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First Grade Phonics Reading Fluency Comprehension Passages Questions Worksheets
All-in-One Reading Passages give your students the opportunity to practice phonics and fluency with these reading comprehension passages and questions. The best part? It requires no prep on your end! Now including original PDF + NEW digital versions of each phonics reading passage for distance learning!Each reading passage gives your students the opportunity to practice a targeted phonics skill in the context of reading. Each phonics passage also builds fluency and comprehension. It’s the bundle
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1st - 2nd
RACE Strategy Practice Worksheets Writing Passages & Prompts Text Evidence
RACE Writing Strategy is a structure to help students answer passage-based, short response questions in a formal style, with using clear reasons and text evidence, and to provide concluding statements. This Download Contains:PRINTStudent resource introducing the RACE strategyExample passage and RACE response for easy modeling10 ready to use passages and short response questionsSuggested answers for each passage and grading guideDIGITALReady-to-use Easel activityClick on the preview for a closer
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4th - 6th
Project Based Learning: Geometrocity! A Math PBL
Project Based Learning: GEOMETROCITY! Build a City Made of Math with Geometry.Imagine, Design, and Build a City with this 2D and 3D Adventure!-Project Based Learning-Real World Application-Geometry, Maps, & More -Extension Activities -Differentiated Levels***THIS RESOURCE IS NOW DIGITAL!***There is a link to a Google Slides Version. Details below. *This resource can be used for distance learning and e-learning.*Geometrocity is a project based learning activity where students will take their
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3rd - 7th
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Also included in: Project Based Learning MEGA Bundle: 14 Full-Scale Hands-On Projects!
Nonfiction Poetry Reading Comprehension Passages and Questions 3rd 4th Grade
Grow your readers with this wonderful Reading Comprehension Passages and Questions for 3rd Grade- 5th Grade Packet (digital options now available)! The Reading Passages Bundle includes 20 Weeks of Weekly Practice perfect for: warm-up, bell work, homework, or quick assessments. Students can use these sets independently, in literacy groups, reading groups for homework, or perfect to leave for a sub. These activities check students skills without the boring bubbling in, it also allows teachers to
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3rd - 5th
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Reading Comprehension Passages and Questions + RACE Strategy Practice Worksheets
These 10 high-interest passages are paired with reading comprehension questions and short response questions for students to practice multiple comprehension skills AND writing with the RACE writing strategy. This resource is perfect for test-prep, special education and progress monitoring, differentiating, and scaffolding for struggling readers. Passages range between reading levels of 4-6th grade, making them perfect for groups of students with a wide range of reading levels. Comprehension skil
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4th - 6th
RACE Strategy Practice Worksheets BUNDLE of 40 RACE Passages and Writing Prompts
These 40 RACE Strategy Practice Worksheets are the perfect way to reinforce paragraph writing with evidence from the text. RACE is a writing strategy to help students answer passage-based, short response questions in a formal style, with using clear reasons and evidence from the text, and to provide concluding statements. These informational texts are quick, easy reads, so that your students can focus on writing. Do you have a wide range of readers? This bundle combines four of best-selling prod
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4th - 8th
Mystery Reading Comprehension Passages and Questions 3rd 4th Grade Mysteries
Help your students discover the exciting world of mysteries with this Mystery Reading Passages and Question Set. This packet features five creative mystery stories perfect for 3rd, 4th, and 5th-grade students. Engage your class in enjoyable and educational reading activities that they'll love!These reading practice passages are perfect for various learning activities such as warm-ups, bell work, homework, or weekly assessments. Students can use them independently in literacy and guided reading g
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3rd - 5th
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15 Working Memory Brain Games: Improve executive function in 5 minutes a day!
WORKING MEMORY BEST SELLER--UPDATED FOR 2024! These 15 research-based brain games are designed to improve kids' working memory in five minutes of partner game play daily for just 9 weeks! If you've ever complained that students lack the following skills, an executive function of the brain called working memory might be the issue!-staying focused and on-task-following complex and multi-step directions-copying information and taking notes-keeping their place in a text-retelling stories-explaining
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K - 6th
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Figurative Language Worksheets: Simile, Metaphor, Alliteration, Idiom, and More!
You've taught your students the seven most common types of figurative language... now what? Next comes lots of practice! These no-prep figurative language worksheets are ready to go for you. Just print and go! A worksheet that focuses on each of the following literary devices is included: similes, metaphors, onomatopoeias, alliteration, personification, hyperboles, and idioms. These figurative language worksheets consist of both reading exercises and writing exercises. First, students will have
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4th - 6th
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RACE Strategy Practice Worksheets: 10 RACE Writing Prompts & Passages 3rd Grade
These RACE Strategy practice worksheets help students answer passage-based short response questions. Students will read a passage and answer in a paragraph using text evidence. The RACE strategy provides scaffolding to improve student writing quickly and easily. This Download Contains:Student resource introducing the RACE strategyExample passage and RACE response10 passages and short response questionsSuggested answers for each passage and grading guidePassages are written at a 3rd grade reading
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3rd
Also included in: 3rd Grade ELA Reading and Writing Bundle for Reading and Writing Skills
Growth Mindset ESCAPE ROOM Activity - Reading Comprehension - Back to School
The Growth Mindset Escape Room will take students on a secret mission around the classroom, reading comprehension passages, and answering questions! This escape room has students decode interesting facts about Albert Einstein, Thomas Edison, George Lucas, and Walt Disney.Perfect Back to School or first day activity to promote a positive mindset, talk about failures, determination and success, and start the year off on a good note.The Growth Mindset Escape Room is a great reading comprehension ac
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5th - 8th
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Cause and Effect Practice Passages: Five Worksheets with Graphic Organizers
Cause and Effect: This resource contains 5 reading passages, each followed by a cause and effect worksheet. Three of the passages are fiction, while the other two are nonfiction. Each passage spans two pages, and can therefore be printed so that it is a 2-sided worksheet activity with the passage on one side and the related graphic organizers on the other side.Students read each passage, and then study the graphic organizer worksheets that follows. Students must fill in two or three blank boxes
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3rd - 5th
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Winter STEM Activities and Challenges with Paper ❄️ Snowflakes ❄️
**BEST SELLER!** Winter STEM / Snowflake STEM activities! Create a variety of snowflakes with these 3 STEM engaging challenges. For these challenges, the only material that is necessary is plain paper. This is a great companion activity if you are reading about Snowflake Bentley (Wilson Bentley).✅ What You'll Get ✅Teacher Instructions and sample imagesWarm up activities: How snowflakes form in nature (1 page informational text)Cutting practice page (if your students need it, recommended!)Which f
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3rd - 8th
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NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-PS2-2
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, MS-ETS1-1
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Paired Passages with Writing Prompts and Passages RACE Strategy Compare Contrast
These 10 paired passages with writing prompts are perfect for students to practice compare and contrast writing with the RACE writing strategy. The texts are perfect for test-prep, special education and progress monitoring, differentiating, and scaffolding for struggling writers. Passages range between reading levels of 4-5th grade, making them perfect for groups of students with a range of reading levels. This Download Contains: PRINTExample passages with short response question and exemplar re
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4th - 5th
Black History Month Activities Reading Comprehension Passages and Questions
Black History Month Nonfiction Reading Comprehension Passages: Grow your students knowledge of these wonderful Influential Black Leaders with these 10 Nonfiction Reading Comprehension Passages. These reading passages are wonderful for your students to study these influential leaders including Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Maya Angelou, Wilma Rudolph and more.These reading practice passages are perfect for: warm-up, bell work, homework, or weekly assessments. Students can use independently in lite
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3rd - 4th
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Finding Citing Text Evidence Comprehension Making Inferences Context Clues
Teaching reading comprehension to beginning readers can be difficult. But with this scaffolded and differentiated resource, you will have everything you need to teach your students about finding text evidence, citing text evidence and making inferences using context clues. I like to call this Text Evidence 101! This text evidence and inferencing resource was purposefully designed to break these essential reading strategies into small parts and then slowly lead your students to independence. T
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1st - 3rd
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Also included in: Text Evidence 1st Grade Reading Comprehension Bundle
3rd Grade Spiral Language Review & Grammar Practice | Print and Digital
Practice the third grade language skills and grammar skills through these spiral review worksheets. This resource includes one worksheet for each week of the school year for a total of 36 worksheets. The practice pages can be used for homework, morning work, language arts center, or as a weekly classroom assessment. The questions are written in an easy to read and predictable format. They are both student and teacher friendly and require no prep!The skills reviewed include:-Nouns (identify, pos
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3rd
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Reading Test Prep, ELA Test Taking Strategies, Activities for 3rd 4th 5th Grade
A new take on reading test prep with powerful test-taking strategies and fun activities for 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade! Hands-on, interactive reading test prep without "drill and kill." In this engaging mini-unit, students analyze the test as a genre, identify different types of questions, and learn test-taking skills that really work! Works with any passage or state released test!❤️ "This was the best test prep and review I have ever done and will never do anything else again! This got my student
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3rd - 5th
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Area and Perimeter Project Based Learning Math Activity
Step into the world of engaging and hands-on math exploration with this resource. This project-based learning activity takes students on a thrilling journey as they design their own dream house, while simultaneously mastering the concepts of area and perimeter.Through the use of a house layout grid, students will estimate area by strategically placing furniture and counting squares and partial squares. This real-world, open-ended task prompts critical thinking as they tackle questions related to
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in: Project Based Math Activities BUNDLE
Figurative Language Sorting Activity Worksheet Alternative 100 Card Sort Game
Need figurative language activities? Use this fun and interactive sorting task card game to review and reinforce figurative language. These 100 task cards each have examples of figurative language taken from authentic texts and popular YA literature. Students will sort them into seven categories: metaphors, similes, personification, hyperboles, idioms, onomatopoeia, alliteration. Before you buy...this product is part of a BUNDLE that will save you money.You will want to use this student-centered
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5th - 12th
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RACE Writing Strategy for Text Dependent Questions 2nd-3rd Grade
Print and Digital! With free optional student instructional video lessons! This resource will help your students gradually learn how to use the RACE or RACES strategy for constructed responses to text dependent questions. The RACE(S) strategy is an acronym (Restate question, Answer the question, Cite text evidence, Explain the evidence, and optional Sum it up) that helps students structure their response to a question in a thoughtful, organized way that draws from the text. This resource include
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2nd - 3rd
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Also included in: RACE Writing Strategy Bundle 2nd-3rd Grade
3 STEP STORY PICTURE SEQUENCING ACTIVITY KINDERGARTEN SEQUENCE OF EVENT CARDS
3-STEP SEQUENCING CARDS (78 TOTAL) INCLUDED IN THIS RESOURCE! (26 SEQUENCING SETS EACH CONTAINING 3 CARDS)Children will love these 3-step sequencing cards! The cards are color coded to help sort cards belonging to the same set. A sorting mat is also included so that kids can place their cards on it as they sequence the cards. These sequencing cards will help develop children's thinking skills.All you have to do is print the resources on cardstock paper and cut out. Shuffle the required cards
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PreK - K
Also included in: STORY SEQUENCING PICTURE CARDS AND WORKSHEETS SEQUENCE OF EVENTS BUNDLE
Commas Practice - Silly Worksheets for Engagement! Fun Grammar ELA Test Prep!
Commas can be difficult, but these grammar worksheets are filled with silly and fun sentences to encourage engagement with students who wouldn't otherwise smile at comma practice.WHAT’S INCLUDED:✍️ PRINT:18 WorksheetsAnswer KeysDIGITAL:Easel ActivityDIFFERENTIATION OPTIONS:Digital or PrintMany different worksheet types!Great for 3rd, 4th, or 5th grade! CHECK OUT THE PREVIEW TO SEE A LOT MORE! This resource is part of a money-saving bundle!This bundle includes these resources:Figurative Language
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3rd - 5th
Motivational Testing Notes for Student Encouragement State Testing Motivation
Are you looking for a way to motivate and encourage your students during state testing week? Ease the stress of testing with these 35 encouraging and motivational desk notes and treat tags for students! Easily print and leave on each student’s desk, along with a small treat, on those dreaded testing days. A table of contents is included which lists each motivational testing note, a treat idea for each tag, and a helpful guide for printing.Included in this download:35 Different Treat TagsList of
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3rd - 6th
Also included in: State Test Prep Games Testing Strategies Motivation Encouragement BUNDLE
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