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Critical thinking Common Core RL.2.4 resources
Fairy Tales 2nd Grade Fairytales, Folktales, & Fables Unit Lessons & Activities
A fairy tale (fairytale), folk tale, and fable close reading unit can make writing lesson plans a breeze and ensure a deeper exploration into understanding stories while students provide text evidence from specified Mentor Texts (a list is included!). This interactive reading unit uses three different genres to teach deeper thinking about the main characters, the moral of the story, text structure, point of view, and comparing and contrasting stories. Graphic organizers are included and can be u
Grades:
2nd - 3rd
Interactive Reading Notebook * Book Reports & Comprehension Strategies
Interactive Reading Notebook to use with ANY Fiction Book! There are over 100 foldables and activities included in this resource. This product will accompany almost any fiction book that you use in your classroom. There are interactive activities that focus on whole book comprehension {book reports}, as well as foldables that reinforce once specific strategy or skill. This resource also works great as an added resource to Guided Reading or intervention groups. Test prep doesn't have to be b
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2nd - 5th
Read Aloud Books and Activities: Reading Response Sheets: Interactive Read Aloud
Dive into the world of imagination and discovery with this "Read Aloud Books and Activities: Interactive Read Aloud Lesson Plans Mega Bundle," specifically designed for 2nd-grade learners. This comprehensive collection not only features a wide variety of read-aloud books but also integrates engaging activities that encourage students to read and respond actively. With meticulously crafted reading response sheets and interactive lesson plans, this mega bundle is tailored to foster a love for read
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2nd - 3rd
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Comprehension and Metacognition, Reading is THINKING, Good Readers
Reading is THINKING! These reading comprehension strategies, lessons, and student handouts are perfect for students needing extra practice with metacognition skills and learning to REALLY READ. Students will learn the difference between "FAKE READING" and "REAL READING."Lessons are great for:RTI / InterventionsGuided Reading lessonsSmall group reading instructionWhole group mini-lessonsLiteracy stations / centersInteractive Reading JournalsIncluded in this READING IS THINKING download:Teaching
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1st - 4th
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Also included in:Â Metacognition, Reading Comprehension MEGA BUNDLE
End of the Year Activities: Last Day of School Theme Weeks End of Year 2nd Grade
Do you dread the end-of-the-year hustle and bustle? There is just so much to do and so little time! Not anymore, my friend. Get ready for a classroom transformation! End-of-the-year activities have never been more engaging, time-producing, and just plain AWESOME than with these End of the Year-Themed Weeks! There is even an all about me worksheet included in each theme week. Keep teaching until the end WHILE giving yourself TIME to get everything done at SCHOOL. Also perfect for summer review.*
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1st - 2nd
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Reading Assessment Bundle Fiction & Nonfiction 2nd Grade Standards Based Grading
How do you assess a second grader’s reading comprehension for report cards? This question can be particularly difficult if you are required to follow a standards-based grading report card. Second Grade ELA Reading Comprehension Year-Long Curriculum Bundle provides a quick reading comprehension assessment for each of the Common Core standards. This print version makes it easy to make two piles- got-it and needs more work making small group creation a breeze.Standards-Based grading has never been
Grades:
2nd - 3rd
2nd Grade Reading Review Game | ELA Test Prep Game Escape Room
Escape rooms are the most fun way to review the 2nd grade reading / ELA standards while encouraging team work, critical thinking, and problem solving! In this classroom escape, students will compete as teams to escape Planet Emoji! This team escape challenge is great for teams of 4-6 students, up to 8 teams. The best thing is, you don't have to prepare envelopes for every single team. This activity was created to be much easier to prep than the traditional class escape challenge. You will use fa
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3rd
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Also included in:Â Emoji Escape Room EVERYTHING Bundle Math and ELA Review 2nd-6th
STEAM Read Alouds With STEM Challenge Cards Makerspace Task Cards Bundle
Motivating reluctant readers can feel like a HUGE hurdle to overcome, especially around books and reading. That's why Makerspace STEAM Read Aloud Challenges are so powerful. They take literature and stories and bring them to life through innovation, creativity, community, collaboration, and critical thinking!This Makerspace STEM Read Aloud & Challenges YEAR-LONG BUNDLE is for you! This bundle is specifically designed for busy teachers who want to engage their students and instill a love of r
Grades:
1st - 2nd
Teach CCSS with Encanto's Song Surface Pressure | Theme | Craft & Structure
Teach CCSS with Encanto's Song Surface Pressure! Use this short 3 minute song to teach a ton of CCSS standards. Explore how lyrics and visuals reveal how Luisa feels about herself and how Mirabel must feel about her older sister. Discuss word/phrase meanings in the lyrics like 'under the surface' and 'cerebus'. Finally, identify the theme and lessons that can be learned from Luisa's song. This song by Jessica Darrow, along with the lyrics on screen, can be found on YouTube here. (Note: I do no
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1st - 5th
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Also included in:Â Encanto Movie Guide & CCSS Targeted Mini Lesson Plans | Bundle | SAVE 25%
COMMON CORE READING Comprehension Bundle
Save with these two best sellers together in a NO PREP 2 IN 1 BUNDLE, which includes over 100 reading comprehension response printables aligned and compatible with the Common Core Reading for grades 1-3. The resource packets in this bundle require no laminating or color ink. Just print and use with any book during whole group instruction, reading centers, literature circles, as homework, and more. IMPORTANT TO NOTE:This is a discounted, BUNDLED pack of 2 resource items that are also available in
Grades:
1st - 3rd
Respond to Reading Activities Common Core RL 2.1-2.9 - Use With Any Book
My Respond to Reading activities have been created to align with the Common Core RL 2.1-2,9 standards. I use these Respond to Reading activities at least once a week with whatever text we are reading: basal reading stories, book clubs, novel studies, author studies, AR individual books. These activities have deepened my students’ reading comprehension skills & writing skills! The best part is that my students love to complete them with partners. We all know how important it is to give our st
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2nd
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Christmas Trolls Read Aloud & Christmas Makerspace Activity and Challenge
Christmas Makerspace/STEM brings Christmas Trolls to life! Your students will experience a choice of close reading activities focused on the standards of characters, retelling, main idea/theme, vocabulary, and point of view. Then the little engineers in them will solve the problem of one or more of the characters. A conversation about push and pull brings science into literature! MakerSpace Activity: STEAM takes the E for engineering and the A for arts from STEAM and you get Maker Space Moments
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1st - 2nd
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Room Transformation Bundle | Theme Days for the Primary Classroom
A collection of theme day activities and/or room transformation plans and activities. These were designed with first and second graders in mind. Theme days and room transformations are such a big hit in my classroom. They are fun and engaging and something to break up the routine and keep excitement for learning at the forefront! These are a great option for review days, once a quarter or seasonally. I will be adding more as I complete them.Here's What You Get:Back to school read aloud (20 socia
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1st - 3rd
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UDL lesson plan: THE MAGIC FISH
The story for this lesson came from a Scholastic Publishing resource book, which featured a Brothers Grimm tale. The comedy helps tell a social/moral lesson which can be appreciated by a diversity of students. Whether learning disabled, an English Language Learner or a grade level student, the situation and illustrations spell out a clear message of over indulgence. The repetitive song helps bring the story to a fun sing-along meets slap stick comedy experience. Feel free to start singing the so
Grades:
2nd - 3rd
Standards Based Grading 2nd Grade Reading Comprehension Assessment MEGA Bundle
How do you assess a second grader’s reading comprehension for report cards? This question can be particularly difficult if you are required to follow a standards-based grading report card. Second Grade ELA Reading Comprehension Year-Long Curriculum Bundle provides a quick reading comprehension assessment for each of the Common Core standards. This digital AND print version makes it easy to assign either digitally or paper-pencil.Standards-Based grading has never been easier with this print and d
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Grades:
2nd
Makerspace Activity Are You Grumpy Santa Christmas READ ALOUD & Christmas Craft
Christmas makerspace/STEM activity brings Are You Grumpy Santa? to life! Students will focus on standards with close reading responses and activities as well as design, create, and built a solution to Santa's problem. MakerSpace Activity: STEAM takes the E for engineering and the A for arts from STEAM and you get Maker Space Moments in Literature. Makerspace Moments In Literature allow you to do a focused Close Reading with text as well as extend on a piece of literature with the same function
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1st - 2nd
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Also included in:Â STEAM Read Alouds With STEM Challenge Cards Makerspace Task Cards Bundle
Context Clues in Google: Multiple Meaning Words, Level 1 - Set 1
Do your students need practice finding the meaning of a word in a text? Do you need exercises where students not only find the meaning but also explain why they get their answer? Do you use Google Classroom and need exercises in which your students can practice this? This exercise does all of the above and is in the format of Google Forms (set up as quizzes for easier grading). [If you have your students email their assignments to you or you use a drop-box, CLICK HERE to access this series of ex
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2nd - 5th
Also included in:Â Context Clues in Google: Multiple Meaning Words, Level 1, Bundle 1, Sets 1-4
PINKY and REX & THE JUST-RIGHT PET: READING & WRITING LESSONS (2ND/3RD)
Children love pets and will go through extremes to convince their parents to let them have one. Pinky & Rex and the Just-Right Pet is about Pinky's family getting a pet! The problem is, by a three to one vote, they've decided to get a cat, and Pinky wants a dog. And when they get a kitten, Pinky's sister, Amanda, says that Patches is hers. Why should Pinky care? This 6-chapter easy chapter book is a perfect guided reading or independent reading time book to use with your class. It can encour
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Grades:
2nd - 3rd
Making Inferences Using Picturebooks: Grades K-5
This unit includes 20+ pages of reusable graphic organizers and multiple lessons utilizing quality children's books that will help your students understand the many ways to make inferences while reading.
The unit begins with an anchor lesson teaching the concept of making inferences. The anchor lesson uses the story Two Bad Ants by Chris VanAllsburg. This story beautifully lends itself to making inferences with the help of the author's brilliant ability to use words and illustrations to lead
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K - 5th
Context Clues: Short Passages, Level 2, Set 1
Do your students need practice finding the meaning of a word in a text? Are your students advanced enough you need practice for them using small reading passages? Do you need worksheets where students not only find the meaning but also explain why they get their answer? This resource offers this both in a printable version as well as in an interactive self-grading (for the multiple choice portion) version via TPT Easel. [If you use Google Classroom and want students to do an exercise like this v
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2nd - 5th
Also included in:Â Context Clues: Short Passages, Level 2, Bundle 1 (Sets 1-4)
Use Your Noggin: Figurative Language Task Card Game
Looking for a way to spice up your reading and writing task cards? Wanting to help your students build a strong working vocabulary? This picture driven game will provide your students with the higher-level thinking practice they need to develop a strong vocabulary as well as an understanding of figurative language necessary for successful reading and writing. Students will produce figurative language phrases to describe the picture. Then they will practice writing these phrases into fully desc
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1st - 5th
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Halloween STEM Read Alouds Makerspace Challenge with Engineering Design Process
Halloween activity in reading takes makerspace and literature and brings both focuses together. Halloween Bundle brings 4 stories together with a makerspace extension for each story. MakerSpace Activity: STEAM takes the E for engineering and the A for arts from STEAM and you get Maker Space Moments in Literature. Makerspace Moments In Literature allow you to do a focused Close Reading with text as well as extend on a piece of literature with the same function and creativity of a Makerspace usin
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1st - 2nd
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Makerspace STEM: Brave Irene | Close Read, Challenge, & Makerspace Lesson Plans
Winter Makerspace STEM lessons using the story Brave Irene are a wonderful way to teach and reinforce comprehension standards- asking and answering questions, central theme, story elements, vocabulary, story structure, and point of view, while also focusing on STEM (weather and electricity) and Makerspace. Lesson plans are included for 5 days or more if you choose all standards to cover. SAVE 30% ON THE WINTER MAKERSPACE MOMENTS BUNDLEMakerspace with STEM Moments in early elementary is filled wi
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Grades:
2nd - 3rd
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-ESS3-1
Also included in:Â Winter STEM Story Stations and Lesson Plans Bundle for Makerspace Challenges
Context Clues in Google Complete Learning System
Do you want to find a way to teach the skill of Context Clues more systematically? Do you sometimes feel like it is hit or miss with your current reading program? Do you wish you had a full set of scaffolded worksheets you could draw from as the year progresses? Do you need more than one level of difficulty to be able to differentiate to meet the needs of your individual students? This bundle of exercises is designed for you to teach students how to find the meaning of unknown words by using the
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Grades:
2nd - 5th
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