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Critical thinking library skills Common Core RL.2.7 resources
Fairy Tales 2nd Grade Fairytales, Folktales, & Fables Unit Lessons & Activities
A fairy tale (fairytale), folk tale, and fable close reading unit can make writing lesson plans a breeze and ensure a deeper exploration into understanding stories while students provide text evidence from specified Mentor Texts (a list is included!). This interactive reading unit uses three different genres to teach deeper thinking about the main characters, the moral of the story, text structure, point of view, and comparing and contrasting stories. Graphic organizers are included and can be u
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2nd - 3rd
Too Much Glue! Activities
Too Much Glue! by Jason Lefebvre and Zac Retz is a crazy story about a creative kid who just can’t get enough glue! Your students will practice retelling the story with beginning, middle, & end and learn about onomatopoeia and the genre of humorous fiction. Teach a memorable lesson with this fun resource!You're going to love these Too Much Glue! Boom Cards!If you are distance learning, or if you don't have a copy of the book, be sure to check out Too Much Glue! on Epic!* This unit is part
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K - 3rd
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Also included in: Picture Book Activities - Book Companion Bundle
Summer School Activities Camping Theme Camp Days Fun Summer School Activities
Our week-long Camping Theme unit is a fun way to review this summer while having a blast! Get ready for a classroom transformation! With engaging activities like an all-about-me worksheet, camp games, and more where students enjoy camping days. Keep kids engaged and learning while creating memorable adventures during this unforgettable summer school or summer camp experience!⭐️ Be sure to open up the preview to see what is inside.Key Features In This Week Long Camp Themed Unit:✓ Daily activities
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1st - 3rd
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FAIRY TALE STEM Activity Challenges BUNDLE Family STEM Night and Homeschool STEM
These fairy tale STEM activities bring a classic story alive in a hands-on way, exploring force and motion, sound, measurement, kinetic and potential energy, and more using the engineering design process to creatively problem solve. ⭐ Students will join characters like Goldilocks, Rapunzel, and Jack and the Beanstalk on 12 engineering adventures, with 48 STEM activities included. They will be challenged to use their problem-solving skills to help the characters solve an engineering dilemma! ⭐Stu
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K - 3rd
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
Library Lessons Bundle | Kindergarten First Grade & Second Grade Picture Books
Are you looking for library lessons featuring award-winning picture books that are fun to share with students? Would you like printable activity pages, STEAM challenges AND lesson extensions for each of those books! Look no further, my friend! This helpful product includes library lessons for these 21 honored picture books:A Seed Grows by Antoinette Portis (Texas 2 x 2 reading list; Sibert Informational Book Honor; Geisel Honor)Bathe the Cat by Alice B. McGinty (Texas 2 x 2 reading list; South C
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K - 2nd
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Read Aloud Books and Activities: Reading Response Sheets: Interactive Read Aloud
Dive into the world of imagination and discovery with this "Read Aloud Books and Activities: Interactive Read Aloud Lesson Plans Mega Bundle," specifically designed for 2nd-grade learners. This comprehensive collection not only features a wide variety of read-aloud books but also integrates engaging activities that encourage students to read and respond actively. With meticulously crafted reading response sheets and interactive lesson plans, this mega bundle is tailored to foster a love for read
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2nd - 3rd
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Mr. Peabody's Apples Character Changes, Lessons Learned
Mr. Peabody’s Apples by Madonna is a beautiful story which can teach young readers how to watch the character for theme changes. By using the signpost strategy (Notice and Note Strategies for Close Reading by K. Beers and N. Probst), students can gain a better understanding of key elements in fictional text. When looking at the characters and major events, you can lead the class to see how these changes can affect the character over time. (This is the beginning of awareness for: character mot
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2nd - 5th
Also included in: A Book Companion Bundle
Year of Elementary Library Media Center Lesson plans for grades K-5
Looking for easy low-prep Library Lesson Curriculum Plans for grades Kindergarten, First, Second, Third, Fourth and Fifth? This is all you need for an entire school year! Includes Lesson plans with standards, learning targets, books and resources needed are also listed for every month. The google docs are editable, so you can make changes if needed. I teach on a busy fixed schedule, so many times I read the same book to two grade levels. If this is not something you would like to do, you can eas
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K - 5th
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Reading Response Comprehension Sheets for Non-Fiction & Fiction Books
Growing Reading Comprehension Response Sheets are a great way to see if your students can understand text & take it to the next level! The engaging activities encourage your students to understand & analyze the texts they're reading on a deeper level! These are great activities to use with small groups, homework, for early finishers or centers!What's included:• 10 Non-Fiction Reading Response Sheets• 10 Fiction Reading Response SheetsSlainte,☘️ MollyLucky Learning with Molly LynchLooking
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1st - 2nd
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Inference With Pictures
Making Inferences with Pictures!
Making inferences means reading between the lines! Learn to spot contextual clues in stories by making inferences with pictures. This is a great beginner's activity for building reading comprehension skills.
Contents:
*Teacher Instructions
*50 High quality images
*Response Recording Sheets
*Blank Recording Sheets (Differentiated)
*Anchor Posters (Schema and Inference)
Materials needed: LCD projector to project photos.
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K - 6th, Adult Education
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Escape Room Break Out Box Game, Christmas Nativity Elementary Edition (Mini)
Get ready to dive into an exciting escape-room style adventure with this break-out game designed to review the Christmas Nativity story with your elementary students. From the most reluctant to the most advanced, all of your students will be 100% engaged in solving the clues in this interactive lock box game. Student Experience: In this mini escape game with a flexible three-ways-to-play format, students will race against the clock to save the true meaning of Christmas! Throughout the game, s
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1st - 4th
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Book Bite {A Library Book for Bear} / Reading Interest Survey
A Library Book for Bear, by Bonny Becker is the perfect picture book to introduce reading interests surveys to students. Read the story, and then have kids complete these differentiated reading surveys!Bear thinks that a visit to the library is completely unnecessary. He has ALL of the books that he needs at home! But, a promise is a promise, so Bear does go to the library with his friend Mouse. At the library, Bear is being super picky about the kind of books that he wants. He wants ONLY a boo
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PreK - 3rd
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Also included in: Book Bite Bundle
Story Elements Graphic Organizers Set
Story Elements - Reading Comprehension - Graphic Organizers
Use these 12 printable graphic organizers to help your students understand the stories they are reading. With greater understanding of the story elements, students' reading comprehension greatly increases! Can be used with any story!
Includes: Story Chart, Story Chart Pictures, Story Elements Radial, Cause & Effect, Character Analysis, Vocabulary Word Work, Story Summary, KWL Chart, Venn Diagram, Fortune Teller, Story Elements Pu
Grades:
2nd - 4th
CALDECOTT BOOK ACTIVITIES BUNDLE Literature Extensions Critical Thinking GATE
Story Sleuths I, II, and III Bundle delivers 3 products at 20% savings. You will receive 12 weeks of clues for the Story Sleuth challenge; an enrichment unit using Caldecott Award winning books to cultivate critical thinking. Your students will use text features, illustrations, and context to determine which book is described by the set of clues. By involving your students in this project, you will exercise their deductive reasoning, analysis, evaluation, and problem solving skills. This unit is
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K - 4th
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Book Bite {Give Me Back My Book} / Parts of a Book
Give Me Back My Book! by Travis Foster shares the tale of two friends, Redd and Bloo who are “discussing” {quite loudly at times} who owns a particular green book with a hard cover, a nice spine, and pages that turn from left to right. As the two play tug of war with their favorite book, a bookworm appears and makes off with it. It takes teamwork for them to recover their well-loved book. This humorous title is the perfect segue into a discussion/review of the parts of a book. This product featu
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PreK - 3rd
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Also included in: Book Bite Bundle
Library Skills: What Happened to Marion's Book?
What happened to Marion’s Book?Meet Marion the Hedgehog who discovers that she really might not take good care of her books in What Happened to Marion’s Book? by Brooke Berg. This unit is designed to teach and/or remind your students of the importance of taking good care of their books whether they are personal, school, or library books. It also includes activities to encourage students to listen for facts from texts and oral presentations and then use those facts for a project. Additionally, th
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K - 2nd
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Weslandia character changes, lessons learned
WESLANDIA by Paul Fleischman is a beautiful story which can teach young readers how to watch the character for theme changes. By using the signpost strategy (Notice and Note Strategies for Close Reading by K. Beers and N. Probst), students can gain a better understanding of key elements in fictional text. When looking at the characters and major events, you can lead the class to see how these changes can affect the character over time. (This is the beginning of awareness for: character motivat
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2nd - 5th
Also included in: A Book Companion Bundle
Reading Assessment Bundle Fiction & Nonfiction 2nd Grade Standards Based Grading
How do you assess a second grader’s reading comprehension for report cards? This question can be particularly difficult if you are required to follow a standards-based grading report card. Second Grade ELA Reading Comprehension Year-Long Curriculum Bundle provides a quick reading comprehension assessment for each of the Common Core standards. This print version makes it easy to make two piles- got-it and needs more work making small group creation a breeze.Standards-Based grading has never been
Grades:
2nd - 3rd
2nd Grade Reading Review Game | ELA Test Prep Game Escape Room
Escape rooms are the most fun way to review the 2nd grade reading / ELA standards while encouraging team work, critical thinking, and problem solving! In this classroom escape, students will compete as teams to escape Planet Emoji! This team escape challenge is great for teams of 4-6 students, up to 8 teams. The best thing is, you don't have to prepare envelopes for every single team. This activity was created to be much easier to prep than the traditional class escape challenge. You will use fa
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3rd
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Also included in: Emoji Escape Room EVERYTHING Bundle Math and ELA Review 2nd-6th
STEM Read Aloud Books & Activities With Makerspace Activities and Read Aloud
Motivating reluctant readers can feel like a HUGE hurdle to overcome, especially around books and reading. That's why Makerspace STEAM Read Aloud Challenges are so powerful. They take literature and stories and bring them to life through innovation, creativity, community, collaboration, and critical thinking!This Makerspace STEM Read Aloud & Challenges YEAR-LONG BUNDLE is for you! This bundle is specifically designed for busy teachers who want to engage their students and instill a love of r
Grades:
1st - 2nd
CALDECOTT BOOK ACTIVITIES Story Sleuths I Literature Extention Critical Thinking
STORY SLEUTHS I is a 4 week, critical thinking project based on Caldecott Award winning books. Your students will use text features, illustrations, and context to determine which Caldecott Award winning book is described by the set of clues. By involving your students in this project, you will exercise their deductive reasoning, analysis, evaluation, and problem solving skills. This unit is CCSS aligned. Students also enjoy great literature, learn about artistic media, and participate in col
Grades:
K - 4th
5 months of media center lesson plans library August-December grades K-5
First 5 months of library media center lesson plans done! Includes August, September, October, November, and December. Includes lessons for kindergarten, first grade, second grade, third grade, fourth grade, and fifth grade. Includes the following lessons and more!Book Care and Shelf MarkersSections of the LibraryCall numbersFairy TalesFallCentersGrandparentsFolktalesPumpkinsHalloweenWinterPoetryThis is an edible Google doc, so feel free to make a copy and edit. I have a packed schedule, so I li
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K - 5th
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On Meadowview Street Speech and Language Book Companion
On Meadowview Street is a sweet story of a girl who transforms her neighborhood. It is full of great vocabulary and opportunities to practice making inferences and predictions. This companion pack targets a variety of comprehension and language skills and is great for mixed groups! Work on vocabulary, compare and contrast, defining and describing, sequence and retell, and comprehension skills with one resource. An open ended game board is also included, so you can incorporate any other skill you
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1st - 3rd
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Year-Long K-6 Library Curriculum Map
This is a year-long curriculum map that is divided into grade-level tabs on an editable spreadsheet. Each grade-level tab includes monthly themes, author studies (K-3), Pennsylvania and Library standards, lesson topics, and links to free worksheets and videos. Each grade-level tab contains 8 planned lessons per month. K-3 primarily focuses on library expectations, author studies, elements of fiction, fiction v. nonfiction, and conducting research. 4-6 primarily focuses on library expectations, b
Grades:
K - 6th
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