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Presidents' Day african history literature circles
The Water Princess by Verde 19 Book Extension Activities NO PREP
Beautiful book based on the true story of African model, Georgie Badiel. Gie Gie must walk with her mother everyday to get water from the well. Gie Gie wants to find a way to bring the water closer to her village. Wonderful opportunity for discussion. From Amazon:With its wide sky and warm earth, Princess Gie Gie’s kingdom is a beautiful land. But clean drinking water is scarce in her small African village. And try as she might, Gie Gie cannot bring the water closer; she cannot make it run clear
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Grades:
K - 3rd
Presidents Day Reading (Differentiated) -George Washington & Abraham Lincoln
CLICK THE PREVIEW TO SEE MORE!Presidents Day reading! These differentiated reading passages on Abraham Lincoln and George Washington are a great way for your students to learn history about two of our nation's greatest presidents. Included are two non-fiction passages about each president. Passage A is slightly more advanced than passage B. Also included, KWL chart, Venn Diagram, Comprehension pages, Presidential trading cards AND Coloring and writing page. Common core aligned. Included:+ George
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2nd - 5th
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February Reading Passages | Close Reading Text Evidence | Reading Comprehension
The passage and the questions are all on one page for easy reference.Topics include:Comprehension Question types: key details, main idea or topic, word meaning, text structure, authors purpose, and genre.These reading comprehension passages can be found inside the February Math and Literacy (1st grade) Valentines Day Craft (Early Finishers)The questions for each passage varies. These passage cover a variety of nonfiction standards.What's Inside: 1 Fiction 8 Nonfiction PassagesGroundhog DayAbr
Grades:
1st - 3rd
Bad Kitty for President Literature Guide (Common Core)
My students LOVE Bad Kitty. Perfect Book to motivate low readers, students beginning chapter books, or students who don't enjoy reading! Also a great book to have students read around election time or President's Day! This packet contains a 28 student page guide to use with the book "Bad Kitty for President" by Nick Bruel. This book works well for a class read aloud, reading group, or independent study. Its ATOS book level is a 4.5 for Accelerated Reading and is worth 1 point.
This guide contai
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2nd - 4th
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A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park: Novel Chapter Quizzes
A Long Walk to Water by Newbery Award winning author Linda Sue Park is based on a true story of refugee boys during the civil war crisis in Sudan (Africa). It is also a story about the global issue of clean water availability. The book presents an incredible reading experience, one that I'd recommend to any middle school classrom! This product is a set of 18 printable quizzes to assess your students' comprehension and memory recall of the novel events. Quizzes are comprised of 5 multiple choice
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: A Long Walk to Water Bundle
Abe Lincoln at Last! Literature Guide (Common Core Aligned)
Perfect Book for President's Day! This packet contains a 33 student page guide to use with the book "Abe Lincoln at Last!" by Mary Pope Osborne. Do you want a book to show your students how Abe Lincoln grew up along with some Magic Tree House magic involved? Then this is the perfect book guide for you. This book works well for a class read aloud, reading group, or independent study. Its ATOS book level is a 3.5 for Accelerated Reading and is worth 2 points.
This guide contains:
- 1 Packet Cover
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2nd - 4th
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Born a Crime Reading Comprehension Questions & Teacher Key
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah is the perfect novel to get your students reflecting on the genre of memoir while developing an understanding of life in modern-day, post-apartheid South Africa. The reading comprehension guide is comprised of comprehension questions for each of the 18 chapters of the novel. There are between 1-7 questions for each chapter. The teacher key provides the answers for each of those questions. You are going to love teaching Born a Crime and this reading comprehension gui
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9th - 12th, Adult Education
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A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park - Reader Response Journal and Rubric
A Long Walk to Water by Newbery Award winning author Linda Sue Park is an incredible reading experience, one that I'd recommend to any middle school classrom! This product is a set of 24 printable writing prompt worksheets that will encourage your students to think critically and share their thoughts in a well written paragraph. A rubric for self-evaluation and teacher assessment will help both students and teachers stay on track with the writing task.The New York Times bestseller A Long Walk to
Grades:
6th - 8th
Also included in: A Long Walk to Water Bundle
American Symbols An Emergent Reader and Activities
This 8 page book is a perfect supplement for your unit on American Symbols or President's Day. Each page has predictable text and pictures to color.
Also comes with sentences from the book and work mats. You can laminate the words, cut them apart and have kids put them back together on work mats. There's a place for kids to write the sentences. Perfect for a center! I also included a page for each American symbol where kids will illustrate and write.
Symbols in the book:
*American Flag
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PreK - 1st
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Duck for President Book Companion and Activities (includes election activities)
An assortment of activities that will explore the book Duck for President using story elements, comprehension, character study and analysis. Includes vocabulary and definitions, story sequence cards, anchor charts, graphic organizers, worksheets as well as election activities.Includes the following:Table of contentsLarge Vocabulary cardsVocabulary word wall cardsVocabulary definition cardsVocabulary word to definition matchKWL chart (graphic organizer)Elections - can, have, are (graphic org
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1st - 4th
Revolutionary War on Wednesday Magic Tree House #22 Comprehension Novel Study
This unit is designed to engage students with the book while helping you assess their comprehension. There is a worksheet for each chapter of the book (10 chapters), with a variety of question types to help students inference, connect with the ideas, consider new vocabulary, and understand more of what they read. Each chapter worksheet also includes a set of word work activities to practice common core skills, such as parts of speech, synonyms and antonyms, possessives, contractions, irregular p
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2nd - 5th
A Long Walk to Water Anticipation Guide & Post Reading Activity
A Long Walk to Water by Newbery Award winning author Linda Sue Park is an incredible reading experience, one that I'd recommend to any middle school classrom! This product is an anticipation guide that you can use to pique students' interest and introduce them to the concepts that will appear in the novel. After students complete the chart create discussion by asking students to share their answers. I like to put the signs: AGREE/DISAGREE/NEUTRAL around the room as ask students to move to the si
Grades:
6th - 8th
Also included in: A Long Walk to Water Bundle
My American Flag-Independent Craft and Writing
My American Flag-Independent Craft and Writing
(Great for Presidents' Day!)
To prepare for independent activity:
Make a copy of the flag for each student.
Each student will also need four 4.5in x .5in red strips and three 9.5in x .5in red strips.
blue crayons
q-tips
white paint
make a sample project to refer to
Students glue the red strips in the appropriate places. They color the star section blue with a crayon. Then they use the q-tips to dot the white paint in each star. When the craft
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PreK - 1st
Abe Lincoln at Last! Magic Tree House #47 Comprehension Novel Study
This unit is designed to engage students with the book while helping you assess their comprehension. There is a worksheet for each chapter of the book (12 chapters), with a variety of question types to help students inference, connect with the ideas, consider new vocabulary, and understand more of what they read. Each chapter worksheet also includes a set of word work activities to practice common core skills, such as parts of speech, synonyms and antonyms, possessives, contractions, irregular p
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2nd - 5th
Who Was Harriet Tubman? {Black History Month Novel Study} - PRINT & DIGITAL
Who Was Harriet Tubman? novel study is a PRINT & DIGITAL resource through GOOGLE SLIDES and EASEL by TPT. This novel study is ready for DISTANCE LEARNING. Black History Month Resource:Connect American History and literature by reading the novel Who Was Harriet Tubman? by Yona Zeldis McDonough. Included in this Black History Month novel study are:Printer Friendly Black Line Packet7 Pages of Comprehension Questions with an Answer Key7 Pages of Extension Activities - Nonfiction Text Fe
Grades:
3rd - 4th
Joe Biden Foldable Emergent Reader ~Color & B&W~ PLUS Printable
Are you teaching your emergent readers about our 46th president Joe Biden?Would you like THEM to be able to read an informational book about our 46th President with pride & confidence?How about a printable that details facts from the book- teaching students how to reference back into a book for information?Look no further! You are all set with a reader about our current President of the United States! There is even a 'fun fact' page about Kamala Harris!Use it during President's Day and/or w
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K - 2nd
Abe Lincoln and the Civil War: Four Informational Text Passages & Printables
Check out this resource about Abraham Lincoln and the turbulent times of the Civil War. Four informational text passages are included along with challenging questions to make your students think about history while they sharpen their reading skills. The high interest passages are: Abraham Lincoln on the Road to the White House, Antietam, Harper’s Ferry, and Mathew Brady. These topics are also covered in Patricia Polacco’s book, “Just in Time, Abraham Lincoln”. Using picture books is an excell
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4th - 6th
Novel Study: Tristan Strong Punches A Hole In The Sky by Kwame Mbalia
Includes questions for each chapter and answer key with page numbers for each question.
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4th - 8th
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2 American Symbol Emergent Readers
This is a set of 2 emergent readers focused on the American symbols. The readers cover the American Flag, the Bald Eagle, The Statue of Liberty, the Liberty Bell, and Mount Rushmore. There is:
1 - reader with all words to highlight sight words and touch points for one to one
1 - reader with missing words and missing symbol meanings for fill in the blank and touch points for one to one
For more Presidential fun:
Presidents Day Emergent Reader, Sort, and Writing
Thanks for looking!
Cara
Grades:
PreK - 1st
Novel Study: The Forgotten Girl by India Hill Brown
Includes questions for each chapter and answer key with page numbers for each question.
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4th - 8th
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Election Day Worksheets
Build reading fluency while teaching American Government! These are perfect for the Presidential Election 2020. These 9 reading passages will help your students understand the U.S. Government while helping them increase fluency. All you need to do is to print and go! Reading passages include: Government ServicesAbraham LincolnGeorge WashingtonMaking LawsCivic DutiesVoting for Public OfficeExecutive BranchLegislative BranchJudicial BranchPlease download the complete preview! Each reading passage
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2nd - 3rd
MLK and Obama's March on Washington Speeches - Rhetorical Analysis w/Annotations
This resource includes the annotated texts of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s famous "I Have a Dream Speech" given at the March on Washington and President Obama's speech given at the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington given in 2013. The included zipped folder also includes an unmarked copy of the speeches without annotations and marginal notes so that you can reproduce them for students so that they can annotate them. Reading and annotating informational texts is a critical componen
Grades:
6th - 12th
Abraham Lincoln Reader's Theater w/ GREAT vocabulary activities too!
Are you looking for a way to integrate social studies information with reading? Then this Reader's Theater is the product for you! This product will keep your students excited and enthralled while learning about history, as well as practicing their fluency, oral expression, and comprehension skills too! Students will learn about Abraham Lincoln's life from boyhood through the Civil War, as well as the tragic visit to the Ford Theater, where Lincoln's life ended. Also included with this kid
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2nd - 5th
Magic Tree House #47: Abe Lincoln at Last Assessment, Questions, and Vocab.
Abe Lincoln at Last
Magic Tree House #47
*Save Time!
*No Prep!
*Ready to Use!!!
*Great for Whole Class, Guided Reading Groups, Literature Circles, and More!
Questions, vocabulary, and assessment for Abe Lincoln at Last by Mary Pope Osborne. Over eight pages of student work, plus an answer key!
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Grades:
2nd - 4th
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