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Free high school reading strategies centers
Music as Poetry Analysis Activity for Any Song - Digital and Print
Teaching students to analyze poetry can be challenging. This free resource uses pop culture music (almost any song of your choosing will work) to engage students in discussion about lyric poems. Song analysis activities make teaching poetry fun!ContentsThis song analysis activity is included in different versions:1. A condensed two-page graphic organizer 2. A 14 page resource with one question on each page so you can use them individually, with learning stations, or with gallery walksFormatsThi
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8th - 12th
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Also included in: Poetry Analysis Bundle: Engaging Games, Activities, and Writing Prompts
Phonics Activities for Older Students Reading Intervention SOR Dyslexia FREE
FREE! long -a sounds (vowels) phonics activities for older students. Get your students where they need to be in their reading. Struggling readers, dyslexic students and English language learners will gain confidence and reading fluency from this resource. Instructions included.This is a FREE bite-size sample. These passages are BRAND NEW and just released They focus on all spellings of long vowel sounds. You can get them here.These activities were created after my very successful phonics reading
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6th - 9th
Also included in: Phonics Puzzle Activities for Older Struggling Readers Special Education
Close Read and Annotation Bookmarks: Free!
Close Read and Annotation Bookmarks When we teach students how to read closely, we empower them to become independent learners, so it is appropriate that the K-12 Anchor Standards begin as follows:- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.1 Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text. These bookmarks can be printed five per page, back-to-back, and can t
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4th - 10th
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FREEBIE: Compare and Contrast Graphic Organizer
You will be downloading a graphic organizer to help students compare between two characters or two books.
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Grades:
K - 12th
End Punctuation Anchor Chart - FREE
Add this free end punctuation chart to your bulletin board collection, reading center, writing center, and so much more!
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PreK - 12th
THE HOLLOW Podcast Unit: October Lesson Plans + Activities, Middle School, ELA
Gen-Z Media's "The Hollow" podcast is fantastic to use for the month of October! This is a fantastic way to teach literary fiction, narrative, point of view, elements of a story, and to put in those reading strategies students have been practicing all year. This FREE unit will include:⭐ An introduction to podcasts to begin the unit⭐ Hyperlinks to PDF, Episode Lists and Read Aloud for the unit⭐ Sketchnotes/Doodle Sheets⭐ Exit Tickets focusing on: visualizing, inferring, making connections⭐ Compre
Grades:
5th - 12th
Main Idea & Details Autism Reading Visuals & Worksheets
Modified Main Idea & Details using Visuals, Visuals, Visuals!
This includes:
- Example Graphic Organizers
- Blank Graphic Organizers
- Multiple Choice Practice Worksheets
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PreK - 12th
Teach Characterization with Video Clips (Disney, Pixar, etc.)
By middle school, students should begin to develop skills in analyzing author craft. One of the easiest ways to introduce kids to the "craft moves" an author makes is through teaching characterization. The reality is that kids already understand this literary term on some level because they unconsciously pick up on all of the clues that an author or a text (be it book, movie, music video, or tv show) provides the audience. We inherently form judgements about characters as we engage with a text.T
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5th - 10th
Nonfiction Reading Strategies
These Nonfiction Reading Strategies are the perfect supplement to my Reading Comprehension Interactive Notebook Activities!
A great, ready to use resource to add to your daily curriculum! This product includes 10 nonfiction & informational text reading response resources that will help students analyze and comprehend difficult reading. Just chose which one works best for the reading you are teaching that day, print, and go! There is no additional prep needed! Could be incorporated in any su
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4th - 9th
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Also included in: Energy Interactive Notebook Read and Apply BUNDLE
Nonfiction Text Features {THIEVES}
THIEVES- STEAL INFORMATION FROM NON-FICTION
Students take a picture walk through a picture book to get an idea about what they will be reading about. It helps them become better readers. However, when they get to a non-fiction book, or text-book, they often stop taking a picture walk. {THIEVES} helps students steal Information from Non-Fiction as they discover the important parts of the text (text features).
THIEVES is an acronym for title, headings, introduction, every first sentence in a p
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2nd - 10th
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Free Language Arts Task Cards: Differentiation 3 Levels, Grades 4-8
Language Arts Small Group Task Cards: Grades 4, 5 and 6
Welcome to an easy way to implement differentiation into your lessons. Your students will find task cards as a refreshing way to review and use their critical thinking skills at their own pace.
Small Group Task cards are meant to stay in the classroom, emphasize the ELA common core standards, and to alleviate tedious seat work.
This set is highly appropriate for grades 4-6, to reinforce reading comprehension.
I shared these with my col
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4th - 9th
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Read and Do: Catapult Construction
This is a reading comprehension activity as well as a STEM project. This unit works well for students of all ages. Elementary students can construct the catapults. Middle school students and high school students can use this activity to examine math connection, explore engineering design process, promote student-driven learning, and have hands-on fun!Each student will need:•9 craft sticks•at least 5 rubber bands•a plastic spoon•marshmallow or other soft object.There is a colored version and a bl
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2nd - 12th
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WH Question Simple Passage (3 Levels) SPED / Autism
Simple Wh Question passage with 3 Multiple Choice Comprehension Questions.3 Differentiated Levels based on picture symbol text support.Answer Key Provided.
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PreK - 12th
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FREE - The Ice Cream Caper - A Mystery Inference Activity
Here is one mystery inference activity for FREE. If you like this one, be sure to check out my store for some more!
My students love to solve mysteries. I started to create mysteries that they could solve using reading and inferencing skills. They love it!
Grades:
4th - 12th
Podcast Recommendations
This freebie offers lists of some of my favorite podcasts! I have grouped them both by grade level and by genre. Goes all the way from kinder to high school!*Note: these are just suggestions. It really has to go with what you think your kids can handle. I recommend listening to a season first and deciding if it's the right fit for your class. (Basically I don't want you to be bummed because you liked one that wasn't in your grade level)
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K - 12th
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Also included in: Podcast Study Growing Bundle
Freebie! Fast Fluency Practice Non-Fiction: Fluency & Comprehension Gr 5-12
This resource is designed to help older students achieve reading fluency through low-level, grade appropriate, timed assessments – in as little as 10 minutes a day.I designed this program around the research of Hasbrouck, Glaser, Tindal and Hasbrouck that asserts that students are motived and gain reading fluency by reading and re-reading short passages – paired one-on-one with like-leveled peers. This resource addresses many levels of fluency and is naturally differentiated. I have also succes
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4th - 12th
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Also included in: BUNDLE - Reading Comprehension, Fluency and Phonics For Older Students
CLOSE Read Placemat
The CLOSE Read Strategy (11 X 17 placemat) is a metacognitive instructional procedure that uses the word close as an acronym and provides teachers and students with a brain friendly step by step guide to conducting a close read of complex text. The role of vocabulary and the strategies for determining the meanings of unknown words are foundational to the skill of conducting a close read and a priority in the Common Core State Standards for literacy. If students are expected to read at high lev
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3rd - 12th
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True Story of The 3 Little Pigs by Scieszka - Literary Skills with Picture Books
Picture books that can be used to teach literary skills to elementary, middle, or high school students. Just because they are in the older grades doesn't mean that picture books can't be a great resource on its own or as a paired passage.
This resource gives ways to use the picture book to teach:
1) Point of View
2) Characterization
3) Inference
4) Summarizing
5) Cause and Effect
6) Compare and Contrast
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7) Discussion Question
8) Extension STEM Activity
Be sure to follow in order to get
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4th - 10th
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Reading Goal & Rubric
Here is a great way to organize individual reading goals for your students. This goal sheet has a build in rubric for the teacher or student to use to track progress. It can be used during Cafe' conferencing, guided reading groups, or after administering a running record. Goal Ideas:
check for understanding
reread for fluency
look at the picture
get your mouth ready
crash through the word
look for chunks
cross check
use context clues, etc.
Grades:
K - 12th
Book Spines template or outline for student accountability
I wanted to keep my students accountable during Read to Self, so I created these cute book spines for them fill out each time they finish reading an independent book!There are 5 different sizes of books, and each one includes:- Title line- Author line- Summary lines- 4 stars for students to fill out their own ratingEnjoy!
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Grades:
K - 12th
FREEBIE Native American High Interest Low Level Reading Comprehension & Fluency
This is an eight page - sampler of my high interest low level reading comprehension and fluency resource for November | Native American Heritage Month : Native American High Interest Low Level Reading Comprehension +Fluency | GR.5-12These High Interest, Low Level reading comprehension and fluency passages are for grades 5-12. They are perfect for older struggling readers and are aligned with the middle school and high school CCSS for English Language Arts. The activities are Native American the
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4th - 12th
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Reading Response Comprehension Questions w/ Any Text Elements of Fiction Setting
Product DescriptionI developed these “Roll and Respond,” sheets as a fun way for students to stay focused and to make sure their Literature Circle Discussions were supported and focused. These pages are focused on the Elements of Fiction: Questions Focused on Setting . Editable through google, and perfect for Distance Learning. They work with any text (Novel) and the Reading Response pages are great for Literature Circles, Guided Reading Groups, Literacy Centers...etc. Students Roll a die, (lite
Grades:
3rd - 12th
Making Connections Strategy Focused Reading Response: Digital Learning Google
These Reading Response pages originated as bookmarks I would use as a weekly assignment for Literature Circles | Book Clubs. Click Here to learn more. Each product is strategy focused on either one of the active reading strategies, or an element of fiction. This product is editable through google drive, works great as a printable, or is perfect for distance learning and assigning through Google Classroom. This Download is based on the Active Reading Strategy: Making a Connection, or Connecting t
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3rd - 12th
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Making Connections While Reading: Text-Self, Text-Text, Text-World
Students use this form to organize their TEXT TO SELF, TEXT TO TEXT, and TEXT TO WORLD connections while reading. Use it with fiction or nonfiction, in any content area! Reading = Thinking!
Grades:
4th - 9th
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