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Critical thinking close reading Common Core W.2.1 resources
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Fact and Opinion Activities Sort 2nd 3rd Grade Fun Reading Centers Comprehension
Are you looking for a fun, highly engaging, and EFFECTIVE way to teach fact and opinion? This set of activities will teach your students how to distinguish between fact and opinion by becoming observant text detectives. You can even use it as the basis for a room transformation!This resource includes:Fact Detectives Reading CentersFact vs Opinion SortAssessmentDigital ActivitiesSOLVE THE CRIME FACT DETECTIVESThis activity is super engaging for students! They will read each storyline along with t
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2nd - 3rd
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Also included in: Fact and Opinion Activities BUNDLE Text Detective Reading Comprehension
First Day Jitters Activities | First Day Jitters Book Activities
First Day Jitters Activities-Do you love using the book “First Day Jitters” at back to school time? Then, you and your students will love this engaging and fun First Day Jitters book activities unit! This week-long unit is packed with an emoji writing craft, responding to literature activities, vocabulary, quick prints, and soooo much more!INCLUDES DIGITAL STUDENT ACTIVITIES! _____________________________________________________________✊ Buy the bundle and SAVE BIG!!! ✊Ready to have your student
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1st - 3rd
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Also included in: Reading Activities Beyond the Text All Year Bundle
READ ALOUD STEM Activities and Challenges MEGA Bundle #1 STEM Club, STEM Centers
Integrate STEM and Literacy in your classroom all year with READ ALOUD STEM Volume One! Everything you need to be the master STEM Teacher at your school! Awaken imagination and creativity all year. Students learn coding, engineering, explore real-world problems, learn about STEM role models, pioneers, inventors, and more!Amazing resource for STEM clubs, STEM Teachers, STEM Stations, STEM Centers, parents who love hands-on learning, and elementary teachers who want to create a hands-on educationa
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1st - 5th
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Summer School Activities Camping Theme Camp Days Fun Summer School Activities
Our week-long Camping Theme unit is a fun way to review this summer while having a blast! Get ready for a classroom transformation! With engaging activities like an all-about-me worksheet, camp games, and more where students enjoy camping days. Keep kids engaged and learning while creating memorable adventures during this unforgettable summer school or summer camp experience!⭐️ Be sure to open up the preview to see what is inside.Key Features In This Week Long Camp Themed Unit:✓ Daily activities
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1st - 3rd
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150 Daily Bell Work Writing Prompts (Grade 1-3 Language)
Be prepared to teach your Grade 1-3 Language class with a year's worth of bell work writing prompts for Google Slides™! This resource is perfect for a soft start to the Language block and for creating a daily routine for your students to follow. This resource includes 150 writing prompts themed for each day of the week to spark student interest and promote engagement. Every prompt comes with an example of how students should organize their journals, including partial sentences to get students st
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1st - 3rd
Also included in: Grade 2 Ontario 2023 Language Bundle (FULL YEAR)
READ ALOUD STEM™ Activities and Challenges #2 Real World Science Engineering
Bundle and get 50% off! Integrate STEM and Literacy in your classroom all year with READ ALOUD STEM Volume 2! Awaken imagination and creativity all year. Students learn coding, engineering, explore real world problems, learn about STEM role models, pioneers, inventors, and more! Perfect for librarians, STEM Club, K-5 Teachers, and any teach who loves to integrate hands-on learning activities with their students!This collection of STEM Projects focuses on connecting ELA and STEM. Each challenge c
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1st - 5th
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-PS3-1
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 4-PS3-4
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Decodable Passages w/ Reading Comprehension Questions & Activities
Want to get your students excited about reading and writing? In this resource, reading comprehension is paired with decodable phonics passages and writing. Help your students pair phonics w/ vocabulary, reading comprehension, & writing as they write their own ending...the ultimate science of reading approach!30 decodable passages:follow a systematic scope and sequence of the most common phonics skillsStudents read the decodable passage and use their comprehension of the story to answer quest
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1st - 3rd
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Paul Klee Abstract Art Lesson: Portrait Dice Games Art Project - Nsw Visual Arts
Are you teaching an abstract art lesson on Paul Klee? Are they going to create an abstract portrait? Here's a fun lesson to brighten up your lesson plans! This is the perfect addition to your elementary art curriculum! Engaging abstract portrait art lesson with language (writing) activities. These no-prep abstract portrait art projects are perfect for your art sub tub. Super easy to implement for substitute teachers. Plus, the engagement will help with behavior! Perfect to start your art integra
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K - 12th
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Also included in: Art History Lesson - Famous Artists - Art Activities and Sub Plans
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
Reading Activities Beyond the Text All Year Bundle
Beyond the Text All Year: The Growing Bundle If you LOVE my Beyond the Text Reading Packs then, you’ll love this year-long growing bundle! Close reading in the 2nd and 3rd grade classroom can be challenging. From what stories to pull, to what skills to teach week after week, creating a reading routine that is engaging and full of learning can be difficult. Streamline your planning process with this YEAR LONG GROWING BUNDLE! Save 40% off when you purchase this bundle! ____________________________
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1st - 3rd
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End of the Year Camping Activities: Theme Camp Days With Camp Themed STEM Bundle
Do you dread the end of the year hustle and bustle? There is just so much to do and so little time! Not anymore, my friend. End of the year activities have never been more engaging, time-producing for teachers, and just plain AWESOME than with this End of Year Camp Themed Week Long Unit BUNDLE with Camp STEM included! Keep teaching until the end WHILE giving yourself TIME to get everything done at SCHOOL. This BUNDLE includes both the Digital and Print camp unit PLUS Camp STEM Challenges all in
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1st - 3rd
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-1
OPINION WRITING - Quick Writes - Writing Templates for Grades 1-2
These QUICK WRITES are great exercises for primary children learning how to think through, share, and defend their own personal OPINIONS on a variety of topics, including sports, entertainment, food, animals, character traits, and more. Because the templates are OPEN-ENDED, they allow for any child to respond at his or her own developmental level. Three template formats are included in this set: one with picture promptsone inviting the child to drawone with multiple choicesThe quick writes wor
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1st - 2nd
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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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Text Evidence Reading Passages and Common Core Writing Prompts
Get prepared for the whole year with these Text Evidence Reading Passages and Writing Prompts! The resource includes 45 text evidence passages and constructed response questions that align with common core writing standards.Each seasonal set includes narrative, informative, and opinion prompts. ***********************Get 16% off when you purchase the bundle!***********************This product also includes EXEMPLAR WRITING PIECES! They serve as the perfect model to show students in grades 2-5 ho
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2nd - 5th
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Summer School Activities Beach Day Activities & Bubble Day Fun Summer Activities
This week-long Beach Themed Week for 1st and 2nd graders offers fun summer school activities, memory book creation, math review, science, and social studies exploration. Keep kids engaged and allow teachers to work at school with this exciting summer adventure!The beach unit has activities for reading, writing, math, science, and social studies.⭐️ Key Features In This Unit ✓ Daily activities in each subject area (reading, writing, math, social studies, and science)✓ All activities are academic a
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1st - 3rd
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Also included in: End-of-the-Year Activities Beach Theme Beach Days Activities Bundle
Turk and Runt Activities Beyond the Text
Turk and Runt ActivitiesIf your students love the book, "Turk and Runt" by Lisa Wheeler, they will love these Turk and Runt activities that are specifically built to complement this fun Thanksgiving story! This unit includes digital Turk and Runt Activities that are perfect for your distance learning classroom. This Turk and Runt Activities unit is designed to save you time while helping you build your students' reading comprehension as they learn to look Beyond the Text (TM) This Turk and Runt
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1st - 3rd
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Also included in: Reading Activities Beyond the Text All Year Bundle
A Bad Case of the Stripes Activities - Read Aloud Book Lessons and Worksheets
This Back to School Read Aloud for A Bad Case of the Stripes Picture Book Reading includes EVERYTHING you need for fun reading activities, crafts, and lesson plans to go along with the book: A Bad Case of Stripes. These week-long read aloud lessons make teaching character traits, reality and fantasy, and cause and effect fun using differentiated reading and writing activities, worksheets, and graphic organizers. EVERYTHING you need is included to help you teach and provide practice lessons for y
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K - 2nd
Fluency, Fluency Passages, Reading Fluency, Comprehension Passages
The BUNDLE of NONFICTION FLUENCY passages has arrived. I have taken two of my best year long sellers and combined them into one bundle. These weekly passages are geared toward UPPER ELEMENTARY OR ADVANCED READERS! In each set there are enough fluency passages to complete one story per week! With the BUNDLE DEAL there are enough passages for 2 school years or 2 stories per week.The fluency passages are not for early readers! The fluency passages are meant for advanced readers or readers who a
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2nd - 5th
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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
Reading Comprehension Passages and Questions 2nd 3rd Grade
Finding fun and simple ways to practice reading comprehension can be challenging. This passages and questions mega bundle is an effective way to prepare your students for testing. Reading Comprehension Outline:Each lesson has a mix of questions to check understanding, a vocabulary or spelling activity to help remember key language introduced, and a writing exercise. Passages are high interest and contain vivid graphics. Full answer keys are provided.PDF version includes Easel Activity making eac
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Grades:
2nd - 3rd
A Plump and Perky Turkey Thanksgiving STEAM Activity
Design and Build a Plump and Perky Turkey for a STEM Art Show! Make learning fun with this Thanksgiving STEAM challenge in which students design their very own symmetrical Plump and Perky Turkey that can balance on it's own! An excellent companion activity to the fall read aloud book A Plump and Perky Turkey by Teresa Bateman.Amazing resource for STEM club, STEM teachers, elementary librarians, parents who love hands-on learning, and 1st grade through 5th grade teachers who want to create a hand
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Grades:
1st - 5th
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
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Also included in: Thanksgiving Turkey READ ALOUD STEM™ Activities BUNDLE
Johnny Appleseed Activities Print and Digital Beyond the Text
Johnny Appleseed Activities: Print and DigitalIt's apple time! That means time to learn more about Johnny Appleseed! Ready to engage your students while learning more about Johnny Appleseed and American Folktales? Then, they'll love this engaging and fun Beyond the Text unit about Johnny Appleseed! This unit includes tons of fun Johnny Appleseed Activities. This week-long unit is packed with printable and digital versions of crafts, responding to literature activities, vocabulary, quick prints,
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1st - 3rd
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Also included in: Reading Activities Beyond the Text All Year Bundle
Opinion Writing for the Whole Year! Common Core Aligned
This pack is perfect if you want to infuse opinion writing step by step into your teaching all year long. It addresses Common Core Standards: WK.1, W1.1, W2.1 (...and possibly even W3.1 for third grade, depending upon the level of your students). There are 119 pages!
COMPLETELY revised and improved! 2016
For more details, check my blog.
Table of Contents
Page 1 Title Page
Page 2 Common Core Standards Covered k-3
Page 3 Table of Contents
Pages 4-12 slides for Data Projector
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K - 3rd
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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
Grades:
1st - 3rd
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