Middle school reading strategies cultural activities for parents

Supporting students’ reading at home is easy when you have ready-to-go reading level guides written with parent-friendly vocabulary. These Guided Reading Level Parent Letters are designed to explain the specific characteristics of students’ independent and instructional reading levels. Simply provide during parent teacher reading conferences to explain a child’s reading accuracy, fluency, comprehension, and more. These parent handouts are also perfect to send home in book bags and with students’

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K - 7th

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Also included in: [A-Z + 1-70 English Bundle] Reading Levels Explained for Parents | Parent Guide

[A-Z English Bundle] Reading Levels Explained for Parents | Parent Guide

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Supporting students’ reading at home is easy when you have ready-to-go reading level guides written with parent-friendly vocabulary. These Guided Reading Level Parent Letters are designed to explain the specific characteristics of students’ independent and instructional reading levels. Simply provide during parent teacher reading conferences to explain a child’s reading accuracy, fluency, comprehension, and more. These parent handouts are also perfect to send home in book bags and with students’

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K - 7th

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Close Reading, Poetry, Reading Strategies

The Butterfly, a Holocaust Poem - Close Read and Short Answer Response

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Mrs Price Writes

Looking for a meaningful way to honor Holocaust victims? With respect and dignity, Pavel Friedmann's poem, The Butterfly, guides students through a close reading of the text, a paired short answer response, and the option to create their own butterfly in honor of Holocaust victims. The teachers in my middle school found this activity to be a meaningful closure to a Holocaust unit. If you’re looking to sample poetry close reading, CLICK HERE to sign up and download my free poetry sub plans. Downl

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Grades:

5th - 9th

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Activities, Assessment, Cultural Activities

[A-Z + 1-70 English Bundle] Reading Levels Explained for Parents | Parent Guide

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Supporting students’ reading at home is easy when you have ready-to-go reading level guides written with parent-friendly vocabulary. These Guided Reading Level Parent Letters are designed to explain the specific characteristics of students’ independent and instructional reading levels. Simply provide during parent teacher reading conferences to explain a child’s reading accuracy, fluency, comprehension, and more. These parent handouts are also perfect to send home in book bags and with students’

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K - 7th

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[Levels M-Z English] Reading Levels Explained for Parents | Parent Guide

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Supporting students’ reading at home is easy when you have ready-to-go reading level guides written with parent-friendly vocabulary. These Guided Reading Level Parent Letters are designed to explain the specific characteristics of students’ independent and instructional reading levels. Simply provide during parent teacher reading conferences to explain a child’s reading accuracy, fluency, comprehension, and more. These parent handouts are also perfect to send home in book bags and with students’

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K - 7th

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Also included in: [A-Z + 1-70 English Bundle] Reading Levels Explained for Parents | Parent Guide

[DRA Levels 1-30 English] Reading Levels Explained for Parents | Parent Guide

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Supporting students’ reading at home is easy when you have ready-to-go reading level guides written with parent-friendly vocabulary. These Guided Reading Level Parent Letters are designed to explain the specific characteristics of students’ independent and instructional reading levels. Simply provide during parent teacher reading conferences to explain a child’s reading accuracy, fluency, comprehension, and more. These parent handouts are also perfect to send home in book bags and with students’

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Grades:

K - 7th

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A Special Kind of Teaching

Also included in: [A-Z + 1-70 English Bundle] Reading Levels Explained for Parents | Parent Guide

Parent Bookmark: Tips and Strategies While Reading With Your Child

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Are your parents asking "how can I help my child with reading"? This is the perfect tool that will do just that and more. I created this "Parent Bookmark" as a resource for my parents when reading with their child at home. Typically I have shared this resource at Open House Night or Parent/ Teacher Conferences. The feedback that I have received back from parents has been overwhelmingly positive. Many parents stated that this tool has become part of their home reading routine. This "Paren

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Reading, Reading Strategies, Tools for Common Core

Grades:

PreK - 6th

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Handouts, For Parents, Centers

Digital Choice Board Activity Bundle: Monthly Celebrations

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Mud and Ink Teaching

Whether you're celebrating Black History Month in February, elevating Hispanic voices in September, or simply looking for easy and meaningful ways to expand the voices present in your curriculum, these digital choice board activities will help students gain exposure to 25 different articles, videos, poems, and stories on each different board.WATCH A VIDEO PREVIEW INSIDE THE PRODUCT HERE!The goal of each choice board is to primarily provide choice to students - an opportunity to self-navigate the

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Holidays/Seasonal, Reading Strategies

Grades:

7th - 12th

Types:

Activities, Cultural Activities

Reading Strategies 101: Resources for Parents

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Teaching in Stripes

This file will be an excellent addition to your parent resources! Parent-school communication is key for student success, especially when it comes to reading. This file includes 8 parent resource sheets explaining reading strategies that are commonly taught in elementary schools across the country. Each resource sheet explains the strategy, gives tips for helping students, lists questions or question stems for parents, and lists several book suggestions to practice the strategy. These resour

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Handouts, Printables, For Parents

Grades:

K - 6th

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Reading Questions for Parents Hooray! {Great for Open House and Conferences!}

Created by

LearnCharlotte

Reading is an area where parents want to help at home, so why not provide them with questions for taking their child's comprehension to the next level? This packet provides questions to use with any fiction and nonfiction text as well as a guide for setting up happy and productive reading time at home! All you have to do is print and hand them out at Back-to-School night, orientation, open house, or parent conferences! Want more resources to use with parents? Check out my Parent Reading Packet!

Subjects:

Balanced Literacy, Literature, Reading Strategies

Grades:

K - 6th

Types:

Handouts, For Parents

Parent Help at Home--Improve Reading Comprehension at Home

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LoLo and behold

I'm sure you've had parents ask you, "How can I help my student at home?" This resource is a tool to help you answer that question! It gives parents some ideas on how to help their student improve their reading comprehension at home. One of the best ways for parents to help with this is to have conversations with their student about what they are reading! In this resource, one page is for fiction, one page is for nonfiction. I provide questions that parents can ask before, during and after readi

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Grades:

2nd - 8th

Types:

Handouts, For Parents

[DRA Levels 1-70 English Bundle] Reading Levels Explained for Parents | Guide

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Supporting students’ reading at home is easy when you have ready-to-go reading level guides written with parent-friendly vocabulary. These Guided Reading Level Parent Letters are designed to explain the specific characteristics of students’ independent and instructional reading levels. Simply provide during parent teacher reading conferences to explain a child’s reading accuracy, fluency, comprehension, and more. These parent handouts are also perfect to send home in book bags and with students’

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K - 7th

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Parent Resource for Guided Reading Levels

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Ross is Boss

This product is perfect for parent teacher conferences or other meetings where reading progress is being discussed. The following resource is written specifically for parents to understand their child's reading level and how best to help them when reading at home. Adapted from the Fountas and Pinnell reading system and the Literacy Continuum, these one-page (per level) papers make it easy to distribute to parents as needed. Each hand-out gives a clear breakdown of behaviors/skills that childr

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Study Guides, Handouts, For Parents

Grades:

K - 8th

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Guided Reading Level - Comprehension Question Bookmarks

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Inclusion Essentials

These bookmarks ask questions based on Guided Reading Levels. Levels A-Z are included! Students can use the bookmarks independently, in partners or small groups, or you can use them as anchor charts and reference materials. The possibilities are endless!Looking for additional Guided Reading Level resources? Check out the products below!Guided Reading Level Characteristics and Student Behaviors

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Activities, Assessment, For Parents

Grades:

PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education

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CCSS:

RL.K.1

, RL.K.2

, RL.K.3

, RL.K.7

, RL.K.9

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Also included in: Guided Reading Level Bundle - Characteristics, Behaviors, & Bookmarks

Summer Reading Comprehension Questions for Parents | Use with any book!

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Sunflower Scaffolds

PREVENT THE SUMMER SLIDE! These fun, summer-themed task cards will help parents keep their children in tip-top reading shape and ready to go for next year!This resource includes 23 reading comprehension questions in the form of:Task CardsSlidesB&W PrintableAlso includes a parent letter and blank letter template✿---✿---✿---✿---✿---✿---✿---✿---✿---✿---✿---✿---✿---✿---✿---✿---✿---✿---✿---✿---✿---✿---✿---✿---✿---✿---✿---✿---✿✿ Reach out anytime by emailing me! sunflowerscaffolds@gmail.com ✿Follo

Subjects:

Reading Strategies, Summer

Grades:

1st - 6th

Types:

Homeschool Curricula, For Parents, Task Cards

A Virtual Field Trip to Afghanistan: A Thousand Splendid Suns

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Mud and Ink Teaching

Building background for students before reading a novel is one important scaffolding measure that teachers can take. Before starting A Thousand Splendid Suns, send your students on a virtual field trip to Afghanistan!WHY THIS ACTIVITY IS SO IMPORTANT:Besides building background knowledge for students, helping kids see a place in the world different from home and negatively pictured in the media is helpful for expanding their world view. This product features video by Afghani filmmakers, the be

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Other (ELA), Reading Strategies

Grades:

8th - 12th

Types:

Cultural Activities

Also included in: A Thousand Splendid Suns: COMPLETE NOVEL UNIT

Black Out Poetry Civil Rights Reading, Writing & Art Project

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Wild Child Designs

Resource for Black History Month and Martin Luther King, Jr. DayThe purpose of these activities is to help students read deeply while reading excerpts from historical civil rights speeches. So often, civil rights leaders like Dr. King are discussed as if they were super heroes. They are, in a sense, super heroes. But it’s important for students to realize that they were also regular people, often with very humble beginnings who found themselves in situations, environments and racist conflicts th

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Arts & Music, Close Reading, Reading Strategies

Grades:

5th - 7th

Types:

Projects, Literature Circles, Cultural Activities

CCSS:

RI.K.1

, RI.K.3

, RI.K.8

, RI.K.9

, RI.K.10

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Amal Unbound: Exploring Social Activism

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Get Real

If everyone decided nothing could change, nothing ever would.Amal Unbound is a wonderful opportunity for your students to experience what it is like living in a place where learning to read is a luxury and owing money could cost you your freedom!Through Amal’s journey, they will learn that standing up to what one knows is right and the risk taking involved in that brave act is what leads to change. This resource includes EVERYTHING that you need for your students to be engaged, active, thoughtf

Subjects:

Literature, Reading Strategies

Grades:

4th - 8th

Types:

CCSS:

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comprehension questions for parents to use at home in English and SPANISH

Created by

Carley Copto

This document has comprehension questions in 12 categories that parents can use at home to talk to their children about what they're reading. It is also translated in Spanish. Parents will find this really helpful because they will actually know what to ask!

Subjects:

Reading, Reading Strategies, Spelling

Grades:

PreK - 12th

Types:

For Parents

St. Patrick's Day Depth & Complexity Print & Go Low-Prep Activities Test Prep

Created by

Lisa Van Gemert - Gifted Guru

Looking for a fabulous selection of St. Patrick's Day activities that use the Depth & Complexity framework? This print-and-go activity pack has Language Arts, Social Studies, Math, and Science activities, all in one great resource. You'll find St. Patrick's Day writing prompts, fiction and non-fiction pieces to read, Depth and Complexity frames to complete, a brochure to create, leprechaun problems to solve, Irish geology to explore, and more! Of course there is a digital version included fo

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading Strategies, Writing

Grades:

3rd - 6th

Types:

Activities, GATE, Cultural Activities

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Reading at Home - Help of Parents

Created by

I Can in Elementary

This is a one page reference sheet I give to parents at conferences to help their students at home. I gives tips on how to support and compliment their reading.

Subjects:

Close Reading, English Language Arts, Reading Strategies

Grades:

4th - 6th

Types:

For Parents

Editable NEWSLETTER TEMPLATE great for Reading Support or READ 180 classes

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ELA Love and Reading

Please note: The At-Home page of this newsletter template is included in my fully editable Student Data Binder Materials. The binder materials also include a class syllabus and welcome letter for Read180. This file includes a PDF and fully editable PowerPoint. Increase parent engagement and involvement with this appealing template. The fonts are from KG Fonts. They are free to download from TPT, if needed. They are: KG Second Chances SketchKG Second Chances SolidKG Eyes Wide OpenKG Always a Good

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