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Free reading strategies Common Core RI.5.1 resources
Reading Passages with Comprehension Questions: Test Prep for 3rd, 4th, 5th Grade
This resource contains SIX reading comprehension passages (3 nonfiction passages and 3 fiction passages). Following each passage, there are six multiple-choice comprehension questions, making them ideal for test prep practice. These reading passages can be used in so many ways! Some options include using them as a test prep activity, as morning work or homework, or as part of a small group lesson. These passages are written at 4th and 5th grade reading levels.The comprehension questions vary wit
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3rd - 5th
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History of Chocolate Chip Cookies Reading Comprehension Passage & Worksheets
Your students will enjoy learning all about how chocolate chip cookies got their start with this FREE high-interest, informational Close Reading Unit! Perfect for a fun reading unit, this resource includes everything, including worksheets, that you need for a full week of reading activities about the history of the chocolate chip cookie. Now includes a digital version for Google Classroom. Engaging for students and NO PREP for teachers!This freebie is a part of the August Close Reading Bundle, w
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4th - 6th
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Also included in: Leveled Reading Comprehension Passages and Questions Bundle for the Year
Boston Celtics and Larry Bird Close Reading FREEBIE
Do your students need more close reading work to practice their reading comprehension skills? These basketball close reading passages are the perfect tool to learn and implement close reading strategies.With my sports fan students in mind, I wrote a couple basketball close reading passages to share with our upper elementary students. My students LOVE to read about athletes, so I try to keep as many of these high-interest passages on hand for test prep, morning work, "I'm finished, now what?", o
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4th - 7th
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Main Idea and Key Details RI.5.2 | Great Pacific Garbage Patch Article #5-1
Nonfiction Article of the Week Club, Article #5-1: The Great Pacific Garbage PatchThis is the first in a set of 25 informational text articles + activity packs designed to teach ALL of the reading informational text standards for 5th grade in a fun, rigorous, and easy to implement solution! Download this FREE resource today, and then click here to view the rest of the article + activity packs available via this growing bundle. Your students will love reading about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
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4th - 6th
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Also included in: Ultimate Article of the Week Bundle Grades 4-8
FREE Reading Comprehension Task Cards BEST Standards Grades 3-5
Are your students in need of repeat practice when it comes to reading comprehension? Finding a short and manageable practice that does not overwhelm your 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students can be challenging.This mini-set includes 8 task cards. Skills covered: literary elements, inferencing, central idea, text evidence, details, and summarizing.It's perfect for back-to-school review. The cards use test-like questions: multiple choice, A/B (evidence-based selected response), multi-select, table mat
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2nd - 5th
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RACE Strategy FREEBIE! | Interactive Practice ELA Test Prep | Google Slides
This is an *EDITABLE* and FREE resource for you to help your students master the RACE writing strategy for open-ended constructed responses!The short informative reading passage is a research-based original text about the planet Mars. This would fit into a science unit about space easily AND help students literacy skills!For MORE interactive practice slides to help teach this strategy, click HERE!PERFECT FOR:Distance LearningIn-class practiceLiteracy Center ActivityDigital HomeworkELA Test PrepI
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5th - 7th
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Also included in: RACE Strategy BUNDLE! Teaching Presentation + 6 Worksheet Activities
5th Grade Reading Homework & Quizzes with Constructed Response Practice | FREE
This FREE 5th Grade Spiral Reading resource is perfect for Reading HOMEWORK, Reading MORNING WORK, or a DAILY READING REVIEW! These professionally written, on-level passages and text-dependent questions build in complexity each week, as more skills are introduced. All questions are EDITABLE and easy to differentiate to fit your students' needs.☝☝ Download the FREE Sample to try it out! ☝☝Get the ENTIRE YEAR BUNDLE! {CLICK HERE} What's Included (PAID VERSION)...36 weeks of Daily Reading Review S
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5th
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Fact and Opinion Mini Kit
This FACT and OPINION mini kit was created and intended to teach the following:Distinguish between fact and opinionUnderstand fact and opinion definitionsImprove overall comprehension skills by analyzing textBeing able to correctly identify and distinguish between fact and opinion will help students improve their overall comprehension skills.CHECK OUT THE FULL PRODUCT DOWNLOAD: FACT AND OPINION BUNDLERTI - Response to Intervention:This product is also very helpful for students in upper grades t
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2nd - 5th
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Valentine's Day Print and Read FREEBIE
Are you looking for something highly engaging that you can use quickly? A FREE Print and Read about Valentine's Day candy hearts will work perfectly for you! This set is perfect for you and your students will love the nonfiction passages! You will love the easy prep- just print and read! NOTE: This free sample is from a larger reading set.Valentine's Day Reading Passages Print and ReadWhat is in this set?This set features upper 3rd to fifth-grade skills of finding the main idea, determining wor
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3rd - 5th
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Five-Sentence Summary Graphic Organizer
This two-page graphic organizer helps students organize their thoughts and write a clear, well-structured five-sentence summary of a fiction or nonfiction text. Many students struggle to include the most important details in their summaries, or these details are not presented in a logical order. This document breaks down the task of writing a summary into smaller tasks, beginning with identifying the who, what, where, when, and why of the story.This document contains two pages. The first page as
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3rd - 9th
Also included in: English Language Arts Graphic Organizers Bundle: Writing and Vocabulary
PENGUINS READING COMPREHENSION Activities ANY BOOK Graphic Organizers Worksheets
These penguin reading comprehension activities provide engaging, meaningful practice to greatly improve your 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th or 5th grade students’ reading and writing skills. Each of the reading graphic organizer activities included in this set can be used over and over and with ANY penguins book you choose.A graphic organizer is a visual display that organizes ideas and shows the relationships between concepts or information. Graphic organizers guide childrens' thinking and help them to com
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1st - 5th
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Patriot Day: Fireboat by Maira Kalman
Patriot Day, the remembrance day for 9/11, is a tough day that brings up a lot of feelings. Strangely, it's something many of our young students aren't even aware of.While it's a tough thing to discuss with young students, there is a way to do it that won't scare them. You can teach about the heroes from that day.Fireboat by Maira Kalman is a beautiful picture book that tells the story of a fireboat called the John J. Harvey. It tells about the attack and focuses on the heroic efforts of the cit
Grades:
1st - 5th
U.S. History Quote of the Week: Free Sample
Integrate literacy and social studies with U.S. History Quote of the Week!As students learn about U.S. history, they practice literacy skills like:making inferencesresearching & summarizingidentifying the main idea, historical context, and author’s purposeand responding to promptsU.S. History Quote of the Week is easy to use and requires little prep. From thorough instructions to answer keys, it’s all there.Even better, I’ve made it engaging! Your students will enjoy dissecting and talking a
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5th - 8th
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Informational Text CLOSE READING *Freebie* for Interactive Notebooks
This freebie is BEST used in conjunction with my Interactive Reading Informational Text Notebook lessons. If you do not have this product, you may find it difficult to understand the formatting and annotating I use, specifically for main idea and detail structure.
This freebie is meant to be a preview of the passage pack for those who currently own this notebook. However, this full paid product (Informational Text Close Reading Passage Pack)
includes several pages of explicit instructions and e
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4th - 9th
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RACES Strategy Practice Passage FREEBIE Constructed Response 3rd, 4th, 5th Grade
RACES Strategy Practice is great for ELA Test Prep, including extended constructed response questions. This FREEBIE includes 1 RACES Strategy Passage and Sample Response, RACES graphic organizer, 2 RACE or RACES bookmark (2 to a page) and student anchor chart.This is included in my very popular resource RACES Strategy Practice Passages Constructed Response Prompts 3rd 4th 5th Grade for more in-depth RACES Strategy Practice, How can I use this resource?State Testing PreparationELA Test Prep Pract
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3rd - 5th
Informational Expository Test Passage STAAR
Do you need a strong informational selection with a variety of ways to present these important student expectations? This product lets you easily differentiate. This comprehension package offers an informational expository selection sourced as a magazine article with a ready-made video e-lesson, hands-on activities, test practice items and answer keys that demonstrate exact text evidence to support answer choices. To add even more depth, a link to a full video lesson is also provided! Two differ
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3rd - 5th, Staff
Christmas Themed Escape Room Adventure
This digital escape room is more immersive and interactive than a Google Form! This escape room will help your students engage with the content they're reviewing and to have fun while they learn!Saving Christmas Day has a unique, engaging storyline that will have your students review the components of explicit instruction, context clues, main idea, and inference in order to help the elves in the North Pole complete their tasks before Christmas Day begins! ----------------------------------------
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4th - 6th
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March Madness Close Reading Passage & Comprehension | UPPER ELEMENTARY
Get ready to slam dunk your students' reading skills with this March Madness Close Reading Passage and Comprehension Questions resource! This high-interest topic will captivate students' attention and have them engaged in reading like never before. Perfect for test prep, reinforcing reading skills, and practicing written responses, this resource includes everything you need to make March Madness come alive in your classroom.THIS RESOURCE INCLUDES:2 versions of the reading passage: one with text
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4th - 6th
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FREE Reader's Response Journal Prompts for Daily Reading Comprehension Notebook
Using a Reader's Notebook in your classroom is a fantastic way to improve your students' reading comprehension! These sample reading response prompts will help your students set goals, monitor and track daily reading, and develop reading comprehension skills!⭐ This is a FREE WEEK SAMPLE of my full-year Reader's Notebook and Reading Response resource!The complete Reader's Notebook resource is perfect for:✔ 4th, 5th, and 6th-grade classrooms✔ teachers who want to help students set and monitor goal
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4th - 6th
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Read and Respond Sticky Note Templates FREEBIE
If you can't get enough sticky note fun, get my Sticky Note Bundle here, for a discount of over 50%!!OR just looking for some Thanksgiving Sticky Note fun? Get the Gratitude Sticky Note Bulletin Board here!!****This is a freebie that features a portion of my Read and Respond Sticky Note Templates Product*****These templates are meant to be used with standard 3x3 sticky notes -- If you don't have sticky notes, you can also print these out and use them like bookmarks*Do your students LOVE using st
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4th - 6th
Literary and Informational Text FREEBIE: 5 Reading Passages and Task Cards
This ELA reading connection FREEBIE is a product that you can use today in your classroom. This five-part Literary and Informational Text Resource includes five different reading passages with corresponding task cards. There is no prep. Just print and go. You will see your students have a deeper understanding of what they read.
********* Click here for a one minute demonstration of our Literacy Connection:
Make Reading Come Alive *********
(Aligned to Common Core, Webb’s Depth of Knowledge,
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3rd - 8th
Fall Reading Fluency Bundle 2.0
This is an extension from my first fall/Halloween bundle freebie! This bundle has 6(!!) reading passages that range from upper 2nd-5th grade reading levels as well as fluency graphs to go along with! A blank graph is included to reproduce your own numbers, fitting to your students' wpm needs. Reading response, vocabulary, and comprehension questions are included.
You are going to FALL in love with this! I know my kiddos did!
Let me know if you have any questions. Be sure to comment and rate
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2nd - 5th
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Interactive Read Aloud Sample
This is a sample of my Interactive Read Aloud Lesson plans. This sample covers Memoirs of a Goldfish by Devin Scillian. It focuses on the skill making connections. Included in This Download:one interactive read aloud lesson plan using the mentor text Memoirs of a Goldfish by Devin Scillian PLEASE NOTE: The book itself is not included. This is only the accompanying lesson plan. CHECK OUT THE FULL BUNDLE HERE!!Each Lesson Plan Includes:Important vocabulary terms or potentially confusing words from
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2nd - 5th
FREE - Cause and Effect
FREE - Cause and Effect Reading Passages "Revolutionary War". Free cause and effect reading passages about the Revolutionary War.Patriots & LoyalistsNeed a bundle? American History Bundle (200 worksheets).--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------And for one-stop shopping...SOCIAL STUDIES13 Colonies (43 worksheets)Bundle - US History & US GeographyCalifornia & USA BundleFlorida & USA BundleNew York & USA BundleNew Eng
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4th - 7th
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