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Critical thinking Common Core RI.3.8 resources
March Madness Reading Test Prep Challenge - 3rd & 4th Grade
Let March Madness and test prep combine in this fiction and nonfiction reading comprehension challenge! This engaging and rigorous march madness classroom activity will help your students understand important reading skills and practice ! It requires students to read 15 unique passages and answer text evidence questions to cover many standards and skills!Why will these challenges help your students grow?Engagement- Students will be engaged from the beginning to the end of the challenges. In this
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3rd - 4th
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Surgery Day for Reading Comprehension Practice - Doctor Transformation
Students will practice many reading skills in a doctor transformation challenge. Transform your room as much as you want into a hospital then give your kid rigorous reading challenges in order to fix their patients! These challenges will have passages that they will use their close reading skills to read and answer text dependent questions with! Why will these challenges help your students grow?Engagement- Students will be engaged from the beginning to the end of the challenges. They won't even
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3rd - 4th
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Also included in: Reading Skill Challenges Full Year Bundle
3rd Grade Reading Review Game | Digital Escape Room | Google Distance Learning
This digital (Google) end of the year test prep escape room game is the most fun way to review the 3rd grade reading standards while encouraging critical thinking and problem solving! It can be used live in the classroom or via distance learning. In this escape, students will compete individually or as a group to beat the clock and escape Planet Emoji!*This is a digital version for use with student Google accounts. If your students don't have access to Google accounts, use the print version inst
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3rd
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Also included in: Emoji Escape Room EVERYTHING Bundle Math and ELA Review 2nd-6th
Test Prep Reading Skills Carnival | Digital and Printable
Make test prep fun with a test prep carnival! Students will answer text-dependent questions that are both multiple choice and short response. They will read rigorous passages and then answer the questions in order to earn tickets. These tickets can be used in your classroom carnival.You can use real carnival games or just use board games! Why will these challenges help your students grow?Engagement- Students will be engaged from the beginning to the end of the challenges. They won't even realize
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3rd - 4th
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Interactive Reading Notebook * Book Reports & Comprehension Strategies
Interactive Reading Notebook to use with ANY Fiction Book! There are over 100 foldables and activities included in this resource. This product will accompany almost any fiction book that you use in your classroom. There are interactive activities that focus on whole book comprehension {book reports}, as well as foldables that reinforce once specific strategy or skill. This resource also works great as an added resource to Guided Reading or intervention groups. Test prep doesn't have to be b
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Grades:
2nd - 5th
Reading Log - Independent Reading Response Homework Log - Use with any book
A few years ago, I ditched timers and parent signatures from my nightly reading homework log – and I’ve never looked back. This resource was created from a need to engage students in their independent reading rather than make it a dreaded chore. This Homework Reading Log contains two main parts: the reading log and a question choice sheet. On the log, students list the book they read each night and then choose a response question to show what they've learned from their reading. Students are to
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3rd - 5th
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Critical Thinking Skills BUNDLE - Creative Challenging Activities Worksheets
Watch critical thinking skills soar with these challenging and creative activities! Improve critical thinking skills and you're sure to improve reading comprehension, problem solving and math skills! Aligned with Bloom's Taxonomy, these step-by-step activities are carefully structured, research-based and give students the thinking and logic skills they need to master every area of learning. SEQUENTIAL ACTIVITIES TO IMPROVE CRITICAL THINKING:These delightful exercises are based on Bloom's Taxo
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2nd - 6th
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Academic Conversation Placemats
Get your students talking about text! Building students’ knowledge of academic language is essential for academic success. These Academic Conversation Placemats use sentence frames to encourage students to speak in complete sentences with varying degrees of grammatical complexity. These placemats were created to be used with both fiction and non-fiction text. They promote discussion around text, which research shows increases reading comprehension. Each placemat begins with having students prepa
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1st - 3rd
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Also included in: The Ultimate Text Talk Bundle
Causa y Efecto Task Cards - 4to grado
UPDATE: NEW LOOK WITH DIFFERENT FONT & SIZE.This has been updated so please check your purchases and re-download if necessary.This pack included 48 cards with informational text that will help your students master Cause & Effect. There is an option for multiple choice and a second for open response. I especially like the open response because each card has multiple examples of cause/effect. You can project on the screen and work whole-class or you can assign students to work with a pa
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3rd - 10th
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Also included in: Causa y Efecto Task Cards in Spanish - Distance Learning
Reading Assessment Bundle Fiction & Nonfiction 2nd Grade Standards Based Grading
How do you assess a second grader’s reading comprehension for report cards? This question can be particularly difficult if you are required to follow a standards-based grading report card. Second Grade ELA Reading Comprehension Year-Long Curriculum Bundle provides a quick reading comprehension assessment for each of the Common Core standards. This print version makes it easy to make two piles- got-it and needs more work making small group creation a breeze.Standards-Based grading has never been
Grades:
2nd - 3rd
Cause and Effect Matching Game and Worksheets in Spanish
For the Bilingual Teacher!
Here is a fun and engaging cause and effect matching game in Spanish! This activity can be used as a whole or small group reading lesson.
Includes:
• 30 cause and effect cards (15 “cause” cards and 15 “effect” cards)
• Graphic organizers for students to categorize cause/effect relationship. I have also used these worksheets to write out sentences using a linking word.
• Instructions (activity cards) on how to use cause/effect cards
• Worksheets
Encourage kids
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2nd - 5th
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RI 3.8 Task Cards - Finding the Logical Connection with Text Structure
These 16 task cards can be used for stations, centers, guided reading practice, an assessment or ticket out the door, review, a game, or independent practice! 6 of the informational passages are about the early American Indians in order to maximize your instructional time and integrate Social Studies with reading. Two birds with one stone - yes! There are three different answer sheet options because I like to scaffold and challenge my students. One offers multiple choice, one offers just fi
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2nd - 4th
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Reading Comprehension Homework - Weekly Independent Home Reading Questions 3rd
Need to assign reading homework, but want to engage students with choice? This weekly homework reading log provides you with 36 weeks of grade-appropriate reading homework logs full of questions from every CCSS reading standard for literature and informational text.Each reading log contains ten questions - four are for fiction texts, four for nonfiction, one reflection question, and one free choice option. No two logs are the same.Your Reading Comprehension Homework Download Includes:36-weeks of
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3rd
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Also included in: Weekly Reading Logs & Reading Skills Task Cards YEAR LONG BUNDLE 3rd
Reading Comprehension Cards Based on Bloom's Revised Taxonomy
Comp. Quest Cards 2 are based on Bloom's Revised Taxonomy. Cards are color coordinated based on various levels of thinking. They are a great tool for teachers, teacher assistants and parents to engage children during a read aloud, and reading groups. I have used these cards as a third grade teacher, a resource room teacher and as a reading specialist.⭐ These are based on more recent changes from Anderson & Krathwohl (2001).➀ Light red: Remembering➁ Light orange: Understanding➂ Light yellow:
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K - 5th, Staff
Also included in: Reading Comprehension Bundle
Reader's Workshop Unit 2 Grasping Main Ideas Grade 3 Slides, Distance Learning
I created this product to help save me time and resources spent on teaching the Reader's Workshop program. You can use this in class or for teaching while Distance Learning. It is a fun, engaging way to interactively teach Unit 2: Grasping Main Ideas and Text Structures from the purchased books. I have read every page and condensed it down to hit the important things I needed to remember to teach without having the book in my lap. It is editable so you can adapt it to your own classroom. I just
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Grades:
3rd - 4th
Genre Bookmarks and Graphic Organizers: Analyze Genre w/ Authentic Texts
Reading workshop is a wonderful way to foster competent, joyful readers. Indpendent reading time gives students the opportunity to practice their growing reading skills while enjoying quality literature that they have chosen to read. But, independent reading time can pose problems for teachers. How do we know our students are using the skills that they need to become more proficient readers? Enter Reading Workshop Bookmarks and Graphic Organizers.
This product includes 10 bookmarks and 10 cor
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3rd - 6th
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STEAM/STEM unit plan - Create your Ultimate Animal & Ultimate Country pack
Welcome to the "Building Your Ultimate Animal" and "Creating Your Ultimate Country" STEAM project, an immersive educational experience that ignites creativity, critical thinking, and scientific exploration among students. This dynamic initiative combines elements of Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics to inspire learners.The primary goal of this project is to empower students to conduct comprehensive research on diverse animal species, analyzing their unique adaptations, beha
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Not Grade Specific
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NGSS:
4-LS1-1
, MS-LS2-2
, MS-LS2-3
, MS-LS2-5
, 5-LS2-1
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Understanding Artificial Intelligence (AI)
What is artificial intelligence?Artificial intelligence, also called AI, is an incredible technology that will change many ways we work and live. This lesson plan was created to teach elementary school children the basics of what AI is as well as showing a few of its capabilities. These lessons were created to make children think and not just memorize definitions. By working through the worksheets and activities children will slowly gain knowledge of how AI processes information. This download i
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3rd - 6th
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Cause and Effect Passages 3rd Grade
Engage and challenge your students with this cause and effect power point from Catch My Products. This standards based lesson is designed to help students recognize and write cause and effect relationships. The students will participate in a game to match their classmates' cause and effect sentences and to pick out these sorts of relationships in a text of the teacher's choice. Plus, this product contains an exit ticket at the end of the lesson**Please follow me for notifications of sales and pr
Grades:
3rd - 4th
Comprehensive Collection of Over 60 Graphic Organizers
Unleash the full potential of your classroom with this expansive set of graphic organizers designed to boost reading comprehension across both literary and informational texts. From the classic T-charts to intricate attribute charts, your lessons will be brimming with creativity and critical thinking. ✏️Our collection is more than just tools; it's a complete strategy to engage and inspire every student. Each graphic organizer comes with detailed instructions, practical classroom applications, an
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Grades:
2nd - 6th
GAME BUNDLE - Point of View, Text Structure, Cause/Effect, Fact/Opinion
This ELA bundle contains 4 rigorous Tic-Tac-Toe games!
Point of View my #1 best-seller!
Text Structure
Cause/Effect
Fact/Opinion - see example in the preview windows
I love making educational games that are challenging but fun for students. My games are easy to incorporate into most ELA lessons and require little teacher prep time.
All 4 games are played the same way. Students can work in groups of 2-4 players. You may have 2 students playing against 2 other students or 1 student playing aga
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3rd - 6th
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Unit of Study: Science Detectives | Strange Weather | Moons and Tides
Students will use their detective skills to investigate strange weather phenomena and tides. They will learn that there are scientific explanations for events that may seem unexplainable and use experiments to find scientific explanations for these phenomenon.This unit of study was originally developed and implemented in a gifted and talented pull out program, however it can easily be used in a traditional classroom or as an independent research study.Each lesson plan follows a 6E model of teach
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1st - 3rd
Anticipation Guides Journeys Unit-3 3rd Grade Reading Comprehension Strategy
Why use anticipation guides?
-They teach students to make predictions, anticipate the text, give a purpose, activate prior knowledge, and verify their predictions during and post-reading.
-They connect new information to prior knowledge and build curiosity about a new topic.
-They help students summarize as they read.
- Common Core Standards
- I will statements included for each lesson.
- Key concepts presented in the text
- Structured as a series of statements with which the students can ch
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3rd
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Cause and Effect Elementary for PROMETHEAN Board Use
Engage and challenge your students with this standards based flipchart, from Catch My Products. This lesson helps kids learn cause and effect relationships through active engagement. Students are given sentences and asked to identify whether the underlined part of the sentence is the cause or the effect. The lesson is set up in the TIM model (TEM) and includes an exit ticket as well as a fun cartoon slide to bring interest to the lesson.ATTENTION: Please be sure you have Active Software before d
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2nd - 4th
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