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Titanic! Nonfiction Text Features & Comparing Multiple Accounts 4-8 NO PREP
Spice up your lessons with this Titanic Pack! Students practice identifying and using nonfiction text features in natural context. They'll also compare multiple accounts of survivor stories. Just like all of my other activity packs, these lessons are FUN, extremely high-interest, organized, RIGOROUS, and ready to teach today!*NOTE* - This product is included in my Spring Bundle. Purchase the bundle to receive an exclusive Easter Mini-Pack!Your students will:Construct an 11 page "book" in their i
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4th - 9th
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The Three Billy Goats Gruff Literacy Activities!
This pack is full of fun, hands-on, and interactive literacy activities for your class to do when reading the story, ‘The Three Billy Goats Gruff’. There are anchor charts and games too! Students will have a blast with these engaging activities that will give them a deeper understanding of the different story elements!Here is what is all included:• Story Map Anchor Chart• Story Elements Flip Book• Sequencing Activity• Retelling Craftivity• Sight Words and Letters GameEnjoy!If you enjoyed this pa
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PreK - 1st
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"Task Don't Ask" 50+ Ways For Teachers to Task and Increase Student Engagement
Are you looking for a way to engage ALL your students? TASK don't ASK! Tasking is an effective teaching strategy you can use in your classroom in order to increase student engagement. When you simply ask your class a question, you're only engaging the handful of students who raise their hand. Instead, replace your question with a "task." When you do this, ALL students are accountable to complete the task.An example of asking looks like:"Who can tell me the 4 types of precipitation?"An example of
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Not Grade Specific
Natural Disaster Nonfiction Text Structure Passages: Digital + Print
Looking for shorter texts before you try full-page passages?Check out my Nonfiction Text Structure Daily Passages. Includes five nonfiction text structure passages and graphic organizers based on natural disasters! - Earthquakes (Cause and Effect) - Wildfires (Sequence) - Tornadoes and Hurricanes (Compare and Contrast) - Tsunamis (Problem and Solution) - Blizzards (Description) Need some great accompanying main idea passages? Check out my weather passages below! Main Idea Weather PassagesCheck o
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4th - 6th
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Also included in: Nonfiction Text Structure Growing Bundle
Landforms Close Reading
***For a Goggle Classroom version of this product, click here!Close Reading: Landforms- This 66 page product contains 12 landform-themed nonfiction close reading passages with evidence-based questioning sheets to go with each. Each landform has a cover page with a definition, close reading article in color + black/white, and comprehension sheet. Great to use as a whole group lesson or in small group reading. The articles are about the following topics:-plateau-plains-mountain-coast-canyon-valley
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1st - 4th
Tops and Bottoms Read Aloud - Spring Plant Activities - Reading Comprehension
These Tops and Bottoms read aloud activities will teach your students about plants with lesson plans and reading comprehension book activities.Our interactive read-aloud lesson plan is designed to be taught over multiple lessons. This allows students an opportunity to dive deeper into the text, make connections to the characters and events and most importantly, fall in love with the story.Each lesson provides students a different purpose for revisiting the text, talking about it and responding t
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1st - 2nd
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Also included in: Read Alouds Bundle - Reading Comprehension - A Year of Read Alouds
How to Read a Poem Introduction to Poetry & Poetic Terms PDF & Google Drive CCSS
Use this attention-grabbing 32-slide lecture (downloads in both Prezi & Google Slides format) and accompanying handouts to pull even your most reluctant students into a study of poetry. Begin by piquing your students’ interest in poetry by comparing the art form to song lyrics. Then, present a concrete, 9-step process to help any student decode any poem.These lesson materials include a guided note handout (with answer key) that will help focus students’ listening and serve as a reference she
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8th - 11th
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2nd Grade Context Clues Worksheet Pack | 3rd Grade Context Clues Worksheet Pack
Context Clues Worksheet Pack***This product has been updated!*** What once used to be a one-page context clues worksheet is now the perfect Context Clues Worksheet Pack with ***25 pages*** of thorough Context Clues practice that's perfect for ALL of your students! Inside this packet of context clues worksheets, students will use the clues in each sentence combined with their own background knowledge and schema to figure out the meaning or the synonym of the underlined word(s). Students will be s
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Grades:
2nd - 4th
Also included in: Spring 2nd Grade Reading Review Worksheet Pages and Graphic Organizers
Main Idea Supporting Details Passages, Graphic Organizers, Activities, Lessons
How many times are students asked to identify the main idea in a reading passage? Almost every reading comprehension worksheet includes questions about finding the main idea or central idea in a text. You would think that students would be masters at identifying the main idea and supporting details by now. However, many students still struggle with this critical reading skill (and many teachers are in search of engaging ways to teach students how to find the main idea).That’s where this Main
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4th - 7th
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Activities for The Bad Seed | Character Traits | Retelling a Story | Story Maps
Engage your little learners in consistent and meaningful core comprehension and story sequencing practice with this activity pack featuring: story maps, core story element visuals, craft, response sheets and four related vocabulary cards.*April 23 , 2024: this resource was modified and received a large update Included in this Resource:4 Vocabulary Cards + Matching Response PagesStory Element Visuals (Traits, Retell Hand, Characters, Setting, Problem/Solution, Plot Events and Theme)Anchor Chart S
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K - 1st
Also included in: Spring March Activities | Retelling | | Sequencing | Spring Crafts
Giraffes Cant Dance Activities | End of Year | Sequencing Stories with Pictures
Start the school year off by engaging your little learners in consistent and meaningful core comprehension and story sequencing practice with this activity pack featuring: story maps, core story element visuals, craft, response sheets and four related vocabulary cards.*April 2024: this resource was modified and received an update Included in this Resource:4 Vocabulary Cards + Matching Response PagesStory Element Visuals (Traits, Retell Hand, Characters, Setting, Problem/Solution, Plot Events and
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K - 1st
Creepy Carrots Read Aloud - Halloween STEM Activities - Reading Comprehension
These Creepy Carrots read aloud activities are perfect for teaching reading comprehension skills to young learners. These Creepy Carrots read aloud activities are print and go, FUN and cover tons of standards. Students love Jasper Rabbit's adventures and these fun book companion activities will keep them super engaged.Our interactive read-aloud lesson plan is designed to be taught over multiple lessons. This allows students an opportunity to dive deeper into the text, make connections to the cha
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1st - 2nd
Also included in: Halloween Read Aloud Bundle - October Comprehension Activities
3D Shape Activity {My 3D Shapes Mini-Book} {Common Core Aligned 3D Shape Fun}
This Common Core aligned 3D Shape Mini Book will make a fabulous addition to your 3D shape activities! Students will love identifying and sorting the shapes. They will also use their descriptive writing skills to describe and identify each shapes attributes.
In each individual mini-book you will find:
*"My 3D Shapes Mini-Book" Cover Page
*6 Shape Pages where students will identify and sort the shape and real word example of the shape. They will also write a description of it. The shapes include
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PreK - 1st
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Inference Activity - Making Inferences in Song Lyrics Music Reading Assignments
Inference Activity - Making Inferences in Song Lyrics Music Reading Assignments is a creative bundle of activities designed to help your students improve their inferential thinking. Students will examine the lyrics of four songs that require students to use their inference skills. Each of the selected songs tells a story, and students will examine the song lyrics and infer the meaning of the narrative by inferring information. With songs from Taylor Swift, Adele, The Chicks, and Miranda Lambert,
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7th - 9th
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Sequencing Task Cards
This is a set of 32 digital and printable sequencing task cards with a variety of ways for students to practice the ever-important skill of sequencing! Please check out my preview for a sample look at many of the cards. This resource now includes DIGITAL access via Google Slides! Students will type or circle their answers directly onto the slides.What's included in this set of sequencing task cards?32 printable task cardsA printable student recording pageAn answer keyA DIGITAL, Google Slides v
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2nd - 5th
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Also included in: Reading Skills Task Card BUNDLE OF ALL BUNDLES
The Good Egg Lesson and Activities for Social Emotional Learning
Jory John’s “The Good Egg” is an awesome story with several themes that make it great for a whole group SEL lesson or guidance lesson, group counseling, or individual counseling sessions. This resource is a set of activities that companion wonderfully with the book. Activities cover the following objectives: understanding what is not their business/not in their control, taking care of themselves when they're stressed, and recognizing their own goodness.*Now includes Google Slides(TM) for most of
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2nd - 5th
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Last Day Blues Read Aloud - End of the Year Activities - Reading Comprehension
This "Last Day Blues" printable or digital interactive read-aloud lesson plan pack includes rigorous text dependent questions, differentiated graphic organizers, response to text writing activities, a craftivity, and detailed lesson plans. These "Last Day Blues" activities will help you meet several core standards while maintaining your tradition of reading aloud for pleasure. You will guide students to use evidence from the text to deepen their understanding of the story and respond in meaningf
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1st - 2nd
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Also included in: Read Alouds Bundle - Reading Comprehension - A Year of Read Alouds
Authors Purpose Activities | Task Cards and Worksheets for Authors Point of View
Help your students master identifying the author's purpose with these fun and interactive Author's Purpose Activities for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd-grade students. Students will determine if the author is trying to Persuade, Inform or Entertain by reading the short passage on the task card. These Author's Purpose task cards are perfect for a whole class game of Scoot, a small group activity, a partner or an independent center activity. Also included in this resource is a cut and paste author's purpose
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Grades:
1st - 3rd
Alphabet Decodable Books | Science of Reading Decodables
These are 26 Alphabet Books. Use these books in your kindergarten classroom to practice letter sounds before they start decoding two and three letter sounds.What's included:26 alphabet books with 6 pictures for each letterHow to Use:Print these DOUBLE SIDEDStaple and use in your small group instructionHave students repeat the letter sound twice and then say the picture. For example /d/ /d/ dogHave your students mastered letter sounds? Here are my Word Family CVC Decodable ReadersInformation for
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PreK - 1st
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Also included in: Decodable Books for Kindergarten | Growing Bundle
Inferences MURDER MYSTERY!!! The Case of Mr. Crane
A "WHODUNIT" OF INFERENCES!! The second in a series!!! An engaging and fun way to infer!
Students work as a whole class to read 24 mystery clues to solve a murder. Along the way they make inferences and record them on the Murder Mystery sheet. Each set of clues add new suspicions that keep students focused, motivated, and most off all constantly inferring!!
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Happy Murder Mystery Solving!!!!
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3rd - 9th
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Making Inferences Lessons and Reading Passages with Inferencing Activities
This 3-day Making Inferences Mini-Unit provides numerous opportunities to develop the skill of inferring. Through creative activities like Inference Charades, Top Secret Tips Puzzle, “Inside the Principal’s Files,” and Whose Locker is This?, students develop their inferring skills while they are actively engaged in their learning. Direct instruction on the reading comprehension skill combined with the analysis of five separate inferencing reading passages further develop students’ ability to a
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4th - 7th
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The Invisible Boy Read Aloud - Back to School Activities - Reading Comprehension
These The Invisible Boy read aloud activities will help your students learn how to include others.Our interactive read-aloud lesson plan is designed to be taught over multiple lessons. This allows students an opportunity to dive deeper into the text, make connections to the characters and events and most importantly, fall in love with the story.Each lesson provides students a different purpose for revisiting the text, talking about it and responding to it.To teach these lessons you will need:The
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1st - 2nd
Also included in: Back to School Read Alouds Reading Activities - September
Martin Luther King Jr Activities
Looking for EASY ways to CELEBRATE Martin Luther King Jr? Check out why this unit is my BEST SELLER!!! Inside this Martin Luther King Jr Activities unit, you'll find 12 excellent ways to incorporate MLK into your classroom. There are engaging activities, printables, and project ideas. Everyone loves the Text Feature Review pages!Pages are made to use alone, easily implemented for distant learning, in the classroom or in an Interactive Notebook! Excellent to use the second and third weeks in J
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2nd - 3rd
Also included in: 2nd Grade Social Studies Curriculum
Sneezy the Snowman Read Aloud Lessons - Snowman Craft - Reading Comprehension
These Sneezy the Snowman read aloud lesson plans and story comprehension activities will engage your students all week long and include a snowman craft!Our interactive read-aloud lesson plan is designed to be taught over multiple lessons. This allows students an opportunity to dive deeper into the text, make connections to the characters and events and most importantly, fall in love with the story.Each lesson provides students a different purpose for revisiting the text, talking about it and res
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K - 1st
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