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2nd grade critical thinking informational text resources
Editable Morning Meeting Daily Slides Activities Digital Resources Morning Work
Are you ready to turn your morning meeting into the best part of your daily routine? Unlock the power of morning meetings with this Editable Morning Meeting Daily Slides & Activity Pages Yearlong Set, designed for K-6 grade. These NO PREP INTERACTIVE EDITABLE morning meeting slides will revive your morning routine in a fun and engaging way. These Editable Morning Meeting Daily Slides are an easy-to-use, time-saving way for you to build a consistent morning routine and a strong classroom co
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K - 6th
Reading Log Alternative: "Tower of Books" {An Independent Reading Challenge}
Replace that hum-drum reading log and Infuse new life into students’ independent reading, at school or at home, with the “Tower of Books” Challenge! Perfect for a summer reading challenge or an alternative to the stuck-in-a-rut reading log assignment. Printable and digital versions included!The challenge is built on two core ideas: to encourage students to read some different genres of books and authors they may not try otherwise, and to give them a fresh and motivating way to keep track of thei
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1st - 6th
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Nonfiction Text Features Reading Comprehension Passages Questions RI.2.7 RI.3.7
⭐️ This 2nd and 3rd Grade Nonfiction Text Features Images Reading Comprehension Passages and Questions Unit includes Lexile® leveled close reading passages, question sets, assessments, and anchor charts. Texts, anchor charts, questions, and assessments are aligned to RI.2.7 and RI.3.7 and focus on nonfiction text features skills. It is perfect for teaching students to use information gained from illustrations (e.g., maps, photographs) and the words in a text to demonstrate an understanding of th
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2nd - 3rd
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Animal Reports | A Lapbook & Animal Research Project | Informational Writing
If you’re one of the thousands who made the BIOGRAPHY LAPBOOK a best-selling item, you’ll love this one, too! Designed with third and fourth graders in mind, this animals resource includes materials for students to use while conducting research using nonfiction texts, as well as materials for the presentation of their final informational writing piece, in an Animals Lapbook. To complete this project, students:• read nonfiction texts,• use a graphic organizer as a prewriting tool to organize t
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2nd - 5th
Book Club Fiction and Nonfiction Bundle Digital and Printable
I LOVE that this can work for ANY book. I have packets made for my small group and I can easily have them flip to the page to work. It is awesome! Thank you!” - Amy B.You’ve heard Book Clubs (or Literature Circles) are a fun way to get your students reading and talking about books. You’ve even heard Book Clubs make reading fun for your most reading-averse students. But how do you start them? How do you run them effectively? How do you make sure all your students—regardless of reading level—ge
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2nd - 5th
Context Clues Reading Comprehension Passages & Questions 2nd & 3rd RI.2.4 RI.3.4
⭐️ This 2nd and 3rd Grade Context Clues in Nonfiction Reading Comprehension Passages and Questions Unit includes Lexile® leveled close reading passages, question sets, assessments, and anchor charts. Texts, anchor charts, questions, and assessments are aligned to RI.2.4 and RI.3.4 and focus on context clues in nonfiction. This Nonfiction Context Clues Reading Comprehension Passages and Questions Unit features:✅ 12 Lexile Leveled Texts for 2nd & 3rd Grade✅ Standard Focused Questions✅ Anchor C
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2nd - 3rd
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Main Idea and Details Reading Comprehension Passages & Questions RI.2.2 RI.3.2
⭐️ This 2nd and 3rd grade Main Idea and Supporting Details Reading Comprehension Passages and Questions Unit for RI.2.2 and RI.3.2 includes Lexile® leveled close reading passages, standard-based question sets, assessments, and anchor charts that are perfect for teaching students how to identify the main idea and supporting details in a text. Texts, anchor charts, questions, and assessments are aligned to RI.2.2 & RI.3.2 and focus on developing core main idea skills. This Main Idea Reading Co
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2nd - 3rd
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1st Grade Guided Reading Comprehension Passages & Questions Levels G H Sp Ed +
These Guided Reading Leveled Passages and Questions help students develop strong comprehension skills and become text detectives! The Following Passages Are Included:★ The Bald Eagle ★ Otters ★ Skunks ★ Trees ★ King Penguins ★ The Polar Bear ★ Measuring with Paper Clips ★ Time for School ★ The Red Flower ★ The Orca ★ Sue's Painting ★ The Little Red Hen ★ The Water Cycle ★ The Zebra and the Ostrich ★ The Colors of the Sky To provide flexibility, for use in distance learning and/or a classroom se
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1st - 2nd
Reading Strategy Groups: Small Group Reading Lessons with Passages BUNDLE
With differentiated passages and small group lessons, these reading strategy groups can replace your guided reading groups! You no longer need to look for reading passages or think of reading comprehension questions for your small groups. This bundle has 101 print-and-go small group lessons for teaching reading comprehension using skill-based, small group reading lessons that DIRECTLY teach the reading skills your students need!With this bundle, planning your reading groups has never been easier
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2nd - 4th
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RACES Writing Strategy Posters | Citing Text Evidence | Text-Based Response
Your students have a basic understanding of what text evidence is, but are struggling to incorporate it in their writing. The RACES strategy is designed to guide students through the process of answering a constructive response prompt. (or text-based prompts)This resource is equipped with Text Evidence Discussion Bubbles which are perfect for small groups, whole-group discussions, teacher-led centers, or even online learning! These sentence starters encourage students to speak about the text. --
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1st - 6th
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2nd Grade Reading Comprehension Passages & Questions Guided Reading Levels K & L
This Second Grade Reading Comprehension packet is designed to help students who are reading at Guided Reading Levels K and L (DRA Levels 20 - 24) develop strong reading comprehension skills. This resource is generally appropriate for use in second grade or as a third grade beginning of the year review packet. To provide flexibility, for use in distance learning and/or a classroom setting, the following options are offered:1) A link to this document in Google Slides™2) Ready for use with Easel by
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2nd - 3rd
Informational Nonfiction TEXT FEATURES Worksheet Posters Anchor Chart Assessment
Being able to use text features is essential for understanding informational text. This set of posters, worksheets, and assessment helps students identify, understand, and use text features they encounter when reading nonfiction passages.WHAT YOU WILL GET➡️ Text Features Posters/Anchor ChartsThe posters include a definition along with an illustrated example. I created them as a visual support for my own class. They hang in my room all year where students refer to them often. Includes the followi
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1st - 3rd
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Also included in: Third Grade Math & Reading YEAR LONG BUNDLE 1500+ Pages
Black History Month - Biography Research Project Informational Writing Template
Designed with third and fourth graders in mind, this Black History Month biography project template includes materials for students to use while reading biographies and conducting research, as well as materials for the presentation of their final writing piece, in a Biography Lapbook. To complete this project, students:• read biographies (specifically for Black History Month, if you choose),• use a graphic organizer template as a prewriting tool to organize their writing,• write informative te
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2nd - 5th
Animal Reports 1st Grade Kindergarten Reading Writing Informational Zoo Crafts
Your kindergarten and first grade students will have so much fun reading and writing about ten different animals: zebras, lions, elephants, alligators, giraffes, monkeys, penguins, ducks, robins and earthworms. These nonfiction materials provide the perfect amount of scaffolding so your students can successfully read and write about these animals.Everything you need for animal reports is included:reading passages with factsgraphic organizerssentence starterswriting papersmini books10 animal cra
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K - 2nd
Economics Unit Goods & Services Producers & Consumers Supply & Demand Activities
Say goodbye to lesson planning stress with this short introductory unit that makes teaching AND learning economics a breeze! This engaging resource is designed to make teaching economics easy, fun, and incredibly effective! Your students will learn about the basic economic concepts of money, wants and needs, goods and services, producers and consumers, and supply and demand.FIVE days of engaging lesson plans with possible extension activities are included. All text and activities are included,
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2nd - 4th
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Also included in: Economics BUNDLE Supply and Demand Worksheets Goods and Services Sort
Leveled Reading Passages with Comprehension Questions J-P Printable Digital
Are you looking for no prep reading passages and questions that are leveled? These engaging reading passages build fluency and reading comprehension so that you can make the most of your reading instruction!——DISTANCE LEARNING UPDATE: April 4, 2020—— ***I have now added DIGITAL versions of every single passage! These passages have been formatted for use with Google Classroom™️. The passages are the same, but students interact with the passage through drag-and-drop features as well as text boxes
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1st - 3rd
Would You Rather Sampler - Fun Questions for Discussion, Writing Prompts, & More
Dive into writing prompts, classroom discussion, and more with our exclusive sampler from Would You Rather Questions!!These 18 digital or print Would You Rather questions are great for discussion, class polls, writing prompts, language building, facilitating higher-level thinking, brain breaks, building community, and more! This sampler gives you a taste of our comprehensive Would You Rather resource that promises to make learning engaging and effective.Try before you buy!Purchase this sampler f
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2nd - 9th
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Main Idea and Supporting Details Worksheets and Activities for 1st and 2nd Grade
The main idea and supporting details are a blast with this fun resource! This tough concept can be tricky for young learners, but with the included original song, cut-and-paste practice pages, passages, graphic organizers, and other activities, your students will get the hang of it in no time at all!Grab these and other fun main idea and supporting details activities for 20% off by clicking here!This main idea and details resource is filled with many different ways for your students to practice
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K - 2nd
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Also included in: Main Idea and Details BUNDLE
15 Working Memory Brain Games: Improve executive function in 5 minutes a day!
WORKING MEMORY BEST SELLER--UPDATED FOR 2024! These 15 research-based brain games are designed to improve kids' working memory in five minutes of partner game play daily for just 9 weeks! If you've ever complained that students lack the following skills, an executive function of the brain called working memory might be the issue!-staying focused and on-task-following complex and multi-step directions-copying information and taking notes-keeping their place in a text-retelling stories-explaining
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K - 6th
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Main Idea and Supporting Details, Mystery Bags, First & 2nd Grade Main Topic
Use these main idea and supporting details reading comprehension mystery bags, graphic organizers, and literacy centers to teach how to identify the main topic and retell key details of a text. Students will also learn how to identify the main topic of a multi-paragraph text and the focus of specific paragraphs within the text!This resource comes in both print and digital (Google Slides & Seesaw) versions.**SEESAW USERS: The Seesaw activities are already preloaded to the platform. You will s
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1st - 2nd
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Reading Comprehension Passages and Questions, Reading Passages 1st & 2nd Grade
Are you looking for reading comprehension passages and questions to add to your collection? These nonfiction reading passages are perfect for 1st and 2nd students to practice their fluency and comprehension skills. There are 40 passages to help students practice. In this Reading Comprehension Passages set, you will find:Nonfiction versus Fiction introductionNonfiction Text Features introductionGeneric Nonfiction Graphic Organizers40 Nonfiction Reading Passages with writing response sheets.Links
Grades:
1st - 2nd
1st Grade End of Year Reading Passages and (with) Comprehension Questions: RTI +
This resource is ideal for use toward the end of the year in first grade and/or at the beginning of second grade. (To help provide each student reading material at just the right level, this resource is part of a series of Reading Comprehension Passages for Guided Reading Levels C through P.)15 reading passages, designed to help kids work toward the goals of reading Levels I and J (DRA Levels 16 - 18) text and thoughtfully answering text-based questions, are included. Four multiple choice ques
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1st - 2nd
Fact and Opinion Activities Sort 2nd 3rd Grade Fun Reading Centers Comprehension
Are you looking for a fun, highly engaging, and EFFECTIVE way to teach fact and opinion? This set of activities will teach your students how to distinguish between fact and opinion by becoming observant text detectives. You can even use it as the basis for a room transformation!This resource includes:Fact Detectives Reading CentersFact vs Opinion SortAssessmentDigital ActivitiesSOLVE THE CRIME FACT DETECTIVESThis activity is super engaging for students! They will read each storyline along with t
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2nd - 3rd
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Also included in: Fact and Opinion Activities BUNDLE Text Detective Reading Comprehension
Text Structure Activities - Nonfiction Text Structure Worksheets
Text structure of nonfiction is a difficult skill for students to understand. Let's help them by seeing different text structures side by side to analyze and understand, in these fun hands-on text structure activities! Both print and digital version is included in this resource! There are 4 pages of topics in these text structure activities: dolphinsbaseballinsectsweatherEach page has 5 short nonfiction passages about the topic using one of the nonfiction text structures: cause/effect, sequence,
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2nd - 5th
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