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Critical thinking literature resources for parents
Summer Reading Activities 2023
This packet of summer reading activities includes: A Note On Summer ReadingSummer Reading List - Picture Books (30 Titles) - Color & BW - HyperlinkedSummer Reading List - Chapter Books (30 Titles) - Color & BW - HyperlinkedSummer Reading List - Blank (Fill in Your Own Titles)Walk A Mile In Someone Else's Shoes - Picture Books (30 Titles)Walk A Mile In Someone Else's Shoes - Chapter Books (30 Titles)Walk A Mile In Someone Else's Shoes - Choose Your Own The Taylor Swift Summer Reading Play
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K - 6th
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Literacy Night Open House Make and Take - Parent Involvement 3rd, 4th, 5th
Involve your upper elementary students and their parents with fun and simple projects they can use at home at your next Open House, Curriculum Evening, or Literacy Night! A Make-and-Take night gives them an immediate tool they can use at home to support essential literacy skills. Perfect for a diverse class in upper elementary, as it can be tailored to suit your school. In this packet, I walk you through the planning of a literacy event at your school, whether you are inviting just your class, o
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3rd - 5th, Staff
Back to School Bulletin Board The Kissing Hand Craft Back to School Activities
The Kissing Hand is a classic read aloud for back to school time each year. These low-prep crafts are an adorable way to make students feel welcome in the classroom after reading The Kissing Hand by Audrey Penn. Create a hand print and poem for each child and let them take their crafts and reader home to share with their families.Includes THREE activities:Raccoon craft: comes in color and black-and-white, and in two different sizes to create an adorable back-to-school bulletin boardHand print po
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PreK - 1st
Bucket Filler Activities Bucket Filling Crown Craft Kindness Month Activities
Everyone loves being a good bucket filler. Read the story Have You Filled a Bucket Today? by Carol McCloud and give your students these fun crown crafts to complete. They will love learning about kindness and filling the buckets of others. Included in this download is:6 bucket filling crowns in color6 bucket filling crowns in black-and-whiteThere are four different crown wording selections to choose from: "I'm a bucket filler!", "I filled a bucket today!", "I'm filling buckets today!", and a b
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PreK - 2nd
Leveled Summer Reading Book Lists by Reading Level for K-2 Parents & Students
Need information about reading to share with Kindergarten, 1st grade, or 2nd grade families during parent conferences? Or to send home with report cards? Or just want to encourage independent reading during Winter or Summer Break?? This is what I use!This product includes:•Informational handout for families: “What Are Just-Right Books?”•16 leveled book lists for primary students in Kindergarten, 1st or 2nd grade (Levels A-P)Important Notes:•These lists are appropriate for primary students in K-2
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PreK - 2nd
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Family Literacy Night ~ Camp Read-A-Lot
This is a resource perfect for those schools that celebrate Read Across America Day or March is Reading Month. The theme is camping related, so it really can be used any time throughout the year. Your school will transformed into a campground, an exciting place where reading and writing magic happens! Everything you need to carry out an inspiring, interactive, and academic event is included! You'll receive resources for your families attending the event and staff that are helping to run the
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K - 4th
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Reading Level Guide for Parents - Bundle of Levels A - Z
Encourage reading every night by sending this guide home to parents throughout the school year. Parents want to help their students, but many don't know the things to say and ask their child throughout reading time! This handout serves as an outline of what some effective, higher - order prompts might look like. All of the prompts are based off my experience teaching reading skills and behaviors to students (and explaining these expectations to parents) and the Fountas & Pinnell Continuum of
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K - 5th
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3rd Grade Parent Handouts Bundle Common Core Parent Helpers
This is a BUNDLE of all of my 3rd 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
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3rd
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Student Self Reflection & Evaluation | Conferences & Report Cards
This student self reflection resource is an excellent way for your students to evaluate their learning to share during student led and parent teacher conferences. It can be used for any reporting period to converse with your students about their successes and ways in which they can improve. The activity can be used for in person instruction as well as assigned digitally to share in an online portfolio.May be used as a printable resource or assigned on Google Classroom with your students.Resourc
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4th - 8th
Reading Comprehension Questions (Fountas and Pinnell Correlated by Level)
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,
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K - 6th
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Leveled Book Lists for Elementary School (for Teachers and Parents)
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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K - 6th
Comprehension Bookmarks for Reading Genres
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
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in: Genre Posters, Reading Passages, and Activities Bundle
Australian Animals Craft BUNDLE goes well with Possum Magic
Bundle of Craft: This resource includes both our very popular craft activities in one bundle. This bundle includes low prep craft for:1. Possum (great to use with the book Possum Magic)2. Koala3. Echidna4. Kangaroo5. WombatSuggested books to go with this craft.* Possum Magic* A is for Australia* A is for Australian Animals* Possum Goes to School* E is for Echidna* Koala Lou* Diary of a Wombat* Wombat StewThese resource are included in this pack or can be purchased separatelyAustralian Animal Cra
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PreK - 1st
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High School reading comprehension, Socratic Seminar, Annotation, ela High School
High School reading comprehension, Socratic Seminar, Annotation, ela High SchoolReady to revolutionize the way your students learn? Tired of battling plagiarism and quick-fix essay generators like ChatGPT? We've got the solution!Introducing innovative Socratic Seminar, Annotation, and Visual Essay tools - designed specifically for ELA middle and high school students.⭐Reduce cheating and plagiarism⭐Spend less time marking essays and more time giving helpful feedback⭐Capture students’ ideas more e
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Color Monster Clipart (Based on book) | Clipart del Monstruo de Colores
Color Monster Clipart to create your own resources (free or for commercial use!). Included are 28 different images in PNG of Ana Llenas Color Monster.Includes 2 monsters of each color, the girl (Nuna) with her emotions and the empty and colored jars.Inside the folders you will find: 28 Color images with transparent background23 Black and white images with transparent backgroundThese illustrations are based on the story and made with great care, the quality is excellent and they are useful for yo
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PreK - 4th
Guided Reading Grade Leveled Book Lists
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
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K - 6th
5 Finger Retell
Being able to retell a story with key details supports the work of the Common Core! This product is sure to do the job by providing visual scaffolds!Here's What's Included:6 posters; 2 light-skinned, 2 dark-skinned, 2 black-lined-all left, and right handsBookmarks that match posters with visuals2 sizes of bookmarks1 five finger retell worksheet-editable template to use as a word bank or for kids to retell the story in pictures**********************************************************************
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PreK - 2nd
THE COMPLETE MAUS | MAUS I & II BUNDLE | TEACHER NOTES, TEST, GRAPHIC NOVEL
THE COMPLETE MAUS | MAUS I & II BUNDLE | TEACHER NOTES, TEST, GRAPHIC NOVELWhat teachers are saying:My students LOVED doing the project ideas that were in this resource. I also really appreciated the tests as they were all around engaging and asked questions that had a variety of Bloom's Taxonomy associated with them. One of the best resources I have found for these novels. Thank you so much!PRINT AND DIGITAL!❤️❤️THIS BUNDLED PRODUCT ON MAUS I AND II IS DISCOUNTED BY OVER 20%! ❤️❤️I teach Ma
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Reading Questions for Parents Hooray! {Great for Open House and Conferences!}
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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K - 6th
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Stranger Danger Story - Social skills Narrative
Stranger Danger StoryThis Social skill support is a small book highlighting the danger of strangers and what not to do.A Stranger Danger work sheet is part of this unit.These small books can be laminate for durability and read to or with your pupils.Be first to see new products I upload by clicking the green star next to my store to becoming a follower…. This will enable you to be updated on some great new products!Thank you so much for looking!The Picture Communication Symbols ©1981–2011 by Dyn
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PreK - 5th
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Also included in: Social Skills Narratives, A BUNDLE OF STORIES for Autism/Special Needs
McGraw Hill Wonders First Grade Practice Unit 6 Weeks 1-5
McGraw Hill 1st Grade Reading Wonders Practice Unit 6 compliments my favorite reading program. This practice will also be beneficial with any reading your student does. It is easy to duplicate, use in the classroom or send home for homework.PhonicsEach page has the phonics skill at the top of the page and words that apply that skill to practice words. Also on the page are the week’s “Words to Know” (sight words).Passage ReadingAt the bottom of the page is a little story that uses the words from
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1st - 2nd
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Also included in: 1st Grade Wonders Compatible Reading Bundle for Unit 6
Library Book Check-out Letter for Kindergarten {editable}
This is a letter to send home with kindergarten or other young students when they check-out their 1st book! It encourages parents to talk with their student(s) about book care, and outlines expectations for checking out new books.------------------------------------------------------------------------------You may also like:• LIBRARY HELPER Checklist {Editable Word DOC Template}• WOODLAND FOREST Behavior Clip Chart Behavior Management System {Editable}• NAUTICAL Hall Passes Lanyards {EDITABLE}--
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PreK - 1st
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Reading Level Guide for Parents - Levels A - M
Encourage reading every night by sending this guide home to parents throughout the school year. Parents want to help their students, but many don't know the things to say and ask their child throughout reading time! This handout serves as an outline of what some effective, higher - order prompts might look like. All of the prompts are based off my experience teaching reading skills and behaviors to students (and explaining these expectations to parents) and the Fountas & Pinnell Continuum of
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K - 2nd
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Also included in: Reading Level Guide for Parents - Bundle of Levels A - Z
Behavior Reflection Sheet
We use this in our first grade class to help students understand the consequences of their actions. They "Stop and Reflect" in order to make a better choice the next time.
*I have recently updated the document to include a middle grade version for 3-5 with more grade appropriate wording and formatting!
After it is completed, fold in half to keep private. The student signs it, the teacher signs it, then it goes home for the parent to sign.
It has helped our parent communication immensely to
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PreK - 5th
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