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Short stories printables for Easel Activities
Second Grade Word Work Activities with Phonics Focused Passages - SOR Aligned
This is an all-year Science of Reading aligned Word Work for 2nd graders, now with the zero-prep EASEL by TpT Digital Option. Word Families are introduced in short stories, and reinforced daily in different activities. This resource promotes word recognition, vocabulary development and text comprehension, which makes it a great addition to literacy centers and small groups!The weekly activities included in this Word Work packet consist of reading a story and identifying Word Work words, writing
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1st - 2nd
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The 3 Branches of Government Unit for Local, State and Federal Government
Spark your 3rd, 4th or 5th grade students’ interest in government with this cross-curricular, high interest government teaching unit. Your students will dive in with a three page story called, “Jenny and the Government Fairy”. They then explore local, state and federal government through simple to use mini lessons, and lots of fun activities. This teaching unit is perfect for the BUSY teacher!This unit is created to be simple to use for teachers and studentsMakes planning a breeze...just print
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3rd - 4th
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Also included in: Government In America BUNDLE
Story Sequencing: Reading Passages to Sequence Events
Story Sequencing Reading Passages This pack contains 20 reading comprehension passages that target FLUENCY and COMPREHENSION through SEQUENCING STORY EVENTS in an INTERACTIVE way.The students will really have to go back in the text to be able to do the cut and paste.The students will have to:* read the passage 3 times to improve FLUENCY* cut the sentences at the bottom of the page and glue them in the order they are in the story to show COMPREHENSION Story titles:1. Kate's Breakfast2. Tom's New
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1st - 2nd
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First Grade Word Work and Phonics Focused Passages and Activities - SOR Aligned
This is an all-year Science of Reading aligned Word Work and Phonics resource for 1st Graders. Word Families are introduced in Phonics Focused Short Stories and reinforced daily in different activities. This resource promotes phonics awareness, word recognition, vocabulary development, and text comprehension, making it a great addition to literacy centers and small group instruction! The weekly activities included in this First Grade Word Work packet consist of reading a story and identifying W
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1st - 2nd
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Also included in: Back to School Bundle - First Grade
Short Stories WH Questions - Speech Therapy - Listening Comprehension Passages
These 15 short stories with WH questions include who, what, when, where, why and how questions. Great for working on answering Wh- questions, auditory comprehension, and memory!Includes WH Questions Chart as a visual aid.(Psst . . . this resource is included in my Short Stories BUNDLEand my Speech-Language MEGA Bundle at a big discount!) Includes 15 short stories (6-9 sentences in length) with three levels of support for each passage: Level 1: Includes multiple choices with pictures. Students ca
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Not Grade Specific
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Short Vowel CVC Fluency Passages and Decodable Sentences with Phonics Cards
Help your beginning readers practice blending, segmenting, reading sight words, and developing reading fluency and comprehension. This bundle is perfect for targeted small group instruction and includes 10 cvc and pre-primer fluency passages with comprehension questions, short vowel and pre-primer sentences and phrases, short vowel and pre-primer word lists, and data sheets. There are also phonics cards with decodable words for each letter sound. Included in this bundle:10 Fluency Passages and C
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K - 1st
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Also included in: Decodable Reading Fluency Passages and Phrases | Reading Intervention
1st Grade Reading Comprehension Passages 1st Grade Short Stories with Questions
First Grade Reading Passages (FICTION) SET 1Engage your young readers with these 30 fictional reading comprehension passages. Students are asked to read a short passage, answer questions using evidence in the text, state their opinions and justify them and draw an illustration to display an understanding of what they have read. A cover page for a booklet and both US and UK/AUS/NZ spelling are included in the packet. As well as the printable pages, there is an option to use the TPT Digital Tool o
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1st - 2nd
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Myths and Legends Close Reading Comprehension - Print and Digital Resources
Elevate your students' reading comprehension with these comprehensive Myths & Legends Comprehension activities. Designed to meet educational standards, this resource is perfect for students in 4th to 6th grade, bridging critical gaps in the curriculum. Dive into a world of diverse myths and legends, from Native American to Greek mythology, and enhance reading skills with activities designed for various learning styles. PRODUCT FEATURES:Versatile Learning Formats: Includes both printable PDF
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4th - 6th
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20 Spanish Reading Comprehension Stories ( 20 Cuentos de comprensión )
20 stories included! Great product to work on comprehension! Students can read these stories and then answer the multiple-choice questions. These are also great for stations. They can read the question and go back to reference the story in order to find the answer. Thank you for your purchase!! Please leave me feedback on the product!Please check out some of my other products below: LECTURA EN ESPAÑOL:10 Cuentos de Fluidez - Animales - Fluency stories for Kinder/1st gradeOraciones Completas
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PreK - 2nd
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A Christmas Carol reader's theater play script (includes two versions!)
Originally part of the December 1998 issue of Scholastic's Storyworks Magazine, this traditional re-telling of the Ebenezer Scrooge story is perfect for Zoomer's theater, podcast, or classroom play--or add holiday hymns and create a full-fledged stage production. For 10 to 16 participants and innumerable extras. A second version from my book, Read Aloud Plays: Classic Short Stories (2010 Scholastic) is also included. In it, Scrooge is a woman, Eleanora Scrooge. Two comprehension activities are a
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: A Dickens' Christmas -- Reader's Theater Pack
6 Fairy Tales/Literature Passages Close Reading HW Assessments CC Aligned TDQ's
PDFs &/Or Google Slides/ClassroomCelebrate the classics! Fairy tales, fables, morals, and lessons learned. In this unit, you will find 6 Fairy Tales and Fables Themed Passages. Each story has 5 response pages. Four questions on each question page.Titles in this file: 1. Friendly Little Red A retelling of Red Riding Hood2. The Frog Prince 3. Cinderella 4. The Magic Fish 5. The Magic Goose A retelling of: The Goose That Laid the Golden Egg. 6. The Monkey and the Lion This unit equals over
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2nd - 4th
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1st Grade Nonfiction Reading Comprehension Passages with Questions
This is a collection of 1st grade NONFICTION reading comprehension passages with questions cut and paste. The passages target reading COMPREHENSION and are designed to improve reading FLUENCY by asking the students to read each passage 3 times.Titles included:1. The Sun2. The Moon3. The Stars4. Apples5. Leaves6. Living and Nonliving Things7. Zebras8. Wolves9. Sharks10. Monkeys11. Animal Habitats12. Animal Needs13. Bears are Mammals14. Dogs and Wolves15. Where Do Animals Live?The students will ha
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1st - 2nd
Pourquoi Tales Reading Comprehension & Story Writing Lesson Origin Stories
Pourquoi tales are stories that explain how something came to be. They are a sub-genre of folktales that can be found in many cultures around the world. This is a set of supplemental activities to go with your pourquoi stories unit. Students will practice reading and understanding a pourquoi tale and then write their own!Includes:COMPREHENSION WORKSHEETIncludes an original pourquoi story, How The Giraffe Got A Long Neck, comprehension questions, and answer keyPOURQUOI STORY OUTLINEThis sheet can
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3rd - 4th
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Also included in: Third Grade Math & Reading YEAR LONG BUNDLE 1500+ Pages
2nd Grade Word Work Activities (weekly) with Digital Option - Distance Learning
This Second Grade Word Work Activities Packet has 34 weeks of Mon-Thurs practice for second grade. You can use these in so many ways: word work center, homework, Daily 5 center, guided reading or guided literacy group, morning work, early finishers work, classwork, etc. Get the free sample here: Word Work Activities - 2nd Grade - FREE SAMPLE Each week, the students will be presented with a new word family or spelling rule: Mondays - kids will read a passage that I specifically wrote to incorp
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1st - 3rd
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Folktales Reading Comprehension Passages
Stories told by indigenous peoples of North America are featured in these 8 short reading passages with text and 5 multiple-choice comprehension questions on one page. Options include print, Easel Activities, and Google Forms. The questions are modeled after the types of questions on standardized reading tests. Perfect for morning work or bell work activities, reading centers, quick assessments, small group instruction, interventions, test prep, or homework!Readability is in the 3rd-5th grade ra
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in: Short Fiction Reading Comprehension Passages Bundle
Fairy Tale Writing with Picture Cards
Even reluctant writers will be excited to write with this resource! Encourage students to put a creative twist on traditional fairy tales by choosing surprising character, setting, and problem combinations to write about. There are 56 cards included in this writing center: Setting (16), Character (24), and Problem (16). ALL cards are provided in color and line art. Students draw one from each set to use in writing a creative story.Depending on the reading ability of your students, you may choose
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1st - 2nd
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Also included in: Writing Centers Bundle Draw Three and Write with Me Series
The Pedestrian Ray Bradbury Close Reading & Analysis Dystopian Short Story Unit
"The Pedestrian" is a very accessible dystopian short story that students will find intriguing and worthy of discussion. Its brief length (around 500 words) provides the perfect opportunity to have students "dig deeply" into a complete text, improving their reading comprehension and literary analysis skills without feeling overwhelmed. If you are simply looking for an accessible story, a way to expose students to Bradbury's poetic and descriptive style, or a way to introduce them to the widely c
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8th - 12th
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Compare & Contrast Characters- A Fantasy Short Story for Reading Comprehension
Students compare and contrast characters in the delightful fantasy world of Garlok the Terrible. The product includes a short story, student response pages, as well as conversation guides, roles, and guiding questions to help generate authentic discussion. Story Synopsis: It's showtime for Garlok- a hero has finally arrived! But things don't go quite according to plan, for either of them!This product is sold as a PDF file which includes: - Title Page- 2-page teacher guide for story implementatio
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3rd - 5th
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Fractured Fairy Tales & 5 Wh Questions -Reading Comprehension No Prep Worksheets
These 40 high-interest, low readability fractured fairy tales with a twist were designed to help students improve their reading comprehension skills. These no prep worksheets will also help them to experience unusual and varying points of view. By reading the short, humorous stories and answering the accompanying who, what, when, where, and why questions, students will learn to apply comprehension strategies so that they can understand and retain the information they read. Contents Include:- 4
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2nd - 8th
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Reading Comprehension Passages with Text Dependent Questions
Engage readers with high-interest realistic fiction passages and comprehension questions! Students will practice their close reading skills with a variety of other fiction reading skills. Each of the five passages has a set of multiple choice questions and short answer questions that require students to use their text evidence skills.Grades: 2nd and 3rd grade readers but has been used with intervention, at-risk and enrichment groups at other grade levels This product includes:5 fiction passages5
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2nd - 4th
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1st Grade Word Work Activities (weekly) with Digital Option - Distance Learning
This First Grade Word Work Activities Packet has 32 weeks of Mon-Thurs practice. You can use these in so many ways: word work center, homework, Daily 5 center, guided reading or guided literacy group, morning work, early finishers work, classwork, etc. Get the free sample here: FREE SAMPLE - Word Work Activities - 1st GradeEach week, the students will be presented with two new word families:Mondays - kids will read a passage that I specifically wrote to incorporate those two word families.
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K - 2nd
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Rikki Tikki Tavi Plot Diagram Activity Using Story Elements - Easel Activity
Rikki Tikki Tavi Plot Diagram. A hands-on activity for the story Rikki Tikki Tavi. After learning that the plot is the sequence of events, and having been introduced to a plot diagram with the story elements exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution, have your students work in small groups or partners to cut and paste this list of 12 events from the story onto the plot diagram and label what part of the story they belong to. Blank plot diagram included (as an example). St
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Rikki Tikki Tavi Bundle with Easel Activities
Drama Reading Comprehension Passages
Supplement your elements of drama unit with 8 short reading passages that each feature the text and 4 multiple-choice questions on one page. Options include print, Easel Activities, and Google Forms. Half of the scripts are fairy tale excerpts, and half are fable excerpts. The questions are modeled after the types of questions on standardized reading tests and include elements of drama and reading comprehension questions. Perfect for morning work or bell work activities, reading centers, quick a
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in: Short Fiction Reading Comprehension Passages Bundle
Fiction Context Clues Reading Passages and Activities with Vocabulary Grades 4-6
Vocabulary in Context is great for building vocabulary, applying learned vocabulary, comprehension, and fluency! These ten reading passages use real photographs to help support comprehension which is a great strategy if using for ELL's or intervention. This product is packed with 10 reading passages, vocabulary with definitions, fill in the blank application activities, and writing prompts. Answer keys for activities included! This resource is intended for grades 4-6 but can be used for other gr
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4th - 6th
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Also included in: Context Clues Reading Passages and Activities Bundle with Vocabulary
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