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Directly introduce reading strategies through anchor charts, authentic book lists, student practice sheets, and connecting to independent reading. Introduce students to Questioning, Synthesizing, Making Predictions, Making Inferences, Using Prior Knowledge, Visualizing, Making Connections.
PDF | 54 pages
Build content knowledge in your teacher teams with these Content Building Guides! Each page focuses on a different reading comprehension strategy 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.
Zip Files | 12 pages
Over 200 pages of teacher background pages, planning tools, and graphic organizers, anchor charts printables for teaching reading genre study for an entire school year. Fiction, poetry, drama, expository, persuasive, and procedural materials included so you can cover all the reading genres! Download the preview to get a peek at all of the included materials!
PDF | 207 pages
Build content knowledge in your teacher teams with these Content Building Guides! Each page focuses on a different reading genre 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.
Zip File | 20 pages
This poster set includes 18 posters designed to help students understand the structure, features, and purpose of different reading genres. Great for grades 3 – 5. Each poster includes the name of the genre, an explanation of its purpose, and an introduction to the features and structure of that genre.
PDF | 26 pages
A hands-on genre review activity! Students demonstrate and build their understanding of reading genres by sorting sample texts, author’s purpose cards, and academic vocabulary words into these genre categories: fiction, expository, poetry, drama, literary nonfiction/biography, and persuasive.
PDF | 23 pages
This product is designed to support readers in responding to drama and plays. It includes over 45 pages of strategies with a graphic organizer to record their evidence and thinking and sentence starters to respond to the text using their organizer. It also includes a couple pages of teacher tips.
PDF | 48 pages
This product is designed to support readers in responding to fictional text. It includes almost 40 pages of strategies with a graphic organizer to record their evidence and thinking and sentence starters to respond to the text using their organizer. It also includes a couple pages of teacher tips.
PDF | 40 pages
This product is designed to support readers in responding to poetry. It includes 33 pages of strategies with a graphic organizer to record their evidence and thinking and sentence starters to respond to the text using their organizer. It also includes a couple pages of teacher tips.
PDF | 46 pages
Make planning your next reading PD a breeze with these pre-made sorting activities! These hands on activities are perfect for professional development or PLCs about literacy. Engage your teachers in real discussions about the components of reading, reading strategies, reader’s workshop vocabulary, genre, and more with these card sorting activities! Answer keys are included for each sort.
Zip File | 40 pages
This poster pack includes a cover poster and ten strategy posters with tips to help students think about using the reading strategies to support their comprehension.
PDF | 11 pages
This hands-on resource engages students in real conversations about revising and editing paragraphs. In just ten minutes a day, you can introduce and practice editing and revising skills without boring your kids! Fun Christmas themes like gingerbread houses, Frosty the Snowman, and Rudolph make this an engaging activity for the month of December!
PDF | 18 pages
This hands-on resource engages students in real conversations about revising and editing paragraphs. In just ten minutes a day, you can introduce and practice editing and revising skills without boring your kids!
PDF | 24 pages
This hands-on resource engages students in real conversations about revising and editing expository paragraphs. In just ten minutes a day, you can introduce and practice editing and revising skills without boring your kids!
PDF | 30 pages
This hands-on resource engages students in real conversations about revising and editing narrative paragraphs. In just ten minutes a day, you can introduce and practice editing and revising skills without boring your kids!
PDF | 30 pages
Students work in partners to fill in their boards and see who wins! Skills include finding multiples and factors, multiplying two and three numbers, building three-digit numbers, identifying odd or even, and identifying the umber of sides on a shape.
PDF | 20 pages
This product is a BIG Bundle of the scaffolded reading responses in my store! Help students respond to text using these responses for four different genres: Fiction, Informational (Expository/Nonfiction), Drama, and Poetry, all wrapped up in a tidy zip file! Save by buying the bundle! These structured paragraphs are the perfect way to respond to reading with thinking and text evidence, and build up to the Short Constructed Response questions on the Texas ELAR assessment, as well as other states.
Zip File | 140 pages
This product is designed to support readers in responding to informational text. It includes over 30 pages of strategies with a graphic organizer to record their evidence and thinking and sentence starters to respond to the text using their organizer. It also includes a couple pages of teacher tips.
PDF | 35 pages
This collection of 32 fiction reading responses with sentence starters is created for use with Google Slides™ and Google Drive™. Perfect for remote learning! Use Google Classroom to create assignments and students can complete one every day for weeks!
Zip File | 32 pages
This resource includes 23 responses to nonfiction books and articles for use with Google Classroom™ and Google Slides™. Students can complete one organizer in response to their reading each day for almost two weeks! Perfect for virtual and distance learning!
Zip File | 27 pages
This poster pack consists of 11 word wall words, 11 scientific method posters, and a student reference sheet, great for science notebooks! Each poster is bright and includes a visual image of that step in the process.
PDF | 14 pages
Teachers are under enormous amounts of stress and they are often asked to figure things out without the emotional support they need. This resource includes printable and digital tools and idea guides to help you give teachers the time they need to process challenging emotions and communicate about them.
Zip File | 54 pages
Your narrative writing lesson plans are done! In this unit, students will read books with sensory details and discuss what makes them great, understand the different types of sensory language, generate sensory details, revise writing to improve the descriptive language, and try out sensory language in their own writing. Activities are hands-on and authentic and include step by step plans!
PDF | 42 pages
This resource includes video lessons and assignments for teaching sensory details. It’s everything you need, from start to finish, to teach nine 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 File | 30 pages
Sequencing events helps kids comprehend, retell, and summarize better! This resource gives students the tools they need to sequence events. Students practice this skill with a hands-on activity in groups which is used to build an anchor chart, participate in discussions during a modeled lesson, get practice with differentiated task cards, and apply their learning with reading responses and a graphic organizer. Hands-on materials make learning stick!
PDF | 20 pages