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Second Grade Reading Comprehension Passages and Questions (FREE SAMPLE)
Reading Comprehension Passages (FICTION) Free SampleReading comprehension can be both educational and engaging for your students with these 3 high interest stories and their mix of literal, inferential and applied questions. The no prep reading comprehension printables can be used for guided reading, homework, early finishers, extension work or for extra review. If you like the sample, be sure to check out the FULL READING COMPREHENSION (FICTION) 5-PACK BUNDLE!***WANT TO SAVE EVEN MORE $$$? BUY
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1st - 3rd
Figurative Language Stories for Close Reading ~ FREE Complete Week 1!
Figurative Language Stories for Close Reading ~ FREE Complete Week 1!This includes Week 1 of my Figurative Language Stories for Close Reading. Purchase the full product here.Full Product Description:6 original reading passages for teaching and reviewing figurative language: simile, metaphor, hyperbole, personification, alliteration, onomatopoeia, idiom, and allusion.Each of the 6 passages includes 4 activities. Please view the preview file for the first passage and tasks in their entirety.Task A
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3rd - 9th
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FREEBIE! Story Map - Setting, Characters, Beginning, Middle, End
This is such a useful little sheet! It is a blank story map to use with any book you choose. It can be a way for students to record these story elements from a book they have read in class, or it can be a planning page for fiction writing. I hope it is a helpful resource for your classroom.
There are two versions of this sheet in the download.
Enjoy!
Happy Teaching!
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K - 3rd
Reading Comprehension Passages and Questions First Grade FREEBIE
This pack includes 17 reading passages with comprehension questions and activities for 1st grade. This FREE SAMPLE contains one passage for each of the first grade ELA reading standards (RL and RI, 1.1-1.9). These reading passages and questions are perfect for practice, formative and/or summative assessments, reading groups, homework, and more!✅ These passages are part of this larger bundle of reading passages...First Grade Reading Passages and Comprehension Activities>>> Written for 1s
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1st
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Also included in: Reading Comprehension Passages & Questions 1st Grade Reading Standards
Free Readers' Theater Script ~ Fractured Fairy Tale Cinderella Readers' Theater
Free Cinderella Fractured Fairy Tale Readers' Theater Script: "Cinder...Really?: The TRUE Story of Cinderella"* * * * * * * * * * * * * *This fractured fairy tale readers' theater freebie is excerpted from my 35-page CINDER..REALLY? Literacy Toolkit, which includes the readers' theater script plus supplemental literacy activities.It's also available as part of the FAIRY TALES BONUS BUNDLE ~ SERIES 1, which includes 4 fractured fairy tales and LOADS of supplemental activities. The bundle makes a
Christmas Would You Rather Questions to Print FREEBIE! Fun Holiday Activity!
Here are 20 Fun Would You Rather Questions to use with your students. These are great discussion starters for when you have a few extra minutes. They can also be used for classroom polls or journal prompts.WHAT’S INCLUDED:✍️ PRINT:1 Page with 20 Would You Rather QuestionsGreat for 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, or 8th grade! NOTE: This resource uses American English and is not editable. Here’s what teachers are saying: ✏️ "My students loved this resource. I’m sure they weren’t even thinking
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1st - 8th
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Third Grade Reading Comprehension Passages and Questions (FREE SAMPLE)
Reading Comprehension Passages (FICTION) Free SampleReading comprehension can be both educational and engaging for your students with these 3 high interest stories and their mix of literal, inferential and applied questions. The no prep reading comprehension printables can be used for guided reading, homework, early finishers, extension work or for extra review.***If you like the sample, be sure to check out the THIRD GRADE READING COMPREHENSION PACK!***These reading comprehension passages are s
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2nd - 4th
Thanksgiving Would You Rather Questions with Poll FREEBIE
Here is a set of 20 Would you Rather Questions about Thanksgiving. Great for discussion starters, class polls and journal prompts.WHAT’S INCLUDED:✍️ PRINT:List of all 20 Would You Rather ChoicesDIGITAL:Classroom PollGreat for 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, or 8th grade! NOTE: This resource uses American English and is not editable. Here’s what teachers are saying: ✏️ "My students love this activity and shared with some others at home! with all the stressful things going on at this point in t
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1st - 8th
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Cause and Effect Detectives
A freebie activity pack to introduce the cause & effect reading strategy.
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2 Whole group/ independent work practice pages.
If you give a mouse a cookie graphic organizer.
2 Matching center activities.
Cause and effect definition flash cards.
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K - 2nd
Interactive Reading Notebooks ~ FREE Bonus Lesson! Making Inferences
This freebie includes a complete interactive reading notebook lesson on making inferences. It is a bonus lesson that is not included in my other notebook products, so be sure to download this if you own those as well.This lesson includes 3 activities and is aligned to CCSS standards for grades 4-8.Are you thinking about using interactive notebooks in your reading classroom? I've also included at the end of this freebie a 3-page Getting Started Guide / FAQ for interactive notebooking.If you are c
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3rd - 9th
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Free Classroom Library Labels
These leveled classroom library labels will help you organize your collection of books for the primary classroom. 111 labels included:Leveled labels from A (1) to R (40)Fiction labels for series and Author StudiesNonfiction labels1 editable template so you can add your own!(not all labels are pictured)These labels measure 3x3". They fit perfectly in the Target square adhesive labels!Please visit my blog TheKFiles.com for additional resources and ideas!From my home away from home……to yours!The K
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PreK - 2nd
FREE Summer Reading Bookmarks, Summer Bookmarks to Color
These summer reading bookmarks are an adorable way to get students excited about reading this summer. They are great for an easy and purposeful end of year gift!The 12 bookmark designs come in both color or black and white. The black and white ones work great to have students color themselves, or print on colored paper to make them pop. Hope your students enjoy them! Snag your free Fall Bookmarks here!Looking for more end of year resources?End of Year GlyphsEnd of Year Activities and Workshee
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K - 8th
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Executive Functioning Escape Room Activity
This free escape room activity is a puzzle challenge related to executive functioning skills. Students can work together or independently to solve a puzzle and discover the secret phrase to unlock the door and win the challenge in a specified amount of time. This escape room activity is ideal for small groups, advisory periods, morning work, resource rooms, or just for fun!Note that this is a free sample puzzle that includes only one challenge. If you are interested in more similar challenges pu
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4th - 8th
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FREE Perspective Taking Scenarios! Social Skills for Middle & High School
This is a FREE, shortened sampler version of one of my most popular sellers!Your students will get perspective practice with these 9 task cards! Each card features a situation relatable to teens, where the student must identify 3x different perspectives of both characters. Regular education teachers, special education teachers, SLPs, or other support professionals could all benefit from using these task cards with their students. These cards are specifically designed for middle and high school
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8th - 12th
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FREE Halloween Would You Rather Questions Print, Easel, and Google Slides
Here is a set of 20 FREE Would you Rather Questions about Halloween. Great for discussion starters, class polls and journal prompts. What's Included:Print copy Easel Assessment (great for a class poll!)Easel Activity - digital activity that requires students write about why it's there favoriteGoogle Slides digital activity - more challenging for advanced technology users! The students move move around a flashlight to try and read the questions.Great for 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th,6th, 7th, or 8th g
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1st - 8th
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FREE Reading Comprehension Passages and Questions (4th Grade Free Sample)
Reading Comprehension Passages (FICTION) Free SampleReading comprehension can be both educational and engaging for your students with these 3 high interest stories and their mix of literal, inferential and applied questions. The no prep reading comprehension printables can be used for guided reading, homework, early finishers, extension work or for extra review.***If you like the sample, be sure to check out the FOURTH GRADE READING COMPREHENSION PACK!***These reading comprehension passages are
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3rd - 5th
Plot Diagram Graphic Organizer Template
Plot Diagram Graphic Organizer TemplateYou may use this template in any way that you wish. You can even use it in your commercial product as long as you credit Lovin Lit.The size of this plot diagram template was made to fit into a standard composition notebook when cut out along the perimeter. If you teach reading or literature in grades 4-8, please click Follow Me to be notified of freebies!I hope you find this plot diagram template useful.
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2nd - 12th
First Day Jitters Writing Activity for Back to School, Digital & Printable
This First Day Jitters differentiated, printable & digital writing activity is a sample from my First Day Jitters Book Study/Companion Packet. This differentiated writing sample goes up on our writing wall on the first day of school. Each month, I collect a writing sample from each of my students. At the end of the year, this writing piece becomes the first writing piece in a writing portfolio that I make for each student, by putting all of the monthly writing pieces together. I put a cove
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1st - 4th
Genre Posters FREE
FREE Genre Posters to help teach about different genres or display in your classroom library!*Check Out My File Folder Centers!Come see me!FacebookPinterest
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1st - 7th
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Book Review Template - FREE
This is a FREE PDF download for Book Review Templates! There are differentiated options ideal for lower grades (K-2) and upper grades (3-5).
Two versions use sentence stems for the write up part of the review, but the version aimed for upper grades has more lines for writing their review and is structured less like a graphic organizer than the version aimed for lower grades. One version has just a lined back, no sentence stems.
Use as a writing or reading project, book review or book report, o
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K - 5th
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100 Character Traits Free Printable PDF List
100 Character Traits Free Printable List! This list is perfect for teaching students to identify character traits! It can also be used as an anchor chart or a reference list for interactive notebooks. SUPPORT CHARACTER ANALYSIS WITH GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS! *This freebie is part of the larger Character Traits Graphic Organizers Bundle. Click here to preview the printable, editable, and digital Character Traits Graphic Organizers. INCLUDED WITH YOUR FREE DOWNLOAD:100 Character Traits PDF: An alphabet
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4th - 7th
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Free King Midas & the Golden Touch Greek Mythology Readers' Theater Script: 3-6
Free Greek Mythology Readers' Theater Script: "King Midas & the Golden Touch": A humorous 6-page retelling of the traditional Greek myth of King Midas.* * * * * * * * * * * * * *This readers' theater freebie is excerpted from my 37-page KING MIDAS Literacy Toolkit, which includes TWO readers' theater scripts plus supplemental literacy activities.It's also available as part of the GREEK MYTHOLOGY BONUS BUNDLE ~ THE MANGLED MYTHS SERIES, which includes 6 readers' theater scripts and LOADS of s
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3rd - 6th
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Logic Puzzle FREEBIE
If you are wondering what a logic puzzle is, it is a puzzle where you use clues, a grid, and some deductive reasoning to figure out who matches with what, or what items go together. It is a great way to exercise your students' brains!Here is my blog post about the benefits of logic puzzles!Bringing Logic Back by Carrie Whitlock These would also be great early finisher work, early work, or even for a classroom center.If you want an even harder challenge, try my free "triple matrix" logic puzzle
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2nd - 5th
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The Very Hungry Caterpillar - FREE Printables - coloring pages - booklet
Free Fun printables coloring pages from The Very Hungry CaterpillarIncludes:-Booklet-Coloring page-Number page
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PreK - 3rd
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Also included in: THE VERY HUNGRY CATERPILLAR LIFE CYCLE BUNDLE
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