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2nd grade critical thinking informational text pdfs
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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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
Grades:
2nd - 5th
BUNDLE: Doodle Word Search Puzzles | Early Finishers, Fun Brain Breaks
Doodle Word Search Puzzles - BUNDLE!!These aren't typical word searches, rather they are "doodle" searches! Instead of searching for letters to make words, students are searching for doodle icon patterns throughout the puzzle (just like the normal word search). My students LOVE LOVE LOVE these so much that I created more to use throughout the year for different seasons, holidays, or occasions. It's a great option for early finishers or students who want a challenge!This HUGE BUNDLE includes 48 D
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2nd - 12th
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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
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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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
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
Grades:
1st - 2nd
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
Grades:
2nd - 3rd
Balloons Over Broadway Thanksgiving READ ALOUD STEM™ Activity
Have a classroom Thanksgiving Day Parade! Make learning fun with this Thanksgiving STEAM challenge in which students design their very own Thanksgiving Day Parade Balloon! An excellent companion activity to the fall read aloud book Balloons Over Broadway by Melissa Sweet.Not only do students design the balloon, but as an added challenge they must create a device to keep it floating in the air!Students plan, design, and execute their own ideas. After they have completed their activity, there is t
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K - 5th
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
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Also included in: Thanksgiving READ ALOUD STEM™ Activities and Challenges BUNDLE
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
Grades:
1st - 2nd
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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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
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
Main Topic & Supporting Details 2nd Grade Reading Comprehension RI.2.2 Main Idea
This RI.2.2 Main Topic and Supporting Details 2nd grade nonfiction reading unit is full of standards-based lesson plans, Lexile reading passages, and other activities to use while you are teaching the standard RI2.2. If you are not teaching Common Core, then the unit is still valuable to use when teaching students how to find the main topic and support with key details in a text or a multi-paragraph text. Please check out the preview to see ALL that you're getting! In the RI.2.2 pack you will re
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2nd
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Reading Logs
These Common Core reading logs have endless possibilities in the classroom! Each of the 45 reading logs contains simple directions with picture cues to help students practice and apply comprehension strategies to their independent reading. Most of the reading logs contain a page for drawing and a template for writing, which allows you to choose and differentiate the reading log that best meets each student's needs. Reading logs for both literature and informational text are included. You can fin
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1st - 3rd
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Also included in: Back to School BUNDLE
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
100th Day of School Activities STEM Activities
Make your 100th day of school celebration STEM-TASTIC with these 6 engaging activities that are STEM challenges. These Smitten with First 100th Day STEM challenges can be used as stations or as activities completed throughout the day. See preview! Challenges Included:Pattern Hats (students build a party hat with 100 pattern blocks)Build 100 (students build the number 100 using 100 building blocks)Hairy Glasses (students build shape glasses using 100 gray hairs/pipe cleaners)100 Wishes (student
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K - 2nd
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Also included in: Kindergarten, 1st grade, 2nd grade Year Long STEM Activities Bundle
3-D Shapes Activity with Monsters (Geometry Math Craft for Elementary)
This fun elementary craftivity will get kids excited about 3-D geometric shapes while incorporating art into the classroom. This product includes 7 different shape (monster) templates (both in color and as line art for the student to color) and 3 accompanying worksheets. Please open my preview file to view everything that is included. This activity can also foster teamwork when students work together in groups of two to assemble their 3-D shape monsters.Save Money, buy the bundle! Monster Themed
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K - 2nd
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Also included in: 2-D & 3-D Shapes Monster Bundle
Text Features Worksheets, Hunt RI.2.5 Reading Comprehension Passages 2nd Grade
This RI.2.5 nonfiction text features 2nd grade reading unit is packed full of worksheets, anchor charts, standards-based lesson plans, Lexile passages, and activities to use while you are teaching the standard RI.2.5. If you are not teaching Common Core, then the unit is still valuable to use when teaching students to find and use text features in their informational text. Please check out the preview to see ALL that you're getting! In the RI.2.5 pack you will receive: 4 Mini Lessons with Anchor
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2nd
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Animal Research Project Graphic Organizer, Informational Writing Report Template
Use this informational writing research graphic organizer as a template to give students a hands on and engaging way to make animal research fun! This animal report project is the perfect way to introduce beginning research and practice reading nonfiction text. Teach students to write an animal report at their own level with differentiated resources.Included are 2 levels of flip books for students to fill out about an animal, a sticky note activity that will help students organize their initial
Grades:
1st - 2nd
Writing Bundle: Personal Narrative, Informational, Opinion & Fiction 2ND GRADE
This HUGE BUNDLE includes everything you need to teach, practice, and assess writing for the entire year! Students will complete four major units of study: personal narrative, informational reports, opinion essays, and fiction narratives.My second grade writing bundle includes 4 ready-to-use writing units to help you teach personal narratives, informational reports, opinion essays, and fiction narratives with ease. Each done-for-you unit contains detailed lesson plans, mentor texts, anchor chart
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2nd
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Nonfiction Text Features: Posters, Student Books, Games, & More!
Looking for a resource to get your students excited about nonfiction text features? This pack is full of engaging, hands-on activities that were designed for students to explore, identify, and understand nonfiction text features! Included:14 Posters (with pictures and definitions)*Table of Contents*Index*Glossary*Bold Print*Caption*Labels*Diagram*Photograph*Illustration*Charts/Graphs*Maps*Timeline*Heading*SubheadingPrint & Go All About Nonfiction Text Features Student Booklet Cut, Match, Pa
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Grades:
K - 2nd
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