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Free reading strategies scaffolded notes
Shared Reading in the Upper Grades 5-Day Plan
This resource will walk you through how to do shared reading with your upper grades (3rd-6th) students for 10-15 minutes daily to build fluency and comprehension skills. All you have to do is find the weekly articles. Included in the resource is a 5-day instructional plan for both nonfiction and fiction articles.
Nonfiction -
Day 1 - Previewing and Predicting
Day 2 - Wonderings
Day 3 - Author's Purpose
Day 4 - Text Structure
Day 5 - Determining Importance/Summarizing
Fiction -
Day 1 - Preview
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Also included in:Â 5th Grade Reading BUNDLE | Digital and Printable
Cornell Note Taking Template FREEBIE
This is a note taking strategy used with the AVID program. This is typically used for middle school, but we have slightly modified it for fourth grade!
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Grades:
3rd - 12th
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Compare and Contrast Graphic Organizer
Compare and contrast graphic organizer provides explanation of compare/contrast, and includes sentence starters, and fill-in-the-blank spaces for students to fill in to help piece together compare and contrast paragraphs.
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Grades:
3rd - 8th
Continents and Oceans Reading Response SOL 3.5a
Reading Comprehension Test Prep Questions on Continents and Oceans
OK! Here's what the goal with this freebie is. I am setting a goal of trying to incorporate our social studies curriculum into my small reading groups. I am using some elements of close reading (the color coding) with multiple choice test practice. This IS correlated to Virginia SOLs, but can be used for Common Core, as well.
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Grades:
2nd - 4th
Guided Annotation Worksheet
This informational text reading is structured with various prompts in the margins to scaffold the use of annotation as an active reading strategy. Students define new terms, highlight or underline specific information and answer question prompts as they read through an informational text about censorship and banned books.After reading students can answer questions about the main idea of the text, their opinion, and the benefits of annotating as a strategy for active reading.
Grades:
7th - 10th
Reading Comprehension and Language Skills Resource
UPDATED & REVISED!This reading comprehension and language skills resource was designed to give teachers the language necessary to prompt and support students' learning. Students can also benefit from the the resource and creative visuals are included for each skill to help student understand each skill. This resource will help students become more independent and successful with their reading comprehension, as well as a resource to help give teachers the tools necessary to support their lear
Grades:
2nd - 9th, Staff
Note Taking (Thoughts, Facts, Questions, Opinions)
This note taking graphic organizer focuses on four elements: words that come to mind, four facts I learned, questions I still have, and opinions I have formed. This could be used with note taking for movies, presentations, field trips, etc.
Grades:
2nd - 12th
Notice and Note Fiction Signpost Note-taking Graphic Organizer FREEBIE!
Each of the six Notice and Note fiction signposts is listed, with a space for students to write a definition of the signpost in their own words, give an example of it, and draw an illustration to help them remember what the signpost is all about. Based on Notice and Note Strategies for Close Reading by Kylene Beers and Robert Probst
Grades:
3rd - 9th
Guided Reading Group Recording Sheet
This is a simple, user friendly, widely adaptable recording sheet you can use in your small groups. Use it to take notes of student successes as well as reading goals your students still need to work towards. It is designed to be used in small groups, but you can also use it to track individual student progress. This simple sheet provides a great documentation source for RTI as well.
Grades:
1st - 8th
AVID Socratic Seminar - Pre-Conference Graphic Organizer
Use this graphic organizer to help students prepare for any Socratic Seminar. Students will write or come up with an essential question, Costas level of thinking questions for each level (1 ,2 ,3), thoughts, and personal experiences.Students will be able to use this form to help guide the Socratic Seminar.Click HERE to see our other AVID resources. We also have several great AVID bundle options available down below!AVID Mega Growing BundleAVID Teambuilding BundleAVID Writing BundleFollow KJ Ins
Grades:
5th - 8th
Formulating Definitions Template
Enhance how your students create definitions for their vocabulary words using this template. This template for formulating definitions is aligned with the science of reading concept behind creating meaningful definitions. According to research, definitions should consist of two parts: the category or synonym it belongs to followed by defining attributes.
Grades:
1st - 5th
Literary Analysis Form--Novel
Using this form, students analyze a novel one literary element at a time. Setting, characterization, plot, conflict, theme, point of view, mood, tone, and other elements are addressed, along with literary techniques. Questions are posed for each element and students enter their responses. This form can be used as a teacher led activity, it can be completed by students working in pairs, or it can be assigned to students individually. It is very useful for independent reading book reports. After
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Grades:
8th - 12th
Story Map - Help with WH Questions
Description: A VERY simple story map worksheet to help your students outline the details of a story (Who, What, When, and Where). The student can record the details on the worksheet with help from the therapist or teacher while reading the story independently or listening to the story read aloud. The worksheet can be used as a visual support for answering WH questions.
Use: Print and laminate the story map, or insert into a dry erase pocket (my favorite for therapy sessions!). Or print copies f
Grades:
K - 12th
Who, What, When, Where, Why, & How Graphic Organizer
Use this digital organizer (Google Docs and Google Classroom - friendly!) to summarize texts.
Grades:
2nd - 6th
Scribble Notes: Lousiana Purchase
Use these scribble notes in conjunction with a reading passage on The Louisiana Purchase. I pair them with the free reading passages on Ducksters website. These make the perfect addition to your Social Studies journals! It's an engaging way to get kids to take notes! These really help guide my fifth graders in effective note taking!! These can be reduced and printed to perfectly fit composition notebooks!Get this resources and more in my Westward Expansion Bundle!
Grades:
3rd - 8th
Also included in:Â BUNDLE Scribble Notes: Westward Expansion
Stop and Think While Reading Activity and Discussion Helper (Metacognition)
I noticed in my class that my students were not "thinking about their reading" while they were reading. I would model this to them, by stopping and thinking while I read (aloud). I would also stop them from reading and ask them questions. However, they were not doing this on their own. Now I use this metacognition worksheet in my classroom and I have the students stop after each page or when they notice themselves having a "thought" and write it down, along with the page number of the book. The
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Compare and Contrast notes and foldable
This works great in your interactive reading notebook!
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Grades:
2nd - 6th
I can count words in a sentence
This activity will allow students to show how to count words in a sentences in different ways.
Grades:
PreK - 1st
Let's Make Connections (Holes by Louis Sachar)
This is a very simple and fun activity to help students make Text-to-Self connections while reading.
This resource has an excerpt from Holes, by Louis Sachar, and asks students to connect their lives/experiences to the passage. Geared for Reading Intervention middle schoolers or even 5th graders. Very easy and fun!
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Grades:
5th - 8th
Reading Nonfiction - 4R Graphic Organizer
If you are looking for a way to encourage pre-reading and build your students' comprehension of nonfiction texts, this flexible graphic organizer is ready for you to print and use - no prep required! Simply choose any nonfiction article and guide your students through this two-page, easy-to-use handout.
This engaging, visually-appealing graphic organizer helps students to identify key information from a text, isolate important text features, and activate prior knowledge to make authentic predi
Grades:
5th - 8th
Rhetorical Devices & Logical Fallacies
This worksheet includes notes & and a partner practice activity for rhetorical devices and logical fallacies. It is aligned with the 7th grade TEKs, so the devices and fallacies are: Direct Address, Rhetorical Questions, Loaded Language, and Sweeping Generalizations.
Grades:
6th - 8th
WA Kindergarten Curriculum Guidelines English
WA Kindergarten Curriculum [English] This is a free PDF of a forward planner you can use to do your planning. Mathematics comes under the Learning & Development heading "Communicating" and this is listed at the top of the grid. The sub headings are easily linked back to the drop down menus in the kindergarten curriculum. [ http://k10outline.scsa.wa.edu.au/Curriculum_k-10/Kindergarten_Curriculum_Guidelines/Learning_Development_Areas/Communicating ]
Word documents will be available for purcha
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K
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Teaching Mood Slideshow & Guided Fill-In Notes for Middle & High School
Teaching mood in literature this year? Middle school and high school students need to understand mood and how to differentiate it from tone in separate lessons. This slideshow and guided notes resource is perfect for introducing your students to mood or going over the concept as a refresher.Included are:-15 slide presentation on author's tone with examples-2 pages of guided fill-in notes-answer keyHappy teaching!Please see my full Teaching Mood Mini-Unit!Check out my Short Story Mini-Unit Studen
Grades:
6th - 12th
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Main Idea and Details Organizer
My students struggle with finding the main idea and supporting details in non-fiction passages. I developed this organizer to help them not only to identify the main idea and supporting details, but to give them practice summarizing.
This packet contains the graphic organizer shown in the preview. In my classroom, it is used in small group instruction. By the end of the year, I want my students to be able to use it on their own as a guide for taking notes and writing summaries for any grad
Grades:
4th - 8th
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