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Free literature activities
Figurative Language Stories for Close Reading ~ FREE Complete Week 1!
Figurative Language Stories for Close Reading ~ FREE Complete Week 1!This includes Week 1 of my Figurative Language Stories for Close Reading. Purchase the full product here.Full Product Description:6 original reading passages for teaching and reviewing figurative language: simile, metaphor, hyperbole, personification, alliteration, onomatopoeia, idiom, and allusion.Each of the 6 passages includes 4 activities. Please view the preview file for the first passage and tasks in their entirety.Task A
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3rd - 9th
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Reading Comprehension Passages - Close Reading - FREEBIE - Snow Day
This Common Core aligned product is a sample of my larger Weekly Reading products. You will receive the story, Snow Day, with 5 daily comprehension activities. The full products contain 4 themed reading passages (2 fiction, 2 nonfiction) relating to each month. Each passage contains 5 days of comprehension activities and graphic organizers that use text dependent questioning to encourage high level thinking in your students. Each passage also contains symbols to use for marking the text to e
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2nd - 4th
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Reading Comprehension Passages and Questions First Grade FREEBIE
This pack includes 17 reading passages with comprehension questions and activities for 1st grade. This FREE SAMPLE contains one passage for each of the first grade ELA reading standards (RL and RI, 1.1-1.9). These reading passages and questions are perfect for practice, formative and/or summative assessments, reading groups, homework, and more!✅ These passages are part of this larger bundle of reading passages...First Grade Reading Passages and Comprehension Activities>>> Written for 1s
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1st
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Also included in:Â Reading Comprehension Passages & Questions 1st Grade Reading Standards
FREEBIE! Story Map - Setting, Characters, Beginning, Middle, End
This is such a useful little sheet! It is a blank story map to use with any book you choose. It can be a way for students to record these story elements from a book they have read in class, or it can be a planning page for fiction writing. I hope it is a helpful resource for your classroom.
There are two versions of this sheet in the download.
Enjoy!
Happy Teaching!
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Print and Go! BUNDLE: CVC Word Work a
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K - 3rd
Free Readers' Theater Script ~ Fractured Fairy Tale Cinderella Readers' Theater
Free Cinderella Fractured Fairy Tale Readers' Theater Script: "Cinder...Really?: The TRUE Story of Cinderella"* * * * * * * * * * * * * *This fractured fairy tale readers' theater freebie is excerpted from my 35-page CINDER..REALLY? Literacy Toolkit, which includes the readers' theater script plus supplemental literacy activities.It's also available as part of the FAIRY TALES BONUS BUNDLE ~ SERIES 1, which includes 4 fractured fairy tales and LOADS of supplemental activities. The bundle makes a
Interactive Reading Notebooks ~ FREE Bonus Lesson! Making Inferences
This freebie includes a complete interactive reading notebook lesson on making inferences. It is a bonus lesson that is not included in my other notebook products, so be sure to download this if you own those as well.This lesson includes 3 activities and is aligned to CCSS standards for grades 4-8.Are you thinking about using interactive notebooks in your reading classroom? I've also included at the end of this freebie a 3-page Getting Started Guide / FAQ for interactive notebooking.If you are c
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3rd - 9th
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Cause and Effect Detectives
A freebie activity pack to introduce the cause & effect reading strategy.
Contents:
2 Whole group/ independent work practice pages.
If you give a mouse a cookie graphic organizer.
2 Matching center activities.
Cause and effect definition flash cards.
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K - 2nd
First Day Jitters Writing Activity for Back to School, Digital & Printable
This First Day Jitters differentiated, printable & digital writing activity is a sample from my First Day Jitters Book Study/Companion Packet. This differentiated writing sample goes up on our writing wall on the first day of school. Each month, I collect a writing sample from each of my students. At the end of the year, this writing piece becomes the first writing piece in a writing portfolio that I make for each student, by putting all of the monthly writing pieces together. I put a cove
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1st - 4th
Earth Day Craftivity Freebie
Happy Earth Day! Enjoy this Lorax inspired craftivity from Miss Hellen's Hippos, and thank you kindly for rating me!
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All templates needed to complete the craft shown above.
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PreK - 2nd
Book Review Template - FREE
This is a FREE PDF download for Book Review Templates! There are differentiated options ideal for lower grades (K-2) and upper grades (3-5).
Two versions use sentence stems for the write up part of the review, but the version aimed for upper grades has more lines for writing their review and is structured less like a graphic organizer than the version aimed for lower grades. One version has just a lined back, no sentence stems.
Use as a writing or reading project, book review or book report, o
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K - 5th
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Free King Midas & the Golden Touch Greek Mythology Readers' Theater Script: 3-6
Free Greek Mythology Readers' Theater Script: "King Midas & the Golden Touch": A humorous 6-page retelling of the traditional Greek myth of King Midas.* * * * * * * * * * * * * *This readers' theater freebie is excerpted from my 37-page KING MIDAS Literacy Toolkit, which includes TWO readers' theater scripts plus supplemental literacy activities.It's also available as part of the GREEK MYTHOLOGY BONUS BUNDLE ~ THE MANGLED MYTHS SERIES, which includes 6 readers' theater scripts and LOADS of s
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3rd - 6th
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The Very Hungry Caterpillar - FREE Printables - coloring pages - booklet
Free Fun printables coloring pages from The Very Hungry CaterpillarIncludes:-Booklet-Coloring page-Number page
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PreK - 3rd
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Also included in:Â THE VERY HUNGRY CATERPILLAR LIFE CYCLE BUNDLE
Let's Draw: Directed Drawing - Roz from The Wild Robot
Are you reading The Wild Robot or The Wild Robot Escapes by Peter Brown? Are you looking for directed drawing activities to increase your students confidence as illustrators? Let's Draw takes you and your students on a step by step drawing process to create drawings of your favorite picture book characters.This set includes:Roz - The Wild RobotBrightbill - The GoslingOtter3 Simple Forest TreesYou'll also get a set of frequently asked questions and answers about directed drawing.Directed drawings
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PreK - 8th
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Also included in:Â Level-Up Your Library Bundle: The Book Wrangler's Greatest Hits
Enemy Pie Read Aloud - FREE Reading Activities - Pi Day - Reading Comprehension
"Enemy Pie" is just one example of our Interactive Read-Alouds. We have over 100 read-alouds to meet ALL the Reading Literature Core Standards. If you teach this lesson plan in its entirety, we promise you will be hooked! Each of our read-aloud packs include rigorous text dependent questions, differentiated graphic organizers, response-to-text writing activities including a craftivity, and detailed lesson plans to help you meet several core standards while maintaining your tradition of reading a
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Grades:
1st - 3rd
Also included in:Â Read Alouds Bundle - Reading Comprehension - A Year of Read Alouds
FREEBIE Hey, Little Ant Opinion/Persuasive Writing
This is a great quick activity to do as a mini lesson on opinion or persuasive writing. After reading the book Hey, Little Ant by Phillip and Hannah Hoose, students will complete a writing graphic organizer and then write. Hope you enjoy!
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K - 3rd
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The Good Egg Read Aloud FREE - Reading Comprehension Activities
These The Good Egg read aloud activities will teach your students they don't have to be perfect with week-long lesson plans and book activities.Our interactive read-aloud lesson plan is designed to be taught over multiple lessons. This allows students an opportunity to dive deeper into the text, make connections to the characters and events, and most importantly, fall in love with the story.Each lesson, provides students a different purpose for revisiting the text, talking about it, and respondi
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K - 2nd
Also included in:Â Jory John Read Alouds - Bad Seed, Smart Cookie, Sour Grape - Comprehension
The Very Hungry Caterpillar: sequencing worksheet
Are you reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar book in your classroom? This sequencing worksheet pairs perfectly with the book! Students will cut out 7 icons (each icon has a day of the week and a picture symbol for the food eaten that day). This includes 2 differentiated options: matching picture-to-picture and independent sequencing. Happy reading! *Symbols are from my license to Symbol Stix.
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Not Grade Specific
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FREE STEM Activity Rosie Revere Engineer Flying Machine Challenge
FREE STEM Challenge! Integrate STEM, Writing, and Literacy in your classroom!Engage students with a real world STEM activity where they learn about how engineering works. Students design, build, and test their own flying machine to glide Rosie down a zip line.The Engineering Design Process:In this STEM activity, students follow the six step Engineering Design Process: Ask, Imagine, Plan, Create, Experiment, Improve. Connect to a Read Aloud: Rosie Revere Engineer by Andrea BeatyThis STEM Project
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2nd - 4th
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
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Choice Board FREE Worksheet, 12 Activities for ANY Short Story & Novel Unit CCSS
This FREE student choice board works with any short story or novel study. Once students have finished reading an assigned short story or chapter of a novel, use this choice board worksheet to increase student motivation as they meaningfully reflect on the text. The choice board worksheet was designed for English/language arts students in grades 7 through 12.Want more dynamic lesson materials designed to engage our teens?Click here for a discounted 10-pack of worksheet activities that can be use
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7th - 11th
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Character Selfies: Character Analysis, Summary, Point of View, and Visualization
Do your students have a cell phone? If they do, chances are they take "selfies" (photos of themselves) all the time. Turn this favorite pastime into an activity that will strengthen their comprehension skills! Not to mention, you will be one cool teacher for these 21st century kids!
Examples of when to take character selfies:
Guided reading
Literature circles
Independent reading response
Response to a class read aloud
In this activity, students draw from the point of view of the character.
Grades:
3rd - 8th
The Mitten by Jan Brett FREEBIE!
Be sure to check out my other resources you can use with The Mitten by Jan Brett!Click HERE for Close Reading Lessons using The MittenClick HERE for January themed Close Reading Super PackClick HERE for Guided Reading Lessons using The MittenHope you and your student have fun with this freebie!Sally Landers
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PreK - 3rd
The Chocolate Touch Reader's Theater
"The Chocolate Touch" by Patrick Skene Catling is a beloved favorite of elementary students. This Reader's Theater script gives students the chance to portray the characters and events in the story. It includes parts for up to eleven students, an explanation of Reader's Theater, and a performance checklist.
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2nd - 4th
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Polar Express Freebie
This product includes activities to enhance your study of the book "The Polar Express".
Included are:
Retelling (beginning, middle, and end)
Story Elements (character, setting, problem, solution)
Movie vs. Book box and t chart
The First Gift of Christmas writing
How to Make Hot Chocolate writing
Polar Express ABC Order
Tickets for a Polar Express celebration (color and black and white)
A letter from Santa (color and black and white)
This freebie is offered under Scrappin Doodles Freebie Lice
Grades:
1st - 2nd
General Timeline Template
This general timeline template can be used for biography studies, to track important historical events (such as civil rights movement) or something simple as classroom birthdays. The squares can be used to paste/draw pictures or for a written description (whichever is needed to differentiate for your diverse learners and levels). For the higher grades, the timeline template can be used to compliment a reading response or essay.
Grades:
2nd - 12th
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