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3rd grade short stories handouts
Phonics Reading Passages for Fluency and Comprehension - Vowel Teams
Vowel Team Reading Passages are perfect for practicing comprehension, fluency and phonics all at once. Each of the included pages focuses on one specific vowel team. The silly stories will keep students engaged and the format will help them complete the activities independently for homework or during your reading block. These no-prep passages are the perfect addition to any reading program. This phonics skill practice can be used to address comprehension, fluency, cold reads and even assessments
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1st - 3rd
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Personal Narrative Unit Graphic Organizers
In this unit are graphic organizers to support your students while writing personal narratives. These graphic organizers provide scaffolding and visual supports to a variety of learners. Included are graphic organizers on the following topics: *Brainstorming*Watermelon vs. Seed Ideas*Sensory Language*Introduction "Hooks"*Beginning, Middle, and End*Thinking about Setting*Character Traits*Dialogue*Transitions*Show, Don't Tell*Self & Peer Editing ************************************************
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3rd - 6th
Paper Bag Book Report Project - Novel Study Templates - Reading Comprehension
Paper Bag Book Report: Fun Book Report Project for ANY Novel or Short Story - This package is perfect for your upcoming novel study unit or short story unit, as it provides students with everything they need to create a Paper Bag Book Report on ANY novel or short story! All activities are classroom tested and include creative handouts, information sheets, detailed instructions, and templates! Two separate Paper Bag Book Report packages have been included: one for use with ANY novel, and one tha
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3rd - 6th
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Cut and Paste BUNDLE for Comprehension, Inferencing, & Sequencing
Save over 20% on this bundle! Stories with accompanying questions! Students will read the story or listen as the story is read aloud and then answer the questions by cutting out the answer and gluing it into place.Cut and Paste ComprehensionThere is a WHO, WHAT, WHEN, WHERE, and WHY question for each story! 53 Stories relate to common holidays throughout the year, school events, sports, and common life events (birthdays, visiting relatives, etc.)Cut and Paste Inferencing40 with accompanying infe
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1st - 5th
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Phonics Reading Passages for Fluency and Comprehension - Fictional Short Stories
Help your students practice their fluency while also working on their reading comprehension! 34 Fictional Stories covering a broad range of subjects. Please download the preview for a free passage to get an idea of the reading level and style!Students are asked to:⇛ read each story twice⇛ answer 4 questions. Each question number is also a bubble that students can color in and then color code the evidence they find. This adds another level of practice and accountability.Love this set? Check out P
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1st - 3rd
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Phonics Reading Passages for Fluency and Comprehension - Ending Blends
Ending Blends Reading Passages are perfect for practicing comprehension, fluency and phonics all at once. Each of the included pages focuses on one specific ending blend. The silly stories will keep students engaged and the format will help them complete the activities independently for homework or during your reading block.
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These no-prep passages are the perfect addition to any reading program. This phonics skill practice can be used to add
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1st - 3rd
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February 3rd Grade Florida F.A.S.T. Reading ELA Daily Practice
This daily F.A.S.T. / PARCC style daily reading practice packet was designed to help students practice Part A and Part B style questions that students struggle with. We've noticed that many students needed to practice answering this style of question daily to help students prep for the new testing formats. We've created the packet to engage students with February themed passages to make learning fun.There are 20 short passages which is a total of 4 weeks worth of daily practice. This packet may
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2nd - 4th
Also included in: Monthly 3rd Grade Florida F.A.S.T. Reading ELA Daily Practice Bundle
Inference with Reading Passages {read, use evidence + schema and infer}
Differentiated reading passages to help students learn to use text clues and background knowledge to make inferences and comprehend text on a deeper level!
Inference is a hard skill to master. Especially in students with reading comprehension difficulties. I created these short passages to help my students practice this skill. These passages are longer than most I have found available and I believe the extra details help my students better grasp the inference.
24 Stories Included!
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1st - 3rd
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Winter Non-Fiction Passages | Reading Comprehension
This pack includes 7 non-fiction stories with themes centered around the winter season. High-resolution photos are included for each story. Stories are perfect small group instruction, tiered intervention or as a whole class activity. Each story is common core aligned and targets vocabulary and comprehension. Stories were written for 2-5th grade students. Review the preview story for complexity. Each story includes a student copy, vocabulary cards, "printer-friendly" copy with comprehension ques
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2nd - 5th
Also included in: Seasonal Non-Fiction Passages Bundle | Reading Comprehension
Writing Workshop Mini Lesson: Seed Ideas for Small Moment Stories
This is a great resource for a writing workshop following Lucy Calkins Units of Study writing Personal Narratives. One of Lucy's units teaches students to write about small moments vs. the entire experience. For example, I may have vacationed in Hawaii, but I should pick one moment from the trip (like seeing the ocean for the first time) as my story. She refers to these small moments as "seed stories" and the entire experience a watermelon. Clever!When I teach this lesson I have my students prac
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1st - 5th
Phonics Reading Passages for Fluency & Comprehension - Short Vowel Word Families
Word Family Reading Passages are perfect for practicing comprehension, fluency and phonics all at once. Each of the included pages focuses on one specific word family. The silly stories will keep students engaged and the format will help them complete the activities independently for homework or during your reading block.
These no-prep passages are the perfect addition to any reading program. This phonics skill practice can be used to address comprehension, fluency, cold reads and even assessm
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K - 3rd
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Phonics Reading Passages for Fluency & Comprehension - Long Vowels
Long Vowel and Diphthong Reading Passages are perfect for practicing comprehension, fluency and phonics all at once. Each of the included pages focuses on one specific long vowel or diphthong. The silly stories will keep students engaged and the format will help them complete the activities independently for homework or during your reading block. These no-prep passages are the perfect addition to any reading program. This phonics skill practice can be used to address comprehension, fluency, cold
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1st - 3rd
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Cut and Paste Dinosaur Facts Stories and WH Questions
Learn about dinosaurs and work on comprehension skills with these 12 engaging story pages! Each story has 4 comprehension questions with cut and paste answer choices. Pronunciation of each dinosaur name is also included so your students will learn how to say their names correctly! Passages are about the following dinosaurs: AllosaurusAnkylosaurusBrachiosaurus Diplodocus Gallimimus Protoceratops PteranodonSpinosaurusStegosaurusTriceratopsTyrannosaurus RexVelociraptor PLUS a bonus dinosaur colorin
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1st - 5th
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Also included in: Cut and Paste BUNDLE for Comprehension, Inferencing, & Sequencing
Final Draft Writing Paper | Publishing Paper | 9 Different Formats
Your students will enjoy publishing their projects on these decorative pages! Choose from nine different fun styles. Each style comes with:a cover pagea page for text and a picturea page for text onlySEE WHAT OTHER EDUCATORS ARE SAYING ABOUT THIS RESOURCE:❤️"These papers are so helpful in getting kids excited about writing final drafts. Lots of design choices. Perfect."❤️"Exactly what I needed...and cute!! Thanks for sharing!"❤️"My students have loved making stories using these formats. Thanks
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in: Final Draft Publishing Paper Bundle | Poetry | Decorative Pages
Phonics Reading Passages for Fluency and Comprehension - R Controlled Vowels
R-Controlled vowel Reading Passages are perfect for practicing comprehension, fluency and phonics all at once. Each of the included pages focuses on one r-controlled vowel. The silly stories will keep students engaged and the format will help them complete the activities independently for homework or during your reading block.
These no-prep passages are the perfect addition to any reading program. This phonics skill practice can be used to address comprehension, fluency, cold reads and even as
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1st - 3rd
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Phonics Reading Passages for Fluency & Comprehension - Short Vowel Word Families
Word Family Reading Passages are perfect for practicing comprehension, fluency and phonics all at once. Each of the included pages focuses on one specific WORD FAMILY. The silly stories will keep students engaged and the format will help them complete the activities independently for homework or during your reading block.
These no-prep passages are the perfect addition to any reading program. This phonics skill practice can be used to address comprehension, fluency, cold reads and even assessm
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K - 3rd
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Inference Reading Passages {use evidence + schema and infer} COMMUNITY HELPERS
Passages to help students use text clues and background knowledge make inferences
Inference is a hard skill to master. Especially in students with reading comprehension difficulties. I created these short passages to help my students practice this skill. These passages are longer than most I have found available and I believe the extra details help my students better grasp the inference.
This specific set of inference passage is based on COMMUNITY HELPERS.
Use in conjunction with a communi
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1st - 4th
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Phonics Reading Passages for Fluency and Comprehension - Short Stories BUNDLE
Help your students practice their reading comprehension and fluency together with these 54 fictional short stories. Bundle and save 20%! Students are asked to:⇛ read each story twice⇛ answer 4 questions. Empty number bubbles allow for students to color code the evidence they find. (in Part One students are given multiple choice, in Part Two students are given free response)54 Fictional Stories covering a broad range of subjects. Please download the preview for a sample of each file!↡↡↡↡↡↡↡↡↡↡↡↡
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1st - 3rd
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Spring Non-Fiction Passages Print and Digital
This pack includes 9 non-fiction stories with themes centered around the spring season. High-resolution photos are included for each story. Stories are perfect small group instruction, tiered intervention or as a whole class activity. Each story is common core aligned and targets vocabulary and comprehension. Stories were written for 2-5th grade students. Review the preview story for complexity. This download includes a BOOM CARD™ version of the stories (7 passages)!Each story includes a student
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2nd - 5th
Also included in: Seasonal Non-Fiction Passages Bundle | Reading Comprehension
Graphic Novels lesson and Reading Response Log
Totally revised with a reader's response activity!Students are exposed to graphic novels in this lesson plan and are required to search for text features in graphic novels. This document includes a lesson plan, a handout to introduce text features, a text feature scavenger hunt sheet, a reader response activity, and a create your own comic paper.
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3rd - 7th
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Short Stories with Comprehension Questions
Use these 10 short stories with accompanying questions to target comprehension, story structure, vocabulary, idioms, main idea, predicting and inferencing skills.
Read the story and then ask the questions on the next page or preview the questions before reading the story to help with comprehension. The card then asks the student to retell the story in their own words after answering the questions to target expressive language skills.
Includes an image for each story to support understanding
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3rd - 10th
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Packet of Memoir Texts
Packet of 12 Memoir texts
*mentor texts to serve as models for your students as they write their own memoir
*short texts for enjoyment
*great to use with ELA test prep
~~Packet it ready to print and hand-out!~
Texts included:
Grandmama's Kitchen Table (Cynthia Rylant)
Not Enough Emily's (Jean Little)
When I Was Little (Jamie Lee Curtis)
Laughter (Sandra Cisneros)
Home (Michael J. Rosen)
Hairs (Sandra Cisneros)
Alone (Jacqueline Woodson)
Learning the Hard Way (Eloise Greenfield)
Mattie's Ride (
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2nd - 12th
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Inference Fiction Task Cards, Inferring Reading Group,Guided, Independent,Shared
These 50 cards can be printed off and laminated, or use on a smart board. This is a versatile reading resource. Student's are able to work on these individually or in a group. They provide reading skills necessary to help improve reading and writing for a range of age groups. There are answer keys to every card, so student's can check their working or for the teacher to mark individually. Inferring is a key part of teaching student's to read effectively and these provide an interesting, colourfu
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3rd - 9th
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Main Idea Fluency TDQs & More Frogs and Toads CLOSE READING 5 LEVELED PASSAGES
LEVELED PASSAGES! CHOOSE EACH STUDENT'S READING LEVEL. ALL STUDENTS WILL HAVE SAME CONTENT, VOCAB, AND QUESTIONS! Nilly Dilly's Story Club: Common Core Quick Sheets,Frogs and Toads, All-on-One page, Close Reading, TDQ's, Fluency Check, ELA Standard Aligned, Strands listed, Answer Key, No Prep, can be used for high achieving/gifted Kindergarteners up to students on the 6th grade reading level. Common Core Quick Sheets are designed for a busy teacher to have ALL the work on one page for whole clas
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1st - 5th
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