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Close reading Common Core W.2.1 resources under $5
Author's Purpose | Reading Comprehension | Google Slides | Boom Cards
Now with Google Slides! Are your beginning readers learning to understand the Author's Purpose for writing a story or passage? This BOOM Game is so helpful in helping students to understand the reading comprehension skill of Author's Purpose. Each game slide has a short passage. Students will read/listen to the passage and determine if the Author's purpose is to persuade, inform, or entertain. This is an important comprehension skill to help students discern what type of text they are reading
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K - 1st
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Also included in: Digital Reading Comprehension Bundle | Boom Cards | Google Slides
Screen Time: Close Reading Article, Opinion Writing Paper, & iPhone Craft
Want a relevant and meaningful opinion writing topic for your students? Screen time is a hot topic among adults (especially parents and teachers), so why shouldn't it be a topic that kids can also educate themselves about?Have your students read the included close reading article about the pros and cons of screen time for kids. It's a great jumping off point for in-depth class discussions! Assign this writing prompt: "Should kids have more or less screen time?" This resource comes with kid-frien
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1st - 6th
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Fact or Opinion | Reading Comprehension | Digital Slides | Boom Cards
Now with GOOGLE SLIDES. Are your beginning readers learning to identify a fact or an opinion in a story? This BOOM Game is so helpful in helping students to understand the reading comprehension skill of Fact or Opinion. Each game slide has a statement. Students will read/listen to the statement and then determine if the statement is a fact or an opinion. This is an important comprehension skill to help students discern relevant and irrelevant information when reading a text.The cards are rando
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K - 1st
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Also included in: Digital Reading Comprehension Bundle | Boom Cards | Google Slides
Common Core Opinion Writing -Beginning to cite textual evidence
Opinion Writing unit: This common core opinion writing teaches kids to begin to cite an article when writing an opinion piece. There are 4 prompts and week long activities to go with each prompt. I use this with my second graders and advanced first graders, but it is probably best suited to second and third grade.
The unit includes:
Opinion text posters featuring parts of an opinion piece
Four opinion prompts:
Do you think that video games are good for kids?
Do you think kids should wear
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1st - 3rd
Chester's Way Book Study
Chester’s Way by Kevin Henkes teaches an important lesson in friendship. This book study includes a wealth of easy-to-differentiate resources to assist you and your students in close reading, writing, and thinking deeply about this story. These activities work well as literacy centers, or can be done as a whole class.
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The table of contents is as follows:
• Vocabulary (p. 6) - Pre-teach key vocabulary from the story with this list or copy for students to paste into notebooks. Words, d
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1st - 2nd
Click, Clack, Moo Cows That Type (Book Study)
This resource is filled with comprehension and literacy center resources to pair with Click, Clack, Moo Cows That Type by Doreen Cronin. Great for grade 1 and grade 2!
Here’s what you will find inside:
• Vocabulary List (p. 4)
• Story Map (p. 5-6)
• Comprehension Strips & Recording Sheets (p. 7-20)
• Opinion Writing Prompt (p. 21-22)
• Fantasy vs. Realism Chart (p. 23-24)
• Summary Writing (p. 25-26)
• Letter Writing Activities (p. 27-28)
*Story map, comprehension strip recording sheets
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1st - 2nd
Main Idea and Supporting Details 2nd and 3rd Grade
Help your students identify the main topics or main ideas of multi-paragraph texts. While reading about winter subjects, students practice close reading skills.
It is challenging for primary students to identify main ideas, topic sentences and supporting details. Activities in this unit are focused on helping them find the important idea in each paragraph and understanding how the topic sentences go together under one main idea.
There are matching activities, graphic organizers a
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2nd - 3rd
Amos and Boris Book Study
Amos & Boris by William Steig is a classic friendship tale your class is sure to love!This book study includes a wealth of easy-to-differentiate resources to assist you and your students in close reading, writing, and thinking deeply about this story. These activities work well as literacy centers, or can be done as a whole class.The table of contents is as follows:Vocabulary (p. 5) - Pre-teach key vocabulary from the story with this list or copy for students to paste into notebooks. Words
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1st - 3rd
Non-fiction Compare and Contrast 2nd and 3rd Grade
This unit is based on the CCSS standard RI 2.9. If you are not teaching Common Core, it is still valuable to use when teaching students how to compare and contrast important and interesting ideas in two texts on the same topic. One activity asks students to look at two authors’ points of view on the same topic. There is also a writing practice lesson for writing an opinion. The unit is designed to supplement regular classroom curriculum. Although focused on 2nd grade, many of the activ
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2nd - 3rd
Ruby Bridges Goes to School: Text-Dependent Questions and more!
“Ruby Bridges Goes to School,” is the autobiographical story of a brave African-American girl who was the first Black student to attend an all-white school in New Orleans in 1961. Easy-to-read text and historical photographs record an amazing moment in her life and in American history. This book is also a goldmine for teaching the reading standards! Our text-dependent questions will help you model close reading and teach the CCSS for Informational text 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 as you return to
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1st - 2nd
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The Great Fuzz Frenzy Read Aloud Activities with Crafts for Forest Theme
The Great Fuzz Frenzy is a forest animal read aloud favorite! These The Great Fuzz Frenzy activities, woodland or forest crafts, reading responses, writing prompts and worksheets will make your classroom fun and ready to learn about woodland or forest animals! These The Great Fuzz Frenzy activities are all differentiated for K-3. Please note, you will need a copy of the book The Great Fuzz Frenzy in order to use this resource.There are 7 The Great Fuzz Frenzy reading response activities:Making P
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K - 3rd
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Also included in: 43 Read Aloud Activities, Crafts and Discussion Questions FOR THE YEAR
Opinion Sentence Starters (Anchor Chart & Task Cards)
Use these opinion starters during reading, guided reading, discussions, writing, etc.Comes with Anchor chart and small sentence starter cards for each opinion sentence.
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2nd - 6th
What is Solar Power? Close Read and Opinion Letter Writing
Are you looking for a way to combine science with ELA? Teach your students how solar power works and create rich discussion so your students can write a persuasive letter to convince people to use solar power in their home. Start with a close read to teach your students how solar power works. There are vocabulary cards to accompany the reading. You can assess your students' knowledge with:Summary Sheet24 Task Cards with Recording Chart and Answer KeyAn EASY STEM assignment to place solar panels
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2nd - 3rd
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Back to School Read-Aloud Reading Response Journal: First Day Critter Jitters
Are you looking for a meaningful back to school reading response journal to start off your school year? This resource accompanies the read-aloud First Day Critter Jitters by Jory John and is a perfect way for you to take a look at the reading response skills your new learners are coming in with this year. This response journal is perfect for first, second, and third grade learners practicing their writing in response to literature.In this differentiated resource, you will find meaningful questio
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1st - 3rd
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Jabari Jumps Interactive Read Aloud and Writing Activity
This Jabari Jumps by Gaia Cornwall interactive read aloud and writing activity pack has everything you need to dive in deep and build rigor for your students with text-dependent questions, targeted skills, and writing practice. This pack includes:-3-Day, 4-Day, and 5-Day Lesson Plan Options-Detailed Standards-Standards Overview-Story Preview-Pre-Reading Discussion Questions-Lesson 1 (with Answer Key)-Activity 1-Lesson 2 (with Answer Key)-Activity 2-Writing Activity (with Rubrics)-Post-Reading
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K - 2nd
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Candy Corn Day | National Holiday | OCT 30th
National Candy Corn Day is October 30th! Have some fun with your kids and surprise them with Candy Corn Day. You can include these candy corn activities into math, reading, and writing time or add them to your Halloween Classroom Party. This product includes:-candy corn find-candy graph-candy corn adjectives -candy corn symmetry -goodie bag tags-candy corn word finder-candy corn mazes-candy corn word maker-close reading passage about candy corn with questions-redesign request for candy corn (art
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1st - 3rd
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Also included in: Halloween Week Survival Bundle- Easy Prep
Tapenum's Day
This book study includes comprehension and writing activities for the book Tapenum’s Day, written by Kate Waters.
Six comprehension strip questions are provided, along with a recording sheet. Students will return to the text to find specific information as they answer the questions. These can be done individually or in pairs and work well in literacy centers.
A sequencing activity, Venn diagram, compare and contrast writing prompt and an opinion writing prompt are also included.
Writing
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1st - 3rd
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Stink: The Incredible Shrinking Kid Novel Study (#1)
Megan McDonald's "Stink" is shrinking! This novel study, though, is BIG! CCSS-aligned, rigorous, text-dependent questions are provided for each chapter of this hilarious book, along with a wide variety of graphic organizers and note-taking templates to guide students as they read.
Each chapter has a before, during, and after question section, along with vocabulary builders and graphic organizers to boost critical thinking and reading strategy skills! Teachers will love the thorough answer key
Grades:
2nd - 3rd
Arnie the Doughnut Read-Aloud Activities Response Journal for 1st 2nd Grade
Are you looking for read-aloud activities to accompany Arnie the Doughnut by Laurie Keller? This reading response journal is perfect for kindergarten, first, and second grade learners practicing their writing in response to literature.In this differentiated resource, you will find meaningful questions tailored to the story as well as writing templates and graphic organizers.Pick and choose the activities that best suit the needs of your class for a week-long study of the book, plus the cover to
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K - 2nd
American Heroes Close Reading & Opinion Writing
Teach Close Reading, Opinion Writing, & Social Studies all in one with this American Heroes topic. It has been updated for use during distance learning, and can be used for Presidents’ Day, Black History month, or any time of year. This download comes with 5 reading passages that can be used for Close Reading and note-taking/annotating. You can choose to either print pages with single spacing (save paper by copying onto one page) or double spacing (to leave space for students to make annotat
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1st - 3rd
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Also included in: American Heroes Bundle: Close Reading, Writing, and Project
Thanksgiving Reader: The History of the Thanksgiving Day Parade
The History of the Thanksgiving Day Parade is a nonfiction Thanksgiving reader that is meant to be a fun way of discussing traditions and the history of the biggest parade in the world. The history of the Thanksgiving Day Parade.* 395 words written for 2nd grade with support. Readability is around 4th grade due to vocabulary. Sentence length and complexity was written for 2nd grade. This Little Reader Includes: ♥ Two 12-page student readers (one color copy and one black and white copy)♥ Vocabu
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2nd - 3rd
Little Red Riding Hood Read Aloud Activities with Crafts for Fairy Tale Unit
Little Red Riding Hood is a fairy tale unit read aloud favorite! These Little Red Riding Hood activities, fairy tale crafts, Little Red Riding Hood crafts, reading responses, writing prompts and worksheets will make your classroom fun and ready to dive into your fairy tale unit! These Little Red Riding Hood activities are all differentiated for K-3. Please note, you will need a copy of the original version of Little Red Riding Hood in order to use this resource.There are 7 Little Red Riding Hood
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K - 3rd
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Also included in: 43 Read Aloud Activities, Crafts and Discussion Questions FOR THE YEAR
Something from Nothing Read-Aloud Activities: Reading Response Journal
Are you looking for read-aloud activities to accompany Something from Nothing by Phoebe Gilman? This reading response journal is perfect for kindergarten, first, and second grade learners practicing their writing in response to literature.In this differentiated resource, you will find meaningful questions tailored to the story as well as writing templates and graphic organizers.Pick and choose the activities that best suit the needs of your class for a week-long study of the book, plus the cover
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K - 2nd
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K-ESS3-3
Mother Bruce Opinion Writing Graphic Organizer Text Evidence Anchor Charts
This Mother Bruce Opinion Writing resource is a perfect companion to Mother Bruce by Ryan Higgins. After conducting a close read of the book, students can work independently or cooperatively to form an opinion and use text evidence to support their opinion. It includes:Fact vs. opinion anchor chartFact vs. opinion sorting activityOpinion writing anchor chartCircle map graphic organizer for brainstorming Tree map graphic organizer for first draftFinal copy paper Suggested text evidence to suppo
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1st - 2nd
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