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Close reading Common Core W.2.1 pdfs
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
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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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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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
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
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
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
Winter Text Evidence Reading Passages and Common Core Writing Prompts
Make writing fun for your students with these Winter Text Evidence Passages and Writing Prompts! The resource includes nine winter-themed text evidence passages and constructed response questions that align with common core writing standards. It also includes THREE COMMON CORE EXEMPLAR WRITING PIECES! (one informative, one opinion, one narrative) They serve as the perfect model to show students how to write to text.Included in the Packet:"Show Me The Text Evidence" Sentence Starter Anchor Chart3
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2nd - 5th
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Also included in: Text Evidence Reading Passages and Common Core Writing Prompts
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
Text Evidence Reading Passages and Common Core Writing Prompts: Pizza Theme
Make writing fun for your students with these Pizza Text Evidence Passages and Writing Prompts! The resource includes nine pizza-themed text evidence passages and constructed response questions that align with common core writing standards. It also includes THREE COMMON CORE EXEMPLAR WRITING PIECES! (one informative, one opinion, one narrative) They serve as the perfect model to show students how to write to text.Did you know that September 5th is National Cheese Pizza Day? This is a great produ
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2nd - 5th
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Also included in: Text Evidence Reading Passages and Common Core Writing Prompts
Fall Text Evidence Reading Passages and Common Core Writing Prompts
Start your year off right with these Fall Text Evidence Passages and Writing Prompts! The resource includes nine fall-themed text evidence passages and constructed response questions that align with common core writing standards. It also includes THREE COMMON CORE EXEMPLAR WRITING PIECES! (one informative, one opinion, one narrative) They serve as the perfect model to show students how to write to text.Included in the Packet:"Show Me The Text Evidence" Sentence Starter Anchor Chart3 Informative
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2nd - 5th
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Also included in: Text Evidence Reading Passages and Common Core Writing Prompts
Test Prep ELA Performance Task BUNDLE 2
This is a bundle of NINE ELA performance tasks designed to help prepare your students for what they'll see on the test. Save 30% by purchasing the bundle!Included are:* 2 PTs for 2nd-3rd Grades (Lemonade Stands and Endangered Species)* 2 PTs for 3rd-4th Grades (Video Games and Getting/Preventing Illness)* 5 PTs for 4th-5th Grades (The Red Planet, Elizabethan Explorers, Roman Mythology, Yellowstone National Park, American Revolution)All PTs in the bundle include:- Part 1 directions- 3 sources wit
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2nd - 5th
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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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Banksy Activities - Famous Artist Biography Art Unit - Graffiti Artist Unit
Banksy Biography and Art Activities. Famous graffiti artist activities unit includes close read biography passages, reading skills activities, vocabulary words, creative writing sheets, art appreciation responses, and drawing and coloring pages. Great addition to monthly themes like Black History Month, Women’s History Month, Hispanic Heritage Month, etc. This unit is also available in SPANISH. Click HERE.Updated to include two differentiated reading comprehension assignments for use with the ar
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2nd - 6th
Opposing Views Opinion Articles- Distance Learning Added!
*Newly updated to include Google Slide versions of the articles for distance learning!*This set of 10 articles on kid-friendly debate topics is perfect for your opinion or persuasive writing unit. The articles range in length from 147-222 words and the lexile levels vary from 500-1000 LL. These articles show two differing opinions for the following five topics:School UniformsHomeworkClass PetsCats vs. DogsYear-round vs. Traditional SchoolsIn addition to the articles, I have included note-taking
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2nd - 6th
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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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