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A fun pack full of materials for implementing your own family night for ELA! Invite parents and families to participate in 9 fun beach themed activities to help kids and adults think, read, write, speak, listen, and create!
PDF | 80 pages
Making inferences requires our readers to do a lot! This These printables help students make inferences with a hands-on activity, a guided passage with questions, and task cards. Teacher pages include how to guide the lesson to help students move from learning the new strategy to supported practice to independent practice.
PDF | 11 pages
This resource gives you ten fun activities for students in grades 3 – 5 to work with any vocabulary you choose! Editable components make customizing the activities to your vocabulary list easy so you can use them for any unit, and any subject area! Great for working with vocabulary in reading, writing, math, science, or social studies!
Zip File | 48 pages
This resource gives students the tools they need to analyze character traits. Students practice 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.
PDF | 25 pages
Author’s purpose is essential to reading comprehension. This product is designed to support students in identifying author’s purpose in different texts. Teacher pages explain how to use the gradual release model to help students move from learning the new strategy to supported practice to independent practice.
PDF | 12 pages
This TEKS Mastery Tracker is a great way to get kids focused on success and recording their progress. Help students record their performance on ELA assessments based on the -tested Supporting and Readiness standards from the TEKS!
PDF | 6 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
Engage students in thinking about author’s purpose through this sorting activity. Students will read short texts and sort them into the author’s purpose for writing (to inform, to entertain, to persuade, to explain how).
PDF | 19 pages
Engage readers with these fun book projects for different seasons and holidays! Edit them to suit your class’ or school’s needs! Disguise-a-Pumpkin, Turkey in Disguise, Help the Gingerbread Man Escape, Snowmen in Disguise, Disguise a Bunny, and Design a Bookmark!
Zip File | 60 pages
To understand a fiction story, we need to understand the character: their traits, emotions, conflicts, relationships, lessons, and changes. This pack includes 41 different tools to use when teaching character analysis in fiction stories and books in grades 3-5.
PDF | 70 pages
This set of Christmas partner plays includes four different reader’s theaters for students in grades 2 – 4. 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
Build content knowledge in your teacher teams with these Content Building Guides! Each page focuses on a different component of fiction 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 File | 11 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
Visualizing is a great way to help kids comprehend and know when something doesn’t make sense. This resource is designed to support students in visualizing sensory details. Students are engaged with a hands on activity about sorting details into five senses and visualizing. Then they participate in a discussion about a modeled passage, practice with differentiated task cards, and apply their learning in a graphic organizer and a reading response.
PDF | 21 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
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: 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
This resource gives students the tools they need to identify details and main idea. Students practice 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
Bring families in for a fall festival with a literacy twist. Stations, guides, and an editable flyer make it simple to host a fall family literacy night your school will want to repeat.
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
Texas reading test prep: 9 passages for fifth 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 fifth grade! Each week in this daily spiral review includes one short passage that covers the new TEKS, and a test aligned question to answer each day. 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 | 95 pages
This resource has been updated to the new TEKS assessed curriculum! Mentor sentence instruction blends explicit instruction of grammar skills with hands-on sentence building and constructing. Students analyze sentences, learn new TEKS-based grammar skills, revise and create sentences following sentence structures.
PDF | 95 pages
This product is designed to support students in asking good questions to improve their comprehension. Students learn about right there, inferential, and world questioning, as well as thick and thin questions. Teacher pages explain how to use the gradual release model to help students move from learning the new strategy to supported practice to independent practice.
PDF | 30 pages
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