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Literature pdfs for parents
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
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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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 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
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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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
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
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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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
Parent Resource- Fiction and Informational Questions to Ask Your Child
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
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K - 6th
It's Okay to Be Different Activity- Celebrating Similarities and Differences
It’s Okay to be Different (Todd Parr) extension activity. Use this activity to celebrate differences! NOTE: The book, It's Okay to be Different by Todd Parr enhances the lesson, but you can complete this activity without it.Your students will make their own class book page to celebrate differences and similarities. This activity is meant to be sent home for families to complete with their child, but could also be done in class. Each child will then have an opportunity to share his or her cla
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PreK - 2nd
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Parent Reading Tips
Great handout to give parents at meet the teacher, open house or conferences. Questions to help deeper their child's comprehension.
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2nd - 5th
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Independent Reading Parent Letter
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
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Independent Reading Bundle- Systems and Strategies for Middle School
Reading Lesson: Creating a Reading Habit with Tips, Sketch Notes, and Posters
Are your students compliant about independent reading during the day, but you don't necessarily see their enthusiasm spreading into the type of reading habit where they read for pleasure outside of class? The more time students spend reading, the more they know! Creating a reading habit that sticks can be challenging, but it's important that we allow students space to get to know themselves as readers and to prioritize their reading lives.RESOURCE CONTENTS1. Suggested Use2. Reading Habits Stude
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5th - 10th
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At Home Reading Comprehension Questions for Parents
This is a resource that you can send home to parents. In this packet, you will find questions for fiction and nonfiction books that parents can ask their students home. These questions will help parents see if their child understands what they are reading. All of the questions for 1st-3rd grade are aligned with the ELA Common Core Standards.
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1st - 3rd
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Guided Reading Leveled Book List (C-P)
I created a book list for guided reading levels C through P. This handout will come in handy at open houses, parent teacher conferences, and for your classroom. Parents often don't know what types of books to get for their child. This list gives a variety of book options to buy or check out at the library. This past year, I gave this list to my students and their families and they now feel confident going to the library and checking out a "just right" book.
Kindergarteners should be readi
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PreK - 3rd
Adventures of Tom Sawyer: Obsolete Vocabulary, Slang Translations, Word Search
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer contains so much obsolete, colloquial, and archaic vocabulary that students and teachers may shy away from reading it. What's a body to do when stumbling upon the "white alley", "Old Scratch", or the dreaded "bully taw" in the early chapters of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" with no context clue in sight? Using this product, students quickly check meanings to obsolete expressions, and colloquialisms, while still leaving enough room for vocabulary instruction from the
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6th - 10th
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Also included in: Tom Sawyer and Treasure Island Discount Bundled Translator Package
3rd Grade Anchor Charts ~ RL and RI standards
Need to "Anchor" their learning in ELA? This set will save you time, and is cute to boot! Each standard is explained in a basic way, with graphics to support visual learners. I suggest using this as a “starting point” for your anchor charts. Students can glue the small anchor chart in their ELA notebook, and add their notes based on your class discussions, too. You can also attach the small anchor chart to assessments, or staple the corner to create a “flip-book” reference tool for studen
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3rd
Reading Log with parent signature
This reading log is to document home reading time, number of pages read, and includes a place for a parent signature.
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1st - 4th
Guided Reading Level Parent Letter
This set includes 5 parent letters to be used throughout the year to inform parents of guided reading levels. One is explaining what guided reading levels are and how F&P works, three are for first grade and one is blank and can be used for any grade or time of year! I use this letter to send home with parents after benchmark F&P testing to let them know what level their child is working on. It also shows them the current expected grade level so that they can compare their child's level
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K - 7th
Gingerbread Man retell craft | Gingerbread Man Art
Sequence the Gingerbread Man story in a fun way with a sequnce craft. This gingerbread boy/girl craft is perfect to hang or display on a bulletin board or in a hallway. It will also be a great craft to use to have your students retell the story and check for understanding. It will have them sequence the key events that happened in the story as well.Included are:*cover/credit pages*photos of product*sequence pictures*gingerbread boy or girl options*directions*all templates to complete craft♥ H
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K - 2nd
Reading Comprehension Questions for Any Book {Narrative and Informational Texts}
With the new emphasis on text-based questions, I find it very handy to have a set of question cards readily available for easy reference. This resource includes 28 text-based questions for narrative text and 32 text-based questions for informational text. This collection includes the questions that I find most useful for close reading, guided reading and whole group discussions. These open-ended questions are designed to be used with any text. I often have students select a question to use a
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1st - 4th
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Florida BEST Standards ELA Fourth Grade
Are you using the Florida B.E.S.T. ELA Standards with your fourth grade students? These I Can statement posters, vocabulary posters, parent newsletters, and bookmarks will make it much easier to communicate the Florida B.E.S.T. Standards to your 4th grade students and parents. The posters are ready to be displayed on bulletin boards and the newsletters provide additional tips and ideas to the parents. There are color and b/w copies of each standard. The newsletters are only in b/w so it will be
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4th
Also included in: Florida BEST Standards 4th Grade ELA and Math Bundle
Guided Reading Level Info for Families
As I aimed to create a balance between leveling my student's reading books and pushing them to read complex texts I found that their families often needed information about the "levels" and the differences. Guided Reading levels A-Z. I created these one page sheets that give examples of skills that readers at each level should focus on, a description of the text and an example of what the pages might look like.
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PreK - 6th
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