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Literature Common Core RI.4.1 guided reading books
By the Great Horn Spoon Chapter Activities AND Comprehension Questions
*Includes both DIGITAL and PRINTABLE versions. These “By the Great Horn Spoon" literature activities are designed to make using the book easy for you and fun for the kids! These activities are great to use for daily reading/writing classwork, homework, extensions to the book, group assignments, or just for fun reading/writing lessons that align to Common Core Standards! This is meant to be a PRINT and GO activity, with no prep on your part required! A digital version is also included! The answer
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3rd - 5th
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Cricket in Times Square Chapter Activities AND Comprehension Questions
These “Cricket in Times Square” literature activities are designed to make using the book easy for you and fun for the kids! These activities are great to use for daily reading/writing classwork, homework, extensions to the book, group assignments, or just for fun reading/writing lessons that align to Common Core Standards! This is meant to be a PRINT/ASSIGN and GO activity, with little to no prep on your part required! The answer key for chapter activities are at the end of this packet for your
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3rd - 5th
125 Reading Activities for Any Book | Independent & Group Reading Response Tasks
Your students will love our ⭐HUGE collection of READING ACTIVITIES FOR ANY BOOK. Tailored for grades 3 to 7, these adaptable TASK CARDS will elevate your literacy sessions independently or in groups. Foster reading responses that stimulate critical thinking and creativity and enhance comprehension skills with 125 ACTIVITIES empowering students to evaluate and understand FICTION & NONFICTION texts with purpose.WHAT'S INCLUDED❤️ 60+ activities require students to RESPOND in various genres and
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3rd - 7th, Adult Education
Reading Response Worksheets to use with any text "Pausing Points" BUNDLE
The Common Core and other rigorous standards require students to read, think deeply, and write about their reading. This collection of response to reading prompts is perfect to use all year long. They are low ink, ready to print, and can be used with any text. I hope you find them as useful as I do...to help students prepare for book clubs, to show their understanding about texts (read aloud, independent reading, book clubs, and more), or even to use to collect data and assess student underst
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3rd - 5th
Picture Book Mentor Text List for Upper Grade - VOL. 1
Behold! A complete list of picture books to use as mentor texts in your upper grade classroom!I love reading picture books with my fifth graders. Not only do we share a good story, but students are also motivated to try new strategies in their own writing. From character development to figurative language to dialog to mechanics, we learn so much from the amazing books that we read aloud in class. "By using mentor texts, the reader can virtually position him-or herself to sit beside the author an
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4th - 6th, Adult Education
Also included in: Picture Book Mentor Text Resources - Growing Bundle!
For the Right to Learn Malala Yousafzai's Story Lesson Plan and Activities
A guided reading or interactive read aloud lesson plan for the biography mentor text book For the Right to Learn: Malala Yousafzai's Story by Rebecca Langston-George and Janna Bock. A great multicultural book for Women's History Month. Lessons and activities focus on:close reading illustration to text connectionscomparing and contrastingmain idea and detailsThe lesson plans include:teacher script with strategic stopping points and questions for students to discussprintable prompts for student p
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2nd - 5th
Also included in: Third Grade Womens History Month Read Aloud and Activities Bundle
The One and Only Ivan Nonfiction Readings & Activities Resources
The nonfiction close readings will expand your students’ perspective about animals. The articles examine a range of topics that will build their background knowledge about the animals and issues present in the novel The One and Only Ivan. Students will learn about specific animals in the novel, the scientific study of animals, the use of animals for entertainment, and how views about animal rights have changed over time, among other topics. The activities and project will engage students and mo
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4th - 5th
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Also included in: The One and Only Ivan Novel Study
Poppy by Avi Novel Study Unit and Literature Guide
This is a zipped file with two secure PDF files for Poppy by Avi, book two of the Poppy Stories. The resource is a low prep novel unit and includes a student PDF with all student activity pages that teachers can print as a novel study packet for reading groups or print individual pages as needed. The second PDF has teacher notes, answer keys, and student samples. The Poppy story follows a timid deer mouse on a quest for a better life for her family. The novel provides many opportunities to talk
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3rd - 5th
The Bread Winner by Arvella Whitmore Novel Study Unit
This is a zipped file with two secure PDF files for The Bread Winner by Arvella Whitmore. The resource is a low prep novel unit and includes a student PDF with all student activity pages that teachers can print as a novel study packet for reading groups. The second PDF has all student pages with teacher notes, answer keys, and student samples.The Bread Winner is a high interest novel study for upper elementary students. After gathering background information about the Depression, students identi
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4th - 6th
Also included in: Depression Era Novel Study Literature Bundle
Financial Literacy and Business Novel Study Literature Bundle
PLEASE READ: This bundle includes secure PDFs of 4 of my literature and non fiction reading resources. If you purchased my Lemonade War literature unit, Lunch Money literature unit, Bread Winner literature unit, or Business Non Fiction Reading and Research resource, this bundle contains the same products. Links to the individual products above.These 4 reading resources all have a entrepreneur and business aspect to them. The novel studies provide a great opportunity for students to use money mat
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4th - 6th
Odder Novel Study
Lesson Your Way novel units are designed with you in mind. My goal is to help make your prepping easier, so you have more time to work with your students. You decide what skills your students need and select the appropriate activities.The activities are open–ended and easy to differentiate. They can be completed independently, in small groups, for literature circles, or during class discussions.Odder is divided into 6 sections.Each section has the following activities.10 comprehension questions
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3rd - 6th
Justin Case Novel Study Unit and Literature Guide
This is a zipped file with two secure PDF files for Justin Case: School, Drool, and Other Daily Disasters by Rachel Vail. The resource is a low prep novel unit and includes a student PDF with all student activity pages that teachers can print as a novel study packet for reading groups or print individual pages as needed. The second PDF has teacher notes, answer keys, and student samples. Justin Case is written in diary format from the point of view of Justin, a boy with worries. Many of the chal
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3rd - 5th
Lillian's Right To Vote by Jonah Winter Lesson Plan and Activities
A guided reading or interactive read aloud lesson plan for the nonfiction mentor text book Lillian's Right To Vote: A Celebration Of The Voting Rights Act of 1965 by Jonah Winter and Shane W. Evans. Great for Black History Month, civil rights or to examine the changes in the suffrage / right to vote in the United States. Lessons and activities focus on:close reading for sequencing eventsmain idea and detailsauthor's purpose focusing on illustrationsThe lesson plans include:teacher script with s
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2nd - 5th
Also included in: 2nd Grade Election Day Bundle - Read Alouds and Activities
For the Right to Learn Malala Yousafzai's Story Lesson Plan & Google Activities
A guided reading or interactive read aloud lesson plan for the biography mentor text book For the Right to Learn: Malala Yousafzai's Story by Rebecca Langston-George and Janna Bock. A great multicultural book for Women's History Month. Google Slides presentation and student activities on Google Docs. Lessons and activities focus on:close reading illustration to text connectionscomparing and contrastingmain idea and detailsThe lesson plans include:teacher script with strategic stopping points a
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2nd - 5th
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We Are the Ship by Kadir Nelson Comprehension Guide (Google and PDF)
This product contains high-level comprehension questions for all "innings" of the book, We Are The Ship by Kadir Nelson. Vocabulary words for the book are also included. I have my students work on these questions independently while I am meeting with other guided reading groups. When they come to meet with me, I can quickly assess their ability to answer short answer questions from the pages that I assigned.You have the option of printing out the packet or assigning the Google Slides to students
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4th - 5th
Jackie Robinson Baseball Novel Study Literature Bundle
PLEASE READ: This bundle includes secure PDFs of my In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson literature unit. Who Was Jackie Robinson? biography, and Let Them Play interactive read aloud. If you purchased any of my individual baseball literature products (links above), this bundle contains the SAME files.This low prep bundle includes activities that will enrich a study of Jackie Robinson and his role in helping to integrate sports. You may not have time to complete every activity for each sto
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4th - 6th
"Frindle" Close Read- Comparing Text
This printable activity uses a 2016 article about an eight-year-old-boy who invents a new word. It asks both text-dependent questions and comparing/contrasting questions about the article and the book "Frindle," by Andrew Clements. It is intended to be used as part of a literature study of the novel. The ten questions are all short answer/essay, and run a range of complexity according to Bloom's taxonomy.
This printable uses the BBC article "How an eight-year-old boy invented a new word," found
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3rd - 5th
The Magic School Bus THE WILD WHALE WATCH Discussion Cards (Answer Key Included)
Answer Key Included!Rationale for using Discussion Cards:Discussions are guided by students’ responses to what they have read. This approach provides a way for students to engage in critical thinking and reflection as they read, discuss, and respond to books. Collaboration is at the heart of this approach. Students reshape and add to their understanding as they construct meaning with other readers. The Discussion Cards have questions from each chapter prompting students to cite evidence from the
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2nd - 4th
Fuzzy Mud by Louis Sachar Guided Reading/Book Study with Full Answer Key
This Guided Reading Packet goes along with the book "Fuzz Mud" by Louis Sachar. The questions included in this packet require students to exercise their knowledge of the book chapter by chapter. Additionally, students will be asked to use what they know about the book and apply it to several literary elements such as character traits, comparing and contrasting different characters, visualizing, identifying figurative language, and much more. There are multiple choice questions, fill in the blank
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3rd - 8th
Social Emotional Learning and Empathy Novel Study Literature Bundle
These six standards-based guided reading novel studies all have an empathy aspect to them. The novel studies provide a great opportunity to explore social emotional learning (SEL), compassion, kindness, and character building to enhance your classroom community!All novel units include chapter vocabulary, reading comprehension questions, character charts, teach answer keys, notes, and student samples. IN ADDITION, each novel unit has activity pages unique to the specific novel (see lists below).P
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4th - 7th
Picture Book Mentor Text List for Upper Grade - VOL. 2 (Author's Purpose)
BY POPULAR DEMAND... Here's Volume 2!With this list of engaging picture book mentor texts, I've done the work for you! All 36 titles will guide students into discovering Author's Purpose and the components of common writing styles taught in an upper grade classroom.The list includes links to the best read aloud videos I've found online - with a variety of narrators and clear images/audio. Whether you want a sneak peek of the book before purchasing, or you choose to have students watch the read a
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3rd - 9th, Adult Education
Also included in: Picture Book Mentor Text Resources - Growing Bundle!
A Book Companion for "Finding My Dance"
These activities can be used for individual, small group, for whole class. They could also be used as homework, with guided groups, or with book groups. Small groups could be working on different activities at the same time. The book can be read aloud and selected activities done in class. They could be useful laminated and in a literacy center. It is always a better learning experience if books are discussed in pairs or in groups, in my opinion. Pairs or groups of students can also complete mo
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2nd - 5th
Two Naomis Guided Reading/Book Study with Answer Key
This Guided Reading Packet goes along with the book "Two Naomis" by Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich and Audrey Vernick. The questions included in this packet require students to exercise their knowledge of the book chapter by chapter. Additionally, students will be asked to use what they know about the book and apply it to several literary elements such as character traits, comparing and contrasting different characters, cause and effect, visualizing, identifying figurative language, and much more
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3rd - 7th
Gregor Mendel: The Friar Who Grew Peas by Cheryl Bardoe (Comprehension Guide)
This product contains comprehension questions and vocabulary words for the book Gregor Mendel: The Friar Who Grew Peas by Cheryl Bardoe. I have my students work on these questions independently while I am meeting with other guided reading groups. When they come to meet with me, I can quickly assess their ability to answer short answer questions from the pages that I assigned.
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3rd - 4th
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