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This fourth grade informational reading passage is aligned to TEKS and the Texas Reading test! One half-page passage is included, along with five test aligned questions, an answer key, TEKS alignment, and academic vocabulary from the questions.
PDF | 4 pages
Texas reading test prep: 6 passages for fourth grade tested reading TEKS, including new question types, and 3 pages of questions to make connections across selections! It’s great test prep for STAAR, and it covers the genres tested in fourth grade! Each week in this daily spiral review includes one short passage that covers the…
Texas reading test prep: 9 passages for fourth grade tested reading TEKS, including new question types! It’s great test prep for the ELAR STAAR, and it covers all of the literary genres tested in fourth grade!
Zip File | 98 pages
Fourth grade Texas reading test prep: 9 passages for fourth grade tested reading TEKS, including new question types! It’s great test prep for the ELAR STAAR, and it introduces the non-literary genres tested in fourth grade, plus it includes a review of the literary genres!
Zip File | 102 pages
Texas reading test prep: 6 passages for third grade tested reading TEKS, including new question types, and 3 pages of questions to make connections across selections! It’s great test prep for STAAR, and it covers the genres tested in fourth grade!
Zip File | 90 pages
A full year of Texas reading test prep: passages for fourth grade tested reading TEKS, including new question types! It’s great test prep for the ELA STAAR, and it covers all of the genres tested in fourth grade! There are four nine weeks units that include a total of 36 weeks of lessons. All of the passages are to prepare for Reporting Category 1: Reading. New question types included (Hot Text, Multi-select question, Multi-part question, and Short Constructed Responses)
Zip File | 400+ pages
In this unit, students will participate in centers activities to identify fractional parts of wholes and sets, as well as build a foldable flipbook and get plenty of practice in fraction naming skills.
PDF | 47 pages
This genre study printable is aligned with third grade TEKS in Texas and includes genre that are important for students to understand and read widely, Each genre allows students to record characteristics and important components. In addition to what you see in the preview, there is a vocabulary page for each genre.
Zip File | 52 pages
This resource will help you get to know your students in meaningful ways so that you can begin your work as an anti-racist educator. As part of It’s Time to Talk Racism: 22 Days of Anti-Racist Resources for Teachers, Stephanie Reyna and I teamed up to create this simple but meaningful booklet and graphic organizer.
PDF | 7 pages
Your narrative writing lesson plans are done! In this unit, students will read books with great beginnings and discuss what makes them great, understand different types of beginnings, revise writing to improve the beginnings, and try out good beginnings in their own writing. Activities are hands-on and authentic and include step by step plans!
PDF | 33 pages
Good conclusions in expository writing are an important strategy! In this unit, students will read books with great conclusions and discuss what makes them great, understand different types of conclusions, revise writing to improve the conclusions, and try out good conclusions in their own writing. Activities are hands-on and authentic!
PDF | 30 pages
Teaching Duration: 2 weeks
Your writing lesson plans are done! In this unit, students will read books with great endings and discuss what makes them great, understand different types of endings, revise writing to improve the endings, and try out good endings in their own writing. Activities are hands-on and authentic and include step by step plans!
PDF | 33 pages
Good introductions in expository writing are an important strategy! In this unit, students will read books with great introductions and discuss what makes them great, understand different types of introductions, revise writing to improve the intros, and try out good introductions in their own writing. Activities are hands-on and authentic!
PDF | 32 pages
This series of eight minilessons can help you teach writing if you’re unsure of where to start! It includes video lessons and assignments for teaching narrative beginnings. It’s everything you need, from start to finish, to teach eight days of writing to your fourth and fifth graders! Just assign each day to your students in Google Classroom and you’re set! You must have signed up for G-Suite and have a Google account to use this resource.
Zip Files | 30 pages
This graphing pack is designed to help third and fourth graders develop their skills in creating graphs, collecting, interpreting, and representing data, and responding to questions, all in a fun winter theme!
PDF | 30 pages
Guided reading doesn’t have to be stressful! My guided reading materials include everything you need to plan and deliver thorough, purposeful guided reading lessons to students in K-5! Learn how to group students, schedule, plan, and evaluate guided reading! And get 16 editable pages, too!
Zip File | 105 pages
Are you responsible for training your campus in guided reading? Or are you trying to teach yourself something new? This presentation is a great tool for guiding teachers new to the guided reading process.
This presentation includes 87 slides with presenter notes and 3 notetakers that are designed to coach teachers through planning and delivering high-quality guided reading lessons. Includes notes for presenters.
Zip File | 92 pages
Use these engaging math centers to help students practice comparing, adding, and subtracting and rounding 3-digit numbers, along with a bonus activity: sorting odd and even numbers.
PDF | 35 pages
This set of Halloween partner plays includes four different reader’s theater scripts for students in grades 2 – 4.
Partner Plays are two-person plays designed for partners to read together! These plays include a two-person cast, stage directions, and dialogue.
They are perfect for partner work, daily fluency practice, a presentation for other classes, or to put in a reading station or center, such as Buddy Reading or Read to Someone.
PDF | 9 pages
This set of fall partner plays includes four different reader’s theater scripts in Spanish for students in grades 2 – 4, perfect for Halloween! Partner Plays are two-person plays designed for partners to read together! These plays include a two-person cast, stage directions, and dialogue. They are great for partner work, daily fluency practice, a presentation for other classes, or to put in a reading station or center, such as Buddy Reading or Read to Someone.
PDF | 9 pages
This product includes 19 pages of word building activities: cut apart the letters in each phrase to build! Great for building phonics skills and noticing structures of words. An easy way to integrate a little seasonal holiday fun into your curriculum.
PDF | 19 pages
This huge bundle includes partner plays for St. Patrick’s Day, Easter, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Valentine’s Day, and a variety of other holidays! For each holiday there are four different reader’s theater scripts for students in grades 2 – 4.
Zip File | 68 pages
Need something cute to integrate Valentine’s Day into the curriculum? This minibook is a fun tool to help students practice differentiating between literal and figurative meanings of idioms.
PDF | 8 pages
Build content knowledge in your teacher teams with these Content Building Guides! Each page focuses on a different component of informational or nonfiction text and includes four different things teachers need to know when planning and teaching, important vocabulary, and common misconceptions. Perfect for instructional coaches to use to support teacher learning during PLC or collaborative planning.
PDF | 8 pages
This product includes over 900 pages of printables and editable/fillable forms (including Google Slides versions) to support instructional coaches in observing classrooms, planning PLCs and units with teachers, professional development, documenting, and organizing!
Zip File | 986 pages