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5th grade reading unit plans for Easel Activities
American Civil War Reading Passages Worksheets Unit Causes Battles Maps Timeline
Make history come to life in your classroom with our Civil War Activities Complete Unit! Immerse your students into the American Civil War with this comprehensive collection of interactive activities, leveled reading passages, comprehension questions, and vocabulary posters. Step back in time as you teach your students about the events and people that were part of this crucial moment in history.Go Digital--A Digital Version of This Unit is Now Available:A DIGITAL version of this unit for Google
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3rd - 5th
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Greek and Latin Roots and Affixes Morphology Word Study Activities Week 2
This morphology unit will help build students' vocabulary with Greek and Latin roots and affixes. Students who have an expansive vocabulary will be able to read quickly and with more accuracy, as well as determine the meaning of unknown words. One way to build students' vocabulary and reading skills is through explicit instruction and word study activities with Greek and Latin roots and affixes. These weekly morphology word study activities focus on five Greek and Latin roots and/or affixes to h
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in: Root Words Worksheets Roots and Affixes Greek and Latin Roots
Informational Nonfiction Text Features Unit
Do your middle school students struggle reading informational texts? This Minimal Prep Unit is designed to help middle school students learn to identify and utilize informational text features to help them navigate through and deepen their understanding of a text. This text features unit is an excellent ELA back-to-school activity!Teachers often assume that students know how to use glossaries, headings, etc., but many times they don't. Explicit teaching of Informational Text Features is neces
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5th - 8th
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Morphology Activities Root Words Prefixes & Suffixes Roots & Affixes Worksheets
These morphology activities will help build students' vocabulary with Greek and Latin roots and affixes. Students who have an expansive vocabulary will be able to read quickly and with more accuracy, as well as determine the meaning of unknown words. One way to build students' vocabulary and reading skills is through explicit instruction and word study activities with Greek and Latin roots and affixes. These weekly morphology activities focus on five Greek and Latin roots and affixes to help stu
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in: Root Words Worksheets Roots and Affixes Greek and Latin Roots
Cause and Effect Texts for Teaching Text Structure
Cause and effect articles! This packet includes everything you need to introduce students to the text structure of cause and effect in expository texts. You'll find 11 texts with a wide variety of before, during, and after reading activities.Texts (text-dependent questions and activities included)What Is A Tsunami?Surviving the Winter Raising a Stink About StinkbugsThe Reason for a RainbowMysterious Milk Sickness Invasive Species Synthesizing Information activity Great Peshtigo FireWriting Sente
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4th - 6th
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Sound STEM Challenge Musical Instrument Engineering Design STEAM Activity Unit
This week-long STEM challenge integrates science and music lessons about sound, pitch, volume, and vibration. Students investigate properties of sound, use the engineering design process to build pitched and non-pitched musical instruments, and write, notate, and perform a short musical composition to demonstrate their understanding of pitch, volume, and vibration.A differentiated reading passage and quiz about the use of gourds as a material in traditional musical instruments will set the stage
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5th
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NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Class Dismissed by Allan Woodrow Literature Guide(w/Answer Key)
Class Dismissed is a high-interest novel for 4th and 5th grade girls and boys alike!
This novel study is not your run-of-the-mill vocab and questions packet! This novel study includes Pre-Reading, During Reading, and After Reading activities and can be tailored to fit the needs of your students. You can assign the entire packet, or pick and choose which activities best fit the needs of your class!
Included in this product is 83 pages (INCLUDES ANSWER KEY)
★Anticipation Guide
★Vocabulary
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4th - 6th
Generic Novel Study ANY Book Studies Summer School Activities 3rd Grade +
This NO PREP generic novel study guide can be used for ANY novel! I’ve included 16 worksheets to help students dive deeper into the book. This resource is ideal for 3rd – 6th grade students. Fellow educators say…⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Katherine B. said, “This is a fabulous set of activities that can be used with any novel. After teaching the activities and expectations once, they can be used over and over again for our independent work time. Thanks!”⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Maria C. said, "This is a great resource when y
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3rd - 6th
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The School Play Gary Soto Short Story Unit Reading Comprehension Cite Evidence
Looking for a short story unit that carefully guides your students to a deep understanding of "The School Play" by Gary Soto? This ready to print short story unit gives you everything you need to teach "The School Play" and will give your students plenty of practice citing textual evidence, determining and anaylzing theme, and writing about a text.In this unit, your students will cover numerous ELA standards in depth, progressing from literal comprehension through a full essay. You will have eve
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5th - 8th
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Greek and Latin Roots and Affixes Morphology Word Study Activities Week 3
This morphology unit will help build students' vocabulary with Greek and Latin roots and affixes. Students who have an expansive vocabulary will be able to read quickly and with more accuracy, as well as determine the meaning of unknown words. One way to build students' vocabulary and reading skills is through explicit instruction and word study activities with Greek and Latin roots and affixes. These weekly morphology word study activities focus on five Greek and Latin roots and/or affixes to h
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in: Root Words Worksheets Roots and Affixes Greek and Latin Roots
TANGERINE by Edward Bloor Literature Guide
Tangerine is a high-interest novel for middle grades girls and boys alike! This novel study is not your run-of-the-mill vocab and questions packet! Students will read each of the 3 parts of the book and have one page of activities to complete after each part. This is a comprehensive novel study, but does not take away the enjoyment of reading this great book! Included is one page of Pre-Reading activities, one page which follows Part 1, one page which follows Part 2, one page which follows P
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5th - 9th
Novel Study building Comprehension Reading Strategies using RESTART by G. Korman
RESTART by Gordon Korman is an engaging read that touches on themes of bullying, relationships, and friendships. This resource focuses on building reading comprehension skills using the book.This resource includes teacher information and lesson suggestions on the following comprehension skills along with a student workbook (printable and digital) with activities to practice each skill. The resource also includes 6 question pages of reading comprehension questions with answer keys. Each page cove
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3rd - 5th
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Unit Plan for Greystone Secrets The Strangers by Margaret Peterson Haddix
New York Times bestselling author Margaret Peterson Haddix takes readers on a thrilling adventure filled with mysteries and plot twists aplenty in this absorbing series about family and friendships. Perfect for fans ofA Wrinkle in Time and The City of Ember!What makes you you?The Greystone kids thought they knew. Chess has always been the protector over his younger siblings, Emma loves math, and Finn does what Finn does best—acting silly and being adored. They’ve been a happy family, just the th
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4th - 6th
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Fables Folktale Myth Unit
This unit is designed to be used with any folktale,
fable, or myth. It contains ELA common core aligned
activities to follow up each type of story. This unit also
contains a tall tale writing activity. This unit has been updated to include an extension activity to go along with comparing fables.
CC.3.RL # 1 -Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.
CC.3. RL # 2-Recount stories, including fables, folktales,
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2nd - 5th
Unit Plan for the First Rule of Punk by Celia C. Perez
After moving to a new city, twelve-year-old Malú inadvertently upsets Posada Middle School’s most popular student, violates the school’s dress code with her punk rock look, and disappoints her mom in the process. Her dad, who now lives a thousand miles away, says things will get better as long as she remembers the first rule of punk: be yourself. But being yourself isn't easy for Malu who struggles to feel like she can be the perfect senorita her mom wants her to be, and the punk she feels she i
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5th - 7th
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Genre Mastery Unit | Genre Lessons | Genre Posters | Reading Genre Activities
This unit is the perfect way to teach your students about genre. With several different engaging reading genre activities, genre posters, and genre interactive notebook pages, your students will master the concept of genre in just 5 days. Included in this unit:5-day pacing guide Genre postersGenre reading logGenre student bookletGenre sortGenre assessmentGenre interactive notebook STANDARDS:FOURTH GRADECCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.4.10: By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including s
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4th - 6th
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5th/6th/7th Grade Unit Plan for 90 Miles to Havana by Enrique Flores-Galbis
A beautifully written historical fiction story of Julian, a young boy from Cuba who is evacuated from Cuba as part of Operation Pedro Pan in 1961. Gripping, moving, and full of bravery, betrayal and growth. 90 Miles to Havana provides an inside look into the pain and challenges for these families.Winner of the 2011 Pura Belpré Honor Book for Narrative and a 2011 Bank Street Best Children’s Book of the Year. Unit plan includes:- Unit plan sequencing and pacing guide- 18 pages of Comprehension Que
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4th - 7th
Unit Plan for See You in the Cosmos by Jack Cheng
11-year-old Alex Petroski loves space and rockets, his mom, his brother, and his dog Carl Sagan—named for his hero, the real-life astronomer. All he wants is to launch his golden iPod into space the way Carl Sagan (the man, not the dog) launched his Golden Record on the Voyager spacecraft in 1977. From Colorado to New Mexico, Las Vegas to L.A., Alex records a journey on his iPod to show other lifeforms what life on earth, his earth, is like. But his destination keeps changing. And the funny, los
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5th - 8th
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Tuck Everlasting Activities Pages
Has your district adopted the model Race to the Top unit for Tuck Everlasting, published by the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education? Their model unit based on the Race to the Top Learning Standards is available for free online, however I found myself creating student friendly materials to support my instruction. ✅ Update: Teachers Pay Teachers has included a digital overlay. This means you can upload it directly to your Google Classroom from this site. Students can
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4th - 5th
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A complete unit for Vera Brosgol's graphic novel Anya's Ghost
There is a preview available here of some of the units pages, the preview is blurred however in the actual product it won't be.This is a complete unit for Vera Brosgol's graphic novel Anya's Ghost. This unit includes 58 comprehension questions with an answer guide (focusing on higher order thinking and visual literacy) breaking the novel into 8 chapters. It also includes 5 chapter activities. If you like this unit be sure to check out the rest of the graphic novels I sell products for.Be sure to
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5th - 12th
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Unit Plan for Shouting at the Rain by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
From the author of the New York Times bestseller Fish in a Tree comes a compelling story about perspective and learning to love the family you have.Delsie loves tracking the weather--lately, though, it seems the squalls are in her own life. She's always lived with her kindhearted Grammy, but now she's looking at their life with new eyes and wishing she could have a "regular family." Delsie observes other changes in the air, too--the most painful being a friend who's outgrown her. Luckily, she ha
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4th - 6th
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Orton-Gillingham OG Tutorials #1-10
Does your reading pedagogy include structured lessons in the Science of Reading?Start these OG lessons after your students have mastered their letter names, sounds, and can decode/encode CVCs with blends. The ten lessons in this set include:Welded sound -ng / -ing suffixWelded sound -nkZ FLoSS rule >> -ff and -ssZ FLoSS rule >> -ll and -zz-all says /all/-ck digraph is at the end of one-syllable words after a short vowel-dge digraph: no English word ends in J-tch digraphClosed Excep
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1st - 5th
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Also included in: The Big Orton Gillingham Bundle! All 50 Tutorial Lessons!
Unit Plan for Small Spaces by Katherine Arden
When eleven year old Ollie finds a disheveled, weeping woman by the river threatening to throw a book in the water, she doesn't think, she just acts- plucking the book from the woman's hands and running away with it. As Ollie begins to read, she finds herself entranced by a creepy tale, Small Spaces. Set on a farm hundreds of years earlier, it's about a girl, the two boys who loved her and a peculiar deal struck with the Smiling Man, a sinister specter who grants your most tightly held wish, but
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5th - 7th
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Evaluating Argumentative Text Mini-Unit
Teach your students to analyze and evaluate persuasive arguments in this mini-unit! As students read several articles about the debate on killing barred owls to save spotted owls, students will learn to identify and trace the central argument, claims, supporting evidence, and emotional appeals. They will also evaluate the effectiveness of each article based on its components.Students use annotations, color-coding, drawing, multiple-choice questions, and discussions with peers as the examine ea
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Argumentative Text and Research Project BUNDLE
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Interactive Phonics Activities
Use hands-on activities such as sorting, matching, or building words with manipulatives to help students recognize phonics patterns and learn word families.
Word Hunts
Encourage students to find specific words either in a text or around the classroom to help reinforce sight word recognition.
Reader's Theater
Bring short stories, books, poems, or plays you’re reading in class to life by assigning roles to students and having them act out scenes. This can help enhance fluency and comprehension.
Interactive Read-Alouds
Engage the class by pausing during read-alouds to discuss the story’s theme, reflect on a character’s motivations or actions, or to ask students questions.
Comparative Analysis
Explore different adaptations of the same story (book versus movie, classic version versus a modern retelling) to encourage analysis of interpretation and presentation. You can also pair texts that are similar in theme, like poems and songs.
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