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Making Inferences for Nonfiction Informational Text

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Making Inferences for Nonfiction Informational Text. The focus of this strategy is to teach students how to make inferences from non-fiction text. This is an 11-page PDF slideshow that will have your students become Inference Detectives. This

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Reading Strategies

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th

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Lectures, PowerPoint Presentations, Lesson

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Reading Genres Interactive Notebook Page and PowerPoint

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Reading Genres Interactive Notebook Page and slideshow Here is a great reading interactive notebook activity to help your students learn the different genres in literature!Included is:-a 20 slide PDF slideshow about helping students select books to

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, ELA Test Prep

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th

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Activities, Graphic Organizers

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Point of View Activities Bundle for Upper Elementary Students

By Wise Guys

Teaching point of view can be difficult to do. This point of view activity bundle will help you successfully engage and educate your students while learning about first and third person point of view in a fun way. This high interest resource

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Reading Strategies

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th

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CCSS:

RL.3.6, RL.4.6, RL.5.6

$16.25

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Reading Stamina Strategy PowerPoint

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The focus of this strategy is to teach students how to build their reading stamina so they can read for longer periods of time. This is one of many interactive reading strategies created by Wise Guys that can be used right away in your classroom

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English Language Arts, Reading, Reading Strategies

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th

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Lectures, PowerPoint Presentations, Lesson

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Matching Author's Purpose to Structure of Text

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The focus of this strategy is to teach students how to match the author's purpose to the structure of the text. This is one of many interactive reading strategies created by Wise Guys that can be used right away in your classroom with your

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English Language Arts, Reading, Reading Strategies

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th

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Lectures, PowerPoint Presentations, Lesson

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Nonfiction Text Features PowerPoints for Upper Elementary

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Here are Common Core text features activities for informational text - nonfiction to use in your upper elementary classroom. Your third grade, fourth grade or fifth grade students will be engaged with the text features PowerPoints.The purpose of

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English Language Arts, Reading, Reading Strategies

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th

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Lectures, PowerPoint Presentations, Lesson

$5.00

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Classroom Magazine Comprehension Activities for Time or Scholastic News

By Wise Guys

Reading comprehension activities for classroom magazines (Scholastic News, Time For Kids, etc.). If you are like us, we've often struggled to get students excited about reading classroom magazines. So in an effort to raise the interest level and

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, For All Subject Areas

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th

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Activities, Handouts

$3.25

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Teaching Theme Activity for Upper Elementary Students

By Wise Guys

If you are looking for an engaging way to teach theme to your upper elementary students look no further! The focus of this activity is to teach students how to understand the theme in a story. It also helps students understand the difference between

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Reading Strategies

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th

Types:

Lectures, PowerPoint Presentations, Lesson

$4.00

$3.00

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Common Core Reading Literature Strageies Bundle

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Common Core Reading Literature Bundle of Strategies. This Common Core Reading Literature Strategies Super Bundle contains over 50 pages that will help you teach your students the following reading strategies: Inference Compare/Contrast Sequence of

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Literature

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th

Types:

Activities, Assessment, Centers

CCSS:

RL.3.1, RL.3.2, RL.3.3, RL.3.6, RL.3.9, RL.4.1, RL.4.2, RL.4.3, RL.4.6, RL.4.7, RL.4.9...

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Text to Text Connections

By Wise Guys

Teaching the reading strategy Text to Text Connections. The focus of this strategy is to teach students how to make text to text connections while reading. This is one of many interactive reading strategies created by Wise Guys that can be used

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Reading Strategies

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th

Types:

Lectures, PowerPoint Presentations, Lesson

$3.25

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Using Text Features to Comprehend Reading Strategy

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Using Text Features to Comprehend. The focus of this strategy is to teach students how to use text features to comprehend text. This is a 12-page PDF slideshow that contains descriptions of text features and some videos to go along with the

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Reading Strategies

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th

Types:

Lectures, PowerPoint Presentations, Lesson

$3.25

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Text Features and Making Predictions

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Text Features and Making Predictions. The 11 page PDF slide show is intended to help your students understand how to use text features to help make predictions. This is one of many interactive reading strategies created by Wise Guys that can be

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Reading Strategies

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th

Types:

Lectures, PowerPoint Presentations, Lesson

$3.00

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Theme Reading Strategies Bundle

By Wise Guys

This is a Theme Reading Strategies Bundle. The focus of this strategy is to teach students about theme and the different types of themes in literature. You will receive six reading strategy resources that are great to use with your students. This is

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Reading Strategies

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th

Types:

Lectures, PowerPoint Presentations, Lesson

CCSS:

RL.3.2, RL.4.2, RL.5.2

$16.50

$11.55

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Inference Common Core Reading Strategies Bundle

By Wise Guys

This is the most complete Inference Common Core Reading Strategies Bundle that you will find on TPT. The focus of this strategy is to teach students what an inference is and how to use inference in both literature and informational text. You will

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Reading Strategies

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th

Types:

Lectures, PowerPoint Presentations, Lesson

CCSS:

RL.3.1, RL.4.1, RL.5.1, RI.3.1, RI.4.1, RI.5.1, CCRA.R.1

$35.75

$25.02

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Text to Text Self and World Connections Bundle

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Text to Text Self and World Connections Reading Strategies Bundle. The focus of this strategy is to teach students about the different types of connections. You will receive six reading strategy resources that are great to use with your students.

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Reading Strategies

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th

Types:

Lectures, PowerPoint Presentations, Lesson

$15.75

$11.03

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Nonfiction Reading Strategy Cards (Informational Text)

By Wise Guys

Do you want your students to increase their comprehension of informational text? If so, then this resource will help! This resource includes two sets of 12 Informational Text Reading Strategy Cards that can be printed off and bound together, They

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Literature

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th

Types:

Activities, Assessment, Flash Cards

$3.25

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Pausing While Reading To Self Monitor Strategy PowerPoint

By Wise Guys

Pausing While Reading To Self Monitor Strategy PowerPoint The focus of this strategy is to teach students how to pause while reading to self monitor what they understand. This is one of many interactive reading strategies created by Wise Guys

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Reading Strategies

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th

Types:

Lectures, PowerPoint Presentations, Lesson

$3.25

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Character Development

By Wise Guys

Teaching the reading strategy Character Development. The focus of this strategy is to help students analyze the change and development of characters in stories. This is one of many interactive reading strategies created by Wise Guys that can be

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Reading Strategies

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th

Types:

Lectures, PowerPoint Presentations, Lesson

$3.25

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Understanding Characters Words Actions and Traits

By Wise Guys

Understanding Characters Words Actions and Traits. The focus of this strategy is to teach students how to understand how a character's words, actions, and traits can effect the plot in a fiction story. This is one of many interactive reading

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Reading Strategies

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th

Types:

Lectures, PowerPoint Presentations, Lesson

$3.25

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Main Idea and Details PowerPoint Activity

By Wise Guys

Main Idea and Details PowerPoint Activity. The focus of this strategy is to teach students about main ideas, details related to the main ideas, and how to summarize what they read. This is one of many interactive reading strategies created by Wise

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Reading Strategies

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th

Types:

Lectures, PowerPoint Presentations, Lesson

$3.25

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With a combined 40 years of teaching experience at the elementary and middle school levels, We, Wise Guys, have tried our very best to be at the forefront of creating engaging and useful resources that incorporate for many subject areas.

MY TEACHING STYLE

We, Wise Guys, believe in teaching to the whole child. We incorporate various teaching styles in the classroom that help all students learn. We try our very best to make our lessons fun and engaging for our students.

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MY OWN EDUCATIONAL HISTORY

Undergraduates of UW-La Crosse and UW-Eau Claire. Masters Graduates of UW-La Crosse and UW-Eau Claire.

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We both hold Masters Degrees in Education: Language Arts and Professional Development. Visit our blog below: http://creativecommoncoreclassroom.com/

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