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Free elementary literature professional documents
Sentence Stems for Comprehension Strategies and Skills
This is a collection of sentence stems that I use for thinkmarks, reader's response, and just to teach my students the language to use when comprehending a text.
Enjoy the freebie!
Grades:
2nd - 6th
FREE Mentor Text List with Teaching Points- Narrative Writing
This list of mentor texts identifies possible teaching points during your writers' workshop, which can be taught whole group, small group, or during conferring.
For each book several writer's crafts are identified with the page number and the quoted text/passage from the book.
Most suitable for the Personal Narrative, Realistic Fiction, or Authors as Mentors units of study, grades 2-4.
Book list includes:
A Birthday Basket For Tia by Pat Mora
Amazing Grace by Mary Hoffman
Whistle for Willie
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Grades:
2nd - 4th
Scope and Sequence - Read Aloud Lesson Plans for 1st, 2nd grade
Our scope and sequence is a free download for your convenience. It shows how we have aligned each of our read-aloud lessons with the CCSS standards. This download provides- book titles for all of our lesson plans (organized by monthly bundle)- alignments to CCSS Reading Literature standards for 1st and 2nd grade- CCSS alignments for each lesson's response to text activities for 1st and 2nd grade- skills at a glance- Depth of Knowledge (DOK) rigor checklistThank you for taking an interest in teac
Grades:
1st - 2nd
Comprehension Questions
This handy little document is great to send home or keep close during book discussions. There are definitions and examples for inferring, summarizing, and synthesizing which come in handy for parents using this resource at home. You will also find specific questions to help students infer, summarize, synthesize, analyze, critique and recall basic information from the story!
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Grades:
K - 5th
Reading Behaviors and Skills at Each Reading Level: A Teacher's Guide
After years of teaching reading skills and behaviors to students (and explaining these expectations to parents), I decided to put together a document that shows a continuum of reading skills as students progress through the (Fountas & Pinnell) reading levels. This is a great tool to use while conferring with students during reading workshop, to refer to during parent-teacher conferences, or even to use for report card language.You could print these sheets two per page and make it into a book
Grades:
K - 5th
How to Teach Theme in Fourth and Fifth Grades Freebie
Students need direct instruction to summarize and find a theme. This handy page shows you how to teach with a story arc. Step-by-step scaffolding helps fourth and fifth graders master this sophisticated skill. Enjoy teaching!Brenda Kovich
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Grades:
4th - 5th
Also included in:Â Teaching Theme Unit for 5th Grade - How Characters Respond to Challenges
Read-Aloud Titles by Grade Level
This is a curated list of best teacher and parent read-aloud titles by grade level, that means if you have a 2nd grader or teach 2nd grade, read them books from the Picture Books or Chapter Books column for 2nd grade. These titles are not intended as titles that appropriate for your 2nd grader to read, it means they are appropriate for them to listen and understand. These titles are not necessarily at your child's reading comprehension level (the level at which they can read it and understand
Grades:
K - 5th
Scope and Sequence - Read Aloud Lesson Plans for K, 1st grade
Our Kindergarten scope and sequence is a free download for your convenience. It shows how we have aligned each of our K-1 read-aloud lessons with the CCSS standards. This download provides- Book titles for all of our lesson plans (organized by monthly bundle)- Alignment to CCSS Reading Literature and Reading Informational standards for grades K and 1- CCSS alignment for each lesson's response to text activities for Kindergarten and 1st grade- Skills at a glance- Depth of Knowledge (DOK) rigor ch
Grades:
K - 1st
Ideas by Jivey Product Guide
This free download gives you a breakdown of the resources you may not realize are there without doing a lot of searching or reading descriptions for links! There are several companion pieces in my store, as well as supplemental pieces to help your year run smoothly. Check them out in the clickable download that will take you right to the resources!
Grades:
K - 6th
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[Grade 2] CKLA Year-at-a-Glance 2020-2021
[UPDATED FOR 2020-21] This is a one-pager showing one way to schedule CKLA elements (Skills and Knowledge/Listening & Learning) across the year for Grade 2. The domains and units are the same whether you use first edition or second. Weeks (starting with Monday's date) are correct for 2020-2021; obviously feel free to change to match your calendar. Note on pacing: When possible, I followed Marzano’s scheduling principle of 80% (planning for 80% of the given instructional time; or, basically,
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Grades:
2nd
Wit and Wisdom Planning Sheet FREEBIE For All Grades
WHAT is this resource?My first year teaching Wit and Wisdom, I went through many different templates trying to find the best way to plan. I wanted to record what was most important for each lesson, but also knew I would be relying on my teacher's manual, so I didn't want to write more than necessary. What I really needed was a snapshot that would help me adequately prepare for each day. After a few months, I came up with this!WHY did this template work best?This template allowed me to record wha
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Grades:
K - 3rd
NWEA MAP Reading skills checklist Vocabulary, Literature, & Informational Text
This product includes 9 pages of reading skills checklists. As a teacher you can check off and keep track of skills you have taught your students. This will help you make sure you don’t forget to teach all of the important reading skills! These are the skills needed for the NWEA MAP reading test and other high stakes reading assessments.Make sure your students learn ALL of the important reading skills!
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Grades:
2nd - 6th
Scope and Sequence - Upper Grade Read Aloud Lesson Plans
Our scope and sequence is a free download for your convenience. It shows how we have aligned each of our upper elementary read-aloud lessons with the CCSS standards. This download provides- book titles for our upper grade lesson plans (updated as new titles are released)- alignments to CCSS Reading Literature standards - CCSS alignments for each lesson's response to text activities- skills at a glance- Depth of Knowledge (DOK) rigor checklistThank you for taking an interest in teaching the core,
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Grades:
2nd - 6th
Higher Order Comprehension Teacher Cheat Sheet
Sometimes it's hard to think of higher order thinking comprehension questions for our emergent readers, but they can do it! Post this list at your guided reading table to ask your students after the book is finished! They come up with the cutest responses. I use this to discuss our Wonders Balanced Literacy leveled readers.
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Grades:
K - 2nd
{Sample} Canadian Indigenous and First Nation Read Aloud's
All of these read aloud's include stories and messages that honour various people from different Indigenous and First Nation communities. Some stories are autobiographies or biography style of children or great-grandchildren telling the story from their family members. The first collection of texts are connected with the 2016 Ontario Kindergarten Program Overall Expectations. These stories have a message that Kindergarten aged children can connect with from their previous experiences or these pa
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Grades:
PreK - 9th, Staff
FREE! Leveled Book Lists {A Resource for Teachers, Parents, & Students}
Great for parent-teacher conferences, or to use as your own quick reference document, this product contains a list of fiction and nonfiction books that appeal to students reading at a range of levels. Corresponds with Fountas and Pinnell levels L-P.
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Read Alouds {Discussion Ideas and Activities}
Good Reader Exit Slips
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Subjects:
Grades:
2nd - 4th
Classroom Book Clubs: Literature Circles Made Easy Intro
Classroom Book Clubs describes an easy and effective method for using literature circles in your classroom. This introduction is a narrated slidecast for teachers in Mp4 format that gives an overview of the book clubs model. Classroom Book Clubs: Literature Circles Made EasyThe full version of Classroom Book Clubs: Literature Circles Made Easy consists of 5 narrated video lessons to guide you through the process of setting up and running book clubs. I've also included an optional study guide for
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Grades:
2nd - 8th
Book Basket Labels
From user Joshlynjill: This document has 14 different labels to place on your books baskets. The genres range from historical fiction to favorite authors (Jerry Spinelli is one of them). I made these labels using Mac's Swift Publisher. Every label has the same font in black with a brightly colored outline. There are many free book basket labels on the web, but I am very anal and wanted all the fonts to match and the pictures to be similar. The end result looks very nice on your book baskets
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
RL Florida Standards Mastery Checklist
*No prep!*New fresh clean look!*Color and black and white options for printing*Check your students' mastery of Florida standards (RL). This document will help you keep track of the standards that your students have mastered and which students need to be re-tested on after your remediation. CHECK OUT OTHER STANDARDS MASTERY CHECKLIST!!!*RL and RI Standards Mastery Checklist*Geometry (G) Standards Mastery Checklist*Measurement and Data (MD) Standards Mastery Checklist*Operations and Algebraic Thin
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Grades:
PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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[Grade 1] CKLA Year-at-a-Glance 2020-2021
[UPDATED FOR 2020-21] This is a one-pager showing one way to schedule CKLA elements (Skills and Knowledge/Listening & Learning) across the year for Grade 1. Weeks (starting with Monday's date) are correct for 2020-2021; obviously feel free to change to match your calendar. Note on pacing: When possible, I followed Marzano’s scheduling principle of 80% (planning for 80% of the given instructional time; or, basically, padding the pacing guide with extra days). Fifteen days allotted for a 15-da
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Grades:
1st
Writing Genres Chart
Breakdown of the writing genres used in K-4 and examples in Literature.
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Grades:
K - 4th, Staff
K - 5 Full Year Library Scope & Sequence
Getting started in a new library position can be overwhelming. It's hard to know where to start! This K-5 elementary library scope and sequence is designed to help eliminate some of the guesswork and is broken down by month and grade. It is a very broad overview of the library, literacy, and technology skills that I teach to my students. I see each of my classes once a week for 40 minutes. The last 8-10 minutes of each class is dedicated to book checkout. Keep in mind that every library program
Grades:
K - 5th
Kindergarten Curriculum map ELA aligned with common core standards
Download this FREE kindergarten ELA curriculum map. It is a fully editable excel file and aligned with ELA common core standards. This helps you plan your entire year by knowing which standards to focus on each month.
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Grades:
K
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List of Caldecott Award Books including Reading Level (Updated with 2016 winner)
Award books are listed by year with author, title, and reading level. Note that Caldecott Awards are selected for their illustrations. The author may or may not be the illustrator.
Opinions on reading level have changed over the years. Reading levels reflect current online references.
This handout was orginally created as a quick ready reference for parents and teachers to identify selections for their children.
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Grades:
PreK - 8th
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