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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 literacy activity pack is chock-full of activities to develop kids’ comprehension and context clues skills, using the short novel 26 Fairmount Avenue by Tomie DePaola.
PDF | 70 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
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
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 set of Back to School partner plays includes four different reader’s theaters 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.
PDF | 9 pages
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
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PDF | 65 pages
Teach students the reading skill of cause and effect in an engaging, hands-on way and then help them apply it to authentic reading! In this set of reading strategy minilessons, students will make cause-and-effect connections, think about the relationship between events, and try the strategy out in task cards.
PDF | 14 pages
This partner play introduces students to the life and contributions of Cesar Chavez through an engaging medium. Pair students up and have them choose a part to read and build fluency and comprehension. Partner plays are a great way to expose students to new content information in a fun format!
PDF | 4 pages
This virtual resource is perfect for Distance Learning! In this resource, students will use graphic organizers to analyze characters, match character emotions with descriptions, brainstorm examples of different character feelings, and learn about how characters feel, have relationships, and change! The entire resource is compatible with Google Slides in Google Classroom.
PDF | 35 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 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
Students use information provided on the word wall and emotions posters to make inferences about characters in short paragraphs and sort them by emotion. Then they make learning personal by creating an emotions collage!
PDF | 28 pages
This set of Christmas Around the World partner plays includes four different reader’s theaters for students in grades 3 – 4. These plays include a two-person cast, stage directions, and dialogue.
PDF | 9 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
This unit includes a presentation for whole-class instruction in using strategies to figure out the meaning of unknown words and multiple meaning words, and gives students plenty of practice in centers and on worksheets.
PDF | 50 pages
This set of Easter partner plays includes four different reader’s theaters 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
Using this resource, you can start a book buddy reading program that will encourage your reluctant and struggling readers to read together, across grade levels! Reach your readers and encourage positive reading experiences through this program!
Zip File | 20 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
This resource is designed to support students in distinguishing facts and opinions. With these handy printables, you can model and think aloud about this skill, get kids engaged with a hands on activity, use task cards, and apply in their own reading!
PDF | 16 pages
This set of Fall 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 for fall in Spanish 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
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