning content or text is the heart of accountable talk. Accountable talk can be taught and used in any grade level or subject area. The talk bubbles are simply a visual reminder of how people respectfully share opinions, ideas, and thoughts.For more clas
Grades:
K - 12th
Fantastic Mr. Fox: Reader's Theatre/Radio Script
Fantastic Mr. Fox Synopsis:Mr. Fox lives with his wife and four little foxes. In order to feed his family, he steals food from farmers named Boggis, Bunce, and Bean every night. Tired of being constantly outwitted by Mr. Fox, the farmers attempt to capture and kill him. The foxes escape in time by burrowing deep into the ground. The farmers decide to wait outside the hole for the foxes to emerge. Unable to leave the hole and steal food, Mr. Fox and his family begin to starve. Mr. Fox devises a p
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3rd - 12th, Adult Education
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Hatchet Novel Unit with Anticipation Guide, Worksheets, Charts, Tests, and More
Experience Brian's Robeson's adventures in the wilderness with this relevant and important material. This comprehensive packet contains: an anticipation guide to prepare students for reading the story.two complete vocabulary units with words from Hatchet, including their parts of speech, review worksheets with answer keys, and vocabulary tests with answer keys.a mood chart with answer key.a motivation chart with answer key.a conflict chart and answer key. a figurative language chart (idioms, sim
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4th - 9th
Mommy, Do You Hear That? Scary Reader's Theatre/Radio Play -Creative Writing
Mommy, Do You Hear That? Summary:One evening, Ellen and her daughter Alice are returning home from their visit to Aunt Sally and Uncle Albert's house. On the way home, Alice hears sounds all around her in the dark. Ellen calms young Alice's mind by telling her their is a logical explanation for all the sounds she is hearing at that time of the night. The one sound that Ellen does not respond to is the sound of heavy footsteps. Alice continually asks who or what could be making them, while Ellen
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4th - 12th, Adult Education
Cynthia Lord's Rules: Comprehensive Novel Unit with Worksheets, Tests, and Vocab
This literary packet Rules! Located inside is an anticipation guide to prepare students for reading the story; a complete vocabulary unit from Rules, with 20 words, their parts of speech, a review worksheet with an answer key, and a vocabulary test with an answer key; 25 Socratic seminar/class discussion questions to elicit opinions from students about the book; a mood chart with an answer key; a character chart with an answer key; a 75-point test with matching, true-false, multiple choice, and
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Grades:
4th - 9th
Collaborative Conversation Sticks {for ELA}
Do you want your students to have deeper, and more meaningful conversations? I created this product to help my students master the CCSS for both Speaking & Listening which state that students need to be able to: “engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions with diverse partners on grade-level topics and texts, building on other’s ideas and expressing their own clearly.”
These 30 Sentence Stem sticks will provide your students with sentence stems to help them be active particip
Grades:
3rd - 8th
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Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night's Dream, abridged adaptation
This abridged adaptation of Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream will excite students' imaginations, develop language and reading skills and kids love it.• Every student, including ELLs, and homeschoolers, can access the majesty of Shakespeare, through this adaptation's kid friendly language.• The fun, magic, and silliness of this comedy makes it a favorite of all students.• Practice it throughout the year and perform for an audience in the spring.• Students will create lasting memories and
Grades:
3rd - 8th
Also included in: William Shakespeare Bundle of 5 plays, abridged adaptations
Shrek: Reader's Theatre Story -Funny Moral Fairy Tale
Summary: Once upon a time, in a far away swamp, there lived an ogre named Shrek whose precious solitude is suddenly shattered by an invasion of annoying fairy tale characters. They were all banished from their kingdom by the evil Lord Farquaad. Determined to save their home -- not to mention his swamp-- Shrek makes a deal with Farquaad and sets out to rescue Princess Fiona to be Farquaad's bride. Rescuing the Princess may be small compared to her deep, dark secret. Along the way, Shrek will enco
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3rd - 12th, Adult Education
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Fairy tales ✿ TABOO - Speaking game
This game is a great way to reactivate vocabulary and grammar. It is a lot of fun for all levels.Game instructions:Get into groups of 3 to 5. The objective is to get your friends to guess the fairy tale you are describing, but there’s a list of 3 words you can’t say !Take it in turns to take a card and score the most points by guessing the most tales correctly (1 tale = 1 point).Included are:- Game instructions (printable or projectable)- 18 taboo cards - Blank cards (in case you need to add a p
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1st - 10th
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CONVERSATIONAL EXCHANGES SPEECH THERAPY pragmatics social skills
Need a simple CONVERSATIONAL EXCHANGE activity? These cards and mats can be used for helping your students working on pragmatic goals, staying on topic, and engaging in multiple conversational exchanges! Use this during speech therapy in small groups. Great resource throughout the year, especially for your students on the autism spectrum working on social skills and pragmatic goals. It's very easy to use. The mats can also be used with other card decks or use your own dry-erase markers to write
Grades:
3rd - 5th
Speaking and Listening Posters and Rubrics
Speaking and Listening Posters and Tools
Speaking and listening skills take practice and guidance. We all want our students to be articulate and confident in their abilities to communicate. The resources in this pack will help your students use language as a tool for thinking and communication.
Students will learn to engage effectively during collaborative discussions that are one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led.
The posters, notes, and bookmarks will serve as reminders and sources of r
Grades:
4th - 8th
Accountable Talk Discussion Task Cards! Promote Listening & Speaking Skills!
These 14 discussion task cards consist of a student-friendly sentence starters that will help guide students to effectively participate in collaborative groups and discussions. With the Common Core State Standards focused around student led conversations, these are useful tools to help students become aware of expectations during collaborative groups. They allow the students to focus on academic conversations and by repetitive use of the cards, students will surely understand how to lead a focu
Grades:
2nd - 7th
Language Recipe Cards
We know how helpful it is for kids with language impairments to have access to visuals and opportunities for massed practice. And we know how hard it is to break down higher level language tasks (e.g., explaining predictions and inferences, forming cohesive summaries) into discrete steps. Oftentimes, students get so bogged down with the vocabulary from the get-go that they end up muddling through or just giving up on the task (e.g., whose cruel idea was it for "conclusion" and "solution" to soun
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2nd - 8th
Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets Circle Talks/Journal Prompts
Hello Lovely Potterhead Educators! I have created these Circle Talk and Journal Prompts to go along with the second Harry Potter Book. There are 4-5 prompts per chapter. They can be used in a variety of ways: Display these on your SMART Board and have students pick their own prompt to write about in their journal after each chapter. Many of the prompts promote students to make connections to their own lives and make connections to the themes of the story. Use the prompts to create literacy cir
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Grades:
3rd - 10th
ALLIGATOR ROOM DECOR & MORE
These SUPER CUTE GOOD-BYE SIGNS will give you and your students lots of opportunities to work on vocabulary, receptive and expressive language skills, following directions, answering WH and YES/NO questions, describing, and MAKE YOUR ROOM LOOK GREAT!
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1. SET OF GOOD-BYE POSTERS (p. 2 – 29) You can use these as room décor AND/OR also to teach your students different ways to say good-bye at the end of a circle/whole group activity.
Grades:
PreK - 6th
It's Thanksgiving, Charlie Brown! Reader's Theatre Script -Questions & Rubric
SallyHi, Linus. Maybe you can talk to my brother. I think Thanksgiving is making him crazy. LinusI will see what I can do. Charlie BrownLinus, I think I am losing control of the whole world! Peppermint Patty has invited herself, Marcie, and Franklin over for Thanksgiving dinner, and I’m not even going to be here! LinusWhy don’t you just call Patty back and tell that to her?Charlie BrownYou can’t explain anything to Peppermint Patty because you never get a chance to say anything. I’m doomed! Thre
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4th - 10th, Adult Education
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Winnie-the-Pooh Reader's Theatre Script Unit -A.A. Milne
Read as Winnie-the-Pooh and all of his friends: Christopher Robin, Eeyore, Rabbit, Kanga, Piglet, Roo and Owl as they go on adventures in the Hundred Acres Woods.Adventures such as:*Pooh Bear uses a balloon to obtain honey from a bee hive.*Pooh Bear visits Rabbit and becomes stuck in his home.*Piglet and Pooh Bear go hunting for a Woozle.*Eeyore loses his tail and Pooh Bear finds him another one.*Piglet meets a Heffalump.*Everyone forgets Eeyore's birthday and Pooh Bear does his best to make his
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3rd - 5th, Adult Education
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