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5th grade science guided reading books for parents
The Water Cycle - Reading Comprehension Worksheets
Do your students struggle with scientific literacy? Do you find yourself at a loss for how to promote vocabulary retention? Are waning attention spans becoming a larger and larger problem in your classroom from year to year? If you answered yes to any of those questions then this resource is for you. I believe that teaching literacy is the job of every teacher, not just the heroes in English and Language Arts. And the only way we can help our students improve is by modeling and giving them chanc
Grades:
5th - 8th
NGSS:
MS-ESS2-4
Also included in: Ecosystems - FULL UNIT
Layers of the Earth - Reading Comprehension Worksheets
Do your students struggle with scientific literacy? Do you find yourself at a loss for how to promote vocabulary retention? Are waning attention spans becoming a larger and larger problem in your classroom from year to year? If you answered yes to any of those questions then this resource is for you. I believe that teaching literacy is the job of every teacher, not just the heroes in English and Language Arts. And the only way we can help our students improve is by modeling and giving them chanc
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5th - 8th
NGSS:
MS-ESS2-2
Also included in: Earth Science Reading Comprehension Bundle
All About Butterflies Reading Passages & Activities | Butterfly Life Cycle
These Butterflies Reading Passages are perfect for your insects unit, working on nonfiction reading skills, and guided reading groups. They include everything you need to work on building vocabulary and comprehension skills with your students! Differentiated butterflies reading passages (3 levels) allow you to meet the needs of all students to ensure complete understanding of the content. Take a look at the product preview for a closer look! All follow-up activities are thoughtfully aligned to
Grades:
2nd - 5th
End of Year Gift - Editable Memory Gift for Teacher - Fun End of the Year Craft
Are you looking for a special end of the year craft project or memory gift for teachers or a Mother’s Day gift? Use this editable and printable fingerprint memory tree to create a special keepsake gift or add it to your kids’ end of the year memory book or preschool journals.✅ SAVE TIME! - This special end of the year craft project is easy to prep.✅ VERSATILE! Create a keepsake gift for teachers, student teachers, or Mother’s Day.Use the tree printables to study trees and the four seasons.Use a
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PreK - 5th
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Weather Reading Passages
This 57 page pack includes 12 reading passages, 12 comprehension questions, 12 vocabulary cards, and a variety of follow-up activities. Take a look at the types of weather we focused on:TORNADOLIGHTNINGRAINBOWSNOWBLIZZARDHAILRAINSUNNYHURRICANETHUNDERSTORMTSUNAMIEARTHQUAKEInterested in this pack? Grab a freebie here!Weather Freebie: Drought
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2nd - 5th
All About Insects Bundle, Life Cycle, Nonfiction Reading Passages and Questions
These insects reading passages are a must have for an insects unit, working on nonfiction reading skills, and guided reading groups. They include everything you need to work on building vocabulary and comprehension skills with your students! Insects differentiated reading passages (3 levels) allow you to meet the needs of all students to ensure complete understanding of the content. Save big by buying this Insects Bundle! Take a look at the product preview for a closer look! All follow-up a
Grades:
2nd - 5th
Science Adapted Books | Special Education | Print + Digital
These very simple science readers and comprehension questions are perfect to supplement science units in your special education education classroom. Use adapted books to introduce students with Autism to science! Each page contains a matching component and this resource now includes a DIGITAL version! Great for distance learning!Click HERE to save 20% by purchasing this resource as part of the Best- Selling Simple Science Curriculum BundleWHAT TOPICS ARE INCLUDED?- Matter- Living and Nonliving-
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PreK - 8th
Insects Activity | Fireflies Reading Passages, Vocabulary & Comprehension
These Fireflies Reading Passages are perfect for your insects unit, working on nonfiction reading skills, and guided reading groups. They include everything you need to work on building vocabulary and comprehension skills with your students! Differentiated fireflies reading passages (3 levels) allow you to meet the needs of all students to ensure complete understanding of the content. Take a look at the product preview for a closer look! All follow-up activities are thoughtfully aligned to the
Grades:
2nd - 5th
Basic Shape OUTDOOR Scavenger Hunt Neighborhood Exploration
Grab a clipboard and get out and explore the neighborhood while hunting for basic real-world shapes! This activity is perfect for distant learning! Students/children can work individually, pairs or groups to find different items within their neighborhood. Some sheets list items to find and others have students make lists of things they see.There are FIVE versions to allow for differentiation. Suitable for preschool all the way through fifth grade! The INDOOR Basic Shape Scavenger Hunt can be fo
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PreK - 5th
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Science Fair - Everything you need to Sponsor Science Fair Projects
Science Fair Guide, Contracts, and Rubrics - I have sponsored over a thousand science fair projects and taken middle school students as far as the National Level in Science Fair (Broadcom Masters, Lemelson Award, 2019). THIS is the guide I give my students and their parents. Directions on how to complete a science fair project - accurate and to the point, written at a middle school level. What to expect, things to think about, tips, hints, and pep talks.Rather than answering a bagillion question
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5th - 12th
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Also included in: Life Science Bundle
Send Home Family Project STEM Activities - Take Home STEM Challenges in a Baggie
Looking for a fun way to engage families at home? Send home these STEM challenges in a baggie to keep your students entertained with their families. Each challenge starts with a cleverly written riddle that doubles as the directions for the STEM challenge. Simply copy the poem and add the easy-to-find supplies into a small baggie. You can send home one baggie a month OR use these activities in your classroom, too! With easy-to-find supplies like toothpicks, marshmallows, sticky notes, alumin
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K - 5th
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Space Meet the Teacher EDITABLE templates - Open House - Meet the Teacher Night
Your Meet the Teacher Night will be out of this world with these Meet the Teacher editable templates! You’ll find Space Meet the Teacher station signs, teacher letters, parent forms, wish list cards, and more to make your Open House run smoothly. Set up parent stations with the station signs or use the slides as a PowerPoint presentation! Customize your Meet the Teacher with the EDITABLE files -OR- use the ready-to-use posters provided with the EDITABLE files.Perfect for Meet the Teacher, Open H
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PreK - 5th
Fossils - Reading Comprehension Worksheets
Do your students struggle with scientific literacy? Do you find yourself at a loss for how to promote vocabulary retention? Are waning attention spans becoming a larger and larger problem in your classroom from year to year? If you answered yes to any of those questions then this resource is for you. I believe that teaching literacy is the job of every teacher, not just the heroes in English and Language Arts. And the only way we can help our students improve is by modeling and giving them chanc
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Grades:
5th - 8th
NGSS:
MS-ESS2-3
, MS-LS4-1
Also included in: Evolution - FULL UNIT
Science Fair Project Labels Pink Chevron --- with EDITABLE Title Labels
These labels are perfect for creating an eye catching Science Fair Project. These label's design features a bright pink chevron background with blue cloud header.
Labels included:
1. Variables
2. Materials
3. Acknowledgements
4. Observations
5. Hypothesis
6. Procedure
7. Research
8. Data
9. Application
10. Graph
11. Introduction
12. Abstract
13. Problem
14. Results
15. Conclusion
16. Purpose
17. Question
18. Analysis
19. Data Tables
And More!
These labels feature multicolore
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PreK - 12th
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scientific method worksheet Science reading comprehension passages and questions
Looking for a way to increase science reading comprehension and science literacy in your classroom? Help your students learn all about the scientific method, how to do a controlled experiment, and accuracy versus being precise with this scientific method science reading comprehension passages with note-taking templates that guide the students, comprehension worksheets that have leveled questions, and Task cards to extend the learning. Perfect for Common Core Literacy Science Standards.These comp
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4th - 12th
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STEM Home Challenges for Every Month - Vol. 1 ~ 14 Project Sheets for the Year!
We send these S.T.E.M. Home Challenges home with all of the students in our school building once a month. I created them with easy to find items in order to encourage the highest amount of family participation. We display each of the projects every month in a display case near our front office. The kids (and their parents) love watching the displays each month as new items are added! For any students that choose to participate, we give a small treat each month! These treats include STEM pen
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K - 8th
Differentiated Bees Leveled Reading Passages with Comprehension Questions
These Bees Reading Passages are perfect for your insects unit, working on nonfiction reading skills, and guided reading groups. They include everything you need to work on building vocabulary and comprehension skills with your students! Differentiated bees reading passages (3 levels) allow you to meet the needs of all students to ensure complete understanding of the content. Take a look at the product preview for a closer look! All follow-up activities are thoughtfully aligned to the ELA Commo
Grades:
2nd - 5th
3-D Geometric Shape OUTDOOR Scavenger Hunt
Grab a clipboard and start exploring OUTSIDE while hunting for 3D Geometric real-world shapes! This activity is perfect for distant learning! Students/children can work individually, pairs or groups to find different items within their neighborhood. Some sheets list items to find and others have students make lists of things they see.There are FIVE versions to allow for differentiation. Suitable for preschool all the way through fifth grade! The INDOOR 3-D Geometric Shape Scavenger Hunt and be
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PreK - 5th
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States of Matter Unit Special Education Science
States of matter is a tricky concept - especially when you’re trying to teach students with diverse needs. Written specifically with special education teachers in mind, my States of Matter 10 Day Mini Unit breaks down matter concepts into clear, repeated practice in varying formats. With definition posters, reading passages, comprehension questions, and worksheets, students will reinforce their understanding of states of matter in engaging and varied formats! What You Get: 2 comprehension works
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K - 12th
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Editable Newsletter Template for Middle High School Any Subject Grade
NEW! This trendy and simple classroom parent letter is an editable weekly or monthly paper or digital newsletter, and it is appropriate for any subject or class in elementary, middle or high school. Complete with 5 sections and banners and a burlap background, it’s the easy and perfect way to keep students and parents in the loop with what’s going on in your class! Edit, print, and pass out to your students or upload it to your class website to save paper! Looks great in black and white or add c
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5th - 12th
Also included in: NGSS Middle School Science Activities and Lessons Growing MEGA Bundle
Properties of Minerals - Reading Comprehension Worksheets
Do your students struggle with scientific literacy? Do you find yourself at a loss for how to promote vocabulary retention? Are waning attention spans becoming a larger and larger problem in your classroom from year to year? If you answered yes to any of those questions then this resource is for you. I believe that teaching literacy is the job of every teacher, not just the heroes in English and Language Arts. And the only way we can help our students improve is by modeling and giving them chanc
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Grades:
5th - 9th
Also included in: Earth Science Reading Comprehension Bundle
Special Education Science Curriculum Bundle
Struggling to find developmentally and age-appropriate science curricula for students? Introducing the Special Education Science Curriculum Bundle, a comprehensive and adaptive learning tool designed to meet the unique needs of students with diverse needs.This curriculum bundle provides engaging and interactive lessons that are differentiated to cater to students' diverse learning styles and abilities. It includes a range of resources, such as worksheets, activities, adapted books, and assessmen
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Grades:
K - 12th
Ants Differentiated Reading Passages: Nonfiction Small Group Reading Activities
These Ants Reading Passages are perfect for your insects unit, working on nonfiction reading skills, and guided reading groups. They include everything you need to work on building vocabulary and comprehension skills with your students! Differentiated ants reading passages (3 levels) allow you to meet the needs of all students to ensure complete understanding of the content. Take a look at the product preview for a closer look! All follow-up activities are thoughtfully aligned to the ELA Commo
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Grades:
2nd - 5th
3-D Geometric Shape INDOOR Scavenger Hunt
Grab a clipboard and start exploring your home while hunting for 3D Geometric real-world shapes! This activity is perfect for distant learning! Students/children can work individually, pairs or groups to find different items within their home. Some sheets list items to find and others have students make lists of things they see.There are FIVE versions to allow for differentiation. Suitable for preschool all the way through fifth grade! The OUTDOOR 3-D GEOMETRIC shape scavenger hunt and be found
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PreK - 5th
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