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5th grade reading strategies projects for Microsoft Word
Bad News For Outlaws (Bass Reeves) Comprehension Activities and Projects
This item goes with Bad News For Outlaws: The Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves, Deputy U.S. Marshal. I love using picture books with my older students. For some reason, they just love it!
This item includes:
*Introduction
*Inferencing Practice
*Prediction Practice
*Vocabulary Words
*Researching Famous Outlaws/Criminals of the Old West
*Role Play/Interview Project Directions/Rubric
*Wanted Poster Project Directions/Rubric
*Websites to find Outlaw Information
*Websites to find Historic Informati
Grades:
4th - 10th
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Pages & Co: The Bookwanderers Questions and Exit Tickets
This 41 page document on The Bookwanderers is perfect to use as an exit ticket and includes many questions that are seen on state tests! Each chapter and the Epilogue has 2-4 questions that test different skills such as reading comprehension, context clues, making connections and reflections, word parts/definitions, and much much more. I also include 5 extension projects ideas that I highly recommend you include if you have the time! These are low to no prep ideas, that are engaging, and can eas
Grades:
3rd - 7th
Book Project: Outline of If you give a mouse a cookie project
A great project for all kids of any age to learn logic, reasoning, and mathematics! The whimsical Laura Numeroff story of If you Give a Mouse a Cookie gives a logical step by step of actions one after another. Project is best given after the story is read first.
For younger ages: Have students write a story using hypothesis and conclusions.
For students in Geometry: Have students compare it to geometry. Best given when learning conditional, converse, and bi-conditional.
If you give a mouse a
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2nd - 10th
Cause and Effect Jumanji and Tall Tale Activity
Students will be introduced to the cause and effect relationship through the use of the story Jumanji by Chris Van Allburg. While reading the story, students can fill out the attached worksheet paying attention for the causes and effects specified. As a closure activity, students can write their own story (tall tale). Students will write to a prompt and then roll dice introducing a new cause or effect to their story. It's a fun creative writing activity pulling in elements of tall tales and caus
Grades:
4th - 7th
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Book Project - Facebook Page for a Character
Students use this template to create a Facebook page for a character from a novel. It's a great final project for any novel. Students create a page for the character by inserting pictures of the character and the characters friends, as well as writing posts, check-ins, and posting pictures related to events in the book. Friends of the character may also respond to posts. The file includes an easy to use template and example of a Facebook page for Kenny Watson from The Watsons Go to Birmingha
Grades:
5th - 12th
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Book Report Outline
This is a Book Report outline for students to complete to help them organize their thinking before writing a book report. It highlights characters (with details about each), setting, plot points, best parts of the book, any criticisms they have about the book, notes they took while reading, and a recommendation part. I found this very helpful when teaching 5th grade, but it could also be adapted for lower or higher grade levels.
Grades:
3rd - 8th
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Read-A-Thon Informational Letter
This is a flyer I send home with students the week before the Read-A-Thon starts. I also attach it to the front of the Read-A-Thon packets, as it has all the important rules and dates regarding this fundraiser. You can change the title, dates, names, etc.
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PreK - 12th, Staff
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Reading Plot Detectives
Students become a detective seeking the suspect that committed the crime in the book. Students must determine what the crime (problem), crime scene (setting), character characteristics, and other important elements of the story's plot.
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2nd - 6th
Common Core: Text to Movie-Little Red Riding Hood and Hoodwinked
This is a common core project that compares/contrasts media to fiction by showing the similarities and differences between Hoodwinked, the movie, and the Grimm Brothers' version. The project includes presenting a newscast as well as writing comparison/contrast paragraphs. It also includes a Venn diagram and poster project should you choose to use it. What is awesome about this project is that it can be adjusted to so many grade levels. It takes about a five to seven days to complete the proj
Grades:
1st - 10th
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Indian In the Cupboard Final Project
Culminate your class reading of The Indian in the Cupboard with this creative project!
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4th - 7th
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Bloom's Taxonomy Activity Cards
This is a file containing cards that students can use according to the levels of Bloom's taxonomy. They are intended to be independent learning stations that students can complete. They have questions and other activities relevant to all the levels of Bloom's taxonomy.
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3rd - 12th
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Kamishibai Man Story Telling Creative Writing Project
Engage your students with this wonderful creative writing project! Students are required to write their own story, complete a plot mountain for their own story and do some visualization while designing their own kamishibai cards! Students will also perform their own stories for a crowd / their own class. What skills are developed by this project?- Story planning- Writing with sensory details- Including figurative language in writing- Plot mountain- Visualization- Oral Story telling You will not
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3rd - 12th
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Of Thee I Sing: A Letter To My Daughters Reading Lesson and Biography Poster
This item includes a reading strategy lesson plan that focuses on President Obama's book, Of Thee I Sing: A Letter To My Daughters. This story places emphasis on making connections, making predictions, and making inferences. This includes vocabulary words and a project that showcases famous heroes. The project is a Biography Poster that students will have the opportunity to learn about the heroes President Obama speaks about in his book!
Grades:
4th - 10th
Hero Project
After reading "Take Me Out To the Ballgame," students completed a hero project where they choose either a famous hero or someone in their personal life! From there students interview and/or research the hero. Next, students create a PowerPoint presentation and present it to the class. Handouts, requirements, and rubrics all included!
Grades:
5th - 8th
Front Desk Comprehension Chapter Questions
Front Desk (Kelly Yang) Comprehension Chapter Questions for Novel StudyFully editable on Microsoft Word. Includes enrichment and HOTS questions at the end to provoke deep thinking and connections. Sample answers in answer key also provided.
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5th - 7th
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Elements of a Story: Open-Mind Portraits and Setting Maps
*Use with any picture or chapter book!
An Open-Mind Portrait enables students to identify one element of story structure – character identification. It allows the reader to illustrate aspects of a book’s character at significant times in the story by identifying with the character’s thoughts, feelings, attitudes and point of view.
A Setting Map illustrates progression of setting or movement throughout the story.
Open-Mind Portraits and Setting Maps can be implemented together or separately!
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1st - 8th
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Fever 1793 Internet Field Trip
Students use the internet to discover more about the 1793 Yellow Fever outbreak in Philadelphia. They must visit a few websites and jot down their answers on this sheet. My students have loved completing my internet field trip projects after finishing novels!
Grades:
5th - 9th
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Student Weather Diary- Keep track of forecasts and actual weather
This 9 page student weather diary is great for any grade level. The students will record the predicted conditions for weather each day and then look at what the actual conditions were for the day. They will look at multiple sources and write summaries based on the weather conditions. This week long project will get the students watching and listening to weather forecasts and comparing those forecasts to actual weather conditions. This project incorporates weather, reading, and writing, all i
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3rd - 10th
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Mystery at the Museum
A fun Clue-like Mystery game for students. Someone has stolen a priceless artifact from the museum. The students must use reading comprehension skills to read between the lines of the clues and updates given to them to solve the mystery and accuse the suspect. The game should last students about 5 days, given about 45 minutes for them to work on it each day. This is a classic case of Who Done It? that is appropriate for school.
Grades:
2nd - 12th
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Biography Bottle Challenge Project
The biography bottle project is a favorite by students. Use this download as a guide for your students to get started on self selecting a historic figure in history, using the student expectations and student planning page to research, and then create their bottle. Resources include student expectation and student planning page.
Grades:
3rd - 6th
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EDITABLE Charlotte's Web Reading Comprehension Packet
This QAR style reading packet was created in my 3rd grade classroom with my students, to help them learn how to go back to the text, find their answers and prove them with evidence (page #).This packet is in WORD form so you can go in and add/edit/delete to your liking and to meet the needs of your classroom!Each of the 21 chapters have QAR type questions. The question–answer relationship (QAR) strategy helps students understand the different types of questions. By learning that the answers to s
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Grades:
2nd - 5th
ELA State Test Class Play!
The title of this play is "What Type of Genre is That?!" It is designed to reflect test taking strategies, vocaubulary, and genre studies for the 3rd grade New York State ELA exam, but it would work equally well for 4th, 5th, or 6th grades. In the play, students are sitting at a desk about to take their NYS ELA exam. They speak to the audience about their feelings and test-taking strategies, then they VISUALIZE the passage. As they visualize, the curtain opens and the passage is acted out on
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3rd - 6th
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Drums, Girls, & Dangerous Pie Bloom Ball with Rubric (Dodecahedron)
Nothing is more fun than a 3-D project that the students are engaged in and want to complete! The Bloom Ball is based on Blooms taxonomy/ depths of knowledge to create higher order thinking but also to appeal to different learning styles & differentiation. These can be done individually or in small groups!This 3D craft activity is a perfect culminating project or book report for a novel study or literature circle.The following is included:Directions for assemblyDirection sheet for each secti
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5th - 8th
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Mythology Poster Project with Rubric
This document includes directions, rubric, and sample of a poster students are to create using a mythology story. Students are put into groups and will read a Greek mythology story. Using this story, students will create a poster using the checklist and rubric. This activity goes over mythology, theme, character traits, summarizing, and main characters.
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Grades:
3rd - 7th
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