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Main Idea & Supporting Details Activities - Central Idea - Passages, Worksheets

By Kalena Baker - Teaching Made Practical

Teaching main idea and supporting details / key details can be frustrating for teachers and difficult for students to understand. This resource is scaffolded to help all of your students - even your struggling students - better understand main idea

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Reading Strategies

Grades:

2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, Homeschool

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Worksheets, Activities, Printables

CCSS:

RI.2.2, RI.3.2, RI.4.2

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Summarizing Nonfiction & Informational Text - Teaching How to Write Summaries

By Kalena Baker - Teaching Made Practical

This no prep resource contains nonfiction reading passages and activities to help students build a better understanding of what makes a good summary when summarizing informational text. The activities build on each other to help you scaffold and

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Informational Text

Grades:

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

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Activities, Printables, Google Apps

CCSS:

RI.4.2

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Equivalent Fractions Activities, Worksheets & Review , Games, Coloring, Practice

By Kalena Baker - Teaching Made Practical

Help make teaching equivalent fractions easier and more understandable for your students with these low prep activities and worksheets. This unit starts with a basic introduction to equivalent fractions, and then is scaffolded with visuals to help

Subjects:

Math, Fractions, Math Test Prep

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, Homeschool

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Printables

CCSS:

3.NF.A.3a, 3.NF.A.3b, 4.NF.A.1, 4.NF.A.2

$6.75

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Summarizing Activities & Worksheets Practice / Lessons - Reading Passages, More

By Kalena Baker - Teaching Made Practical

This summarizing bundle has everything you need to help your students be successful with this difficult skill! It combines 2 resources for summarizing practice - Summarizing Nonfiction and Summarizing Fiction. These no prep lessons and activities

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Informational Text

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, Homeschool

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Printables

CCSS:

RL.4.2, RI.4.2

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No Prep Character Traits Activities - Character Trait Passages and Worksheets

By Kalena Baker - Teaching Made Practical

This character trait resource contains no prep reading and writing activities to help you teach character traits. Students practice identifying character traits within both shorter and longer texts. There are activities / graphic organizers to go

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Reading Strategies

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, Homeschool

Types:

Worksheets, Printables, Google Apps

CCSS:

RL.3.3, RL.3.4

$6.00

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Main Idea & Details Centers - Fun Practice, Sort, Mazes - Printable Games

By Kalena Baker - Teaching Made Practical

This low prep resource contains 3 main idea center activities for you to use in your classroom. These games are an engaging, hands on way to help your students be better able to differentiate between main idea and supporting details - especially in

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Balanced Literacy, Reading

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, Homeschool

Types:

Games, Google Apps, Centers

CCSS:

RI.3.2, RI.4.2, RI.5.2

$4.00

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Black History Month Project - Research, Essay, Report Template, Worksheets

By Kalena Baker - Teaching Made Practical

For black history month, have students research a famous African American person and use that research to create an essay, map, and timeline. This no prep resource is scaffolded to help all of your students be successful with completing a project

Subjects:

Writing, Writing-Essays, Black History Month

Grades:

2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, Homeschool

Types:

Research, Projects, Google Apps

CCSS:

W.3.5, W.3.7

$4.00

954

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Summarizing Fiction Text / Stories - Reading Passages & Practice Worksheets

By Kalena Baker - Teaching Made Practical

This no prep resource includes fiction reading passages and activities to help students build a better understanding of what makes a good summary and to help them better summarize stories. The activities build on each other to help you scaffold and

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Informational Text

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Printables, Google Apps

CCSS:

RL.4.2

$5.75

817

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End of Year Writing Activity - Advice / Letter to Next Year's Students Template

By Kalena Baker - Teaching Made Practical

This makes a great end of year writing activity - fun, yet educational. Students will write an end of year letter to next year's students, offering advice about their teacher and explaining what they should learn in the upcoming year. This no prep

Subjects:

Creative Writing, Writing, Summer

Grades:

2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th

Types:

Activities, Printables, Google Apps

CCSS:

W.3.1, W.3.4, W.3.5, W.3.8, W.3.1a, W.3.1b

$2.50

354

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Building Character Trait Vocabulary - Sorts, Fun Activities, Worksheets

By Kalena Baker - Teaching Made Practical

When teaching character traits, often one of the most difficult skills for students to grasp is the vocabulary associated with character traits. This mostly no prep resource is designed to help students improve their understanding of the vocabulary

Subjects:

Reading, Reading Strategies, Tools for Common Core

Grades:

2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Printables, Google Apps

CCSS:

RL.3.3, RL.4.3

$4.50

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Cause and Effect Games / Cause and Effect Centers

By Kalena Baker - Teaching Made Practical

This resource contains 3 low prep cause and effect center activities for you to use in your ELA classroom. These games are an engaging, hands on way to help your students be better able to determine the relationship between cause and effect in

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Literature

Grades:

2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th

Types:

Games, Google Apps, Centers

$3.50

Digital Download PDF (14.65 MB)

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No Prep Digital Student Reflection for End of Year Activity - For Google Slides

By Kalena Baker - Teaching Made Practical

This digital end of year reflection is a fun activity to help students remember the past school year. This is a digital resource for use with Google Slides and Google Classroom and can be used for distance learning. There are 9 different Google

Subjects:

Reading, Summer, End of Year

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th

Types:

Activities, Google Apps

$2.00

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

I have been teaching for 6 years. Most of this time was spent in 3rd grade, but I have also worked with Kindergarten, 2nd grade, and 4th grade.

MY TEACHING STYLE

Many of my products are geared toward struggling students who need additional scaffolding in order to be successful. I love building confidence and ability in students who don't have it!

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MY OWN EDUCATIONAL HISTORY

I have a Bachelor's Degree in Elementary Education, and am currently working on my Master's Degree in Curriculum and Instruction, with an emphasis on ELL learners.

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1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th, Homeschool, Staff, Not Grade Specific

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English Language Arts, Balanced Literacy, Creative Writing, Writing-Expository, Reading, Grammar, Spelling, Vocabulary, Specialty, Math, Arithmetic, Basic Operations, Fractions, Geometry, Graphing, Measurement, Numbers, Other (Math), Science, Astronomy, Environment, Social Studies, Government, U.S. History, Arts & Music, Visual Arts, ELA Test Prep, Math Test Prep, Canadian History, Geography, Other (ELA), Life Skills, Critical Thinking, For All Subjects, Literature, Classroom Management, Professional Development, Statistics, Character Education, Word Problems, General Science, Library Skills, Short Stories, Writing, Oral Communication, Reading Strategies, Writing-Essays, Holidays/Seasonal, Back to School, Thanksgiving, Christmas-Chanukah-Kwanzaa, Poetry, Autumn, Mental Math, Halloween, Winter, Valentine's Day, Martin Luther King Day, Black History Month, Easter, Spring, Place Value, Tools for Common Core, For All Subjects, Summer, Informational Text, Test Preparation, End of Year, Phonics, Classroom Community