English language arts literature circles for parents

This novel study for Holes, by Louis Sachar, contains 124 pages of resources, including comprehension and vocabulary by chapter, reading response activities, assessments, and more. Focus standards include figurative language, theme, character analysis, plot, and opinion writing.No-prep, predictable, and extremely user-friendly, this literature guide is perfect for whole class, small group, or independent study. ♥You're free to use the printable OR digital version; BOTH are included with your pur

Subjects:

Grades:

3rd - 6th

Types:

CCSS:

RL.3.2

Informational Text, Reading Strategies, Writing

, RL.3.7

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Also included in: Holes and The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe | Novel Study Bundle

RACES Writing Strategy Posters | Citing Text Evidence | Text-Based Response

Created by

Sweet Tooth Teaching

Your students have a basic understanding of what text evidence is, but are struggling to incorporate it in their writing. The RACES strategy is designed to guide students through the process of answering a constructive response prompt. (or text-based prompts)This resource is equipped with Text Evidence Discussion Bubbles which are perfect for small groups, whole-group discussions, teacher-led centers, or even online learning! These sentence starters encourage students to speak about the text. --

Subjects:

Grades:

1st - 6th

Types:

Posters, Literature Circles

CCSS:

W.3.1

, W.3.2

, W.4.1

, W.4.2

, W.5.1

...

Parent Handouts for Preschool, Pre-K, TK, and Kindergarten - English & Spanish

Created by

Pocket of Preschool - Jackie Kops

Parent handouts are an easy way to help parents support their child’s learning at home! It’s super simple. Just print and send home! You can send the parent letters home at the beginning of the year, on various parent nights, at parent teacher conferences, before summer, or attach to your newsletters throughout the year. These 2 page skill building handouts give parents simple suggestions, tips, and games/activities they can do to help their child build their skills at home. The activities a

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Math, Occupational Therapy

Grades:

PreK - K

Types:

Handouts, Homework, For Parents

Also included in: Preschool, Pre-K, and Kindergarten Complete Curriculum BUNDLE

Sight Word Fluency Phrase Booklets

Created by

Reagan Tunstall

Provide targeted sight word and fluency phrase practice with these booklets! Each booklet contains 100 Fry's words. All five booklets track 500 Fry's sight words with corresponding fluency phrases. Each booklet gets increasingly difficult. According to Fry's, these words span from K-5. Meet the needs of your varied levels of readers! Easy to put together, easy to track! These would work very well with a data binder and student-led learning too! There are master lists for easy teacher refe

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Reading Strategies

Grades:

K - 2nd

Types:

Guided Reading Books, Printables, Literature Circles

Also included in: Sight Word Fluency Phrase Books Bundle

Meet the Teacher Template Editable | Welcome to Our Class Back to School Letters

Created by

The Collaborative Class

This editable meet the teacher template is a perfect way to provide your students and their families with some information about you and your classroom at the beginning of the school year. You can send it in the mail in the summer, email it home, provide a copy to each family at an open house, hand out to your students during the first week of school, or upload to google classroom. Click here to SAVE 30% by buying this as part of my Back to School Forms Bundle!What's Included:- Meet the Teacher

Subjects:

Back to School, For All Subjects, Other (ELA)

Grades:

PreK - 12th

Types:

Handouts, Printables, For Parents

Also included in: Back to School Forms Bundle | Print + Digital

Chapter Book Study - Reading Response Sheets for ANY book | Book Club Printables

Created by

Briana Beverly

Printable and Digital Reading Response Worksheets and QuestionsTired of searching for a perfect novel study every time you start a new chapter book with your students?! This chapter book study works with ANY book, perfect for reading small groups and literature circles. Now includes a Google Slides digital version! These pages will promote higher-level thinking as students read and respond to chapter books. They can be used in whole-group, small-group, or independently! Mix and match these pages

Subjects:

Reading

Grades:

2nd - 5th

Types:

Balanced Literacy, English Language Arts, Reading

Sight Word Fluency Phrase Books Bundle

Created by

Reagan Tunstall

This is the bundle of two sets of sight word booklets covering 1000 sight words. Provide targeted sight word and fluency phrase practice with these booklets!A parent letter is included. Master lists for easy tracking are also included. Each booklet contains 100 Fry's words. All 10 booklets track Fry's sight words with corresponding fluency phrases list 1-1000. Easy to put together, easy to track! These would work very well with a data binder and student-led learning too!Students work through t

Subjects:

Grades:

K - 5th

Types:

Informational Text, Literature, Reading

Book Club Fiction and Nonfiction Bundle Digital and Printable

Created by

Not So Wimpy Teacher

I LOVE that this can work for ANY book. I have packets made for my small group and I can easily have them flip to the page to work. It is awesome! Thank you!” - Amy B.You’ve heard Book Clubs (or Literature Circles) are a fun way to get your students reading and talking about books. You’ve even heard Book Clubs make reading fun for your most reading-averse students. But how do you start them? How do you run them effectively? How do you make sure all your students—regardless of reading level—ge

Subjects:

Grades:

2nd - 5th

Types:

Activities, Literature Circles, Centers

Room on the Broom Unit, Crafts, Sequencing, Puppets, Character Sorts, & Writing

Created by

Hilary Statum - Pencils to Pigtails

This Room on the Broom inspired unit is packed with essential ELA skills! Practice retell, sequencing, writing, rhyming, number words, cause & effect, Science of Reading aligned word mapping skills, and so much more! Your students will love creating the unique paper towel retell craft and the showstopper extra large broom craft. You will love that students are working on key writing and sequencing skills!These activities pair perfectly with the book written by Julia Donaldson.You will find

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Halloween, Literature

Grades:

PreK - 1st

Types:

Activities, Literature Circles, Centers

CCSS:

K.CC.A.3

, RL.K.1

, RL.K.2

, RL.K.3

, RL.K.4

...

ELA First Day BUNDLE: Everything for back to school: Syllabus + Stations + Fun

Created by

Building Book Love

Have the best first day EVER in ELA with this bundle of first day stations, slides, and syllabus templates! Whether you like customizing in Canva, PPT, or Google Slides, these templates will make prepping for your first day total breeze. Not only will you be more efficient with your back to school prep, but you'll also set the tone for the rest of the year. Students will be impressed with your visual syllabus and engaged from day one!What you will get:⭐ A super fun, low pressure ice breaker idea

Subjects:

Creative Writing, English Language Arts, Informational Text

Grades:

7th - 12th

Types:

Charlotte's Web Novel Study Unit - Comprehension | Activities | Tests

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This novel study for Charlotte's Web, by E.B. White, contains 135 pages of resources, including comprehension questions and vocabulary activities, creative activities, assessments, and more!Focus standards include figurative language, setting, character analysis, theme, and plot.No-prep, predictable, and extremely user-friendly, this literature guide is perfect for whole class, small group, or independent study. ♥You're free to use the printable OR digital version; BOTH are included with your pu

Subjects:

Grades:

3rd - 6th

Types:

CCSS:

RL.3.1

, RL.3.2

Literature, Reading, Reading Strategies

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Also included in: Charlotte's Web and Stuart Little | E.B. White Novel Study Bundle

Literature Circles Book Club Activities Novel Study Talk Reading Response Sheets

Created by

The Little Ladybug Shop

Are you looking for ways to engage and grow your readers during their book and novel studies? Look no further than this comprehensive Book Club Activities and Literature Circles Reading Bundle, perfect for any book or novel! This bundle has everything you need to get your students started on literature circles and make book clubs an exciting and educational way for them to grow as readers in your class. This jam-packed bundle is perfect whether you teach 3rd, 4th, or 5th grade.TAKE A PEEK AT EVE

Subjects:

Grades:

3rd - 5th

Types:

Balanced Literacy, Summer, Writing

Also included in: Best Sellers Bundle- Writing Process Pencil, Book Club Activities, Mentor Texts

End of the Year Memory Book {Kindergarten, First, and Second Grade}

Created by

Haley O'Connor

This product is available as part of my End of the Year Bundle at a discount. Check it out here!If you need the digital version of this resource, you can find that HERE. Use this packet to keep your students engaged and reminiscing while you finish up testing, packing, and planning! It makes such a sweet keepsake for your students to keep and remember their kinder, 1st, or 2nd grade year.The packet comes in half page and full size. You can put all of the pages together in a book, or use specific

Subjects:

Grades:

K - 2nd

Types:

Natalie Lynn Kindergarten

Also included in: End of the Year Survival Kit {Awards, Homework, Printables, and More}

Fine Motor Activities for the Year | Scissor Cutting, Tracing, Handwriting

Created by

Practicing fine motor skills with fine motor activities is essential for developing hand, wrist, and finger strength, pencil grasp, visual perception, bilateral integration, hand-eye coordination, and handwriting skills. These no prep fine motor activities provide a fun and engaging way to practice fine motor skills throughout the year!How can I use these no prep fine motor activities?Create a Fine Motor Journal or Notebook - A cover for a fine motor journal is included, plus printing tips.Fine

Subjects:

Arts & Music, English Language Arts, Holidays/Seasonal

Grades:

PreK - 1st

Types:

End of Year, Holidays/Seasonal, Reading Strategies

Mystery Readers Theater End of Year Reading Activities Holiday Theatre Scripts

Created by

Rachel Lynette

Who Freed the Fish??? This fun and engaging end of the year readers' theater activity is a perfect reading mystery activity for your students! Who Freed the Fish is a super fun reader's theater script! In this whodunnit mystery reader's theater activity, students will learn to become detectives and then use their sleuthing skills to figure out what happened to the Field Day goldfish! With lots of suspects and circumstantial evidence, the students will have to take good notes, make lots of infer

Subjects:

Grades:

4th - 6th

Types:

Literature Circles

Also included in: End of Year Readers Theater with Escape Room & ELA Activities Theatre Slides EOY

Hatchet Novel Study Unit | Comprehension Questions with Activities and Tests

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This novel study for Hatchet, by Gary Paulsen, contains 136 pages of resources, including comprehension and vocabulary by chapter, reading response activities, assessments, and more.Focus standards include figurative language, opinion writing, character analysis, plot, and point of view.No-prep, predictable, and extremely user-friendly, this literature guide is perfect for whole class, small group, or independent study. ♥You're free to use the printable OR digital version; BOTH are included with

Subjects:

Grades:

3rd - 6th

Types:

CCSS:

RL.3.1

, RL.3.2

Jennifer Hier at Early Learning Ideas - Preschool

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Also included in: Hatchet and Island of the Blue Dolphins | Novel Study Bundle

Alphabet Activities - ABC Playdough Mats - Letter Tracing Recognition & Writing

Created by

Your students will love working on the letters of the alphabet with these Alphabet Playdough Mats. This ABC activity gives your kids a fun, hands-on way to build alphabetic knowledge. They will have fun as they build playdough letters, practice tracing letters & writing letters. The multi-sensory abc playdough mats will also help your kids learn letter recognition or letter identification, the names of letters, letter sounds, and develop phonemic awareness. These mats are easy-to-prep and

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Occupational Therapy, Special Education

Grades:

PreK - K

Types:

Activities, For Parents, Centers

CCSS:

RF.K.1b

, RF.K.1d

, L.K.1a

, L.K.2c

Also included in: Alphabet Activities Uppercase & Lowercase Letter Identification & Sounds BUNDLE

Kindergarten Readiness Summer Packet Kindergarten Round Up Preschool Review

Created by

Miss M's Reading Resources

Prepare your soon-to-be-kindergarteners for school with the Kindergarten Readiness Handbook in both English + Spanish. These handbooks include introduction and overview pages for grown-ups, student practice pages, A to Z readiness charts, + more to ease the worry of starting school. SAVE with the kindergarten summer packet BUNDLE!This download includes:Kindergarten Readiness Handbook in EnglishKindergarten Readiness Handbook in Spanish"I'm ready for kindergarten" crowns in English + SpanishThe K

Subjects:

Back to School, English Language Arts, Handwriting

Grades:

PreK - K

Types:

Informational Text, Literature, Reading

Also included in: Kindergarten Readiness Summer Packet Checklist Kindergarten Assessment Packet

Reading Response Menus Digital and Printable EDITABLE

Created by

Not So Wimpy Teacher

“Great resource to hold students accountable by writing about what they are reading and using evidence from the text. My students enjoy these because they feel like they have a choice and it's not just a prompt for everyone. Thank you!” - Jennifer B.Every week, a teacher must grapple with an ancient mystery: “I love that my students are reading independently! But, how do I make sure they understand what they’re reading? How do I hold them accountable?”Wonder no more! These Reading Response Menus

Subjects:

Grades:

3rd - 5th

Types:

Printables, Literature Circles, Centers

Reader's Theater Scripts - 3, 4, or 2 Person Readers Theater - Fluency Practice

Created by

Jessica Tobin - Elementary Nest

Looking for readers theater scripts and partner plays to help improve your students' reading comprehension and fluency skills? There are 10 reader’s theater scripts within this unit. They range between two, three, or four characters. Each readers theater script comes with a cover page, headband or necklace pieces, color copies, or black and white copies for each script.Each script: has a cover pagecomes with headband or necklace images for characters has highlighted color copies for each charact

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Reading Strategies

Grades:

1st - 2nd

Types:

Activities, Literature Circles, Centers

CCSS:

RL.1.1

, RL.1.2

, RL.1.3

, RL.1.6

, RL.1.10

...

Also included in: Readers Theater Scripts, Fluency, Reading Comprehension 1st Grade and 2nd Grade

Pencil Box Name Tags with Take Home Folders | Student Supply BUNDLE

Created by

Polka Dots Please

Get organized this back to school season! Save BIG on everything you need, including pencil box name tags, take home folders, homework helpers, math tool kits, and personal word walls! With tools for school and home you can master classroom organization and parent communication!CLICK ON THE PREVIEW BUTTON ABOVE TO SEE IT ALL!➡️What products are included?Take Home Folder Covers and LabelsThese Take Home Folders are unlike any other option out there! Get everything you need to support students and

Subjects:

Back to School, Math, Reading

Grades:

PreK - 2nd

Types:

Homework, Printables, For Parents

First Grade End of the Year Summer Review Packet - Math and Reading Practice

Created by

Lyndsey Kuster

Are you needing a first grade summer review packet? This math and reading practice packet is full of engaging, fun, summer-themed activities that your students will love working on all summer long and have them feeling prepared for the next school year! This pack is loaded with many skills that your soon-to-be second graders can practice over the summer so that they are...Ready-Made for Second Grade!This 72-page packet includes:a summer journal with several writing promptsdaily practice pages al

Subjects:

Creative Writing, English Language Arts, Summer

Grades:

1st

Types:

Activities, Homework, For Parents

Wonder Novel Study Unit | Comprehension Questions with Activities and Tests

Created by

This 243 page book study for Wonder, by R.J. Palacio, contains comprehension by chapter, vocabulary challenges, creative standards-aligned reading response activities, assessments, free writing journal pages, and much more!You will find this complete literature unit to be teacher and student friendly. It contains a wide variety of question types, along with open-ended graphic organizers and unique activities, all carefully crafted for this particular story. Focus standards include figurative la

Subjects:

Grades:

3rd - 6th

Types:

CCSS:

RL.3.2