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Common Core SL.2.1 literature circles
Literature Circles - Book Clubs | Roles & Reflection Pages | Print and Digital
Literature Circles Adapted for Lower Elementary Grades: Literature Circles make the perfect Book Clubs and are an effective and engaging way to get students invested in reading and they align perfectly with the standards for speaking and listening!I like to think of Literature Circles as a structured book group. After explicit modeling, these groups can become independent. Each student takes on a role that rotates with each meeting. These roles include discussion director, illustrator, word
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1st - 4th
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Reading Comprehension Bookmarks Sentence Starters, Skills, Strategies Nonfiction
Need a simple-to-use tool to help your students remember the reading comprehension skills and reading strategies they need to succeed? These 24 reading comprehension bookmarks will help students practice reading strategies and skills with questions, prompts and sentence frames. Use the reading bookmarks as strategy references or to keep track of reading skills across multiple books or reading comprehension passages. These are great for English learners who are writing about what they read! Work
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2nd - 5th
Literature Circle Binder (Printable and Digital) | EDITABLE
This EDITABLE Literature Circle Binder is the perfect way to engage your students in deeper level thinking about a text! This binder can be used with ANY GRADE LEVEL!THIS PRODUCT INCLUDES:â– Printable version of the binderâ– Digital Google Slides version of the binder (ready to assign to students)â– Editable Google Slides template (for teacher changes)â– Editable text (change the text, font, size, and color)â– Multi-page product info guideâ– Tutorial videoWATCH THIS VIDEO TO SEE HOW I USE THIS BINDER
Grades:
1st - 5th
Accountable Talk Posters | Academic Language Sentence Stems
Looking for a way to support your student's academic discourse? The Accountable Talk Posters for Academic Language Sentence Stems! This handy set gives students everything they need to participate in deep partner and class discussions through academic discourse with sentence stems.The Accountable Talk Classroom Posters are perfect for ALL students, including English Language Learners, with the use of academic language sentence stems. With clear and concise visuals, these posters provide an excel
Grades:
1st - 4th
Also included in:Â Back to School Classroom Setup - Beginning of Year Materials & Forms
Stellaluna Bats Read Aloud - Halloween Bat Crafts - Bats Reading Comprehension
Are you looking for Stellaluna Bat Activities for Sequencing and Retelling the story, and teaching Character Traits? This is a DIFFERENTIATED Halloween/October Bat Read Aloud for Stellaluna. The Bat reading activities include with this Interactive Read Aloud are lesson plans, bat, posters, vocabulary and comprehension worksheets, graphic organizers, and MORE!This book companion on bats uses the book Stellaluna to provide you with teaching and practice lessons and activities to build reading comp
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K - 3rd
Academic Conversation Placemats
Get your students talking about text! Building students’ knowledge of academic language is essential for academic success. These Academic Conversation Placemats use sentence frames to encourage students to speak in complete sentences with varying degrees of grammatical complexity. These placemats were created to be used with both fiction and non-fiction text. They promote discussion around text, which research shows increases reading comprehension. Each placemat begins with having students prepa
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1st - 3rd
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Also included in:Â The Ultimate Text Talk Bundle
CALDECOTT BOOK ACTIVITIES BUNDLE Literature Extensions Critical Thinking GATE
Story Sleuths I, II, and III Bundle delivers 3 products at 20% savings. You will receive 12 weeks of clues for the Story Sleuth challenge; an enrichment unit using Caldecott Award winning books to cultivate critical thinking. Your students will use text features, illustrations, and context to determine which book is described by the set of clues. By involving your students in this project, you will exercise their deductive reasoning, analysis, evaluation, and problem solving skills. This unit is
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K - 4th
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Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney
This book study was created to accompany the book Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney. All the activities were designed to encourage students to read closely and think critically about the text.
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The following activities are included:
• Comprehension Strips: Comprehension strips allow students to practice returning to a text to find key information to answer specific questions. They are a fun alternative to a traditional question and answer worksheet and can be used as an individual or part
Grades:
1st - 3rd
Accountable Talk Collaborative Conversation FlipBook
This collaborative conversation flip book is a great tool for students to use during small group discussions! It can also be a resource to send home with parents to support at home. The flip book style allows students to focus on the sentence starters they need to support what they want to say instead of becoming overwhelmed by too many words on a page!I use a small binder ring to attach the flip book pages together. This allows students to easily flip through the pages during a discussion, whil
Grades:
K - 5th
Miss Rumphius Complete Literature Study
This Miss Rumphius Complete Literature Study was created to accompany the book Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney. The activities are designed to encourage students to read closely and think critically about the text. This delightful picture book is a great way to introduce students to philosophical thinking! Ideal for whole class teaching or small group instruction, this resource is packed full of engaging activities! Click here to check out the FREE complementary 10 question Miss Rumphius Comp
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1st - 3rd
Georgia O'Keefe Art Lesson Flowers K-4th grade Art History
This lesson plan introduces your students to Artist Georgia O’Keefe. The lesson is perfect for Pre-K through 4thd grade. Students will have the opportunity to create with watercolor paint. The lesson will invite the child to create a beautiful unique art piece inspired by Georgia O'Keefe's wonderful flowers and her body of work. You can use this lesson in the following ways:a unit on the art of Georgia O’Keefea 30 minute sub plan a unit on watercolor painta introduction to the many ways artists
Grades:
K - 3rd
Reading and Writing Partner Wheel Bundle - Editable!
Do your reading and writing partnerships need support? Do your students need to have more higher order thinking questions? Try out these fun wheels! This resource is best used to help your Reader’s and Writer's Workshop partnerships succeed! They easily guide your students in engaging questions for their partners. I have included a variety of spinners to do this with.Includes 8 Reading Wheels and 5 Writing Wheels + Editable WheelsReading Wheels:The first spinner helps partners to decide which wa
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Grades:
K - 3rd
I Survived THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, 1776 Discussion Cards (Answer Key Included)
Rationale for using Discussion Cards:This strategy is powerful in giving students opportunities to work together in mixed-ability, student-led groups. Lower level students benefit from listening to higher level students respond to questions. Higher level students are challenged to express their thinking in a way that helps lower level students comprehend the material.Discussions are guided by students’ responses to what they have read. This approach provides a way for students to engage in criti
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2nd - 4th
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Also included in:Â I SURVIVED Series by Lauren Tarshis - Discussion Card Bundle (W/Answer Keys)
TALES OF A FOURTH GRADE NOTHING Blume - Discussion Cards (Answer Key Included)
Answer Key Included! Rationale for using Discussion Cards:Discussions are guided by students’ responses to what they have read. This approach provides a way for students to engage in critical thinking and reflection as they read, discuss, and respond to books. Collaboration is at the heart of this approach. Students reshape and add to their understanding as they construct meaning with other readers. The Discussion Cards have questions from each chapter prompting students to cite evidence from t
Grades:
2nd - 4th
I Survived HURRICANE KATRINA, 2005 - Discussion Cards (Answer Key Included)
Rationale for using Discussion Cards:Discussions are guided by students’ responses to what they have read. This approach provides a way for students to engage in critical thinking and reflection as they read, discuss, and respond to books. Collaboration is at the heart of this approach. Students reshape and add to their understanding as they construct meaning with other readers. The Discussion Cards have questions from each chapter prompting students to cite evidence from the text and take their
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2nd - 4th
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Also included in:Â I SURVIVED Series by Lauren Tarshis - Discussion Card Bundle (W/Answer Keys)
A BEAR NAMED TROUBLE Marion Dane Bauer - Discussion Cards (Answer Key Included)
Rationale for using Discussion Cards:This strategy is powerful in giving students opportunities to work together in mixed-ability, student-led groups. Lower level students benefit from listening to higher level students respond to questions. Higher level students are challenged to express their thinking in a way that helps lower level students comprehend the material.Discussions are guided by students’ responses to what they have read. This approach provides a way for students to engage in criti
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2nd - 4th
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The Day You Begin Book Activities Reading Comprehension Literacy Skills Activity
Teach multiple literacy skills with the The Day You Begin book by Jacqueline Woodson These comprehensive The Day You Begin activities reinforce reading comprehension skills and are ideal for elementary teachers who incorporate picture books into their reading lessons.With these The Day You Begin activities, your students will engage in:active and meaningful discussionschallenging but achievable activities suitable for different abilitiesmaking connections with their own experiencesplaying cut-an
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1st - 4th
Kindergarten & 1st Grade Interactive Read Alouds with Lesson Plans & Activities
Make your kindergarten and first grade reading activities interactive with these YEAR-LONG Interactive Read Aloud Activities. This DIFFERENTIATED Reading Comprehension Bundle includes daily lesson plans, comprehension questions, phonics, writing , crafts and integrates ALL subjects! These fictional and nonfictional reading and writing activities add excitement and include EVERYTHING you need! Each week you will use the DIFFERENTIATED Lesson Plans, Activities, Worksheets, Crafts, and Vocabulary
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K - 2nd
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CALDECOTT BOOK ACTIVITIES Story Sleuths I Literature Extention Critical Thinking
STORY SLEUTHS I is a 4 week, critical thinking project based on Caldecott Award winning books. Your students will use text features, illustrations, and context to determine which Caldecott Award winning book is described by the set of clues. By involving your students in this project, you will exercise their deductive reasoning, analysis, evaluation, and problem solving skills. This unit is CCSS aligned. Students also enjoy great literature, learn about artistic media, and participate in col
Grades:
K - 4th
SUPERFUDGE by Judy Blume - Discussion Cards (Answer Key Included)
I also have this product available in pencil/paper format.Rationale for using Discussion Cards:Discussions are guided by students’ responses to what they have read. This approach provides a way for students to engage in critical thinking and reflection as they read, discuss, and respond to books. Collaboration is at the heart of this approach. Students reshape and add to their understanding as they construct meaning with other readers. The Discussion Cards have questions from each chapter prompt
Grades:
2nd - 4th
Accountable Talk Language Frames (Student Cards)
These accountable talk language frames/prompts are great for students to use in partners, small groups, or whole class. They are excellent for teaching discourse across the curriculum.
This set contains 20 language frames. I made a red, black, and white set for possible wall display, a black and white version, and a blank version.
I also created a version that allows you to print and fold in the center to make a "talking tent" that can sit on a group table or desk.
These are great to
Grades:
K - 4th
Andrew Clements FRINDLE * Discussion Cards (Answer Key Included)
Rationale for using Discussion Cards:Discussions are guided by students’ responses to what they have read. This approach provides a way for students to engage in critical thinking and reflection as they read, discuss, and respond to books. Collaboration is at the heart of this approach. Students reshape and add to their understanding as they construct meaning with other readers. The Discussion Cards have questions from each chapter prompting students to cite evidence from the text and take their
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2nd - 5th
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Reading Partner Wheel for Reader's Workshop - Editable!
Do your reading partnerships need support? Do your students need to have more higher order thinking questions? Try out these fun wheels! This resource is best used to help your Reader’s Workshop partnerships succeed! They easily guide your students in engaging questions for their partners. I have included a variety of spinners to do this with.The first spinner helps partners to decide which way they will partner read. The second spinner helps partners to give compliments to each other. The first
Grades:
K - 3rd
Also included in:Â Reading and Writing Partner Wheel Bundle - Editable!
A to Z Mysteries THE ABSENT AUTHOR Discussion Cards (Answer Key Included)
Rationale for using Discussion Cards:Discussions are guided by students’ responses to what they have read. This approach provides a way for students to engage in critical thinking and reflection as they read, discuss, and respond to books. Collaboration is at the heart of this approach. Students reshape and add to their understanding as they construct meaning with other readers. The Discussion Cards have questions from each chapter prompting students to cite evidence from the text and take their
Grades:
2nd - 4th
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