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Reading strategies scaffolded notes for Microsoft Word
The House of the Scorpion: Teacher's Cornell Notes ALL Chapters
This is the Teacher's Version I created for the entire novel The House of the Scorpion. My students took Cornell Notes as they read, which consist of short key points in the left hand column, longer reading notes in the right hand column, and a 4-5 sentence summary in the bottom section.
My students grumbled at first about being asked to write notes for each chapter, but when it came time for quizzes and paper writing, they were amazed at how much better prepared they were. I find that with a l
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Grades:
8th - 10th
The Contender Chapter Cloze Activities
This document contains a summarizing cloze activity for each chapter in Robert Lipsyte's The Contender. The activity is excellent for students to use either as a review of the chapters or for struggling students to use as a scaffolding reading strategy.
The Contender Chapter Cloze Activities by Marsha Mentzer is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
Grades:
7th - 9th
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The Pardoner's Tale Reading Guide
This reading guide is designed for students who may otherwise struggle with literature from this time period. It includes a graphic organizer to aid in differentiating the types of irony within the selection. It also includes sequential reading questions about the events of the tale as well as literary devices, such as foreshadowing and metaphor.
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Grades:
11th - 12th
Serial Podcast Season 1-Listening Notes Organizers (Digital AND Print Versions)
The first page of this Word document contains a link to a Google Slides version of these Active Listening Notes for digital/remote learning. The slides have labeled boxes for students to fill in that mirror the print-and-go version you will find on pages 2-13 of the Word document.This is a 13-page Word Document that contains pages for students to take notes on as they listen to Serial Podcast Season 1: Adnan Syed Case. Each page (or slide) has shapes with labels instructing students what to wri
Grades:
9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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EDITABLE Conferring Record Sheets: Grade 5 Lucy Calkins Reader's Workshop
This is 4 EDITABLE word document conferring sheets for grade 5 of Lucy Calkins' Reader's Workshop. It includes a separate sheet for each unit in Lucy's Program. Along the side columns are all of the mini-lesson focus' for your reference when meeting with students.The Star is a glow or positive thing the student is doing and "TP" is the teaching point or goal for them. I like to fill in the star when doing a mid-workshop interruption about something awesome a student is doing so that I can keep t
Grades:
5th
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Simple Venn Diagram Template
Perfect for any subject, any grade level! Can be filled in using pictures or text depending on assignment. Great organizer for a teachable moment involving comparison.Sometimes I just print it out and kids can write on it, or other times I like to use it on the background of Jamboards, or other interactive programs in the classroom.
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Not Grade Specific
EDITABLE Conferring Record Sheets: Grade 2 Lucy Calkins Reader's Workshop
This is 4 EDITABLE word document conferring sheets for grade 2 of Lucy Calkins' Reader's Workshop. It includes a separate sheet for each unit in Lucy's Program. Along the side columns are all of the mini-lesson focus' for your reference when meeting with students.The Star is a glow or positive thing the student is doing and "TP" is the teaching point or goal for them. I like to fill in the star when doing a mid-workshop interruption about something awesome a student is doing so that I can keep t
Grades:
2nd
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Paradise Lost Book One Reading Guide
This graphic organizer guides students who would otherwise have great difficulty explicating the epic. It covers an excerpt of Book One from The Argument through line 270. It provides guidance for the background of the story and for comprehension of the literary allusions within the poem.
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Grades:
11th - 12th
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I Have a Dream Speech Analysis Student Copy
This is a student copy for Martin Luther King's speech, "I have a Dream". I use this activity to show the students, "How did the author say it?" (a common core step when doing close and critical reading).
Using this activity helps the students understand the speech better and helps them with evaluating what King was saying.
Grades:
7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
HARRY HOUDINI Magician Biography NOTE-TAKING & OUTLINING STRATEGY Reading Skils
Here is a helpful reading strategy that will improve students' organization and note-taking skills. Students take notes from the given biographical / informational text about magician Harry Houdini. They fit their notes into the outline provided in order to capture the relationships between ideas and data. The selection about Houdini should spark your students' interest and motivate them to want to take the notes to fill in the outline. This will be a nice supporting resource for the story "The
Grades:
4th - 8th
A Guide to Dialectical Journals
Dialectical Journal entries are designed for students to interact with a text in a number of ways including: questioning the text, identifying literary elements, reflecting on the purpose or meaning, and connecting to their world.
This is a guide that will walk students through how to complete an entry for a dialectical journal. It takes them through the purpose, provides hints and tips for finding good quotes, and includes examples from both fiction and non-fiction pieces.
At the end is a gr
Grades:
6th - 12th
TC Kindergarten Reading Conference Notes Form
I created this reading conference notes form for units 1-7 to make conferring much easier for me in my classroom. You simply print out a page for each student and keep it in your conferring binder. When you meet with a student you check off one glow (what he/she did well) and one grow (what he/she needs to work on). You should have about 4 checked off under each column every month.
This is based on the older Teacher's College Reading Curriculum, but I believe it is universal for all kinderga
Grades:
K
Reading Level Update: Helpful Letter for Parents
Most of us elementary teachers test our students' Reading Levels multiple times throughout the year. As they get older, we usually just tell the students their new reading level, perhaps put it somewhere on a form or in their portfolios, but many parents are not aware of what this new level means or even what their child's new independent level is!
Use this letter to send home to your parents after you test your student's reading level! This keeps parents informed of WHAT the level means, HOW
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Grades:
2nd - 5th
Guided Reading Assessment Templates Levels A-Z-with Built-In checklists!
Levels A-Z-Managing guided reading data has never been easier!!. These Guided Reading Templates allow teachers to observe and track student reading behaviors individually from Levels A-Z. Never seen before-Each sheet provides teachers with strategies and behaviors that students should be displaying as they read in GR groups K-6. Help students progress rapidly through the levels using the built-in checklists.
The best part is the built-in checklists!! They are right on the sheet for easy monito
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Grades:
1st - 6th
Literary Analysis Archetypal Quest Charts for Ayn Rand's Anthem
The charts, editable in Word, scaffold the reading as a literary analysis. Separated by chapters, following Freytag's Pyramid, the chart is in three columns. Column 1: "big ideas," characterization, setting, plot point, archetypal journey; Column 2 student input for textual information; and Column. 3: explanation/analysis of "why" and "how"-- the backbone of analysis. The chart facilitates students' note-taking. It can be used as an individual assignment or cooperative assignment. The teache
Grades:
9th - 12th
Keeping Track of Data - Phonics
For teachers using S.P.I.R.E. - Keep notes on all of your students' lesson results in one place. Use this resource to keep track of your students' results in all ten parts of S.P.I.R.E.'s Introduction Lessons and Reinforcement Lessons. As this is completed, it gives you information about your students' strengths and weaknesses at a glance.
Grades:
1st - 6th
Short Story Elements Cornell Notes
Cornell Notes are a great starting point for every lesson. And they meet the requirements for skeletal notes and Specially Designed Instruction (SDI).I have formatted these pages to be used to introduce the short story unit. The left column contains the primary terms related to short stories while the wide right column has enough space to define the terms during the first discussion but also to return later with examples for the unit. Added Bonus! The whole thing is print and go! Using Microsoft
Grades:
7th - 9th
Also included in: Five Short Stories for Freshman!
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
Calkins' A Deep Study about Characters grades 6-8 Cheat Sheets for BEND 3
Here you will find cheat sheets for BEND 3 for Lucy Calkins' reading unit of study:
A Deep Study about Characters for grades 6-8.
The purpose of these cheat sheets is to provide an easier way to understand and follow Calkins' lessons. Let all of my hard work make it easier for you to teach!
Grades:
6th - 8th
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Also included in: Calkins A Deep Study of Character for Grades 6-8 BUNDLE
House on Mango Street Note Taking Guide
Trying to get your middle/high school students to understand the theme of 'growing up' in House on Mango Street?
Look no farther! This resource is an awesome note-taking guide for the vignettes focused on growing up: "Those Who Don't" Family of Little Feet," "A Rice Sandwich," "Chanclas," "The First Job," and “Papa Who Wakes Up Tired in the Dark”.
Resource includes notes sheet and answer key for teachers!
Grades:
6th - 12th
Also included in: House On Mango Street Bundle
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks: Chapter Annotation Guide
This is a ready-to-use annotation guide for The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot. Students actively read and mark the text for give questions. They, then, reflect, comment, and/or write questions about each chapter. This guide covers all 38 chapter of the book.
Grades:
9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Structure - Subverting a Generic Code
This series of activites uses a flipped classroom, where students read, highlight and create a series of dotpoints to understand the subversion of generic codes. They then research an example of a tv series that subverts a generic code and in pairs give a three minute lesson to the class on why their tv series is part of a genre but chooses to subvert it. They are given guiding questions to respond to. The last activity is them choosing a scene from a text in a genre they know well and using i
Grades:
9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Not Grade Specific
Also included in: Work on Structure at the Macro and Micro Levels
LLI Red System | Book 2 | Nothing But Trouble
Perfect packet to go along during reading. Includes a pre-reading scavenger hunt, vocabulary matching, and comprehension questions.*NOTE* the lines do download regularly. Not sure why the preview shows otherwise.Please leave a review on this product or other that you have/will be purchasing! Thank you!
Grades:
3rd - 5th
Guided Reading Form for Level E-P
This simple guided reading form will help to make your life easier when teaching guided reading to your students. It offers a checklist of reading behaviors in which you place a M (mastered) or a W (working on) for each student. It also has teaching points listed. You check off which teaching point you are using for the day.
Also, it provided you with a guided reading format and comprehension skills. I hope this makes teaching guided reading easier... enjoy!
Grades:
1st - 4th
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