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2nd grade reading simulations
The First Thanksgiving Simulation: Journey on the Mayflower
This is a week long simulation where your kids will become a part of history! Students will read about the process of the pilgrims coming to the New World and then receive their experience cards, which will let them be a part of the famous journey.
They take the knowledge they gain from the reading and the information on the experience card to write a journal entry from a pilgrim's perspective. Kids will be learning and engaged in these reading and writing activities!
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- 5 days
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2nd - 8th
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Surgery Room Transformation Bundle | Text Feature and Irregular Shapes Surgery
Nonfiction text feature and Irregular Shapes Area surgery has been seen all over social media, and now you can bring these engaging activities to your own classroom! Everything is included in this product to create your own “surgery experience” for your students. You save 20% by purchasing this bundled product!You can make it as simple or theatrical as you like! If you need a print and go version, your students will only need a magazine, the patient files, scissors and glue. If you really want
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2nd - 4th
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Halloween Stories & Activities -Virtual Field Trip -Interactive Story Adventure
Let's take a Halloween STORYventure... with our favorite classic Halloween books: Room on the Broom, Creepy Underwear, The Big Pumpkin, and the Little Old Lady That Was Not Afraid!!This No Wheels Field Trip is just what you need to have some HALLOWEEN FUN with an interactive story as Halloween gets near that will encourage reading good books in a new way to students!On this Halloween STORYventure, you will start by visiting the story adventure map! The map will guide you through the Halloween S
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2nd - 4th
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Summer Camp In The Classroom: Cross Curricular Lesson Plans
Summer Camp in the Classroom is a simulation in which you transform your classroom into a campground. It has many computer related and non-computer related activities.
Students will work with team mates to select a campsite and map a route. They will participate as a team in learning about:local wildlife; fishing regulations; constellations; campfire cooking; plant, insect, weather, and water safety; using an obstacle course.
Campers will keep logs and scrapbooks while engaging in reading, writ
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Grades:
2nd - 8th
Christmas Virtual Field Trip to Orlando
Take your class on a visit to Orlando to break up the days until Winter Break!This file includes 100 slides for students to visit different areas of Magic Kingdom and EPCOT and a 60 page trip journal for them to document their adventures!In Magic Kingdom students will have the opportunity to visit Mickey's Christmas Party and see all the special activities and create writing responses, drawings, and solve math problems in response to these activities.In EPCOT students will visit all of the count
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2nd - 5th
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Reading Activity: Mystery- The Mole at Spycamp
I don't know about you, but my kids love a good mystery. It is one of their favorite genres. What I don't like is they don't get to solve it on their own, well that is all going to change with this mystery.
In The Mole at Spycamp (based on The Mole TV show) the kids will get a chance to read through the activities and use their own observational skills to solve the mystery of who is sabotaging Spycamp.
The kids will take on an identity of a camper at Spycamp and be a part of the actual myst
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Grades:
2nd - 6th
STEM Story Adventures - Growth Mindset Lessons -Virtual Field Trip Experience
Let's take a STEM Story Adventure Virtual Field Trip with our favorite book characters: The Good Egg, The Bad Seed, The Cool Bean, and The Couch Potato!! This No Wheels Field Trip is just what you need to have some FUN, foster idea creation and growth mind-set, and introduce books in a new way to students!On this trip, you will start by visiting the story adventure map! The map will guide you through jumping into 4 of our FAVORITE Stories by Jory John:The Good EggThe Bad SeedThe Cool BeanThe Cou
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2nd - 4th
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Animal Research Adopting a Pet STEM +Word Search CCSS Grades 2-5 Print and Teach
Open the preview to explore this STEM-inspired animal research unit. This activity challenges students to think critically as they choose an unconventional pet from the extensive animal kingdom, embracing the fun and absurdity of the task.Included Resources:An optional cover to personalize student materials.A detailed task description to guide students through the project.Definitions of classifications within the animal kingdom to enhance understanding.A section to formulate hypotheses, encourag
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2nd - 5th
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Thanksgiving: Mayflower Read Aloud
Send your students on a journey back in time with this whole class read aloud where students act as newscasters going back in time interviewing people who were on the Mayflower. Students will deepen their understanding of the events surrounding the Mayflower voyage and the first Thanksgiving as they are placed into the shoes of a person at this time. What a great way to increase engagement and reading fluency.
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2nd - 4th
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Earth Day Activities : Reading Comprehension, Activities, and Craft Ideas Pack
This Earth Day pack has all you need to celebrate our planet's special day!
Included in this pack:
♦ (2nd - 3rd, maybe 1st with help) Reading Comprehension about Earth Day
♦ Higher Level (4th - 5th) Reading Comprehension about Earth Day
♦ Earth Day Poster Activity for groups or individuals
♦ Facts about Pollution/Trash (Great to use with posters, these facts are like "Each minute one million plastic bags are used!", these are general, but 3 out of 12 specifically name the US)
♦ Earth Day Ple
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Grades:
2nd - 5th
Rituals & Routines- Back to School - Interactive Story -Contractions - Story Map
Let's take a Back to School STORY Venture.. Don't Do This with our favorite classic books: Don't Take an Alligator to School, Pigeon Goes to School, and If You Take a Mouse to School!! This No Wheels Field Trip is just what you need to have some FUN with an interactive story when school starts back that will encourage rituals and routines!On this Back to School STORY Venture, you will start by visiting the story adventure map! The map will guide you through the Back to School STORY Venture jumpi
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1st - 2nd
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Reading Activity: Mystery- The Mole at Children's Charity Games
My kids love a good mystery, but with The Mole Mystery they will actually get a chance to look for clues and figure out who is The Mole.
This is a great activity to keep your kids engaged. They will absolutely love solving crimes!
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24 identities that students take on within the mystery
Highly classified mission to find The Mole that is sabotaging the Children’s Charity Games
Races/ Activities: Students need to read the activity pages and search for
clues.
Note taking pages
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2nd - 7th
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Under My Pillow
An adventure about a five-year-old girl who loses her first tooth. She puts it under her pillow as many children do but discovers that there is no tooth or present the next day. She then goes on a quest to solve the mystery with the help of her mom, the Tooth Fairy, and the Tooth …If you buy this you will get file containing Personal and Commercial Use. Digital Download.>>File Format<< pdf>>How It Works<<You can instantly download the file after your payment is confirmed.
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1st - 5th
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The Syllable Scoop - Learn Syllables through Ice Cream Play!
This product provides all the materials for a low-prep, fun, and engaging ice cream simulation that teaches syllable segmentation and blending!Included:InstructionsThree menus, covering 1, 2, and 3 syllable wordsFive pages of ice-cream cut outs with words segmented by syllables and visual aides to support studentsIce cream dish cut-outsA printable craft activity for students to make "employee hats"An ice cream worksheet, where students color in the amount of syllables in a word. Simply print, la
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Grades:
PreK - 2nd
Genre Study: "THE GENRE'S COURT"- FUN way to reinforce genres in your classroom!
Check out my blog post describing how I use this in my room!!! :)
The Genre's Court
Welcome to The Genre's Court!
My students absolutely love going to court and defending their genres. We introduce and/or review genres about every 3 weeks with which we culminate the week with a trip to “the genre’s court.” I wear my college graduation gown as the publisher, and we rearrange all the desks to match the map of the courtroom which is included as “the people in the genre court.” *I also found th
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Grades:
2nd - 6th
QAR
This QAR cheer will get your students up and out of their seats cheering for question answer relationships! My students love chanting this before we begin creating QAR questions. It helps them review each type of question with added excitement. I am very proud of this....I just wish I created it a long time ago!
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K - 6th
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Animated Recipe Bundle A - Animated Step-by-Steps® - SymbolStix
This Animated Recipe Bundle A offers five SymbolStix-supported Animated Step by Step Recipes at a 20% discount!There are 3 versions of this bundled resource (Regular, PCS, SymbolStix)This is the SymbolStix Version. This bundled resource includes: 1. Pancake Recipe ('from scratch')2. Pancake Recipe (from mix)3. Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe4. English Muffin Pizza Recipe5. Banana-Berry Shake RecipeVisit my blog (http://animatedstepbysteps.blogspot.com) for further clinical informationSymbolStix ar
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Grades:
PreK - 2nd
Point of View ELA Standard 6 Interactive Highly Engaging Lesson BRAIN COMPATIBLE
This is a foundation lesson teaching the 3 major Points of View. Students create a shutter fold and teachers can add costumes as an option where students act out characters.
Meet Mr. I Me We
Mrs. U Ewe
and Ima Nishent where she uses a cane when she is limited....(use a yard stick) and a wand when she is fully omniscient and has full power to read the thoughts and feelings of all the characters in the story.
Use this shutter fold throughout the year as a check for understanding. Students pull
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2nd - 8th
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March Virtual Field Trip - Leprechaun Story Adventures - Distance Learning
Let's take a Virtual Field Trip in March through our FAVORITE Leprechaun Story Adventures!! This No Wheels Field Trip is just what you need to have some FUN, take a trip, celebrate St. Patrick's Day, and ready our FAVORITE Leprechaun Books!On this trip, you will start by with a story adventure map! The map will guide you through jumping into 4 of our FAVORITE Leprechaun Stories:Jamie O'Rourke and the Big PotatoSilly McGillyLeprechaun on the LooseHOW TO CATCH A LEPRECHAUN!!You will hear the story
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2nd - 4th
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Alphabet 3D Digital Models for Smartboards or Whiteboards
Alphabet ( A - Z ) 3D graphics. This is a 3D digital model pdf file, where you can manipulate the letters to move and rotate in 3 dimensions with the touch of a mouse or a finger if you have a touch screen! Completely interactive! Great to put up on a Smartboard, Promethean Board, or touch screen computer.Fun way to learn to the alphabet. Kids will have so much fun moving the letters around. You can open and use the model tree to hide and show the letters. You can also print out the graphics to
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Grades:
PreK - 2nd
Interactive Story - Virtual Field Trip - Back to School - Story Map - Reading
Let's take a Back to School STORYventure... Old School Party with our favorite classic books: Where the Wild Things Are, Amelia Bedelia, Miss Nelson is Missing, and Chrysanthemum!! This No Wheels Field Trip is just what you need to have some FUN with an interactive story when school starts back that will encourage reading good books in a new way to students!On this Back to School STORYventure, you will start by visiting the story adventure map! The map will guide you through the Back to School S
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Grades:
2nd - 4th
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MineCraft Escape Room
This Google Slide show uses math skills, comprehension and choice to navigate through this adventure based-on-a-game activity. Use it as a whole class or individual challenge for a brain break or for academic community building.
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Grades:
2nd - 3rd
Drawing Conclusions
This presentation would serve as a helpful introduction to young students on how to draw conclusions in a fun way.Please take a minute to check out my Learning to Sequence power point in my TPT store.
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Grades:
2nd - 5th
Easter Story Adventures - Distance Learning - Virtual Field Trip Experience
Let's take an Easter Story Adventure Virtual Field Trip in through our FAVORITE Bunny Tales!! This No Wheels Field Trip is just what you need to have some FUN, take a trip, celebrate Easter, and ready our FAVORITE Bunny Tales!On this trip, you will start by with a story adventure map! The map will guide you through jumping into 5 of our FAVORITE Easter Stories:Muncha! Muncha! Muncha!Turkey's Eggcellent AdventureThe Old Lady Who Swallowed a ChickThe Easter Bunny's AssistantHOW TO CATCH THE EASTER
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Grades:
2nd - 4th
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Not only is reading a core concept in the study of English language arts, but it’s also a cornerstone skill for proficiency in many other subjects (for instance, without strong reading skills, students won’t be able to solve math word problems or read through primary sources for social studies class).
If you’re a teacher or parent looking for printable and digital reading resources to help your student learn a reading concept, look no further! TPT has an extensive collection of resources, created by other teachers, that are designed to help with any need across grade levels.
Elementary students just learning to read can practice the basics with some simple, fun phonics practice activities or small-group reading centers focused around sight words. Students in middle and high school can read novels and complete hands-on, interactive assignments that build their comprehension and critical thinking skills. With plenty of TPT resources at your fingertips, you can sharpen your student's reading skills in no time.
Fun and engaging reading activities to try
Engaging reading activities can energize your students and foster a love of reading. Here are a few ideas for reading activities from our teacher-created resources that you can find on TPT and try in your classroom:
Interactive Phonics Activities
Use hands-on activities such as sorting, matching, or building words with manipulatives to help students recognize phonics patterns and learn word families.
Word Hunts
Encourage students to find specific words either in a text or around the classroom to help reinforce sight word recognition.
Reader's Theater
Bring short stories, books, poems, or plays you’re reading in class to life by assigning roles to students and having them act out scenes. This can help enhance fluency and comprehension.
Interactive Read-Alouds
Engage the class by pausing during read-alouds to discuss the story’s theme, reflect on a character’s motivations or actions, or to ask students questions.
Comparative Analysis
Explore different adaptations of the same story (book versus movie, classic version versus a modern retelling) to encourage analysis of interpretation and presentation. You can also pair texts that are similar in theme, like poems and songs.
By incorporating these (and other!) reading activities into your lesson plans, you can nurture a love for reading while enhancing comprehension, critical thinking, and communication skills.
Frequently asked questions about teaching reading
What types of reading resources are available on TPT?
There are many different types of reading resources sold by Sellers on TPT. Some popular reading lessons include: phonics, vocabulary, spelling, and balanced literacy.
How do I find reading lessons on TPT?
Educators can save time preparing reading lessons with resources created by experienced teachers. Simply start a search for reading resources on the TPT marketplace, and filter by grade level, price, and/or resource type to find materials that've been proven to work in classrooms like yours. No matter what you’re teaching, there are plenty of reading lessons and activities sold by Sellers on TPT that are tailored to meet your students' skill levels.
How can I make my reading lessons fun and engaging?
Students learn best when they're engaged! Sprinkle a little fun into your reading lessons by using manipulatives, pairing unusual texts like poems and short films together, or doing an escape room activity.
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