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Science Common Core RL.2.4 resources
Diary of a Worm Read Aloud - Reading Activities - Reading Comprehension
This "Diary of a Worm" printable or digital interactive read-aloud lesson plan pack includes rigorous text dependent questions, differentiated graphic organizers, response to text writing activities, a craftivity, and detailed lesson plans. These "Diary of a Worm" activities will help you meet several core standards while maintaining your tradition of reading aloud for pleasure. You will guide students to use evidence from the text to deepen their understanding of the story and respond in meanin
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1st - 2nd
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Also included in: Read Alouds Bundle - Reading Comprehension - A Year of Read Alouds
Crankenstein Read Aloud - Halloween STEM Activities - Reading Comprehension
These Crankenstein read aloud activities are perfect for teaching reading comprehension skills to young learners. These Crankenstein read aloud activities are print and go, FUN, cover tons of standards and include a STEM activity with a fun challenge. Students love Crankenstein's humorous experiences and these fun book companion activities will keep them super engaged.Our interactive read-aloud lesson plan is designed to be taught over multiple lessons. This allows students an opportunity to div
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K - 2nd
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Rosie Revere Engineer Read Aloud - Growth Mindset - Reading Comprehension
This "Rosie Revere" printable or digital interactive read-aloud lesson plan pack includes rigorous text dependent questions, differentiated graphic organizers, response to text writing activities, a craftivity, and detailed lesson plans. These "Rosie Revere" activities will help you meet several core standards while maintaining your tradition of reading aloud for pleasure. You will guide students to use evidence from the text to deepen their understanding of the story and respond in meaningful w
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1st - 2nd
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Also included in: Read Alouds Bundle - Reading Comprehension - A Year of Read Alouds
Piggie & Elephant STEAM Activities & STEAM Challenges Makerspace Task Cards
Makerspace Task Cards are perfect If you are a fan of Mo Willems’s Elephant and Piggie books and you love Makerspace, STEM, and STEAM challenge task cards! These STEAM activities make perfect STEM Sub Plans, and you are going to love encouraging your students to work through the Engineering Design Process with these thought-provoking Makerspace Challenges in print and digital versions. Each challenge is based on a Mo Willems book (books not included) and focuses on the problem the character enc
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1st - 2nd
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-1
2nd & 3rd Grade ELA, Math & Science Integrated Project | Fossil Hunt Project
Project Based Learning! ELA, Math & Science Integrated project! Differentiated and aligned to the standards! Perfect for a sub plan day, distance learning/homeschool, end of the year project, enrichment activity or small group instruction!*DIGITAL VERSION NOW INCLUDED! Compatible with Google Drive/Google Classroom!Learn about fossils of dinosaurs, Ice Age animals, underwater creatures and more while practicing reading and math skills in this exciting project! This project is perfect for seco
Stellaluna Activities Halloween Book Companion Fall Sequencing Story Elements
You will download a bundle of Stellaluna activities to supplement your 2nd or 3rd grade fall, Halloween, or bats unit. This book companion includes vocabulary, reading comprehension questions, quiz, label the parts of a bat, graphic organizer, onomatopoeia, echolocation, writing a friendly letter, Venn Diagram compare and contrast bats vs. birds, coloring pages, story elements, sequencing, and more!For your convenience, you will download both TPT digital EASEL (when appropriate) and printable PD
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1st - 3rd
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Hibernation Adaptation Migration Crafts
This resource contains 10 animal crafts to teach about winter animals that may adapt, hibernate, or migrate. Each craft contains a unique original poem with a fun 3D feature your students will love! Super-easy with visual directions for how to put them together (using the bear for an example). Great for science, poetry, speech therapy, or a fun craft after finishing a winter unit! Created in black and white, they are print and go for a fast, fun craft. DOWNLOAD the FREE SAMPLE in the PREVIE
Grades:
K - 3rd
Also included in: Winter Speech and Language BUNDLE
STEM Story Station: Ricky the Rock That Couldn't Roll | Read Aloud and Challenge
Makerspace with STEM Moments in early elementary is filled with projects, designs, and ideas that inspire, motivate and challenge children in the classroom or library. This makerspace moment in literature takes an adorable book about a rock that cannot roll and allows students to analyze the characteristics of rocks and create a solution for helping rocks roll. Your kids will use critical thinking skills and problem-solving strategies to determine solutions. Ricky the Rock that Could Not Roll is
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1st - 2nd
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The Two Bobbies A True Story of Hurricane Katrina Common Core Literacy Unit
This unit is based on the story Two Bobbies by Kirby Larson and Mary Nethery. It can be used with a unit on weather, hurricanes, friendship, or perseverance. The unit includes vocabulary, Blooms questions, story sequence, cause and effect, compare and contrast, story scoot and questions based on individual learning styles.
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K - 3rd
Women in History The Girl Who Thought in Pictures The Story of Temple Grandin
The Girl Who Thought in Pictures: The Story of Temple Grandin made the National Teacher's Science Association's list of top STEM books for 2017! Included in this resource are extensions for the story. This includes a story map, character traits sheets on two levels, a biography of Temple Grandin with accompanying questions, four task cards with information about cattle, and note-taking sheet for a farm animal report, and an invention writing sheet.❤️Click Here to Follow Us!Related Resources⭐
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2nd - 4th
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Also included in: Women in History STEM Stories Extensions Bundle
Spring Fingerplays & Poems - Spring Circle Time Songs - Shared Reading
These spring poems, songs, and fingerplays can be used as Shared Reading lessons or for Small Group instruction and then placed into centers after students are familiar with them. Reading comprehension at its best for the little ones. Teach the life cycle of a butterfly through song! Poems and songs are all written by Susan Paul and sung to traditional tunes. These spring poems an fingerplays are perfect for your Preschool and Kindergarten students.Color and black and white versions are included
POETRY UNIT Animal Poetry Activities Poetry Elements Writing Science
POETRY POSSIBILITIES for ANIMAL POEMS is a unit incorporating multiple subjects through poetry. This collection of animal poems provides teaching points, skill lessons, and activities custom designed for each poem. It masterfully combines language arts with science. The range of reading levels in these poems makes them appropriate to both primary and intermediate classrooms. This should allow the teacher to accommodate students reading above or below grade level. The skill lessons and activ
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Not Grade Specific
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Also included in: POETRY UNITS MEGA BUNDLE Poems Teaching Points Writing Differentiation
I Need My Monster STEM Halloween Makerspace Story Stations STEAM Activities
Halloween reading and engineering activities bring fun and academics to I Need My Monster. Students start off with close reading activity around the story. The focus is on characters, vocabulary, asking and answering questions, and story structure. Next, a Makerspace extension takes students through the engineering design process to solve the problem in the story. So much fun! MakerSpace Activity: STEAM takes the E for engineering and the A for arts from STEAM and you get Maker Space Moments in
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1st - 2nd
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Halloween Read Aloud and Makerspace: A Skeleton for Dinner Activity & Challenge
Halloween Reading Activity brings fun Skeleton For Dinner book and makerspace/STEM extension to life! Students start off with close reading activity around the story. The focus is on asking and answering questions, vocabulary, and story elements. Next, a Makerspace extension takes students through the engineering design process to solve the problem in the story. So much fun!MakerSpace Activity: STEAM takes the E for engineering and the A for arts from STEAM and you get Maker Space Moments in Lit
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1st - 2nd
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Black History Month: The Girl With a Mind for Math: The Story of Raye Montague
The Girl With a Mind for Math: The Story of Raye Montague, written by Julia Finley, made the National Teacher's Science Association's list of top STEM books for 2019! Included in this resource are extensions for the story. This includes a story map, two-level character traits sheets, a biography of Raye Montague with accompanying questions, a simple STEM challenge, and suggestions for even more follow-up activities.❤️Click Here to Follow Us!Related Resources⭐ Women in STEM Bundle - STEM Stori
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2nd - 4th
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NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Also included in: Women in History STEM Stories Extensions Bundle
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
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1st - 2nd
Sink the Boat - Simple STEM Book Companion (Home Friendly)
Simple STEM projects that can be implemented at home. I have provided an online reading of the book and a sample slideshow on the STEMHAX YouTube Channel for assisting parents and teachers with this simple STEM exploration. The preview video shows some of what comes in the packet.This download includes: Cover PageBook Discussion Example Questions Sequencing (cut and paste)Writing Prompt (can be used to write and illustrate about the experiment)Experiment Summary (full details will be on the blog
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K - 3rd
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-3
Pigeon and Piggie & Elephant Makerspace Task Cards STEM Challenges Bundle
Makerspace Task Cards are perfect If you are a fan of Mo Willems’s Pigeon and Piggle and Elephant books and you love Makerspace and STEM challenge task cards! You are going to love encouraging your students to work through the Engineering Design Process with these thought-provoking Makerspace Challenges in print and digital versions.Each challenge is based on a Mo Willems book (books not included) and focuses on the problem the character/s encounters. Students are given a challenge that the char
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K - 2nd
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-1
Bees and Pollination- 2nd grade NGSS (aligns to 2-LS2-2) and the ELA Common Core
A teacher's resource for using picture books to help teach the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and the ELA Common Core. This unit gives the teacher before, during and after discussion questions for teaching the ELA Common Core and the NGSS topic of pollination by bees. There are also student worksheets for the skills taught.
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*discussion and activities for picture books The Honeybee Man and What If There Were No Bees?
*table of contents
*Honeybee Fact sheet
*Metallic Bee Fac
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1st - 3rd
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Water and Landforms--2nd Grade NGSS (aligns to 2-ESS2-2) and the Common Core
This is a unit that connects the Next Generation Science Standards and the ELA Common Core. The following items are included in this set:
*a table of contents
*literature connections
*NGSS and ELA standard list
*vocabulary for each unit
*list of websites
*worksheets and answer keys to go along with the standards
*making a booklet directions
*literary connections with Mountain Dance and Ming Lo Moves the Mountain
*Lesson learned worksheet
*Lanformation game on GOOGLE DRIVE
*LandFORMa
Grades:
2nd - 4th
Reader's Theater Script, Lab Safety Rules, Scientific Method Booklet, Activities
Reading And Science Integration: First Time Lab Time
(Lab Safety Rules)
Reader’s Theater
Scripts with Content for Intermediate Readers
by The RT Shop
This Reader’s Theater Package it’s a great resource to use in your classroom in many ways: literature circles, small group activities, partner’s activities, centers, or teacher table.
Reader’s Theater is one of the best tools in the classroom to have students gain fluency, accuracy and c
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2nd - 4th
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A House for Monster Halloween READ ALOUD Makerspace Activity for 1st Grade
Halloween activities for reading and STEM make this cute story, House That Monster Built, fun and focuses on literature standards and engineering standards. Students start off with close reading activity around the story. The focus is on asking and answering questions, vocabulary, recounting, phonemic awareness, and story structure. Next, a Makerspace extension takes students through the engineering design process to solve the problem in the story. So much fun!MakerSpace Activity: STEAM takes th
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1st - 2nd
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POETRY UNIT Water Poems Activities, Poetry Elements Writing
Water in all its forms is the focus for this collections of 16 poems. Each poem in POETRY POSSIBILITIES for WATER POEMS has a teaching point about poetic elements and forms, as well as skill lessons and activities in multiple subjects.CONTENTS16 poems17 pages of teaching possibilities1 anchor chart1 Venn diagram masterlist of rain idiomsumbrella and raindrops templateLESSONS INCLUDEElements of poetry rhymefigurative languagefree verseimagery themeassonancerhythm and temposensory detailPoetic fo
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in: POETRY UNITS MEGA BUNDLE Poems Teaching Points Writing Differentiation
Spanish Reader's Theater Script, Lab Safety Rules, Scientific Method Booklet
Integración De Lectura Y ciencias: Al Laboratorio Por Primera Vez
(Reglas De Seguridad En El Laboratorio)
Guiones Infantiles Con Contenido Para Lectores Intermedios
by The RT Shop
This Reader’s Theater Package it’s a great resource to use in your classroom in many ways: literature circles, small group activities, partner’s activities, centers, or teacher table.
Reader’s Theater is one of the best tools in the classroom to have students gain fluency, accuracy and comprehension in reading. It a
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