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Reading Common Core RI.4.5 literature circles
Fiction & Nonfiction Reading Comprehension Graphic Organizers: Main Idea Theme
Help support reading comprehension and discover all the graphic organizers you need with 240 reading response graphic organizers for fiction and nonfiction. You and your students will love these easy-prep and easy-to-use graphic organizers for fiction and nonfiction filled with graphic organizers for story elements, main idea, theme, compare and contrast, and more.This resource is filled with a variety of graphic organizers that are designed to be used with any book or text. The unique designs a
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3rd - 5th
Book activities for: "Whoosh! ! Lonnie Johnson’s . . . Inventions"
About This Book
This is an upbeat and inspiring success story for all readers--young and old.
While was working on a new way to cool refrigerators and air conditioners, Lonnie combined water with a blast of air pressure and -- whoosh! -- the Super Soaker was invented. Selling it to toymakers was a different matter. But Lonnie persevered and was rewarded for his hard work. He continues today encouraging young scientists and with his work--using heat sources for creating power.
Whoosh! : Lo
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2nd - 5th
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Al Capone Does My Shirts Novel Study + Enrichment Project Menu; Digital Option
Everything you need to use Gennifer Choldenko's award winning novel, "Al Capone Does My Shirts" effectively in your classroom! A no-prep standards based interactive notebook literature guide with follow-up reading response questions for every chapter as well as vocabulary, writing projects, activities and enrichment projects. Teacher friendly engaging lessons to use with this award winning novel in your classroom while encouraging critical reading skills.CCSS/STAAR Aligned! Great for "Distance L
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4th - 8th
Nonfiction Reading Comprehension Passages - 100 Decodable Readers
Secure reading fluency and reading comprehension with these 100 nonfiction decodable passages. Expertly weave together reading comprehension, decoding, reading fluency, vocabulary, & spelling instruction while focusing on phonics skills. Each Reading Comprehension Decodable Passage has two versions:Text 1: A shorter, more controlled, decodable story.Text 2: A slightly more complex set of words and longer in length.BOTH: Same engaging reading comprehension questions that address all areas of
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1st - 3rd
Reading Choice Board Activities for Fiction and Nonfiction
Looking to give your students ownership of their independent reading with a reading response journal? Download my Reading Choice Board Activities for Fiction and Nonfiction and help to engage your students during choice reading while promoting reading comprehension.These no-prep reading response choice boards will add voice and choice for your reading students with NO PREP for you! To use, students simply choose three questions to answer that form three boxes in a row (just like tic-tac-toe!) o
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3rd - 5th
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4th Grade Reading Workshop
Common Core reading workshop! Every 4th Grade Common Core Informational and Literature Standard is addressed with a strategy card, focus question, exit slip(s), and an "I Can" Statement. This pack includes everything you need to visually show your students the skills they are developing as readers. I include tips and photos from my classroom to help you implement this in your own room.
The way I use this in my own classroom:
- Spend one week (give or take) on each strategy. Hang the strategy ca
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4th
Ben and Me Novel Study
Incorporating novels with your social studies units is easy with this all inclusive print and go packet. I've included everything you need to work your way through this novel with ease. Integrating novels into social studies is a very effective way to add dimension to your units, and Ben and Me is a wonderful story that my students always loved to read. What You'll Find:• Teacher’s Edition of Vocabulary by Chapter (with definitions)• Student’s Edition of Vocabulary by Chapter (no definitions)•
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3rd - 5th
Literature Circle Resources for Fiction & Nonfiction Texts
Literature circles are a great way to provide students with an opportunity to select books of their choice and to work cooperatively while thinking and responding critically to what they are reading.
This download provides resources for you to start literature circles in your own classroom. By using these resources, students will self-assess and reflect on their answers and their participation.
You will receive:
*Literature Circle contract
*Literature Circle book selection form
*Fiction Lite
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3rd - 6th
Descriptive Text Structure Craft With Passages - All About Hedgehogs
This crafty activity allows the students to pull out and emphasize evidence that proves that the two page passage is indeed a descriptive text structure. Students will look for and report signal words, the best descriptive quote from the text, several powerful descriptive words or phrases. In addition they will create a slogan and drawing that represents all descriptive text structures and write their own descriptive sentence. All completed in a creative craft way!A list of academic vocabulary
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3rd - 5th
Dear Levi Novel Study on Westward Expansion
Incorporating novels with your social studies units is easy with this all inclusive print and go packet. I've included everything you need to work your way through this novel with ease. Integrating novel units into your social studies block can transform history for your students. "Dear Levi" is a story of a young boy moving west to work the land his Pa claimed for their family. The hardships of moving west in a wagon train are beyond what we can imagine, but this novel brings so many of those
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4th - 5th
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Book activities for "One Plastic Bag"
About This Book
This is a wonderful book to get kids and adults thinking of the consequences of garbage vs reusing and recycling.
The rich illustrations and lyrical language will have children wanting to read it over and over.
It shows that solving a problem comes out of personal need and that people working together over a period of time can bring change. One person can make a difference.
Summary: When Isatou Ceesay found a way to recycle plastic bags that were polluting the streets an
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2nd - 4th
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Text Structure Reading Strategy Unit Notes Practice Assessment
This Text Structure Reading Strategy Unit can be used to both teach a new strategy or as reading comprehension support. This unit includes activities to introduce, practice, and assess students' understanding of the reading skill. Teachers first introduce a skill with notes and small or whole group practice. Students then practice text structure with journaling activities and individual (On Your Own) practice. Finally, teachers can assess students' understanding and application of the reading st
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2nd - 5th
Also included in:Â Reading Strategies Big Bundle: Notes, Practice, & Assessment Use w Any Book
Literature Circles BUNDLE
These literature circle resources are perfect for increasing engagement and accountability for fiction and nonfiction text. Perfect for book clubs, centers, and guided reading. Students will read and respond using any fiction or nonfiction text. Save 20% on the prices of the individual resources by purchasing the bundle!This resource includes:5 nonfiction literature circle roles with descriptions5 nonfiction literature circle response pages5 fiction literature circle roles with descriptions5
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2nd - 4th
Dear Austin Novel Study
Incorporating novels with your social studies units is easy with this all inclusive print and go packet. I've included everything you need to work your way through this novel with ease.
This novel unit is designed to go along with your Social Studies lessons on the Underground Railroad and Westward Expansion (early 1850’s). This unit does not give you lessons on the Underground Railroad, but rather reading lessons on the novel, Dear Austin, a book of letters from Levi to his brother Austin, w
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4th - 6th
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Text Structure Cut and Paste Practice
This download includes 5 worksheets with passages to cut and paste to the Text Structure Template Worksheet.
Students will read each passage, identify the type of text structure and cut/paste each to one of the following types of text structure boxes: cause and effect, compare and contrast, problem and solution, description, chronological order and question and answer.
The topics of the five passages are:
1. Text Structure Descriptions
2. The Florida Panther
3. Lightning
4. Eating Healthy
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3rd - 5th
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Historical Fiction Literacy Guide Aligned to the Common Core
No PREP Historical Fiction Literacy Guide –Just select your own historical nonfiction novel and determine the sequence of skills to teach with lessons aligned with the common core standards for grade 3-5. Students respond to a teacher-created written guide of prompts as they read an assigned text. This literacy guide helps students monitor their comprehension during guided reading, whole group. read aloud or individual targeted instruction. With over 20 printable activities with detailed lesson
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3rd - 5th
Lewis and Clark and Me Novel Study
Incorporating novels with your social studies units is easy with this all inclusive print and go packet. I've included everything you need to work your way through this short story with ease. "Lewis and Clark and Me, A Dog’s Tale" is a short story about the adventures of Lewis’s dog, Seaman, as he travels with Lewis and Clark. Their journey would take them from Pennsylvania to the Pacific Ocean. Each section tells a new tale of what happened along the way, and it gives students a different pe
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3rd - 6th
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Compare and Contrast Overall Structure in Two or More Texts
This Common Core reading lesson covers how to compare texts based on different text structures. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for Common Core assessments. In this lesson, students will learn how to identify a chronological, comparison, cause/effect, or problem/solution text structure, and then compare two texts with different structures. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of independent practice with questions modeled a
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4th - 6th
The Bread Winner by Arvella Whitmore Novel Study Unit
This is a zipped file with two secure PDF files for The Bread Winner by Arvella Whitmore. The resource is a low prep novel unit and includes a student PDF with all student activity pages that teachers can print as a novel study packet for reading groups. The second PDF has all student pages with teacher notes, answer keys, and student samples.The Bread Winner is a high interest novel study for upper elementary students. After gathering background information about the Depression, students identi
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4th - 6th
Also included in:Â Depression Era Novel Study Literature Bundle
Reading Response Prompts: For Any Informational Text
The Common Core and other rigorous standards require students to read, think deeply, and write about their reading. This collection of response to reading prompts is perfect to use all year long. They are low ink, ready to print, and can be used with any text. I hope you find them as useful as I do...to help students prepare for book clubs, to show their understanding about texts (read aloud, independent reading, book clubs, and more), or even to use to collect data and assess student underst
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3rd - 5th
Also included in:Â Reading Response Worksheets to use with any text "Pausing Points" BUNDLE
"Grade 4 Shared Reading Module 2 BUNDLE" Google Slides- Bookworms Supplement
Bookworms Curriculum Supplement: 4th grade Shared Reading Module 2: Unit 1- Change and Conflict. These slides are for lessons 1-40. They correlate with the books: "Blood on the River" and "Can't You Make Them Behave, King George?"These resources are completely editable through Google Slides and they include vocabulary, written responses, first focuses, choral reading slides, timers embedded when appropriate, book photos, discussion questions, and anchor chart guides. Please know that these were
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Chronological Text Structure Activity With Passages - History of the Teddy Bear
This crafty activity allows the students to pull out and emphasize evidence that proves that the two page passage is indeed a chronological text structure. Students will look for and report signal words, as well as the most important events. In addition they will create a slogan and drawing that represents all chronological text structures. All completed in a creative craft way!The following is provided: Teacher directions:Two Page Descriptive Passage About the History of the Teddy BearCraft Pl
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3rd - 5th
Novel Study: The Enormous Egg
A fun book from the 1950's about Nate and his triceratops. I have divided this 17 chapter book into 6 sections of 3 chapters each., except the last is only 2 chapters.Each section is made up of 4 worksheets, one for each of these activities: Vocabulary, Word Work, Comprehension , and Literary Elements. Reading level 3-5th grade, R.I have included a Answer Key and a Final Test.This novel study should take 6 weeks to complete and is designed to be independent.
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3rd - 6th
Book activities for "Sonia Sotomayor: A Judge Grows in the Bronx"
About This Book
To many people, the historic appointment of Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor is an inspiration. Sotomayor is someone who is Hispanic, a woman, a diabetic and someone who has struggled against difficult challenges. These are all reason for her to be respected and admired. The book is presented in a way that it can be read to children easily. Although many books offer life lessons, few can point to such a marvelous and amiable real life person who inspires such a great deal
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2nd - 4th
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