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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
Texas reading test prep: passages for fifth grade tested reading TEKS, including new question types! It’s great test prep for the ELA STAAR, and it covers all of the informational genres tested in fifth grade! 9 weeks of lessons: For six weeks, read a passage each week and answer one STAAR-aligned question each day. Then compare two passages and answer questions! 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 | 96 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 all of the literary genres tested in third grade!
Zip File | 101 pages
Texas reading test prep: 9 passages for fifth grade tested reading TEKS, including new question types! It’s great test prep for the ELA STAAR, and it covers all of the informational 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.
Zip File | 92 pages
Texas reading test prep: 9 passages for third grade tested reading TEKS, including new question types! It’s great test prep for STAAR, and it covers all of the literary genres tested in third grade!
Zip File | 95 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
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
Point of view can be a challenging skill for our readers! This product is designed to support students in analyzing point of view. 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. This product includes materials for teaching first person, third person limited, and third person omniscient.
PDF | 21 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
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
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 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
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 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
This novel unit is full of 102 pages of tools to use to engage kids in thinking, comprehending, making personal connections to and responding to the novel Wonder by R.J. Palacio. Engage students in discussion, reflection, and writing to deepen their understanding of the novel.
PDF | 102 pages
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
This literacy activity pack is chock-full of activities to develop kids’ comprehension and word meaning skills, using the book Jamie O’Rourke and the Big Potato by Tomie DePaola. Jamie O’Rourke (the laziest man in all of Ireland) finds a leprechaun one night, but instead of getting a pot of gold, he gets a giant potato!
PDF | 21 pages
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A full year of Texas reading test prep: passages for third 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 third 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
Four more Thanksgiving partner plays. Volume 2 adds new two-person reader’s theater scripts for seasonal fluency practice in November.
Turn family game night into a literacy celebration. Everything you need to plan and run a game-themed family literacy night where parents and kids read, write, and play together.
This third grade poetry 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
This third 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
This third grade drama reading passage is aligned to TEKS with open-ended questions so students learn how to justify their responses with evidence. 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
This third 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
