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3rd grade literature Common Core W.2.7 resources
Cardboard Game Ideas | Not a Box Lesson Plan
A box isn’t just a box. After reading the story Not a Box by Antoinette Portis, students will be inspired with cardboard game ideas and create a marble maze. By going through the Engineering Design Process, students will explore different types of forces, changes in direction and speed, create thoughtful game rules, receive feedback and modify their design. _______________________________Even as a K-5 STEM teacher, I still value the importance of reading and comprehension. With my STEM & Sto
Grades:
1st - 4th
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-PS2-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
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Story Elements Book Report | Easel Activity Distance Learning
Printable and TpT digital book report activity included for kids to identify and describe story elements. This newspaper themed book report will enable students to identify the characters, setting, problem, events, solution, and theme of a story.This resource has a Easel Activity for distance learning already created for students to input their responses in answer boxes and to use other tools to draw and highlight. It is an Interactive layer over the original PDF. Click here to learn more abou
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2nd - 4th
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Children's Authors Research Project
Research 35 different children's authors - assign one to each student, or follow a group study format where everyone studies the same person. If you keep interactive journals, the flip-flap tri-fold booklets are a good option. If you would prefer a poster format, I have included that as well. This would also work well as an initial activity leading up to a wax museum night. In addition to the poster and flip-flap book options, there are also a mini-book option (same format as my Create-A-Book se
Grades:
2nd - 4th
Interactive Read Aloud Text Sets #1-25 | 2nd grade Book Companions for the YEAR
ALL the interactive read aloud resources you need! Text sets 1-25 are all here at a discount price! Over 950 response pages - Your whole year will be ready with easy-peasy lesson planning. Featuring book companions for over 120 interactive read alouds for 2nd grade. 5-6 response pages for each individual text giving you freedom to choose which activity you will use with each read aloud text. Peppered through out are a few BONUS texts as well :)Using interactive read alouds is one of the best way
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K - 3rd
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The Donkey Egg Book Activities
The Donkey Egg, a trickster tale by Janet Stevens, features Bear and Hare from Tops and Bottoms. This book is great to use when teaching about trickster tales or oviparous animals. The standards-based activities for this fun read-aloud are print and go! This helpful resource includes:Interactive read-aloud lesson Trickster tale poster Onomatopoeia poster Onomatopoeia board gameWriting prompt Summarize the story (cut and glue)Text-based story questionsWhat is the moral? Cause Effect (cut and glue
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2nd - 4th
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Amazon Rainforest Activities
Amazon Rainforest Activities are perfect for Spring and goes along great with Earth Day. This unit is aligned to 2nd grade Common Core standards but can be used in many grades. I have included The Great Kapok Tree printables that I use in Small Group Reading. Also included are all the materials needed for a Rainforest Animal Research Project. My students loved picking out their own animals for research in the media center. There are many student-friendly sites for research!⭐️ WHAT’S INCLUD
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2nd - 3rd
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Also included in: Amazon Rainforest including Afternoon on the Amazon
Shared Reading Grade 2 Text Companion BUNDLE for 30 Fiction & Nonfiction texts!
Getting started with shared reading texts this year in your curriculum? This product is a BUNDLE of fiction text companions for 2nd Grade shared reading texts. At least 10-13 PRINT AND GO activities to use with your students for each text featured. Great for independent, guided practice, enrichment, or reinforcement. These activities have been designed to allow for repetitive practice of important literacy skills. You choose which to work on using your shared reading texts! This product includes
Grades:
1st - 3rd
Book Report Project for ANY Novel: File Folder Book Report
Are you in need of a quick and easy, ready to go Book Report Project? Then this file folder project is just perfect for you!Use this resource as a culminating activity when completing a literature circle novel, a read aloud or if you are assigning a book report as an independent study project. Students will show you they can:identify themesummarize important events,give their opinion with evidence from the text.Included in this resource:The template includes sections for creating: a "Movie Post
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
Second Grade Fiction Shared Reading 10 Text Companion BUNDLE
Getting started with shared reading texts this year in your curriculum? This product is a BUNDLE of fiction text companions for 2nd Grade shared reading texts. At least 10 PRINT AND GO activities to use with your students for each text featured (most have 13 activities). Great for independent, guided practice, enrichment, or reinforcement. These activities have been designed to allow for repetitive practice of important literacy skills. You choose which to work on using your shared reading texts
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Grades:
1st - 3rd
Graphic Novels Read-aloud Unit (Activity Booklet & Lesson Plan)
Teach students how to read a comic or other visual media by reading aloud 5 graphic novels (or comic books) to your 1st or 2nd grade elementary library classes with this editable and easy-to-prep unit. This unit includes a printable reading response booklet and lesson plan for library classes on a fixed schedule or classroom reading sessions. All items in the product are editable.After reading one of the books aloud to the class, students check out new books from the library, and then complete
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1st - 3rd
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Also included in: K-2 Read-aloud Activity Booklet and Lesson Plan Units BUNDLE
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble Teaching Companion
This pack is a teaching companion for your Sylvester and the Magic Pebble book unit. It is full of ready to use printable that includes reading comprehension, questioning, student to student discussion/questioning, writing, adjectives, cause and effect, questions/sentences, vocabulary study, stem activities, assessments, and more. Perfect for K-3 grade levels!
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K - 3rd
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Lily + the Purple Plastic Purse Book Companion Special Education Activities AAC
Engage your K-2 students with the "Lily and the Purple Plastic Purse" book companion! Perfect for Special Education, AAC, and ELL learners, this resource offers enriching book activities tailored to diverse needs.Unlock the joys of learning with our "Lily and the Purple Plastic Purse" book companion, thoughtfully designed for Special Education, AAC, and ELL classrooms. This resource transforms a beloved story into a powerful learning tool, combining enjoyment with educational rigor in a format a
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K - 3rd
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Space Theme Writing Prompts, Writing Paper, & Word Wall Cards
This product includes resources for research, fiction writing, and observational writing. Your students will love writing about space with this unit!Included:-Sheet for collecting facts on the moon, space, and a blank version for collecting facts about other space concepts or planets.-Space Writing Prompts sheet-Space writing paper-Two template choices for writing ”All About the moon,” one for writing “All About Space,” and one blank templates for writing “All About” another space concepts. -Spa
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Grades:
K - 3rd
Also included in: Space Activities (Outer Space) Thematic Unit for 1st Grade
Library Skills: Call Number Introduction
This unit is an introduction to call numbers which focuses on how call numbers are created, how they are used, and why they are used. Even as many of us move to “genrifying” our collections, there still must be order in those sections. Additionally, as long as we have print materials in our Media Centers and school libraries, students need to understand the call number system and the specific sections which define them.After an introduction using The Shelf Elf Helps Out there are a variety of ac
Grades:
2nd - 4th
Scout the Chicken Guard: Shared Reading Grade 2
Getting started with shared reading texts this year? This product is a text companion for Scout the Chicken Guard: 2nd Grade shared reading text. 13 PRINT AND GO activities to use with your students - independently, for guided practice, enrichment, or reinforcement. You choose! Part of a print-and-go BUNDLE of shared reading fiction text companions!Features a Focus on:Pre-Reading Graphic Organizer: Know/Think/WonderMain idea (graphic organizer)Comprehension (Wh- questions)Genre Study (Is it fict
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Grades:
1st - 3rd
Also included in: Second Grade Fiction Shared Reading 10 Text Companion BUNDLE
The World According to Humphrey | Book Study | Novel Study | Chapter 4
This resource has activities that go along with Chapter 4 from the book, The World According to Humphrey. What's Included:✏️Comprehension questions (2 options)✏️Problem and Solution (2 options)✏️Sequence events (2 options)✏️Venn diagram (compare Mr. Morales and Aldo)✏️Chapter Summary (2 options)✏️Writing Response (2 options)✏️Opinion Writing (2 options)✏️Multiple Choice Quiz✏️Answer Keys for most activitiesHow to Use:Choose pages and printDistribute pagesI like to make it into a packet so studen
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Grades:
1st - 3rd
Also included in: The World According to Humphrey | Book Study | Novel Study
Charlotte's Web Novel Unit - Distance Learning
This novel unit is filled with activities for before, during, and after reading Charlotte's Web, by E. B. White.
Included in this unit are:
• Spiders KWL Chart
• Pigs KWL Chart
• Spider Mini Research Report
• Pig Mini Research Report
• Story Map
• Vocabulary 4-Square
• List of Vocabulary Word Suggestions
• Character Trait Webs (one blank, one for Wilbur, and one for Charlotte)
• Character Trait List
• Charlotte’s Web Journal (ideas, cover page, template for entry pages, and character photo albu
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2nd - 4th
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Monkey and Rabbit: A Tale from Brazil - Shared Reading Grade 2
Getting started with shared reading texts this year? This product is a text companion for Monkey and Rabbit: A Tale from Brazil - 2nd Grade shared reading text. 13 PRINT AND GO activities to use with your students - independently, for guided practice, enrichment, or reinforcement. You choose! Part of a print-and-go BUNDLE of shared reading fiction text companions!Features a Focus on:Pre-Reading Graphic Organizer: Know/Think/WonderMain idea (graphic organizer)Comprehension (Wh- questions)Genre St
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Grades:
1st - 3rd
Also included in: Second Grade Fiction Shared Reading 10 Text Companion BUNDLE
Lunar New Year Chinese New Year Goldy Luck and the Three Pandas
Read Goldy Luck and the Three Pandas by Natasha Yim to celebrate Chinese New Year! The lesson plan comes with CC standards, teaching point, vocabulary, connection to prior learning, active engagement, read aloud notes, and guiding questions. This product includes graphic organizers, writing prompts, and ready-to-print writing paper. They are differentiated by the number of writing lines, how big the picture box is, and sentence starters or sentence frames.Also included:The writing activities inc
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K - 3rd
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"Zig and Wikki" Graphic Novel Read-aloud & Research Activities for Google Slides
Explore fiction and nonfiction hybrid texts by reading aloud the "Zig and Wikki" graphic novels (or comics) to your 1st or 2nd grade elementary classes with this editable, DIGITAL lesson.By reading aloud to students, you can demonstrate how to read across and down the comic panels and in what order to read the speech bubbles. This graphic novel also includes a fiction story that gives factual information to teach students how to differentiate between fact and fiction.This lesson is designed fo
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1st - 3rd
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Also included in: Primary Graphic Novels Read-aloud Activities BUNDLE
Judy Moody Chapter Questions
End of chapter questions for the book "Judy Moody Was In A Mood" by Peter H. Reynolds. Use as a quick check, morning work, or part of a book study!
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1st - 4th
Ranger in Time: Danger in Ancient Rome Book Study
Looking for a fun way to engage and challenge your students? Studying Ancient Rome and looking for an extension? This packet is what you are looking for! This is a 76 page packet with 72 pages of activities for Kate Messner's book, Ranger in Time; Danger in Ancient Rome. It is designed for grades 2-5 with differentiated rubrics for each grade. Activities can be done small group or whole group, and may be used as differentiated instruction and enrichment activities for 2nd grade. Read belo
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Grades:
2nd - 5th
“20,000 Leagues Under the Sea” Reading Comprehension Guide
This packet is designed as a Reading Comprehension companion to the Classic Starts® version of Jules Verne’s novel, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. It can be used as a supplement to aid in a better understanding of the literature through multiple choice, short answer, and critical thinking questions. Additionally, there are Social Studies and S.T.E.A.M. assignment suggestions included. This can be used to fulfill academic requirements for 1-2 Learning Peri
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Grades:
2nd - 5th
Horrible Harry and the Green Slime Novel Study for Comprehension
If you are looking for a great fluency leveled book where each chapter is organized as a self-contained story for students at DRA reading level L or 24? Then, Horrible Harry and the Green Slime is for you! The characters and plots in the book are sure to delight your readers; and the various teaching and practice components will help give you the means to dig in and develop comprehension with them. The additional skill work teaching tasks with follow-up worksheets for sharpening some skills are
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2nd - 3rd
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