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Balanced literacy Common Core RF.4.4 pdfs
Reading Fluency Task Cards - Set 2 Upper Elementary - Fun Read Aloud Passages
These 40 fun reading fluency task cards for primary elementary are great for read-aloud practice with stories and dialogue!WHAT’S INCLUDED:✍️ PRINT:40 Task Cards (prints 4 to a page)Black-lineColorFluency Four Poster +Reference CardsBlack-lineColorRecording SheetsDIGITAL:Google SlideshowDIFFERENTIATION OPTIONS:Digital or PrintChallenge Card to extend the lessonAnchor ChartGreat for 3rd, 4th, or 5th grade! CHECK OUT THE PREVIEW TO SEE A LOT MORE!NOTE: This resource uses American English and is no
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3rd - 5th
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Cyclops: The Monster in the Cave--Readers Theater from The Odyssey
Includes comprehension activity, key, and teacher notes! Liven up your reading curriculum and satisfy the Common Core with this kid-friendly classroom play based on the 9th book of Homer's The Odyssey. Originally published in the September 2012 issue of Scholastic's Scope magazine, "Cyclops" is suitable for reader's theater or stage performance. Use it to introduce the original text, build fluency, and improve comprehension. Pair it with a Percy Jackson novel as part of a literature circle! Or j
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5th - 9th
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Reading Fluency Phrasing Task Cards | Fluency Practice Center Activities
Fluency phrasing task cards build students' reading fluency through repeated readings in phrases that gradually build in complexity. This enables students to build their automaticity, expression, prosody and overall oral reading fluency skills. I use these Fluency Task Cards as center activity for students to work on independently. Both phrasing and repeated readings are proven fluency strategies and these task cards intentionally focus on these two strategies.HOW THEY WORK?This is similar, just
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2nd - 4th
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Animal Adaptations Partner Plays: 5 Scripts with a Comprehension Check Worksheet
These eight animal adaptations partner plays are intended to be used as fluency-building activities that 4th-5th students can do with a partner. This set of scripts focuses on fascinating animal adaptations that are sure to astound your students. Many animals are featured, including the thorn bug, the cuckoo bird, the pistol shrimp, the hippopotamus, the elephant, the duck, the pufferfish, the humpback whale, the butterfly fish, and the Texas horned lizard. It also includes a BONUS comprehension
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4th - 5th
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Character Traits: Partner Play Scripts and Comprehension Worksheet 4th 5th
Do your students enjoy reading scripts? Could they benefit from practice activities where they are required to identify character traits as they read? This set of six partner plays is perfect for students who would benefit from targeted activities that work toward building reading fluency and inferring character traits. These six partner plays are intended to be used as fluency-building activities that 4th and 5th grade students can do with a partner. This file includes a BONUS reading comprehen
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4th - 5th
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Making Inferences: 5 Partner Play Scripts and Practice Worksheet 4th 5th
Do your students enjoy reading scripts? Could they benefit from practice activities where they are required to infer as they read? This set of five partner plays is perfect for students who would benefit from targeted activities that work toward building reading fluency and making inferences. These scripts require minimal teacher support, thereby allowing teachers to work with other small groups. For teachers who implement reading centers, these plays are perfect. These scripts are also ideal fo
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4th - 5th
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Also included in: Inferencing Bundle: Activities and Lessons for Making Inferences
Reading Status of the Class and Reading Anecdotal Notes - Print and Digital
Taking “status of the class” and recording anecdotal reading notes during independent reading time is one of my favorite parts of the school day. This is a time when I conduct a mini-conference with each child...a time to record what they are readingto celebrate accomplishmentsto ask questionsto ask about home readingto make book recommendationsfor other students to hear about books other students are readingand more! The entire process takes less than 10 minutes but gives me a HUGE amount of in
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in: Status of the Class and Anecdotal Notes System and Reading Log Bundle
Fluency Practice: Partner Plays BUNDLE for 4th and 5th Grade Readers SET 3
This bundle of partner plays contains 90 scripts! These partner plays are intended to be used as fluency-building activities that fourth and fifth-grade students can do with a partner. These scripts require minimal teacher support, thereby allowing teachers to work with other small groups. For teachers who implement reading centers, these plays are perfect. These scripts are also ideal for parents who are looking for fun at-home reading activities that parents and children can read together. If
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4th - 5th
Figurative Language Practice: 7 Partner Play Scripts with Recording Worksheet
Do your students enjoy reading scripts? Could they benefit from practice activities where they are required to identify examples of figurative language as they read? This set of seven partner plays is perfect for students who would benefit from targeted activities that work toward building reading fluency while identifying literary devices within a story. Seven literary devices are featured, including similes, metaphors, alliteration, personification, onomatopoeias, hyperboles, and idioms. These
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4th - 5th
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Context Clues Practice: Partner Play Scripts and Worksheets 4th 5th
Do your students enjoy reading scripts? Could they benefit from practice activities where they are required to use context clues as they read? This set of five partner plays is perfect for students who would benefit from targeted activities that work toward building reading fluency and using context clues to infer the meaning of a word within a text.These five partner plays are intended to be used as fluency-building activities that 4th and 5th-grade students can read with a partner. It comes wi
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4th - 5th
Historical Fiction Partner Plays: 5 Scripts with a Comprehension Check Worksheet
These five partner plays are intended to be used as fluency-building activities that 4th-5th students can do with a partner. This set of scripts focus on the historical fiction genre. These scripts require minimal teacher support, thereby allowing teachers to work with other small groups. For teachers who implement reading centers, these plays are perfect. These scripts are also ideal for parents who are looking for fun at-home reading activities that parents and children can read together. If y
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4th - 5th
Reading Goals: Reading Learning Targets for Focused Instruction
If you are like me, you know that all of your students are unique in their reading learning needs. Although you may teach the same reading minilesson to all students, you will need to do more specialized instruction with some of your students either individually or in small groups. This resource is jam-packed with specific learning goals/learning targets that cover a wide variety of reading lessons that you may need to work on with certain students. Best practice says that students are more l
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3rd - 5th
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Build Reading Fluency with 2- & 3- Syllable Words - includes all syllable types
Reading multisyllabic words helps children become more fluent, and fluency increases comprehension. These lists can be used for practice or for word sorts. This resource has ten word lists: five lists for 2-syllable words and five lists for 3-syllable words. That's a total of 120 multi-syllabic words to practice. These are great for word work, reading warm-ups, and centers!For more information on the importance of learning about syllables and ideas on using these lists, see this blog post.Be su
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1st - 3rd
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Also included in: Figurative Language Hands-on Bundle of Activities
Guided Reading High Interest Passages: Famous Failures 2nd - 4th reading levels
Get the NEW GROWING BUNDLE and SAVE: GROWING BUNDLE Guided Reading High Interest Passages and CCSS Aligned ActivitiesVocabulary, fluency, comprehension, grammar, spelling, and sequencing activities for each passage. These HIGH INTEREST reading passages are geared toward grade level students and older students reading at a lower level. They are sure to engage students in the reading process. Perfect for small group reading and special education students. There are 10 reading passages that are
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2nd - 10th
Also included in: BUNDLE: Guided Reading High Interest Passages & CCSS Aligned Activities
Italics Sentence Strips featuring Fry's fourth hundred words | PDF and Digital |
100 sentence strips are included in this resource. They are intended to be used as fluency-building activities that 3rd-4th grade students can do independently or with a partner. Each strip contains a word in italics so that students can practice the important reading behavior of stressing words that are in italics. They also contain the fourth hundred words of Fry's Word List.They are perfect additions to your fluency center!********This resource is available in TWO FORMATS:1. TRADITIONAL PRINT
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3rd - 4th
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Also included in: Italics Sentence Strips BUNDLE for a Fluency Center in Print and Digital
Biomes Partner Plays: 5 Scripts with a Comprehension Check Worksheet
These six biome partner plays are intended to be used as fluency-building activities that 4th and 5th grade students can do with a partner. Plus, since I received requests for more scripts that focus on scientific concepts, this set of scripts targets six of the biomes found on Earth: desert, ocean, rainforest, savanna, tundra, and temperate grasslands.It also includes a BONUS comprehension worksheet. After reading each script, students answer two or three comprehension questions that accompany
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4th - 5th
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Reader's Theater: What is Veterans Day? (leveled play for 3rd, 4th, 5th grade)
This original play explaining the history of and the meaning for Veterans Day will have your students engaged from start to finish! Over 15 parts that can be divided into multiple ways will ensure that all students will get a chance to participate and strengthen their fluency and expression skills. In addition, individual parts are leveled by reading ability to ensure differentiation! Great opportunity to connect knowledge of an important national holiday with common core standards in Languag
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: Special Holidays in America: Reader's Theater Bundle for 4th Grade
Character Education Partner Plays: 5 Scripts with Comprehension Check Worksheet
These five character education partner plays are intended to be used as fluency-building activities that students can complete with a partner. This set of scripts focuses on five positive character traits that we would like all of our students to possess: compassion, cooperation, perseverance, courage, and honesty.It also includes a BONUS comprehension worksheet. After reading each script, students answer two or three comprehension questions that accompany that particular script. This resource i
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3rd - 5th
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Oral Reading Fluency #1 - Fluency Pyramid Sentences - Reading Fluency Centers
These FLUENCY PYRAMID SENTENCES are a great way for upper elementary and middle school students to become familiar with sight words. Less fluent readers read word by word, and their reading sounds choppy and unnatural. Using this reading intervention allows for painless oral reading practice.With pyramid sentences, students start with the first word and work their way down until they’ve read a complete sentence. The repetition of words helps solidify them in the student’s memory, making the r
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4th - 6th
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Close Reads Chocolate & Vanilla Non-Fiction with Text Dependent Questions
This close read has two non-fiction selections with activities; a great way to incorporate compare/contrast of two selections as well as cross-curricular subject matter for back to school or anytime you need students to do paired reading assignments. Each paragraph is numbered. These are core-aligned with text dependent questions, vocabulary work, comparisons, and writing. It's a great supplement to online district resources that might not have this kind of context. This resource would be suita
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3rd - 6th
Summer Partner Plays - differentiated scripts for two readers
This set of summer partner plays includes four different reader's theater scripts for students in grades 2 - 4. Partner Plays are two-person plays designed for partners to read together! These plays include a two-person cast, stage directions, and dialogue. They are perfect for partner work, daily fluency practice, a presentation for other classes, or to put in a reading station or center, such as Buddy Reading or Read to Someone.Included in this set...Teacher Tips PagePlay One: Picnic Time! (An
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2nd - 4th
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Also included in: Partner Plays for Winter, Spring, Summer & Fall - Scripts Bundle
Reader's Theater: Native American Myths & Legends
With this differentiated reader’s theater set, students will engage in 4 traditional Native American legends and myths that helped to explain the natural world to our early ancestors!! √ Click HERE to SAVE 25% on this resource with my Reader’s Theater Bundle of Myths, Legends, and Traditional Tales!ABOUT THIS PRODUCTEach play is based on 4 traditional myths and legends that students will be able to compare and contrast; helping to meet the CCSS: RL.4.9. Compare and contrast the treatment of s
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: Reader's Theater Bundle of Myths, Legends, and Traditional Tales!
The True Story of the Three Little Pigs Lesson Plans & Activities Package (CCSS)
This set of lesson plans, resources, and activities is for use with “The True Story of the Three Little Pigs” by Jon Scieszka. It can be used for whole group, small group, and independent instruction – which makes these resources a smart choice for literacy centers or Reader’s Workshop. Here's What You'll Get and Why:My goal was to make it easy to teach readers how to think about “The True Story of the Three Little Pigs” using a variety of comprehension strategies. That's why I've included pa
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3rd - 5th
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Thanksgiving Color by Sight Word | Thanksgiving Activities | Sight Words
Do you have a student who struggles with reading comprehension simply because they have not mastered their sight words? Teaching, practicing, and mastering sight words for all grade levels are the key components to increasing reading fluency and comprehension skills, and this bundle will provide you color by code worksheets for grades K-5 in one simple download for your November morning work, literacy centers, fast finisher activities, etc!I invite you to click the links below to check out what
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K - 5th, Staff
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