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English language arts Common Core RI.3.8 literature circles
Fiction & Nonfiction Reading Comprehension Graphic Organizers: Main Idea Theme
Help support reading comprehension and discover all the graphic organizers you need with 240 reading response graphic organizers for fiction and nonfiction. You and your students will love these easy-prep and easy-to-use graphic organizers for fiction and nonfiction filled with graphic organizers for story elements, main idea, theme, compare and contrast, and more.This resource is filled with a variety of graphic organizers that are designed to be used with any book or text. The unique designs a
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3rd - 5th
The True Story of The Three Little Pigs Reading & Writing Activities
Everyone thinks they know the story of the Three Little Pigs until they have read this story! Our Lesson Plan, Creative Writing activities and comprehension activities are differentiated for all learners. Activities are engaging and promote a higher level of thinking.This product includes the following:•Lesson Plan based on Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy•Tricky Words to present to class•Secret Birthday Cake Recipe•Designing a Birthday Cake for Granny•A Birthday Card for Granny•Cause and Effect•Predict
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1st - 3rd
The Boxcar Children Literature Guide (Common Core Aligned)
Do you want a literature guide that will take your students on a mysterious journey with children who find a home in the woods while trying to hide from a man? Do your students enjoy the "Boxcar Children" series? Then this is the book guide for you. This packet contains a whopping 39 student page guide to use with the book "The Boxcar Children" by Gertrude Chandler Warner. This is the first Boxcar Children book that was written by Gertrude Chandler Warner.This guide contains:- 1 Packet Cover for
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2nd - 4th
Sideways Stories from Wayside School Literature Guide (Common Core Aligned)
Need a book full of laughs to read with your students? Then this is the book guide for you. This packet contains 35 student pages to use with the hilariously funny book called Sideways Stories from Wayside School by Louis Sachar.
This guide contains:
- 1 Cover Page for Packets
- 15 Chapter Questions Pages (answer comprehension questions, infer, and connect with text)
- 5 Chapter Question Answer Pages
- 8 Character Card Pages (illustrate and take notes on 4 characters per page)
- 12 "Anytime" wo
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3rd - 5th
The Cricket in Times Square Literature Guide (Common Core Aligned)
Do you want a literature guide for a story about a musical cricket and his friends - a cat and mouse- that save a newsstand in NYC? Then this is the book guide for you. This packet contains a whopping 36 student page guide to use with the book "The Cricket in Times Square" by George Selden. This is the perfect book for a class read aloud, reading group, or independent study. It's ATOS book level is a 4.3 for Accelerated Reading and is worth 4 points.
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- 1 Packet Cover for st
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3rd - 5th
Third Grade Reading Exit Tickets - Standards-Based Reading Assessments
Would you like a way to give your 3rd grade students reading exit tickets that are standards-based reading assessments? These daily quick check tickets cover 3rd grade RI and RL standards, which are literature (fiction) and informational (nonfiction) reading Common Core standards. Each exit ticket is one-third of a page, so you'll print the pages, cut them apart, and pass them out each day after your reading lesson to quickly assess your students' grasp of standards-based instruction.Each day, t
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3rd
Nonfiction Reading Comprehension Passages - 100 Decodable Readers
Secure reading fluency and reading comprehension with these 100 nonfiction decodable passages. Expertly weave together reading comprehension, decoding, reading fluency, vocabulary, & spelling instruction while focusing on phonics skills. Each Reading Comprehension Decodable Passage has two versions:Text 1: A shorter, more controlled, decodable story.Text 2: A slightly more complex set of words and longer in length.BOTH: Same engaging reading comprehension questions that address all areas of
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1st - 3rd
myView Literacy 3RD Grade Units 1-5 Trifold Reading Comprehension YEAR LONG
Are you looking for a way to keep your students engaged and learning while teaching them how to comprehend text, use text features, text evidence, main idea and all the other reading skills? These trifolds will help students chunk digestible piece from compare and contrast, Author's point of view with easy no-prep 4th grade Shared Reading text with myView Literacy curriculum. This bundle is YEAR LONG Units 1-5. You can use without curriculum.Great to use for:small groupwhole groupresponding to s
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3rd
Stuart Little Literature Guide (Common Core Aligned)
This packet contains a whopping 37 student page guide to use with the book "Stuart Little" by E.B. White. Do you want a literature guide for a story about an adventurous little mouse with a big thrill for life? Then this is the book guide for you. This is the perfect book for a class read aloud, reading group, or independent study. It's ATOS book level is a 6.0 for Accelerated Reading and is worth 3 points.
This guide contains:
- 1 Packet Cover for students
- 8 Chapter Questions Pages (answer c
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3rd - 5th
Henry Huggins Literature Guide (Common Core Aligned)
This packet contains a whopping 32 student page guide to use with the book "Henry Huggins" by Beverly Cleary. This is the first novel that was written by Beverly Cleary. Do you want a literature guide that shows the love a boy has for his new found dog and the mischief boys can get into? Do your students enjoy the "Ramona" series? Then this is the book guide for you. This is an AR book with an ATOS level of 4.3 and is worth 3 points.
This guide contains:
- 1 Packet Cover for students
- 6 Chapt
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3rd - 4th
One Plastic Bag - Earth Day Book Companion
Are you looking for resources to use to help your students become more environmentally conscious? Maybe a read-aloud and resource to use for Earth Day or Earth Month? One Plastic Bag by Miranda Paul is an amazing picture book about the women in the Gambia who find a way to solve their countries plastic problem. They empower others and find real life solutions to help their communities. How can I use this product? Homework Small Group Practice Whole Group Practice Assessments Morning WorkWhat is
Black History Month Reading Passages on Nonfiction Text Structures
Easily integrate social studies and reading with these high interest Black History Month Reading Passages. These reading comprehension passages and questions focus on different text structures. Expose your students to a variety of nonfiction text structures with these passages based on African-American history. This bundle includes 5 different resources each focusing on a different nonfiction text structure. A perfect integration resource during Black History Month, when teaching about Great
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3rd - 6th
Basketball Paired Texts: LeBron James and Michael Jordan (Grades 3-4)
This resource includes high-interest paired texts about two of the biggest stars in basketball history -- LeBron James and Michael Jordan. These passages will help your students learn how to analyze similarities and differences between two texts.
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→ 6 Nonfiction Articles
→ 3 Quizzes
→ 1 Writing Prompt
→ 1 Answer Key
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→ The Childhood Years:
1 nonfiction text about LeBron's childhood
1 nonfiction text about Michael's childhood
1 quiz to cover these texts
→ Pro Ca
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3rd - 4th
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OWLS: Common Core Nonfiction Unit for Grades 3-4
OwlsThis fun nonfiction common core aligned unit is perfect for a 3rd or 4th grade classroom! I created this unit with intention of using the books Owls by Gail Gibbons and White Owl, Barn Owl by Nicola Davies, but all but one of the activities in this unit can be done with any book about owls! (There is one activity that should be used with the book White Owl, Barn Owl.)This unit includes:-pre-reading activity to give students a focus-main ideas and details organizer-illustrate and caption acti
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3rd - 4th
Basketball Paired Texts: Steph Curry and Kobe Bryant (Grades 3-4)
This resource includes high-interest paired texts about two of the most famous players in basketball history -- Stephen Curry and Kobe Bryant. These passages will help your students learn how to analyze similarities and differences between two texts.** This resource has been updated to include information about Kobe's tragic death on Jan. 26, 2020. The final two paragraphs of the second passage contain this info.Contents:→ 6 Nonfiction Articles→ 3 Quizzes → 1 Writing Prompt→ 1 Answer Key***Topi
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3rd - 4th
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Also included in: Differentiated Paired Texts: Steph Curry and Kobe Bryant (Grades 1-6)
Soccer Paired Texts: Lionel Messi and Mohamed Salah (Grades 3-4)
This resource includes paired texts about two of the world's most famous soccer players. These passages will help your students learn how to analyze similarities and differences between two texts.Contents:→ 6 Nonfiction Articles→ 3 Quizzes → 1 Writing Prompt→ 1 Answer Key***Topics Covered:→ The Childhood Years:1 informational text about Messi's childhood (759 words)1 informational text about Salah's childhood (354 words)1 quiz to cover these texts→ Professional Soccer Careers:1 informational te
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3rd - 4th
Also included in: Paired Texts Bundle #1 (Grades 3-4): Paired Texts About Famous Athletes
Book activities for: "Whoosh! ! Lonnie Johnson’s . . . Inventions"
About This Book
This is an upbeat and inspiring success story for all readers--young and old.
While was working on a new way to cool refrigerators and air conditioners, Lonnie combined water with a blast of air pressure and -- whoosh! -- the Super Soaker was invented. Selling it to toymakers was a different matter. But Lonnie persevered and was rewarded for his hard work. He continues today encouraging young scientists and with his work--using heat sources for creating power.
Whoosh! : Lo
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2nd - 5th
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Academic Conversation Placemats
Get your students talking about text! Building students’ knowledge of academic language is essential for academic success. These Academic Conversation Placemats use sentence frames to encourage students to speak in complete sentences with varying degrees of grammatical complexity. These placemats were created to be used with both fiction and non-fiction text. They promote discussion around text, which research shows increases reading comprehension. Each placemat begins with having students prepa
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1st - 3rd
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Also included in: The Ultimate Text Talk Bundle
Annotating Text for Close Reading Student Handout (3rd-5th Grade)
FOR THIRD GRADE THROUGH FIFTH GRADE- this version includes advanced close reading strategies such as citing evidence from the text and creating agree/disagree statements used as reference and speaking points during group conversations about the text. There is a line on the handout that denotes where 3rd grade might begin, while 4th and 5th grades would look for evidence and use agree/disagree statements. These are skills that would be appropriate to teach once 3rd grade students have mastered
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3rd - 6th
Growth Mindset- Peter H. Reynolds Author Study, The Dot, Ish, Sky C
Peter H. Reynolds is the author and illustrator for the Creatrilogy (Create+trilogy) books that focus on growth mindset. The 3 books in the Growth Mindset Trilogy are The Dot, Ish and Sky Color.
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•27 pages of activities and questions that focus on the 3 books
→Comprehension questions
→Identifying Cause and Effect relationships
→Summarizing the main details(Somebody,Wanted, but, so, then)
→Identifying character traits
→Opinion Writing
→Inferring meaning from illustrations
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3rd - 4th
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Paired Texts Bundle #1 (Grades 3-4): Paired Texts About Famous Athletes
This resource includes high-interest paired texts about 10 of the world's most famous athletes and 2 famous coaches. These passages will help your students learn how to analyze similarities and differences between two texts. This bundle contains:→ 28 Nonfiction Articles→ 14 Quizzes → 6 Writing Prompts→ Answer Keys for all quizzes***Topics Covered:→ Professional Sports Career:1 informational text about each athlete's pro career1 quiz for every two texts→ Tying It All Together:1 writing prompt t
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3rd - 4th
Book Clubs & Literature Circles Activities - Roles Jobs Posters & Sheets BND
Are you interested in starting Book Clubs in your elementary classroom, but don’t know where to start? This resource contains everything you need to start Book Clubs or Literature Circles in your third, fourth, or fifth grade classroom. Whether you’re looking for traditional Literature Circles materials or a way to launch Book Clubs (as used in Reading Workshop), these materials will work for you. They allow you to start Book Clubs using a traditional Literature Circles approach with structured
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3rd - 5th
Book Clubs & Literature Circles Roles & Response Sheets Superhero Theme
Are you interested in starting Book Clubs in your elementary classroom, but don’t know where to start? This resource contains everything you need to start Book Clubs or Literature Circles in your third, fourth, or fifth grade classroom. Whether you’re looking for traditional Literature Circles materials or a way to launch Book Clubs (as used in Reading Workshop), these materials will work for you. They allow you to start Book Clubs using a traditional Literature Circles approach with structured
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3rd - 5th
Student Led Guided Reading Groups
Are you looking for an EASY way to streamline your small group planning for reading? Look no further, this guided reading group planner pack has everything you need to: create and organize your groups, plan a week's worth of lessons for your small groups with ease, hold your students accountable for their learning with various questions and graphic organizers and empower your students to own their learning by giving them various reading roles. This resource includes 2 pages of detailed tips for
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1st - 3rd
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