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Free short stories handouts
Spooky Story Writing - Halloween Writing Activity - Free Halloween Lesson
Your students will love this fun and engaging Halloween writing activity that will have them rolling story element dice (setting, character, obstacle, and a story starter) to create a random set of story components. Once students have their story components, they’ll plan and write a spooky story as they combine each element into an entertaining writing piece. Perfect for a Halloween lesson, Halloween activity or any time of the year!This activity taps into students’ natural love of scary stori
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4th - 7th
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Reading Comprehension and Fluency Passages- Fiction Close Reads - PREVIEW!
Help your students practice their fluency while also working on their reading comprehension!
Freebie of my FICTION Reading Comprehension Pack
The CCSS are asking students to think deeper about what they read and find evidence to support their thinking.
Students will:
read each story twice
highlight the evidence and answer 4-5 questions
**UPDATED 3/26**
34 Fictional Stories covering a broad range of subjects. See the index above for a complete list of titles. *The fiction stories from my
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1st - 3rd
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Inference Passages {read, use evidence + schema and infer} - PREVIEW!
Passages to help students use text clues and background knowledge to make inferences
2 FREE passages from my 24 passage bundle of Inference Passages
Inference is a hard skill to master. Especially in students with reading comprehension difficulties. I created these short passages to help my students practice this skill.
Students must use the details and clues (evidence) found in the text, along with their background knowledge and prior understanding of the texts main idea (schema) to de
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1st - 4th
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Phonics Reading Passages for Fluency and Comprehension - Ending Blends
Ending Blends Reading Passages are perfect for practicing comprehension, fluency and phonics all at once. Each of the included pages focuses on one specific ending blend. The silly stories will keep students engaged and the format will help them complete the activities independently for homework or during your reading block.
THIS DOWNLOAD IS A PREVIEW OF MY PAID FILE FOUND HERE
These no-prep passages are the perfect addition to any reading program. This phonics skill practice can be used to ad
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1st - 3rd
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FREEBIE - Benchmark Advance 2nd Grade Fluency Passages (2017- 2022)
This FREEBIE includes passages for units 1 and 2. They are great for homework or to be used in the classroom and they are 100% aligned with both California and National versions of Benchmark Advance. If you would like ALL the passages for Units 1-10, click here. *Please note that these passages were designed to help introduce new phonics skills and may not be at a 2nd grade reading level. ******************************************************************************************************Thes
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2nd
Phonics Reading Passages for Fluency & Comprehension - Short Vowel Word Families
Word Family Reading Passages are perfect for practicing comprehension, fluency and phonics all at once. Each of the included pages focuses on one specific WORD FAMILY. The silly stories will keep students engaged and the format will help them complete the activities independently for homework or during your reading block.
This is a free preview of my Word Family Passages for Beginners.
These no-prep passages are the perfect addition to any reading program. This phonics skill practice can be u
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K - 3rd
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Bowling Basics Fluency Passage & Comprehension Close Reading Sixth Grade Level
Bowling Basics 3 Day Fluency/Comprehension Reading InterventionThis is an original fluency passage I wrote, and three comprehension activities to accompany the text. This package includes a teacher copy that you can print in color and reuse. It also includes a black and white copy that you can print off for each student and record their scores on it.Flesch Kincaid Readability Grade Level: 6.4*How to Use*This was designed to use as a reading intervention using the hot, warm and cold read strateg
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5th - 7th
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Also included in:Â Reading Fluency & Comprehension Intervention Bundle Grades 6 & 7
Sports Reading Comprehension Passages - FREE - Fun Reading
SAMPLE 4 original, SPORTS reading comprehension passages with four mixed, comprehension review questions. NO PREP! Just print and watch the smiles on students' faces as they dive into these wonderful but short sports tales.DIVE INTO THE FULL 30 PACK TODAY! 4 SAMPLE stories included in this pack: "A Granny for Granny Annie": "My Granny Annie is finally feeling well enough to come watch one of my baseball games. I sure I hope I can get a hit...""You're Out!": "Three more strikes and my team wins
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2nd - 4th
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Free Christmas Fluency Passage and Comprehension Questions
Christmas 3 Day Fluency/Comprehension Reading Intervention
This is an original fluency passage I wrote and 2 pages of comprehension questions to accompany it. This packet includes a teacher copy that you can print in color and reuse. It also includes a black and white copy that you can print off for each student and record their scores on it. There are low level comprehension questions for day 1, and medium/high level comprehension questions for day 2. On day 3 I would do an extension activity
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2nd - 4th
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Phonics Reading Passages for Fluency & Comprehension - Long Vowels
Long Vowel and Dipthong Reading Passages are perfect for practicing comprehension, fluency and phonics all at once. Each of the included pages focuses on one specific long vowel or diphthong. The silly stories will keep students engaged and the format will help them complete the activities independently for homework or during your reading block.
THIS DOWNLOAD IS A PREVIEW OF MY PAID FILE FOUND HERE
These no-prep passages are the perfect addition to any reading program. This phonics skill pract
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1st - 3rd
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Inference Passages - using evidence and schema - COMMUNITY HELPERS - PREVIEW
Passages to help students use text clues and background knowledge make inferences
This is FREEBIE of my 24 passage set found here
Inference is a hard skill to master. Especially in students with reading comprehension difficulties. I created these short passages to help my students practice this skill. These passages are longer than most I have found available and I believe the extra details help my students better grasp the inference.
This specific set of inference passage is based on CO
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1st - 4th
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Reading Passages for Fluency/Comprehension - Word Families Pt. 1 - PREVIEW!
Word Family Reading Passages are perfect for practicing comprehension, fluency and phonics all at once. Each of the included pages focuses on one specific word family. The silly stories will keep students engaged and the format will help them complete the activities independently for homework or during your reading block.
Help your students practice fluency, decoding and comprehension using these tricky
This is a free preview of my best selling Word Family Passages
These no-prep passages a
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PreK - 1st
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Plot Elements - Graphic Organizers
2 Plot Elements graphic organizers.
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5th - 12th
Non-Fiction Close Reads + Graphic Organizers - Fluency & Comprehension - PREVIEW
Strengthen comprehension through close reading! This is a FREE preview of my Spring Non-Fiction Passages found here ! Close reading requires students to dig deeper into a text. It is becoming increasingly popular due to districts adopting the Common Core State Standards. These non-fiction passages are designed to help you implement close reads in your classroom. Encourage (or require!) your students to read these multiple times. Students will:‣ read the story (half-page stories to save paper
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1st - 3rd
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Story Elements Plot Diagram Graphic Organizers with Easel Activity FREE
FREE Blank Plot Diagram: This is a blank plot map for a short story. This printable or digital plot diagram is labeled with the five story elements of plot-exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution, and has spaces for your students to write in the sequence of events. Use with any short story, or with my plot diagram activity for Rikki Tikki Tavi, also available in my store. Supports Common Core State Standards. In color and black and white. Print and Digital: Includes an
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5th - 7th
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Also included in:Â Literary Terms - Story Elements BUNDLE
"Night of the Volcano" Reading Comprehension Practice Passage w/ Questions
"Night of the Volcano" Reading Comprehension Practice Passage with assessment questions for grades 6,7,8.This is a practice reading comprehension passage that I created for my class. It contains a short story about a young girl who was left alone with her baby brother the night that the lava barriers around her town failed. It is a short, engaging passage with vivid details and metaphors to give your students plenty of practice.The passage also includes a few assessment questions including multi
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6th - 8th
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Plot Map Graphic Organizer Handout Story Map Elements Lesson Plan
This is a simple handout version of the common plot map, or story map, used in lessons on story elements. It is used to show understanding of a short story, for instance, by breaking the story and plot down into constituent parts: character, setting, rising action, climax, denouement, and theme.
This is NOT THE ACTIVE FORM VERSION that is also for online and SMARTBOARD use. The active form version is also available at my TpT store.
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4th - 12th
Physical and Chemical Changes A Story
Physical and Chemical changes. This is a literature based story intended to teach science concepts in an entertaining format. I began writing this story after one of my teachers became frustrated in finding entertaining reading materials that her students wanted to read to teach and re-enforce the science concepts. The students have responded positively to the reading passages. Questions are included to assess both reading comprehensions and understanding of the presented science concepts. An
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3rd - 6th
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Seed Ideas Graphic Organizer- Small Moment Story
This visual aid graphic organizer is helpful to use to teach writers how to narrow down their "watermelon" topics to "seed" ideas. I used this graphic organizer to help my students brainstorm ideas for their personal narrative writing.
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K - 3rd
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Story Map/ Plot Diagram
This plot diagram is used with 2nd grade and above to organize the elements of a narrative text. The students identify the exposition, the main events leading up to the climax (rising action), the climax, the main events of the falling action and the resolution. The students also identify the author's purpose, point of view and theme of the story. Going through this organizer as a whole group has helped the kids to really develop a strong understanding of what is expected in these elements.
If
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2nd - 5th
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"Lamb to the Slaughter" Roald Dahl Short Story PDF Text
"Lamb to the Slaughter" by Roald Dahl is a fun and darkly humorous text to use with students of a variety of ages! Over the years of teaching this fabulous short story, I have noticed that various PDF versions often have many typos, misspellings and grammatical errors that can be distracting and confusing for students. However, I did find a full text version, thanks to classicshorts.com! You can access their version of it here: http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/lamb.htmlAll I did was copy
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6th - 9th, Adult Education
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February Reading Comprehension Passages
SAMPLE 2 original, February reading comprehension passages with summary, close reading, text-based evidence, and self reflection questions. Two levels of difficulty for each passage for differentiation. NO PREP PASSAGES! ----------------------FULL PACK 20 FEBRUARY Fiction Passages: 20 FICTION February Reading Comprehension Passages---------------------SAMPLE includes..."Advice from Cupid" (Valentine's Day) "A New Kind of Kindness" (National Random Acts of Kindness Day)---------------------Thes
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3rd - 4th
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Film Strip Graphic Organizer for Sequencing, for Writing, Reading and ESL
This film strip graphic organizer is perfect for sequencing events in a story for ELA activities - suitable for all elementary grades and ESL students.
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PreK - 5th
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow- Adapted Text Version (Short Story Study)
I have been teaching "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" for over a decade and love, love, love this story! It allows for engaging discussions, lively debates, an in-depth look at literary techniques, and offers rich vocabulary development. After reading several versions of the text, I have adapted it to fit the needs of my classroom. I have used this version in grades 6-8, as well as with gifted & talented 4th graders. This story is a shorted and adapted version of the original tale by Washington
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5th - 8th
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