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Critical thinking Common Core RL.2.7 resources
End of the Year Activities Camping Theme for Last Week of School Camp Days
Our week-long End-of-Year Camping Theme unit is a fun way to end the year! Get ready for a classroom transformation! With engaging activities like an all about me worksheet, camp games, and more where students enjoy camping days while teachers can use the time for work at school. Keep kids engaged while creating memorable adventures during this unforgettable end-of-year camp experience!⭐️ Be sure to open up the preview to see what is inside.Key Features In This Week Long Camp Themed Unit:✓ Daily
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1st - 3rd
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Story Elements Graphic Organizers Set
Story Elements - Reading Comprehension - Graphic Organizers
Use these 12 printable graphic organizers to help your students understand the stories they are reading. With greater understanding of the story elements, students' reading comprehension greatly increases! Can be used with any story!
Includes: Story Chart, Story Chart Pictures, Story Elements Radial, Cause & Effect, Character Analysis, Vocabulary Word Work, Story Summary, KWL Chart, Venn Diagram, Fortune Teller, Story Elements Pu
Grades:
2nd - 4th
FAIRY TALE STEM Activity Challenges BUNDLE Family STEM Night and Homeschool STEM
These fairy tale STEM activities bring a classic story alive in a hands-on way, exploring force and motion, sound, measurement, kinetic and potential energy, and more using the engineering design process to creatively problem solve. ⭐ Students will join characters like Goldilocks, Rapunzel, and Jack and the Beanstalk on 12 engineering adventures, with 48 STEM activities included. They will be challenged to use their problem-solving skills to help the characters solve an engineering dilemma! ⭐Stu
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K - 3rd
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
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
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2nd - 3rd
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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Mr. Peabody's Apples Character Changes, Lessons Learned
Mr. Peabody’s Apples by Madonna is a beautiful story which can teach young readers how to watch the character for theme changes. By using the signpost strategy (Notice and Note Strategies for Close Reading by K. Beers and N. Probst), students can gain a better understanding of key elements in fictional text. When looking at the characters and major events, you can lead the class to see how these changes can affect the character over time. (This is the beginning of awareness for: character mot
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2nd - 5th
Also included in: A Book Companion Bundle
Inference With Pictures
Making Inferences with Pictures!
Making inferences means reading between the lines! Learn to spot contextual clues in stories by making inferences with pictures. This is a great beginner's activity for building reading comprehension skills.
Contents:
*Teacher Instructions
*50 High quality images
*Response Recording Sheets
*Blank Recording Sheets (Differentiated)
*Anchor Posters (Schema and Inference)
Materials needed: LCD projector to project photos.
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K - 6th, Adult Education
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Reading Response Comprehension Sheets for Non-Fiction & Fiction Books
Growing Reading Comprehension Response Sheets are a great way to see if your students can understand text & take it to the next level! The engaging activities encourage your students to understand & analyze the texts they're reading on a deeper level! These are great activities to use with small groups, homework, for early finishers or centers!What's included:• 10 Non-Fiction Reading Response Sheets• 10 Fiction Reading Response SheetsSlainte,☘️ MollyLucky Learning with Molly LynchLooking
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1st - 2nd
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Escape Room Break Out Box Game, Christmas Nativity Elementary Edition (Mini)
Get ready to dive into an exciting escape-room style adventure with this break-out game designed to review the Christmas Nativity story with your elementary students. From the most reluctant to the most advanced, all of your students will be 100% engaged in solving the clues in this interactive lock box game. Student Experience: In this mini escape game with a flexible three-ways-to-play format, students will race against the clock to save the true meaning of Christmas! Throughout the game, s
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1st - 4th
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CALDECOTT BOOK ACTIVITIES BUNDLE Literature Extensions Critical Thinking GATE
Story Sleuths I, II, and III Bundle delivers 3 products at 20% savings. You will receive 12 weeks of clues for the Story Sleuth challenge; an enrichment unit using Caldecott Award winning books to cultivate critical thinking. Your students will use text features, illustrations, and context to determine which book is described by the set of clues. By involving your students in this project, you will exercise their deductive reasoning, analysis, evaluation, and problem solving skills. This unit is
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K - 4th
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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
Weslandia character changes, lessons learned
WESLANDIA by Paul Fleischman is a beautiful story which can teach young readers how to watch the character for theme changes. By using the signpost strategy (Notice and Note Strategies for Close Reading by K. Beers and N. Probst), students can gain a better understanding of key elements in fictional text. When looking at the characters and major events, you can lead the class to see how these changes can affect the character over time. (This is the beginning of awareness for: character motivat
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Grades:
2nd - 5th
Also included in: A Book Companion Bundle
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: Emoji Escape Room EVERYTHING Bundle Math and ELA Review 2nd-6th
On Meadowview Street Speech and Language Book Companion
On Meadowview Street is a sweet story of a girl who transforms her neighborhood. It is full of great vocabulary and opportunities to practice making inferences and predictions. This companion pack targets a variety of comprehension and language skills and is great for mixed groups! Work on vocabulary, compare and contrast, defining and describing, sequence and retell, and comprehension skills with one resource. An open ended game board is also included, so you can incorporate any other skill you
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1st - 3rd
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CALDECOTT BOOK ACTIVITIES Story Sleuths I Literature Extention Critical Thinking
STORY SLEUTHS I is a 4 week, critical thinking project based on Caldecott Award winning books. Your students will use text features, illustrations, and context to determine which Caldecott Award winning book is described by the set of clues. By involving your students in this project, you will exercise their deductive reasoning, analysis, evaluation, and problem solving skills. This unit is CCSS aligned. Students also enjoy great literature, learn about artistic media, and participate in col
Grades:
K - 4th
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
Boris and Bella characters, lessons learned, Halloween activities
Boris and Bella is a BOOtiful story which can teach young readers how to watch the character for theme changes. It's an awesome read aloud for our Halloween activities. This resource is now ready for distance learning too! Bella Legrossi (the messiest monster in Booville) and Boris Kleanitoff (the tidiest monster in Booville) were neighbors who rubbed each other the wrong way. Kids will have fun listening to this Halloween story to find out if these two could ever be friends. By using the sig
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Grades:
1st - 4th
Also included in: A Book Companion Bundle
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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Glow Day Activities With Glow Day Math, Glow Day Reading, & More for Glow Party
Glow Days are here! With this ultimate glow-in-the-dark room transformation with glow days you and your kids will LOVE the last week of school! From Glow Day Math to Glow Day Reading and more, you will ensure your students have the best glow party as you countdown the end of the year. This unit covers reading, writing, math, science, and social studies for the entire last week of school. Kids are reviewing while teachers are getting work done at school. No more end-of-the-year insanity!⭐️ Be sur
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1st - 3rd
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Written Comprehension Bundle 2nd 3rd Prepare for mClass TRC Questions
Can your students prove their answers? They need to practice their written comprehension! In this comprehension center, students read a fiction book closely, returning to the text and/or video for text evidence to support their answers. This written comprehension reading packet utilizes 18 well-known book titles, available from most school collections. {Books not included!}All of the 2nd Grade titles, available hereThe Kissing Hand by Audrey PennWilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge by Mem FoxLibrar
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2nd - 3rd
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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
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1st - 3rd
Book Review, Book Report Templates based on Bloom's Taxonomy
How could one find so many book report forms that transform children into the books they read and into a love of literature? Blooming Book Report Forms began as a few book report forms created to teach third grade students. Over the years new forms were created for multiple abilities.These forms were used with Bloom’s Taxonomy as a focus to ensure student success. As a third grade teacher I was tired of finding book report forms that didn’t really engage the students. These forms help students t
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K - 5th
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Also included in: Reading Comprehension Strategies Bundle
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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Reading Comprehension Bundle
This product includes Comp. Quest Cards 1 Based on Bloom's Taxonomy. It also includes Comp. Quest Cards 2 Based on Bloom's Revised Taxonomy. Comp. Quest Cards 1 is based on Bloom's original Taxonomy.Reading comprehension cards are color coordinated based on various levels of thinking.They are a great tool for teachers, teacher assistants and parents to engage children during a read aloud, and reading groups. I have used these cards as a third grade teacher, as a resource room teacher and as a re
Grades:
2nd - 5th
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