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2nd grade critical thinking short stories 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
Create a Board Game! Project Based Learning Unit - Templates + Rubrics + Slides
Unleash creativity with our Board Game Project Based Learning Unit! Ideal for 1st grade and up! Make learning fun by creating a board game. Includes templates, rubrics, and more! PDF & Powerpoint Slides to introduce the project to students.KEY FEATURES:64 PAGES OF VALUE: Includes 64 pages of resources to support the entire project lifecycle from planning and crafting to reflecting.TEMPLATES FOR EVERYTHING: Comes with a variety of templates including warm up activities, planning, game design,
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2nd - 8th
2nd Grade Reading Comprehension Passages and Questions
The 2nd Grade Reading Comprehension and Fluency Passages with Questions product contains 10 reading passages (6 fiction and 4 nonfiction) that target both COMPREHENSION and FLUENCY. Each passage is presented twice, in 2 versions, and it's followed by a True/ False sort. You can use this product both as a PRINTABLE and a DIGITAL RESOURCE.You can select the pages you want to assign to Google Classroom!The students will have to: *read each text 3 times and color a star after each reading ( for flue
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2nd - 3rd
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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
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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2nd-3rd Grade Reading Comprehension Passages and Questions
20 interesting short reading fluency passages with comprehension questions. These reading passages are designed to improve students' reading fluency and comprehension and target a variety of skills to make the reading experience more engaging and fun. The students will have to:* read each passage 3 times (for fluency)* answer each question with a complete sentence/ or multiple choice questions/ or sequencing questions Students have to read each passage 3 times, so I would suggest choral reading
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2nd - 3rd
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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
FirstieWriting: First Grade and 2nd Grade Writing Curriculum Bundle
FirstieWriting Curriculum Units BUNDLED is an engaging, standards-based first grade (and Second Grade), genre-based writing curriculum. SAVE $10 ON THE BUNDLE!6 units @ $15 each = $90The bundle will increase in price each time a new unit is added! Snag it now to save!Do you have a few extra moments? Watch a detailed video about this curriculum HERE!What is FirstieWriting?FirstieWriting Curriculum is an engaging, first grade (and Second Grade), genre-based writing curriculum. FirstieWriting encou
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1st - 2nd
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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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Decodable Readers 1st Grade Reading Passages with Comprehension Questions
Decodable readers are a fun and systematic way to practice reading comprehension passages and answering questions in a meaningful context! This set contains 40 decodable reading passages with comprehension questions. Each reader is a one-page double-sided worksheet with text focused on a specific phonics pattern. The text is carefully controlled and contains a first-grade appropriate reading passage that students can be successful with! Reading fluency can be targeted by doing repeated readings
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1st - 2nd
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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
Second Grade Word Work Activities with Phonics Focused Passages - SOR Aligned
This is an all-year Science of Reading aligned Word Work for 2nd graders, now with the zero-prep EASEL by TpT Digital Option. Word Families are introduced in short stories, and reinforced daily in different activities. This resource promotes word recognition, vocabulary development and text comprehension, which makes it a great addition to literacy centers and small groups!The weekly activities included in this Word Work packet consist of reading a story and identifying Word Work words, writing
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1st - 2nd
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Wh Questions Short Stories Speech Therapy Answering What Where When Language
Wh- questions in 15 short stories to improve answering questions, auditory and reading comprehension and recall for speech therapy and classroom lessons. What, where, why, when, who, and how questions are included for every story!Multiple levels of difficulty, including both shorter and longer paragraphs for a variety of length and detail in the stories.⭐ Wh- Questions in Short Stories15 Paragraph Short Stories6 Wh- Questions for every storyStories are 5-9 sentences in lengthWhat, where, who, wh
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1st - 4th
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Summer Packet Reading Comprehension Checks
Avoid the Summer Slide Syndrome! NO PREP READING COMPREHENSION Passages/Stories for SUMMER includes 40 simple (a mix of fiction and non-fiction) stories/passages to help with fluency, comprehension and building reading confidence for a Summer Review! These Comprehension Checks can be used during the summer with 1st Grade students, struggling 2nd Grade students, or as a beginning of the year review for 2nd Graders!****************************************************************************There
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1st - 2nd
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Story Sequencing: Reading Passages to Sequence Events
Story Sequencing Reading Passages This pack contains 20 reading comprehension passages that target FLUENCY and COMPREHENSION through SEQUENCING STORY EVENTS in an INTERACTIVE way.The students will really have to go back in the text to be able to do the cut and paste.The students will have to:* read the passage 3 times to improve FLUENCY* cut the sentences at the bottom of the page and glue them in the order they are in the story to show COMPREHENSION Story titles:1. Kate's Breakfast2. Tom's New
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1st - 2nd
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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
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
Prefix and Suffix Reading Comprehension Passages with Questions First Grade
All-in-One Prefix and Suffix Reading Passages ADD-ON Pack!Help your students practice reading words with prefixes and suffixes within controlled text with these All-in-One Reading Passages. Additionally, students will practice fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, and using words (with the target skill) in context.——DISTANCE LEARNING UPDATE: April 13, 2020—— ***I have now added DIGITAL versions of every single passage! These passages have been formatted for use with Google Classroom™️. The passage
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Grades:
1st - 2nd
Reading Comprehension Checks (THE BUNDLE)
Reading Comprehension Passages!DOWNLOAD the PREVIEW to see this packet and how it Works! This BUNDLE of NO PREP READING COMPREHENSION Passages/Stories includes 180 simple stories/passages to help with fluency, comprehension and building reading confidence for September through May. Each story provides early readers with a genuine opportunity to practice reading short stories they can decode with early phonics skills and sight word recognition. These Comprehension Checks can be used independe
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K - 2nd
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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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2D Shape Pattern Block STEM Challenge Cards
The perfect addition to your morning STEM tubs, these challenge cards ask students to make a variety of different 2D shapes from pattern blocks. Ideal for building visual discrimination skills as children have to rotate and flip smaller shapes to create the new shape.Focus shapes included - triangle, square, rectangle, rhombus/diamond, hexagon, trapezoid. Perfect to use as an invitation to play in the Early Years, as math centers or even as a cross-curriculum literacy center for early readers to
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K - 3rd
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Describing & Inferring Details with Picture of the Day: Reading Photos "Closely"
***************************************Picture of the Day now available in Volume 2.Picture of the Day now available in Volume 3 (Google Slides compatible) posted 8/24/2020.***************************************This Picture of the Day product is a great way for students to practice three very important reading skills - observing details by being able to describe them and making inferences about what you notice and observe based on what you see and what you already know. Observing, describing an
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K - 6th
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Bossy R Reading Passages | R-Controlled Vowels Worksheets
This set contains five double-sided mini-books to practice Bossy R. Each booklet focuses on one r controlled vowel. The booklets included are: ar, er, ir, or, and ur. The books work great for RTI and for Science of Reading instruction. They also work well as an introductory activity, a review of skills, for tutoring, at a center, or as part of your homeschool curriculum. Each booklet includes:Words with picture clues to introduce the soundWord list to practice the new skillReading passageCircl
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1st - 2nd
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Also included in: Bossy R Worksheets Games Posters Task Cards Reading Passages Bundle
Dolch Sight Word Fluency Flashcards BUNDLE
Boost your students' sight word vocabulary and reading fluency with these high-frequency sight word cards from the Dolch word list! Sight word practice in context, with a word bank to review previously-covered words. Now available for use with Google Slides as well! Click here for the Digital + Printable Dolch BundleEver have students who are just not learning their sight words fast enough, despite everything you've tried? How about students who can read sight words on flashcards, but have diffi
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PreK - 2nd
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