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Main Idea Bingo Cards

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This is an awesome activity to help practice adentifying the main idea! Each student gets a bingo card and a paragraph is read. The students place markers over the main idea of each paragraph. My students loved this and asked for more!

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English Language Arts, Reading, Reading Strategies

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th

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Main Idea and Supporting Details Cut and Paste Activity

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Here is a fun and engaging way to practice main idea and supporting details! Students need to know how to determine the main idea and what sentences support that main idea. This is an eight page cut and paste graphic organizer handout that lets

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English Language Arts, Reading, Reading Strategies

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th

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Activities, Handouts, Graphic Organizers

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Inference Bingo Cards

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Since the Main Idea Bingo cards were so popular I decided to make Inference Bingo Cards. I think my 3rd graders are going to love these! There are 21 unique cards, a blank card, and a call sheet. you read a sentence from the call sheet and the

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English Language Arts, Reading, Reading Strategies

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th

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Activities, Games

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Summary Bingo

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Summarizing is one of the hardest skills to teach children. Not anymore. With Summary Bingo you can make summarizing fun! There are 22 unique bingo cards and a call sheet. You read 3 or 4 sentence paragraphs and students place a marker over the best

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English Language Arts, Reading, Reading Strategies

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th

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Activities, Games

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Supporting Detail Bingo Cards

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This is a fun and exciting way to teach main idea and supporting details. There are 19 bingo cards, a blank card and a call sheet. The call sheet contains main idea sentences and the bingo cards have supporting details that support each main idea.

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English Language Arts, Reading, Reading Strategies

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3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th

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Activities, Games

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Esperanza Rising Vocabulary Cards and Vocabulary Tests

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This is a set of vocabulary cards and matching vocabulary tests that cover the novel Esperanza Rising. The vocabulary cards and tests are split up into three units. Each unit has fifteen vocabulary cards and a test. The vocabulary cards have an area

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English Language Arts, Vocabulary, Reading Strategies

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4^th, 5^th, 6^th

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Handouts, Printables, Lesson

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Main Idea/Irrelevant Details Activity with PPT

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This is a hands-on and fun activity where students find the main idea of paragraphs and then literally get rid of the irrelevant details in these paragraphs. Students are given paragraphs that they determine the main idea for. They then rewrite each

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English Language Arts, Reading, Reading Strategies

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th

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Activities, Handouts

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Inference Cubes Making Inferences Activity

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Making inferences might be the most important reading comprehension strategy we teach! With these inference cubes students can practice making inferences and have fun while doing it. There are ten different cubes with each cube having a paragraph to

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English Language Arts, Reading, Reading Strategies

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th

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STAAR Formatted Test Prep. Poetry

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This is a packet that includes a public domain poem by Emily Dickinson and ten STAAR formatted questions. The questions are higher level thinking questions. There is a key complete with item analysis included.

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Poetry

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th

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Worksheets, Activities, Assessment

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Main Idea Cans Hands-On Activity for Main Idea and Supporting Details

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Great Activity to hammer home main idea and supporting details! Students today struggle with this concept so it is crucial to provide a fun and effective way for them to practice it. There are 4 "recycle bins" with main ideas on them and the kiddos

Subjects:

ELA Test Prep, Writing, Reading Strategies

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th

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Activities, Handouts

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Main Idea Pizzas Hands-On Main Idea Cut and Paste

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Your students will love Main Idea Pizzas! A fun and hands-on way to reinforce main idea and supporting details! Students glue the pepperoni details on to the correct main idea slice of pizza. There are 4 irrelevant details per pizza to help students

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Reading Strategies

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th

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Activities, Handouts, Lesson

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CCRA.R.2

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Reading Comprehension PowerPoints Inference Main Idea and More

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PowerPoints are a great way to provide visuals for your students. There are seven reading comprehension PowerPoints in this bundle. There are two main idea, one inference, one cause and effect, two vocabulary/context clues, and one plot included.

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English Language Arts, Reading, Reading Strategies

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th

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PowerPoint Presentations, Lesson

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Inference Cut and Paste Activity

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Making inferences is difficult for students to master. Hands-on activities are a great way to help students master important concepts like making inferences. This is a great activity for students to practice that crucial reading comprehension

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English Language Arts, Reading, Reading Strategies

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th

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Activities, Handouts, Printables

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The Magician's Elephant Vocabulary Cards and Vocabulary Tests

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This is a set of vocabulary cards, matching vocabulary tests and an end of novel test that cover the novel The Magician's Elephant. The vocabulary cards and tests are split up into three units. Each unit has fifteen vocabulary cards and a test. The

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Vocabulary, Reading Strategies

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th

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Handouts, Printables, Lesson

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Phonics Rules Spelling Lists

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Getting your students to understand phonics rules will make them better spellers and readers! There are 14 spelling lists included with an area on each list for your students to write each word twice. These are a must for any spelling program. Some

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Balanced Literacy, Spelling

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th

Types:

Worksheets, Handouts, Printables

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Main Idea Walls Main Idea and Supporting Details Cut and Paste Activity

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A great cut and paste activity to teach main idea and supporting details! There are 5 sets, each set containing 5 main ideas and supporting details. Each set has 2 irrelevant details that do not belong. Students cut out each supporting detail brick

Subjects:

Reading, ELA Test Prep, Reading Strategies

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th

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Activities, Lesson

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Main Idea Madness Main Idea Game

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As we all know main idea is very difficult to teach. Here is a game that can help students to determine the main idea of text. There are 26 main idea madness cards, scorecards, and a PowerPoint. This game works best when played as a whole group. The

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English Language Arts, Reading, Reading Strategies

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th

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Activities, Games

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Main Idea Squares Hands-On Main Idea and Supporting Detail Activity

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Students need fun and exciting ways to practice determining the main idea of paragraphs and organizing information by main ideas. This activity will help with both! There are three expository pieces broken up into 12 sentences each. Students will

Subjects:

English Language Arts, ELA Test Prep, Reading Strategies

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th

Types:

Activities, Handouts, Printables

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Inference Graphic Organizer Cut and Paste Activity

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Making Inferences is maybe the most important skill our students need to navigate through text. This is a fun and hands-on way to practice making inferences. There are five graphic organizers that contain an inference, and students cut out clues

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Reading Strategies

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th

Types:

Activities, Printables, Graphic Organizers

$1.99

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Idiom Bingo

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Here is a fun and exciting way to teach and review idioms. There are twenty unique bingo cards, a blank bingo card and a call sheet. Every file comes in PDF and Microsoft Excel format. The call sheet contains idioms and the bingo cards contain the

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Reading Strategies

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th

Types:

Activities, Games

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

5 Years

MY TEACHING STYLE

I am huge into hands-on and the Gradual Release of Responsibility. I believe that modeling is the key to guiding students to understanding.

HONORS/AWARDS/SHINING TEACHER MOMENT

Most Outstanding Teacher at Clear Creek Intermediate School in 2008.

MY OWN EDUCATIONAL HISTORY

Undergraduate Degree in Interdisciplinary Studies and Master's Degree in Reading Education.

ADDITIONAL BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

Graduate of the University of North Texas.