4th and 5th Grade Small Group Reading Activities : Nonfiction Set 1
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Description
Support your readers with engaging small group activities with differentiated texts and scripted lesson plans!
Do you want ready-to-go small group reading texts and activities that allow your students to practice reading comprehension and reading skills? This resource is perfect for that purpose.
About the Small Group Reading Activities and Lessons
These small group reading lessons can be used to practice various nonfiction reading skills on the topic of Unusual Jobs.
Scripted Small Group Reading Lesson Plans
- Introduction
- Vocabulary
- Multiple Teaching Points (You Choose What Your Students Need)
- Optional Word Work
Differentiated One-Page Reading Passages
Titles included:
- Bike Messenger
- Charcoal Maker
- Shark Biologist
Two Reading Levels are included for each passage:
- 4th/5th Grade
- 3rd/4th Grade
The small group reading texts are included at two levels. A triangle is in the corner for the lower level and a circle for the higher level. The lower level would be best suited for 3rd grade through beginning of 4th grade levels. The higher level would be better suited for middle of 4th grade through 5th grade.
Note: Due to copyright and TOU, lexile levels are NOT included.
No-Prep Student Activities to Print or Assign Digitally
- General Reading Comprehension Questions
- Skill Pages with Embedded Skill Reviews (Use Independently or to Guide Your Lessons)
- Optional Writing Prompts
- Digital Version of Each Skill Page (Same content, but redesigned to work in Google Slides)
- Answer Keys (Answer keys provided in PDF to check both printable and digital student work)
Choose the printables you want to use based on your pacing guide, or use them all.
The best part of this resource is that you can get a lot of mileage from one text.
About the Skills
Each passage includes 2-4 reading skills for you to choose from for the focus of your lesson.
Use the other skills to review previous skills or as extensions.
Each student skill page includes a skill review that you can use to guide your review of the skill OR have students refer to before they complete the questions.
Use the questions on the skills pages as independent work OR to guide your discussion.
Skills in the Unusual Jobs small group reading set include:
- General comprehension questions
- Defining words using context
- Determining the main idea
- Identifying text structure
- Cause and effect relationships
- Using text evidence to support answers
- Citing evidence from a text during writing
Using this Small Group Reading Resource
This resource can be used in reading centers, small-group reading, or even guided reading.
Here are some example sequences using this small group reading instruction resource:
Example A – Small-Group Reading
Day 1 – Read the text and discuss.
Day 2 – Answer the comprehension questions.
Day 3 – Complete a skill printable.
Day 4 – Complete a skill printable.
Day 5 – Complete the writing extension.
Example B – Small-Group Reading + Reading Centers
Day 1 – Read the text, and discuss/answer the comprehension questions.
Days 2-5 – Students complete the different printables independently or with a small group.
****If you use one of the above example sequences or a similar variation, this one resource will provide you three weeks of small group reading instruction...one week per text.****
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