Small Group Reading Lessons and Activities with Digital : FICTION BUNDLE

Are you stuck when it comes to planning for your 4th and 5th grade small group reading instruction? These small group lessons and activities will help you both engage and support your readers. You (and your students) will love the done-for-you engaging small group activities with differentiated texts and scripted lesson plans!

About the Small Group Reading Activities and Lessons

These small group reading lessons can be used to practice a variety of reading skills within the genres of Realistic Fiction, Fantasy, Traditional Literature, Science Fiction, Mystery, and Adventure.

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

Genres and Titles included:

Realistic Fiction

1. Sidewalk Treasure
2. Zoey's Big Run
3. A Muddy Problem

Traditional Literature

1. Bumblebee and Beaver Save the Day
2. Ladder to the Sun
3. The Hungry Giant

Fantasy

1. The Wand on Chaos Mountain
2. Sneaky Skating Sorcerer
3. Telekinesis Failure

Science Fiction

1. Negotiations with a Narlock
2. An Unexpected Friend
3. Adventure in a Hyper-Pod

Mystery

1. The Missing Vase
2. The Case of the Comic Mix-Up
3. Linda’s Prized Platter

Adventure

1. The Sword of Destiny
2. Captain Mangrove’s Mission
3. Junior’s Big Discovery

Two Reading Levels are included for each passage:

• 4th/5th Grade
• 3rd/4th Grade

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)

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 included in this bundle:

• Cause and Effect
• Character Analysis
• Character Traits
• Context Clues
• Figurative Language
• Inferencing
• Point of View
• Plot: Problem and Solution
• Sequencing
• Setting
• Story Elements
• Summarizing
• Theme
• Plot: Types of Conflict

Want to check out each set individually?

• Realistic Fiction Small Group Reading Activities: Fiction Set 1
• Traditional Literature Small Group Reading Activities: Fiction Set 2
• Fantasy Small Group Reading Activities: Fiction Set 3
• Science Fiction Small Group Reading Activities: Fiction Set 4
• Mystery Small Group Reading Activities: Fiction Set 5
• Adventure Small Group Reading Activities: Fiction Set 6