5th grade literature resources for Microsoft OneDrive and for parents

Teaching Myths, Legends, Fables and Fairy Tales? This PowerPoint helps you teach folktales and traditional tales, like myths and fables, legends and tall tales, and fairy tales. The slides discuss differences between myths and legends, tall tales, fables, and fairy tales, and helps students understand the characteristics of each type of story. This digital resource works well for remote learning and in-person learning. It is a good resource for your oral tradition unit. Examples of famous tales

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PowerPoint Presentations, Lesson

Grades:

5th - 7th

Types:

CCSS:

RL.5.9

, RL.6.9

Also included in: Fairy Tales Resource Bundle

Letters to Books: A meaningful way to reflect on themes for ANY book

Created by

Building Book Love

This end-of-reading activity gives students a chance to reflect on how a book or story affected their lives in a meaningful way. Students choose from 10 different letter templates to help form positive reflections on themes, morals, and messages of books. You can project these templates and have students hand write their letters, you can print zen doodle stationery for them to write on, or you can have students type their letters in colorful stationery using Google or Microsoft classrooms. The w

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Grades:

5th - 12th

Types:

Activities

Leveled Book Lists for Elementary School (for Teachers and Parents)

Created by

Jennifer McCann

Many elementary classrooms now give students text level assessments to determine their reading instructional, independent, and frustration levels. Once this is done, it is important that students are making good book choices and not just reading books that are extremely easy or too hard. These leveled lists suggest titles at each level that can be found at local libraries. Since there are so many different leveling systems for books, these suggested lists become very important for parents try

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Guided Reading Books, Printables, For Parents

Grades:

K - 6th

Types:

CCSS:

RL.K.10

, RL.1.10

, RL.2.10

, RL.3.10

, RL.4.10

...

Reading Comprehension Questions (Fountas and Pinnell Correlated by Level)

Created by

Ms P in Primary

Looking for reading comprehension questions by level to help your classroom parents or yourself support student comprehension? Look no further!The resource EVERY reading teacher needs at hand!! Parent or Teacher Resource for Comprehension Questioning!Need a quick one pager to encourage parents (or help yourself) to easily prompt student discussion after reading? Look no further! This is a full set of prompts for both fiction and nonfiction books for Fountas and Pinnell levels A-Z by bands (A-D,

Subjects:

Informational Text, Literature, Reading

Grades:

K - 6th

Types:

Handouts, Printables, For Parents

Comprehension Bookmarks for Reading Genres

Created by

The Stellar Teacher Company

Are you looking for another tool to help teach your students all about genre? These 24 reading genre bookmarks are a great companion for independent reading, book clubs, or to send home with your students. This resource also includes a digital version created using Google Slides. Each book mark focuses on a specific reading genre.On the front of each bookmark...Students see a visual that reminds them of each genreThere is a student friendly definition of each genreThere is a list of attributes f

Subjects:

Informational Text, Literature, Reading

Grades:

3rd - 5th

Types:

Handouts, Printables, For Parents

Also included in: Genre Posters, Reading Passages, and Activities Bundle

Guided Reading Grade Leveled Book Lists

Created by

The Literacy Garden

Would you like to know which guided reading levels match which grade level? Popular book titles are organized by their guided reading grade levels according to the Fountas Pinnell leveled system. This resource is helpful for choosing books for instruction, independent reading time, and helping at parent-teacher conferences.Also, at the end of the school year, you can provide appropriate lists as a reference tool for summer reading!How Does This Help You?Parents and students have a guide to help

Subjects:

Classroom Management, Literature, Reading

Grades:

K - 6th

Types:

Guided Reading Books, Classroom Forms, For Parents

Opinion Writing: Paragraph Writing for the Digital Classroom

Created by

Mercedes Hutchens

This Google Slides Resource works well for Distance Learning. Digital graphic organizers take students through the process of writing an opinion paragraph. The opinion writing prompts are organized into 5 Google Slide Decks. One deck has a blank for the prompt allowing you to edit the prompt to be anything you'd like.This resource contains:*a teacher PDF download with a link to click for the digital resource*a digital teacher's manual in Google Classroom*5 Google Slides resources for each of y

Subjects:

EFL - ESL - ELD, Literature, Writing

Grades:

2nd - 5th

Types:

Graphic Organizers

CCSS:

W.2.1

, W.3.1

, W.4.1

, W.5.1

, W.5.1a

...

Story Elements of a Fairy Tale PowerPoint and Printable Reading Activity

Created by

English Language Arts, Literature, Short Stories

Fairy Tales PowerPoint will introduce your students to the main characteristics and story elements of fairy tales, such as magic, royalty, characters, lessons and more. Animated slides will engage your students. I use this presentation to introduce a unit on fairy tales. Review slides at the end with answer key. Then have students do the reading activity with my printable Elements of Fairy Tales chart (included on the last page). Have them read several fairy tales (I assign at least 5) and let

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Grades:

3rd - 6th

Types:

CCSS:

CCRA.R.3

, CCRA.R.5

Also included in: Fairy Tales Resource Bundle

The Cay PowerPoint Introduction

Created by

The Cay Introduction PowerPoint is an engaging and interactive preview of The Cay by Theodore Taylor. If you are reading The Cay, this digital resource introduces students to the setting, characters, plot, theme and vocabulary, and builds background knowledge needed to comprehend the book. Great book for hurricane season. Students can discuss with partners how they would survive on a desert island in severe weather. They can also write about this and share with each other. Then discuss how dif

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Grades:

4th - 7th

Types:

Balanced Literacy, Literature, Reading Strategies

CCSS:

RL.5.1

, RL.5.2

, RL.5.3

, RL.5.4

, RL.5.5

...

Also included in: The Cay by Theodore Taylor Bundle - Novel Unit

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!

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Grades:

K - 6th

Types:

Handouts, For Parents

Where the Red Fern Grows Introduction PowerPoint

Created by

Where The Red Fern Grows Introduction PowerPoint Presentation. Introduce the novel by Wilson Rawls with this digital resource. Photos of red ferns, redbone coon hounds, raccoons, notes about the book, characters, setting, author, and theme notes are included, along with pictures of items from the time period and a preview of the Where the Red Fern Grows movies that were made from the book. Use PowerPoints like this in Zoom or videoconferencing for remote teaching and virtual learning. Share with

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Grades:

5th - 7th

Types:

Thrifty in Third Grade by Cassie Smith

CCSS:

RL.5.2

, RL.5.4

, RL.5.10

, RL.6.2

, RL.6.4

...

Also included in: Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls Bundle

5th Grade Parent Handouts Bundle Common Core Parent Helpers

Created by

This is a BUNDLE of all of my 5th Grade Common Core Parent Helpers. Parent Helpers are a resource to send home to parents when you are teaching certain standards. They offer ways parents can support their children, challenge their children, vocabulary terms, sample problems, and a clear explanation of the objective. This product also includes a Spanish version so you can communicate with Spanish speaking parents as well!What's Included:Math Parent HandoutsLiterature Parent HandoutsInformational

Subjects:

Informational Text, Literature, Math

Grades:

5th

Types:

CCSS:

...

Reading Literature and Informational Texts Mini Lessons and Activities Bundle

Created by

Just Add Students

PRINT & DIGITAL! Your whole year of mini lessons! No planning needed! You'll save tons of time by using these print and digital mini lessons to teach all your reading information texts and reading literature lessons! You'll have mentor texts, "I Can" statements, student activities, and lesson plans -- so you can spend more time helping your students and less time planning and searching for resources!Plus, you can use these lessons with any texts. You can scaffold, differentiate, work on

Subjects:

Close Reading, Informational Text, Literature

Grades:

5th - 7th

Types:

Printables

CCSS:

RL.6.1

, RL.6.2

, RL.6.3

, RL.6.4

, RL.6.5

...

Fables Teaching Theme Passages Character Plot Activities Readers Theater 3.2 4.2

Created by

Cherie Marie - Teaching with Intentionality

Teaching themes in literature using fables is one of the easiest approaches to helping students determine the messages in literature. MUST SEE PREVIEW.This resource is thoroughly and carefully planned out with guiding questions essential to students' success in determining theme (moral). Everything you need to engage your students in a close read is at your fingertips: from character and plot analysis, determining the message (moral), using context clues to determine the meaning of unknown wo

Subjects:

Literature, Tools for Common Core, Vocabulary

Grades:

3rd - 5th

CCSS:

Also included in: Fables Teaching Theme Literature Reading Passages Activities Readers Theater 3.2

Parent Resource- Fiction and Informational Questions to Ask Your Child

Created by

Real Reading Remedies

Higher Level Thinking Fiction and Informational Questions to Ask Your Child Bookmark - During parent teacher conferences, I have struggled with which resources to distribute to my above level readers. This resource has answered that question. Many parents no longer "check in" with their child after they become independent readers and as a result may not be aware of potential comprehension problems. This handy bookmark includes over 30 higher level thinking questions (both fiction and nonfi

Subjects:

Informational Text, Literature, Reading

Grades:

K - 6th

Types:

Printables, For Parents, Literature Circles

Parent Reading Tips

Created by

Courtney Alkek

Great handout to give parents at meet the teacher, open house or conferences. Questions to help deeper their child's comprehension.

Subjects:

Literature, Reading

Grades:

2nd - 5th

Types:

Handouts, For Parents

Independent Reading Parent Letter

Created by

RileyReadsYA

Worried that the books you recommend to students or have on your shelves might upset a parent or guardian? Take that stress off your plate with this Independent Reading Parent Letter! This parent "permission slip" has served me in my classroom for many years, so I decided to share it with you! It completely removes your responsibility to censor students' book choices, and instead puts the responsibility on the parent or guardian to monitor their child's book (with no penalty to the child if they

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Literature

Grades:

5th - 8th

Types:

For Parents

Also included in: Independent Reading Bundle- Systems and Strategies for Middle School

Digital Book Report and Poster Reading Activities and Challenges

Created by

Just Add Students

Go paperless with digital book reports -- they look like real notebooks! Use all year to keep your students reading. Your students will have fun creating book posters to accompany their digital book reports! This resource includes the digital book report and student directions for creating a digital book poster.Includes both editable PowerPoint and Google Slides.This editable digital book report includes pages for:⚬ basic book information and picture of the cover⚬ summary page⚬ character an

Subjects:

Critical Thinking, Literature, Reading

Grades:

4th - 7th

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations

CCSS:

RL.4.10

, RL.5.10

, RL.6.10

, RL.7.10

Also included in: Writing Activities for the Whole Year Digital Bundle

Mythology PowerPoint - What Everyone Should Know From A-Z with Easel Assessment

Created by

Ancient History, Literature, Reading

Mythology PowerPoint - What Everyone Should Know From A-Z PowerPoint and Easel Assessment. Slides on what is a myth, classical mythology, and the main characters and myths of Greek and Roman mythology. Photos of statues and ruins, coins and ancient art, as well as interesting facts about the gods, goddesses, and heroes of ancient Greece. Build background knowledge before starting any mythology unit. 69 informational slides, 50 question/answer slides, and 25 Easel Assessment pages.Includes inform

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Grades:

5th - 8th

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations, Assessment

CCSS:

RL.4.4

, RL.4.9

Peak by Roland Smith PowerPoint Introduction

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Peak by Roland Smith Introductory PowerPoint Presentation. 34 slides. This book is a fiction story about a boy who climbs Mt. Everest. The PowerPoint introduces students to the novel Peak by Roland Smith. Information about the author of the book, an overview of the plot, a list of main characters, slides on setting (the Woolworth building, Bangkok, Everest and base camp), themes, and a few important vocabulary words to get started. The last slide has students make a prediction about the book and

Subjects:

Literature, Reading

Grades:

5th - 8th

Types: