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Literature centers under $5
Determining Theme Puzzles | Printable and Digital Theme Activity
Is the skill of identifying theme tricky for your students? These puzzles offer an engaging and hands-on way to practice theme with short stories!Puzzles are not just for primary grades or math. These determining theme puzzles will not only allow your students to practice 4th/5th grade level theme skills, but they will also be engaged with the novel format.About the Theme ActivityThis reading center resource includes 18 theme puzzles to practice identifying the themes of fiction stories.The them
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4th - 5th
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Also included in: Reading Puzzles | 4th & 5th Grade Printable and Digital Reading Centers
Reading Genre Task Cards - Print & Google Apps & Self-Checking Easel - ELA
These 32 multiple-choice reading genres task cards have students determine which of 8 literary genres a passage is.WHAT’S INCLUDED:✍️ PRINT:32 Task Cards (prints 4 to a page)Black-lineColorRecording SheetsAnswer KeysDIGITAL:Google SlidesEasel Assessment - Self-CheckingDIFFERENTIATION OPTIONS:Digital or PrintChallenge Card to extend the lessonGreat for 3rd, 4th, or 5th grade! CHECK OUT THE PREVIEW TO SEE A LOT MORE! This resource is part of a money-saving bundle!This bundle includes these resourc
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3rd - 5th
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Wonder by R.J. Palacio: 22 Quizzes
Wonder is a phenomenal story of a brave, young boy who learns to accept himself for the wonderful person he is, not just what he looks like.Assess your students' comprehension of Wonder by R.J. Palacio as they read through the book with these 22 quizzes.Each quiz contains one short-response and three multiple-choice, higher-order-thinking questions about 4 to 6 chapters. NEW! This product now contains 10 more quiz questions that can be given after students finish the story! This end-of-book qu
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4th - 6th
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Also included in: Wonder Novel Study Bundle
Story Elements Task Cards
16 DIFFERENTIATED Half-Page Story Elements Task Cards! Each task card includes an original short story as well as open-ended question prompts for each story element including Characters, Setting, Problem, Key Events, and Solution.This resource includes the following formatting options:Half page task cardsFull-Page printable versions with lines for answersDIGITAL version via Google SlidesThese Story Elements Task Cards are differentiated for your convenience.The first set of task cards (16 cards
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3rd - 5th
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Ethos, Pathos, and Logos Rhetorical Appeals Sort : 50 Card Sorting Activity
Reinforce rhetorical appeals strategies of ethos, logos, and pathos with this fun and interactive sorting game. Take a break from worksheets! These 50 cards each have examples of arguments made with these persuasive strategies. Students will sort them into three categories: ETHOS, LOGOS, and PATHOS. You will want to use this student-centered activity for years to come! Before you buy...this product is part of a BUNDLE that will save you money.Included: 50 cards with ethos, logos, and pathos exam
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7th - 11th
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The Chocolate Touch Novel Study
If your students are reading The Chocolate Touch by Patrick Skene Catling, then this novel study is an excellent tool to guide them through the book! It's complete with comprehension questions, vocabulary work, graphic organizers, and a writing prompt to go with each chapter. After reading, they will get to complete engaging culminating activities! This novel study can be completed as a traditional packet or can be assigned to students digitally through TpT's digital activities feature! This is
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2nd - 4th
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Character Change and Development Task Cards
Engage your students in analyzing character change and development with these 16 half-page character change task cards! They have been carefully designed to help your students see how characters develop and change throughout the course of a story.Included in this resource:16 Half-Page Character Change and Development Task CardsFull-page version of stories for annotating and close readingGoogle Slides version for digital useAnswer Key and Recording SheetI created these task cards as a quick and e
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4th - 6th
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Also included in: Character Study Task Card Bundle
Jack and the Beanstalk Fairy Tale Activities Sequencing and Retelling Craft
My students really look forward to our Fairy Tale Unit. Among their favorite fairy tales is Jack and the Beanstalk. To help them sequence and retell the story, I designed this super-fun beanstalk craft.So that you can quickly and easily make an example to share, I’ve included full-color patterns, as well as the black & white ones for students. Before displaying, have students partner up, taking turns explaining what the setting is and who the characters are, then retelling the tale using the
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K - 2nd
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The True Story of the Three Little Pigs Readers Theater Script Point of View
Students of all ages enjoy “The True Story of the Three Little Pigs,” and will love performing this clever Readers’ Theater play which takes place after the story ends. This script lets your students practice fluency in a fun, engaging way. All you have to do is print and get started! It's perfect for small groups, short weeks in between units, or for sub plans.Play features the wolf, 1 pig, and 3 news reporters. Your students will laugh at the banter between the characters as the wolf tries, y
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3rd - 6th
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Halloween Craft | Room on the Broom | Witch | Writing & Retelling Activities
These adorable stick puppets were created to be a companion to the story "Room on the Broom" by Julia Donaldson.Story Retelling Puppets:Your students will love retelling this story with the story retelling puppets. Each student will color and cut out their puppets (a craft stick can be added to characters). They will glue the broom to a brown paper bag ... the characters can be stored in the bag when they are finished retelling.Magnetic Board Pieces:I have also included a set of characters in c
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PreK - 1st
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Your Fantastic Elastic Brain Activities Growth Mindset Read Aloud JoAnne Deak
Your Fantastic Elastic Brain Activities: Growth Mindset Lesson and WorksheetsAre you teaching your students about growth mindset? Your Fantastic Elastic Brain by JoAnn Deak is a perfect segue for teaching your students the power of growth mindset. Conceptually, these ideas are perfect for any level, but this literature unit was created for 3rd-6th graders in mind. I recommend starting the school year (or your growth mindset instruction) with material that teaches students about the brain. Th
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3rd - 6th
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Kinderbykim's I Love my Shoes retelling Packet
This pack includes 4 retelling activities to go along with Pete the Cat I Love My White Shoes and Pete the Cat Rocking in My School Shoes. This set includes two retelling crowns, one for I Love My Shoes and the other Rocking in My School Shoes, a mini book for practicing sight words and one to one word practice. A retelling craft and I love my school shoes photo template and name writing sheet. I hope your children have as much fun with these activities as mine do!Kimberly Jordano
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PreK - 1st
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Reading Comprehension Questions for Any Book Task Cards plus Google Digital
LIT SPARKS: These 65 reading response question cards (print or digital) for literature will help your students engage in meaningful and insightful discussions about the books they are reading. The cards address setting, characters, plot, theme, author's purpose, mood, tone and more. Students will need to use reading strategies such as inference, summarizing, comparing and contrasting etc. to dig deeper into the text.WHAT’S INCLUDED:✍️ PRINT:65 Task Cards (prints 4 to a page)Black-lineColorRecord
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3rd - 6th
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Types of Irony Sort : 50 Card Sorting Activity
Types of irony are sometimes tricky to teach. Use this fun and interactive sorting game to review and reinforce irony using examples from books and movies. Take a break from worksheets! These 50 cards each have examples of situations and scenes. Students will sort them into three categories: dramatic irony, situational irony, and verbal irony.You will want to use this student-centered activity for years to come! Included: 50 cards with dramatic irony, situational irony, and verbal irony examples
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6th - 9th
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EDITABLE Classroom Library Book Bin Labels | Bright Organization Decor
Organize your classroom library book bins with black and bright labels! These black and brights book bin labels are EDITABLE so you can customize your book bin labels for a classroom library. Just open the PowerPoint and add in your own library label text. This resource is for sale for $1 until the end of July 4th. Click here to see my other deal: Directed Drawing Task Cards!There are two black and bright design styles with six different editable templates provided for each style. Two designs ar
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2nd - 5th
If I Built a School Back to School READ ALOUD STEM™ Activity
Integrate STEM, Writing, and Literacy in your classroom!Engage students with a real world STEM activity where they learn about how engineering and architecture work. Students imagine what it would be like to design and build their own school!The Engineering Design Process:In this STEM activity, students receive instructions to imagine how they would build their own school. They follow the six step Engineering Design Process: Ask, Imagine, Plan, Create, Experiment, Improve. Connect to a Read Alou
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1st - 5th
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
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If You Give A Mouse A Cookie Activities: Sequencing & Retelling the Story Craft
Do you read ”If You Give A Mouse A Cookie?” by Laura Numeroff?It’s one of my kiddos' favorites and perfect for practicing the “sequencing and retelling a story” standards.With that in mind, I designed this quick, easy and fun Cookie Mouse “slider” craftivity, that will help your students retell the story in the proper order.There are several mouse options. I’ve included a large, full-page pattern for teachers, as well as a smaller, 2-on-a-page pattern for your students.Children color the story e
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PreK - 2nd
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Our Class is a Family Flipbook Craftivity Writing Activity Bulletin Board Idea
This writing flipbook craftivity for the book Our Class is a Family is perfect for back-to-school bulletin board display and classroom community building throughout the year. Your students will learn about love and inclusion by reading the story and making this craftivity flipbook. This Our Class is a Family Craftivity writing Activity Flipbook is super engaging and easy to use!It includes:2 different cover pages (one with the circle for students to draw/glue their picture and the other one does
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PreK - 3rd
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Also included in: Bulletin Board Idea Kits with Writing Activities Year Long Bundle
Fairy Tale Wanted Poster & Big Bad Wolf Compare / Contrast
To view my full 14 page Fairy Tale Compare and Contrast activity, click here
This is a fun activity to compare/contrast the Big Bad Wolf character in the fairy tales, "Little Red Riding Hood" & "The Three Little Pigs". You can also use the Wanted Poster for any fairy tale villain you are reading about with your class.
Included in this activity...
~ Wanted Poster for your fairy tale villain
~ Example of how to create a wanted poster for the Big Bad Wolf (Three Little Pigs)
~ Example of how
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K - 2nd
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Finding the Theme Games and Centers - Theme Sort, Mazes, and Writing Center
This resource contains 3 low prep theme center activities that help make reviewing theme easier on you and more fun for your students. These games are an engaging, hands on way to help your students be better able to find the theme of a text and to practice this difficult skill. This resource includes the following 3 theme games for upper elementary students - primarily 4th grade and 5th grade students, but 3rd graders that have been introduced to this skill would benefit as well. First Cent
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3rd - 5th
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Little Red Riding Hood Fairy Tale Craft Sequencing and Retelling Flip Booklet
This sly wolf booklet craft, will help students practice the sequence and retell a story standards of the “Little Red Riding Hood” fairy tale in a fun way. I purposely did not number the pages, so you can check reading comprehension. This also allows you to choose less pages for preschool students, who can easily sort beginning-middle-& end, then retell the story with a limited number of “picture prompts”. Simply run the wolf pattern off on construction paper or card stock. Students trim &a
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PreK - 1st
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Readers Theater 3 Little Pigs - Readers Theater Kindergarten Fairy Tales Script
This Readers' Theater Script for The Three Little Pigs is perfect for first grade and kindergarten readers theater. Kids love readers' theater fairy tales and this is a perfect story for beginning readers!Click here to save 20% by buying 5 first grade readers' theater scripts in the Folktale Bundle. This Readers' Theater is the perfect supplement to a class study of the The Three Little Pigs, folktales or even farm animals! It works great for shared reading or as a follow-up for guided reading.T
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K - 1st
The Very Hungry Caterpillar Activities Sequencing & Retelling Caterpillar Craft
“The Very Hungry Caterpillar” by Eric Carle, is one of my favorite spring stories and perfect for practicing the “sequencing and retelling a story” standards.With that in mind, I designed this quick, easy and fun caterpillar “slider” craftivity, that will help your students retell the story in the proper order.Teacher Comments:"Excellent resource that is fun and engaging for the students!""Cute activity for kinders!” “What a fun way for students to retell the story!""Great resource that is easy
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PreK - 2nd
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The Girl Who Never Made Mistakes Activities: Back to School Read Aloud
The Girl Who Never Made Mistakes Growth Mindset Literature Unit Companion:Are you teaching your students about growth mindset? The Girl Who Never Made Mistakes by Mark Pett and Gary Rubinstein is a perfect picture book for teachers who want to provide fun instruction on the role of failure and/or making mistakes in growth mindset and fixed mindset perspectives.Conceptually, these ideas are perfect for any level, but this literature unit was created with 2nd-6th graders in mind (2nd graders may
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2nd - 6th
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