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Free informational text games
I SPY Nonfiction Text Features
Looking for a fun, engaging activity to give your students the opportunity to explore and identify nonfiction text features? I SPY Nonfiction Text Features allows them to do just that! Your students will spy on the nonfiction text features placed around the room (give them a magnifying glass to add a little novelty). When students get to a card, they will identify the nonfiction text feature on it. Then, they will find that text feature on their recording sheet and write the letter correspondin
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1st - 3rd
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Autumn Vocabulary Activities - Fall Riddles for Inference & Drawing Conclusions
These autumn vocabulary riddle activities are a fun and engaging way to model early comprehension skills. Solve a fall riddle each day to practice inference, identifying and answering key questions, and drawing conclusions.These riddles are a sample of the cards and activities in Autumn Vocabulary Riddles. Here's what the complete set includes!✅ 24 autumn riddle cards, printing at two per page✅ 24 picture/word answer cards✅ 24 sets of matching cards✅ The same 24 riddles in full-page format for y
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K - 2nd
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Also included in: Vocabulary Bundle - Spring, Summer, Autumn, & Winter Riddles
Main Idea Digital Escape Room
This digital escape room is more immersive and interactive than a Google Form! This escape room will help your students engage with the content they're reviewing and to have fun while they learn!The House on Murlow Street has a unique, engaging storyline that will have your students review main idea (as well as topic and supporting details) in order to escape from a spooky house at the end of their street.-----------------------------------------Escape Room Link:https://janicemyers.wixsite.com/e
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4th - 6th
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Veterans Day Reading Comprehension
This Veterans Day Reading Comprehension Bingo is an informational newspaper-style text perfect to teach your students about Veterans Day. The questions are offered in two versions: a bingo game and traditional multiple-choice/short response formatBingoBingo sheets are included, which have questions from the article. Students read the informational text about Veterans Day. Then, they answer questions on the bingo grid. The grid comes in 26 different versions. Having each student use a different v
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in: Reading Comprehension Bingo (Holiday Bundle)
Branches of Government Color by Number - Close Reading and Text Marking
Practice reading comprehension skills with this Branches of Government Color by Number Close Reading Activity. Students will examine the non-fiction, informational text multiple times. This activity includes TWO options for students (individual coloring page or group collaborative poster). Great addition to your U.S. Constitution or Civics and Government unit!Topics include: Branches of Government, U.S. Constitution, Legislative Branch, Executive Branch, Judicial Branch, President, Supreme Court
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4th - 5th
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CLOZE Reading Passages | MAZE Reading Comprehension Practice Freebie (2nd-3rd)
Looking for an engaging way for students to practice the DIBELS MAZE assessment? In this CLOZE comprehension activity freebie, students will use context clues to fill in the blank by selecting the best vocabulary word. These passages are a great addition to your reading centers, small group instruction, and can be used to help students practice for the MAZE assessments. A digital version is provided through Google Docs, where students will select the best answer choice using a dropdown menu. THI
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2nd - 3rd
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Non-Fiction Text Features Scavenger Hunt Game FREE
Text Features: Text Features FREE game contains 27 text features game cards and a game board to help students practice finding various text features in nonfiction text. This text features game works great as a pair/group activity, or for use in literacy centers.
To play this game, a player will select a time card and a text feature scavenger hunt card. In order to move his/her piece forward on the game board, the player must find an example of that text feature within the amount of time show
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2nd - 6th
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Winter Fact or Opinion Sorting Game
This is a winter themed sorting activity using fact and opinion statements. I love to use sorting games for guided reading, stations, or a quick check on skills. Enjoy!
Check out all of my winter resources here!
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K - 2nd
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Cause and Effect Partner Game....FREEBIE!
Have students practice the skill of cause and effect with this fun partner game! It it part of the larger CAUSE AND EFFECT FUN packet. CAUSE AND EFFECT FUN is jam packed with parter, small group, and independent activities.
Enjoy!
Grades:
2nd - 5th
Reading Game: FREE Test Prep Passage in Print and Digital with TpT Easel
This free reading game includes one nonfiction reading passage and six multiple-choice questions. My reading games can be used to help prepare upper elementary students for standardized reading tests in an engaging, fun way.This PDF contains a printable version of the game and a digital version (TpT Easel Activity). Each teacher can choose which format best meets the needs of his or her students.Detailed directions are included for how to play this game. For the print version, each player has a
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3rd - 6th
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Martin Luther King Jr. Fact and Opinion Writing Activities K-3
This resource was created to aid in teaching Common Core ELA Writing Standard(s) W.K.1, W.1.1, W.2.1, W.3.1 for Kindergarten through Third Grade. This pack includes a mini-lesson, graphic organizer, sorting activity for whole group and/or literacy work stations and templates for creating writing. Thank you for using my products.
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K - 3rd
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The Story of Thanksgiving from Two Perspectives
This Thanksgiving resource includes a turn-around upside-down book and a comprehension game.A turn-around upside-down book (also called a flipbook, a reversible book, or a two-in-one book) is a unique literary book with two distinct stories. When you start reading from the beginning, you immerse yourself in the captivating narrative of the first story. In this book, students will read about the Pilgrims. Once you reach the middle of the book, the adventure takes an exciting twist, prompting you
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3rd - 5th
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Nonfiction Comprehension Game
This nonfiction comprehension game is intended as a way to encourage discussion after students have read a nonfiction book either independently, in partners, or within a small group. It is a great way to revisit and review a piece of text.
Your students will roll a die and move that many spaces on the board. The student will then complete the comprehension task on the reference sheet that matches the picture he or she landed on. An independent "spinner" version of this game has been included,
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1st - 3rd
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Moon Unit With Non Fiction Text Features
I designed this as a thematic unit on the moon that also included second grade common core standards in literacy, math and language. The unit aligns with standards 2.RI.5, 2.RI.7, 2.L.1e, 2.NBT.5, 2.NBT.7
The packet includes...
1. Moon Book
2. Moon Read the Room
3. Moon Observation Journal
4. Adverb and Adjective Worksheets
5. Adverb and Adjective Sort Game
6. Moon Math and Alien Math Addition with Regrouping and Addition with Four Two Digit Numbers
7. Space Addition with Four Two Digit Number
Grades:
2nd - 3rd
How to Escape a Digital Breakout: Middle School Digital Escape Room
You and your friends have been captured by a crazy magician who is OBSESSED with riddles! He will not let you out of this room until you solve every puzzle, and you are running out of time!! You have one class period to break all the codes and escape this room. This resource is a digital escape room, a single website with several different types of clues hidden within it, and its purpose is to teach students HOW to navigate this type of website. I am offering this digital escape for FREE, becaus
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5th - 7th
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Roll a Question: A Reading Comprehension Game and Passage
Engage students in learning and make preparing for state testing fun! Using this functional text, students can play a dice game with a partner to review reading skills such as main idea, context clues, and drawing conclusions. Print a class set for students to play in a pairs or use the activity as a reading station. This is a great activity to use year after year.
Grades:
3rd - 5th
Text Structures Review Game
This freebie game activity is designed to go with our $3 TEXT STRUCTURES task cards build a chart about PIZZA
This is a "build a pizza game" intended to add a bit of fun while the students are demonstrating their knowledge of text structures.
This higher ordered thinking activity can be used whole group, independently, in small groups or with partners.
From a full-colored finished chart wall display, to a minimized copied set for individual notebooks, the possibilities are endless.
Add a bi
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4th - 8th
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The Grand Stand Objective Summary Game
If you want an engaging, common-core aligned way to have students objectively summarize ANY text, then look no further!
With this activity, students will be out of their seats, engaged, and provide a full list of summary information in just minutes.
This FREE PDF file contains all of the information that you will need to play The Grand Stand Game with your students.
I suggested that this game be used with grades 4 and up, but I believe that it can be adapted for even more grades!
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4th - 12th
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Primary and Secondary Sources (PowerPoint Presentation and Game)
This product contains a thorough PowerPoint Presentation on Primary and Secondary Sources. This presentation consists of nine slides and covers what primary and secondary sources are, as well as examples of primary and secondary sources.
There are also directions to a Primary and Secondary Source Game. It lists the objective, rules, and a few special notes. In addition to the instructions, there is a sheet with a list of sources that have already been identified as primary or secondary. Alt
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Text Features: English Language Arts Activity
This is an interactive text feature activity.
First, the teacher must cut apart the text features and the definitions so that they can be utilized for the activity.
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The teacher will show the students the definitions that match each text features on the board. The teacher will then match the definition with the feature. Ask for volunteers to match the remaining definitions on the board. Also, discuss text features as questions arise or as clarification is needed.
The
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3rd - 5th
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Sea Animal Trading Cards, Games, Activities and Projects
These Deep Sea Animal Trading Cards make a fun supplement to your ocean creature, sea life, or life science unit. The 10 creatures included in this set are the: Angler Fish, Ctenophore, Dumbo Octopus, Giant Squid, Goblin Shark, Nautilus, Oarfish, Pelican Eel, Sub-sea Hydrothermal Vent, and Tube Worms This product includes:10 Filled out cards: The front of each card features clipart of the animal along with its “Fast Stats” which are the top weight, length, lifespan and number of offspring of th
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2nd - 5th
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NGSS:
4-LS1-1
, 2-LS4-1
Also included in: Ocean Animal Trading Cards and Games Bundle
Text Feature Bingo
Text Feature Bingo is laid out like any other bingo card, except that it has a square for each of the text features that we have already been studying. Students will look in the nonfiction section for books containing those text features and will bring them to me to mark their card when they find one.
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2nd - 3rd
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CLOZE Reading Passages | MAZE Reading Comprehension Practice Freebie 2 (2nd-3rd)
Looking for an engaging way for students to practice the DIBELS MAZE assessment? In this CLOZE comprehension activity freebie, students will use context clues to fill in the blank by selecting the best vocabulary word. These passages are a great addition to your reading centers, small group instruction, and can be used to help students practice for the MAZE assessments. A digital version is provided through Google Docs, where students will select the best answer choice using a dropdown menu. THI
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2nd - 3rd
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OPA!! Level I: A Game of Greek and Latin Roots
First 100 Downloads - FREE!OPA!! In Greek, OPA means celebration, acceptance, joy,"the good life."OPA! is a game of Greek and Latin roots and is a cross between Uno and Scrabble. Students play combinations of prefixes, suffixes, and bases on "The Board" and work to be the first player to reach 300 points. OPA is a great way for students to play with words and reinforce Greek and Latin root meanings, spellings, and derivatives. Teachers: Print out the deck(s) with a color printer on paper or card
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5th - 10th
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