Reading Strategies Reference Sheet Guide Reading Workshop 3rd 4th 5th Grade ELA

Your 3rd, 4th, and 5th-grade students will feel supported during guided reading small groups and independent reading. Reference reading skills and strategies will be at their fingertips! Expand student vocabulary, provide a VISUAL comprehension aid, and foster independence with these Reading Reference Sheets. This resource is ideal for small groups and independent reading during reader's workshop. It is perfect for student binders and interactive notebooks, or could make a great reference tool booklet! 

This Reading Reference resource is an amazing tool for your students to use. It helps with students feeling “stuck”. It provides them an opportunity to independently review specific reading skills and topics without feeling like they cannot move forward until the teacher is able to help. These help keep your students engaged in reading while you can pull your guided reading groups. Additionally, this tool empowers your students to solve their own questions by accessing their reference sheets before asking for help.

Here's what you'll get:

• Printable AND digital options
• Color and Black/White
• Full Page (instructions included to print to smaller scale)
• With AND Without Tabs

Your students will take control of their learning and use these sheets as a self-guided resource to reinforce what they have learned in class. This fosters independence and self-motivation, and makes our kids feel motivated and confident!

LOW PREP and easy... Just print the student pages and glue them into student notebooks!

Elements Included:

• Genre: (17 definitions of genres in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama)
• Reading Skills: Author’s Purpose, Cause & Effect, Character Traits & Feelings, Compare & Contrast, Drawing Conclusions, Fact & Opinion, Figurative Language, Genre, Important Information, Inferences, Main Idea & Details, Plot Structure, Predictions, Point of View, Sequence, Story Elements, Text Features, and Theme
• Reading Strategies: Using Prior Knowledge, Making Connections, Making Inferences, Understanding Characters, Summarizing, Using Context Clues, Visualizing, Questioning, Monitoring & Clarifying, and Synthesizing
• Sentence Stems: Using Prior Knowledge, Making Connections, Making Inferences, Evaluating Text, Summarizing, Predicting, Visualizing, Questioning, Monitoring & Clarifying, and Synthesizing

Looking for this same resource but for writing? Grab the Writing Reference Helper HERE!

TEACHERS LIKE YOU SAID…

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Melissa N. says, "My students love to have a reference book to look through to assist with their reading comprehension. This meets all learners where they are and helps them to focus."

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Schooledingrace says, "This is a great resource! Love that this is a handy reference guide supporting all that has been taught, and promoting independence! Printed beautifully half page size for personal copies."

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Amy J. says, "Great little tool for students to add to their reading notebook. Skills are not taught and gone, there is a place for students to go back and review what they have been taught."

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Paisley and Plaid says, "My students referenced this many times during our test prep. It was filled with all kinds of nuggets of info in a short concise manner that my 4th graders were able to glance at while prepping for our state test. I will 100% put this in our Reading Notebooks at the beginning of the year so that we can reference it all year long."

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