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Buddy Reading | Reading Buddies Activities
This collection of Reading Buddy Activities was created for multi-grade students to enjoy together throughout the year. Not sure where to start? This resource contains tips, organizers and activities to help you get your program rolling efficiently! Included in this Resource: Prep and Organization for Teachers & Big Buddies to Get StartedLetter of invitation to become Reading Buddies from one teacher to anotherForm for class availability / time preference for Buddy meetingsBlank Reading Bud
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K - 6th, Staff
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Tone and Mood 5 Day Activity Bundle
Engage students with 5 days of fun tone and mood activities designed to teach how authors use figurative language to contribute to the tone and mood of the text. The texts included are high interest and will keep students engaged as they are introduced to tone and mood, independently practice, and are assessed in this full cycle of activities. Please click on the preview above to see what is included.Includes:Task cardsLesson Plans for 5 daysMini Mood BookAssessmentKeysRecording SheetsStudent IS
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5th - 7th
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Book Clubs and Lit Circles Organization to Use with Any Book
Running book clubs in your classroom is an effective and engaging way to get students invested in reading and students participating! The standards for speaking and listening align perfectly with students participating in Book Clubs! The trick to making this a successful enterprise in your classroom is ORGANIZATION! Help your students keep track of the when, where, and how much, all while having discussion questions for book clubs ready to go!Included in this pack is:Lesson plan on how to get th
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2nd - 4th
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The Witch of Blackbird Pond Novel Unit
Are you looking for a complete novel unit for The Witch of Blackbird Pond that includes fun and engaging activities for middle school students? Look no further!NEW! Updated to include Digital Learning options for Distance Learning!This complete unit includes everything you need to help students understand Elizabeth George Speare's classic novel! With this unit, students will hone their reading and language skills. Resources include Slides presentations, supplemental informational readings, hand
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5th - 8th
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1st Grade Wonders - Unit 1 Week 1 - At School
If you are already using or you are new to the Wonders Reading Program, this 40 page packet is for you. This packet will help you teach the skills in Unit 1 Week 1. You'll have a week's worth of printables, posters, and lists to send home, as well as a daily planner and week at glance to help in planning your week. All of your reading plans are just a click away. We also included many activities that could easily be placed in a center for word work, or working on writing. There are colorful
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1st
Arctic Animals Nonfiction Articles Research Writing Lesson Plans
Learn all about Arctic Animals while working on important reading and writing skills. Nonfiction reading passages, lesson plans, close reading activities, and anchor charts are all included. The resources in this packet are designed to meet Common Core Standards for Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd, and even 3rd Grade while making learning FUN and ENGAGING!Nonfiction articles included:All About Arctic AnimalsPolar BearsWalrusHarp SealSnowy Owls Beluga WhaleArctic FoxesNarwhals CaribouThe nonfiction articl
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K - 2nd
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Also included in:Â Nonfiction Reading Passages Bundle
Freak the Mighty Novel Study
This Freak the Mighty novel study unit includes all the activities you will need for your class study! Middle School students will love this unit while enhancing their literacy and writing skills AND enjoying a few creative projects along the way! Freak the Mighty is one of my all-time favorite books to share with students. Not only is it a great story told through the fantastic voice of the character Max, but there are numerous literary skills that can be taught while reading the novel. This
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5th - 7th
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Three Times Lucky Novel Study
This is a comprehensive novel study guide based on the book Three Times Lucky by Sheila Turnage. Teach literary analysis through the mystery genre. Covers theme, tone and mood, plot, character traits, point of view, figurative language, setting, compare and contrast, genre features, open-ended questions, context vocabulary, and more. Perfect for grades 4-8. savingsinthesandThis Three Times Lucky novel study includes:• A 70-page student novel study guide which includes graphic organizers/practi
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4th - 6th
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Making Inferences From Pictures Reading Comprehension Paper and Digital
Do your students have trouble making inferences from stories? Ever thought about having them make inferences based on a picture? This resource with pictures is a great pre-lesson to moving to text inferencing! In this making inferences resource students are asked to make inferences based on pictures that they see. This is a great way to start kids off with inferencing before moving to text! Easy to print and use with your students either with the whole class or small groups. When students begi
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3rd - 4th
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Shared Reading Passage & Lessons - Ontario Gr 4, 5, 6 - Growth Mindset
Integrate your Growth Mindset Concepts and READING Expectations with this Shared Reading Resource! Bring your Grade 4, 5 or 6 Growth Mindset Lessons into your literacy block with this Reading Passage. Make cross curricular connections to make planning easier and fit your curriculum in!This original text on Fixed and Growth Mindset will help you to teach background information to your students that target Mental Health and Well-being expectations. It will also help to improve on Reading Comprehen
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4th - 6th
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Also included in:Â Comprehensive Literacy Gr 4 5 6 Bundle New Ontario Language Curriculum 2023
Our Class is a Family Activities
Now more than ever, teachers are looking for ways to build classroom community within their learning environments. This resource is a great addition to the read aloud Our Class is a Family by Shannon Olsen (however, it may also be used with any read aloud that is about family). When students enter our classrooms they become our family. We must lead by example and assure that our students know that we love and respect them. That we value their voice and uniqueness. This resource encourages studen
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PreK - 2nd
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Also included in:Â Classroom Family/Letter from my Teacher Activity Bundle
Je Mange Bien - L'alimentation - Nourriture - Healthy Eating - French Food Unit
Je Mange Bien - L'alimentation - Nourriture - Healthy Eating - French Food UnitThe following document is in French.I'm a Kindergarten French Immersion teacher in Ontario and I'm always struggling to find literacy materials that are engaging, simple and tied to my English teaching partners focus, as well. With the introduction of hybrid learning, these French Units are also geared towards 'learning from home,' as well as in the classroom.I created this 40-page unit on Healthy Eating and Food Voca
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K - 1st
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Decodable Phonics Based Reading Passages CVC Short Vowels Science of Reading
These decodable readers short vowel phonics passages are the perfect way to practice phonics skills! Short Vowel Phonics Reading Passages are the perfect addition to any primary classroom. They can be used for skill practice, homework, fluency, cold reads, assessment and more! Reading records for each passage are included.Students will practice the targeted phonics skill on each passage. They will read the story three times and color a star to keep track of their reading. Then they will answer
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K - 2nd
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Also included in:Â Phonics Based Reading Passages Decodable Readers BUNDLE Science of Reading
FORESHADOWING & FLASHBACKS with DISTANCE LEARNING Fillable Worksheets
This product focuses on two literary devices: Foreshadowing and Flashbacks. Students will take notes, see video clip examples, practice identifying both foreshadowing and flashback using excerpts from popular books, and take an assessment that asks them to write their own examples. It also now includes a link to Fillable Worksheets created in Google Slides for DISTANCE LEARNING. Now you can post your Google Slides to Google Classroom and have students do the activities right on the worksheets by
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4th - 8th
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Close Reading Zoo and Safari Animals
Close reading is a key component of the Common Core Standards. It is the active and analytic reading and re-reading of text to gather meaning. This reading and re-reading of text leads to higher level thinking skills and a deeper level of reading comprehension. These are crucial concepts for growing readers. This is a nonfiction close reading resource on zoo and safari animals
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Each text is leveled and differentiated. The reading te
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1st - 3rd
Also included in:Â Year Long Close Reading MEGA Bundle
Making Pizza: Sequencing Craft
Sequencing is a skill that may be learned as early as preschool. This fun paper craft, plus organizing steps, lesson plans, and writing activities, are designed for early learners. Take your students through the differentiated steps of making a basic cheese pizza, or go further to create a pepperoni or combination pizza. This is a craft-ivity, with associated worksheets that could be used for teaching and practicing the skills of sequencing and following directions.Included: Lesson Plans Wri
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PreK - 1st
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Poetry Small Group Lessons with Reader's Responses Comprehension
Are you looking for a way to teach poetry to your small groups? These poetry small group lessons are for fluent readers (levels O-Z). They also include poetry comprehension questions. These lessons will tell what to do with your reading group before reading, during reading, and after reading. There are 3 readers' responses to go with each poem. There is also a genre and author's purpose sentence starter that you can use. These lesson plans were made for Guided Reading groups but they can be done
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3rd - 5th
Also included in:Â Poetry Comprehension Passages and Questions and Small Group - ELA test prep
"Fable in a Bag" Students Read and Write Fables with Lesson Plans
These lesson plans and activities are perfect for teaching fictional narratives. Fables are familiar to students, making them the perfect type of story for students to write. "Fable in a Bag" includes lesson ideas for THREE activities:The Fable Stations chart allows students to make notes of character traits found in the fables they read. Use it with plenty of reading material so that students read a variety of fables.Lesson ideas and printouts help students write their own fables. Included are
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2nd - 3rd
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Also included in:Â BUNDLE for Writing a Fable -- With Lesson Plans and Poem Alluding to Fables
Les trois petits cochons - The 3 Little Pigs - French Fairy Tale Unit
Les trois petits cochons - The 3 Little Pigs - French Fairy Tale UnitThis is a wonderful resource to teach The Three Little Pigs to French Kindergarten students! Talking about familiar stories in this fun and engaging manner is a great way to develop oral communication skills in a French Immersion Kindergarten class, while also promoting the drama, sequencing and reinforcing vocabulary.The following document is in French.I'm a Kindergarten French Immersion teacher in Ontario and I'm always strug
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K - 2nd
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August/September/Back-to-School Fluency Building Poems {Poetry Notebooks}}
Looking to get your kids jazzed about poetry? What better way to encourage the reading of poetry, than having your kids create a poetry notebook! Included are 12 ORIGINAL poems, created by myself, to cover the months of August/September (depending on when you start school!). Themes of the poems include fall, leaves, apples, Johnny Appleseed, back-to-school, friends, community helpers, Patriot Day/September 11th, and more!
**Also included in this poetry packet is one acrostic poem template (Lea
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2nd - 4th
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Also included in:Â Monthly Fluency Building Poems BUNDLE for Poetry Notebooks
"How To" Books Mentor Texts - Examples for Students to Learn From
This is a set of mentor texts to be used when teaching a "how to" books writing unit. It is difficult to find mentor texts in the library that really show young writers specifically what we want them to do, at their level. These books offer high quality examples, using exactly the criteria we have for the kids. Two books use photographs, and two have hand drawings.
These are designed to be used in tandem with my "How To" books unit and checklist paper. However, these mentor texts can be us
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K - 2nd
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Also included in:Â K/1 Writing Workshop Yearlong BUNDLE Using Self Reflection Checklists
Judy Blume Author Study, Biography, Reading Response Activities, Projects, More!
NO PREP! Thorough author study on Judy Blume! Great for encouraging young writers. A complete biography, follow-up reading response and vocabulary questions and essays, a book report, enrichment projects and an "Author of the Month" ready to go bulletin board. Excellent thought provoking follow-up reading activities about this amazing author, plus a no-prep Judy Blume project menu full of creative enrichment projects to extend what the students have learned about the author's biography and nove
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4th - 6th
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Also included in:Â Judy Blume "Bundle", Six Complete Novel Studies, Plus: Author Study
Close Reading American Symbols
Are you looking for your students to become more independent readers? Time constraints make it increasingly difficult for teachers to plan differentiation in their reading instruction aligned to the Common Core Standards. And yet you want your students to obtain their reading benchmark goals, pass your district reading assessment, and most importantly, become better readers by reading and re-reading text for deeper understanding and comprehension.
This close reading resource has it all done for
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1st - 3rd
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Also included in:Â Close Reading Patriotic Bundle
Substitute Cover Lessons Pack for a range of subjects
A pack of substitute cover lessons that can be used for a wide variety of subjects for middle / secondary level students.So, you're sick? Off on a course? Out on a field trip? Or maybe you are the cover teacher and no substitute lesson has been planned, or the students are feeling less than inspired by the work and you need to some emergency substitute lesson plans. Either way, there is always the hassle of setting inspiring substitute lessons to keep the students on task and interested while st
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4th - 9th, Staff
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