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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
Work with the ELAR TEKS vocabulary for fourth grade with these word wall cards that cover all the nouns and verbs from the TEKS! Each of the 376 cards includes the word (or phrase), a student-friendly definition, and a picture to help kids remember the meaning of the term.
Zip File | 155 pages
Using these graphic organizers, students will identify and apply the important structures and elements of each genre. Great for 4th and 5th grades!
Zip File | 20 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 winter 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
Students read an article about a Valentine’s Day symbol, gather information with a graphic organizer, and then create a project to represent the information. The differentiated materials help you meet the needs of different students in your class.
PDF | 16 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 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
A full year of 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 genres tested in fifth 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 | 388 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 is a BIG BUNDLE full of my Reading Strategy MiniPacks! This resource includes twelve strategy activity packs to help you teach reading comprehension strategies explicitly. Each minipack includes posters, hands-on lessons, anchor charts, and more to help you introduce the strategy with a hands-on activity, model thinking aloud with a passage, give students guided practice, and apply the learning in their own reading!
Zip File | 170+ pages
Kick off the year with a family literacy night. Read Across Your School stations and planning materials help you welcome families back with reading and writing fun.
Eight Thanksgiving partner plays for fluency in November. Two-person reader’s theater scripts give 2nd–4th graders seasonal practice reading aloud with a partner.
Eight Halloween partner plays that build fluency. Two-person reader’s theater scripts give 2nd–4th graders fun, seasonal practice reading with expression.
A student-friendly booklet for figurative language. This minibook defines and models eight types of figurative language and includes an answer key.
This third grade fiction 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 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
This collection of thirteen fiction graphic organizers is created for use with Google Slides™ and Google Drive™. Perfect for remote learning! This resource includes graphic organizers about fiction: character analysis, sequence of events, summarizing, and reflecting. Students can complete one organizer in response to their reading each day for almost two weeks! These organizers are an authentic response to real reading.
Zip Files | 15 pages
Easy to prep signs to use during read alouds or any reading lesson. Use these signs to set a purpose for the lesson, provide students with a visual for the strategy or skill, and have them respond using academic language. Once the skill or strategy has been introduced, you can use the signs for independent reading, partner work, or reading stations/centers.
PDF | 26 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
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
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
This unit includes everything you need to teach students how to comprehend and respond to nonfiction, or informational text: anchor charts, posters, organizers, reading guides, foldable flipbooks, sorts, and more for 3rd-4th graders! Hands-on activities encourage kids to really engage in nonfiction content and build understanding!
PDF | 68 pages
Perfect for St. Patrick’s Day! 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 Pooka by Tomie DePaola. Jamie O’Rourke (the laziest man in all of Ireland) wakes one night to meet a pooka, a creature of Irish folktales.
PDF | 17 pages
This third grade fiction 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
