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Creative writing guided reading books for Microsoft Word
Magic Tree House Revolutionary War on Wednesday Unit (Book # 22)
This download has everything you need to use The Magic Tree House Revolutionary War on Wednesday by Mary Pope Osbourne as one of your book choices for a book group. This is a great book to use in your book groups, because it teaches students about the Revolutionary War. This unit plan includes before, during, and after reading activities. The before reading activities include using predicting strategies. The during reading activities include comprehension questions for each chapter, and a journa
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2nd - 4th
Opinion Writing K-1 "I Wanna Iguana" Writing Craft
Here is an opinion writing craft I created to help my kinder babies, soon-to-be firsties with opinion writing. Standard:ELAGSEKW1: Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose opinion pieces in which they tell a reader the topic or the name of the book they are “writing” about and state an opinion or preference about the topic or book (e.g., My favorite book is...).
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PreK - 1st
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Look Both Ways Jason Reynolds Pre-Writing Connection Question (each chapter)
This product goes along with my whole Look Both Ways Unit. At the start of each chapter I like to have students answer pre-writing connection questions. These questions focus on the student in relation to the book, and its central topic for that chapter. There about 3-4 personal questions, for each chapter. Total number of questions is 35. Great for journals!
Grades:
7th - 9th
Question Sheet- Owl at Home + Create a Monster Writing Activity
Owl at Home by Arnold Lobel (370 Lexile) is a chapter by chapter comprehensive question sheet to use in guided reading group, independent reading or read aloud comprehension check. Can be used with kindergarten, first, second or third grade. Facilitates prediction, vocabulary development, and reading & writing connection. Prepares students for short answer and extended response on diagnostic and achievement tests. Also included: Create a Monster writing activity with a graphic organizer and
Grades:
K - 3rd
Matilda Novel Study
26 pages of awesome! This packet has cross-curricular activities to accompany the Roald Dahl book Matilda. It includes:
Book Club jobs
Daily and weekly goals to accomplish
Dictionary integration
Drawing activities
Writing activities- using evidence to support ideas
Real-world connections
Vocabulary
Compare and contrast activity
Character traits
RAFT cumulative activity/summative assessment
all activities include formative assessment
When I was teaching third grade I had a group of readers that
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3rd - 5th
Animal Farm Comprehension, Analysis and Creativity Packet AP English
This packet can be used flexibly for AP Lang or AP Lit students. Also scaffolded for support for pre-AP students.
The vocabulary can be provided and reviewed as needed to support student comprehension.
Students can independently answer the questions as they read to prepare for discussions, the teacher can ask the questions as you read as a class, or they can be used as a quiz or a post assessment. Students can also work together in groups to answer the questions while they read.
There are
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9th - 12th
Hatchet Choice Board
This activity is a choice board that can be used at the end of a reading unit on the novel Hatchet. Choice boards give students the opportunity to participate in multiple tasks that allow them to practice skills they’ve learned in class or to demonstrate and extend their understanding of concepts. From the board, students either choose or are assigned three adjacent or diagonal tasks to complete. Choice boards address student readiness, interest, or learning preferences. They are easily adapted
Grades:
3rd - 7th
I am the Cheese by Robert Cormier - Figurative Language Activity
Adolescent life is filled with angst. In Robert Cormier's heartbreaking novel, Adam Farmer's life truly crumbles around him. Adam hops on his bicycle to ride through New England to deliver a package to his father. But what's in the package and will Adam make it safely? As Adam remembers his younger years with a scent of lilacs, his mother's former happiness, and a hasty move to a new home, he begins to piece together hidden parts of his life. Wheeling out of town, Adam leaves behind his girlfrie
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5th - 10th
Friendship According to Humphrey by: Betty G. Birney WORKBOOK
This is a great book for students to read about the theme of friendship. This download includes before reading activities, during reading activities (these include comprehension questions, vocabulary, and journal response questions for each chapter), and after reading activities that help students relate to the book.
Grades:
3rd - 5th
The Five People You Meet in Heaven Guided Reading
This teacher guide includes mini-lessons on literary elements, chapter-by-chapter comprehension worksheets, hands-on lessons, and vocabulary practice. Students will work on meta cognitive skills such as self-monitoring, and higher thinking skills such as making inferences and predictions and engaging in visualization techniques.
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8th - 11th
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Because of Winn Dixie Think Tac Toe
Forget a multiple choice test! Engage your students with this formative assessment piece! Students demonstrate and apply their understanding of the novel, Because of Winn Dixie, by choosing 3 out of 9 options to complete a project on. They will choose 1 activity from a different row, ensuring that they will complete art, writing, and thinking maps.
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3rd - 5th
British Royal Family Mega-Bundle!
Elevate Resources presents this bundle of SIX articles, accompanied by over 100!!! SATs style reading comprehension questions from assessment focuses: Word Meaning, Retrieval, Summarising, Inference, Prediction, Choice of Words to Enhance Meaning, & Comparisons!Features comprehensions on:The coronation of Elizabeth II.An article on what kind of king Charles might become.The future for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.A biography of the late Princess Diana.An article discussing Queen Elizabeth
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4th - 7th
How to Make a Groundhog Day Treat Emergent Reader
Your students will love making this treat as much as they love eating it! Using a banana, raisins, chocolate chips and Cheerios, this adorable treat looks just like a groundhog popping out of his hole. Included is a recipe card complete with photos of the finished critter, an Emergent Reader about how the students made the treat, and a larger textless version of the book for the students to write the steps they took to make their treat. Enjoy! Great to make as a class, read about in guided grou
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PreK - 1st
The Hatchet by Gary Paulsen Workbook
This download includes everything you need to use The Hatchet by Gary Paulsen in your classroom. It includes:
Before Reading focus questions
During reading comprehension questions for each chapter with answer key!
During reading group discussion questions
During reading journal writing activities to engage students in their reading and put themselves into the shoes of the main character
During reading vocabulary study
After reading thoughts and wrap up discussion questions
This classic
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4th - 8th
In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson Persuasive Essay
In this persuasive writing essay activiy, students get to write a letter from the main character, Shirley, to her sixth cousing whom she left back in China when her family moved to America. The letter is written to persuade sixth cousin to come for a visit. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson is a great novel to read at any time of the year. World Series time would be great as well as the Chinese New Year and African American History month.
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4th - 8th
Ten Kids, No Pets - 27 page Literature and Activity Packet
This packet has comprehension questions to go along with each chapter in Ten Kids, No Pets as well as activities that relate to events and characters in the story.
Grades:
4th - 5th
Shared Reading Lesson
This is a shared reading lesson using the story; "Bad Dog Marley".
PURPOSE: Text form writing i.e. Recount. This story provides students the opportunity to apply and reinforce their previous knowledge of recounting a story. This story is detailed enough to retell through writing and is similar to the movie “Marley and Me”, children know and remember the story line quite well.
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2nd - 5th
Green Tea and Lemonade Short Story
This story is about two 7th graders who are having difficulties dealing with their school, home and social environment. There is abuse, and drug references. The story should not be given to middle school students. There are questions and a writing prompt on the last page. Please read carefully before you assign this story.
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9th - 11th
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My Weird School Miss Daisy is Crazy by Dan Gutman Trifolds
This download includes reader response questions and reading activities that go along with the book, My Weird School Miss Daisy is Crazy by Dan Gutman. It includes trifolds for every three chapters. The trifolds include writing activities that allow students to connect to the book, character analysis sections, vocabulary activities, comprehension questions, and a section for students to even create their own questions that you can later use for a wrap-up test. Kids really enjoy these books, and
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2nd - 5th
In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson Narrative Essay
In the novel In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson, Shirley misses her grandfather's tales when she moves to America. In this writing activity students get an opportunity to write their own narrative telling about Shirley's adventures in New York City.
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4th - 8th
Cloze writing activity for Imogene's Antlers
After reading the picture book Imogene's Antlers, students write their own version using this cloze activity. Created in Microsoft Word - fully editable.
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1st - 4th
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In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson Descriptive Essay
In the novel In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson, the main character (Shirley) moves from China to New York City. She has difficulty adjusting to the new landscape and culture. Her first culture shock was the apartment in New York City. Using this web organizer, students must describe Shirley's apartment in New York City and then write a description of it.
It's a great novel to read at any time of the year. World Series time would be great as well as the Chinese New Year and African
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4th - 9th
Reading Journal Questions
I have used these questions a couple of different ways. My students have used these questions while independently reading a book on their reading level and I have also used these questions during a book study when I read a chapter book out loud. I model how to use the questions with picture book or two. They catch on quickly and enjoy the questions. I encourage them to use various questions to keep their journals interesting and fun to do. If we do this during book study and I am reading the
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3rd - 12th
Lion, Witch, and the Wardrobe Creative Writing
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This assignment is a creative writing assignment that I used when doing a novel study of The Lion, Witch, and the Wardrobe in my classroom. Students were always curious about Turkish Delight, so this gave them an opportunity to fantasize over their own delicious dessert creation!
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3rd - 7th
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