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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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Multisyllabic Words Lists - 2, 3, 4, & 5 Syllable Decodable Words, Syllable Type

By Kalena Baker - Teaching Made Practical

Use these multisyllabic word lists to help you as you teach your students to decode 2, 3, 4, and 5 syllable words. Or, use these word lists to help your students practice their multisyllabic word decoding skills / to practice different phonics

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading Strategies, Phonics

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th

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Handouts, Printables

CCSS:

RF.3.3, RF.3.3c, RF.4.3

$3.25

334

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Prefix & Suffix Worksheets, Activities - Decoding & Building Multisyllabic Words

By Kalena Baker - Teaching Made Practical

These no prep word study games and worksheets are a hands on way for students to practice decoding multisyllabic words. The activities focus on multisyllabic words that have prefixes, suffixes, and base words. As students complete the affix

Subjects:

Reading, Reading Strategies, Phonics

Grades:

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

Types:

Worksheets, Printables, Centers

CCSS:

RF.2.3d, RF.3.3c

$4.50

878

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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

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Worksheets, Printables, Google Apps

CCSS:

RL.3.3, RL.3.4

$6.00

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Compare & Contrast Nonfiction Text - Activities, Passages, Worksheets, 2 Texts

By Kalena Baker - Teaching Made Practical

This resource makes it easy for you to teach comparing and contrasting in nonfiction texts / informational texts so that your students develop a thorough understanding. Students will have the opportunity to compare two topics in the same text, as

Subjects:

Reading, Reading Strategies, Informational Text

Grades:

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

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Printables

CCSS:

RI.3.9

$6.00

1,524

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Cause and Effect Passages, Task Cards, No Prep Worksheets, Activities Bundle

By Kalena Baker - Teaching Made Practical

This cause and effect packet provides a huge assortment of activities to help students come to a thorough understanding of cause and effect. In order for students to truly understand the complex skill of cause and effect, they must experience it in

Subjects:

Reading, ELA Test Prep, Reading Strategies

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Printables, Centers

$9.25

$7.25

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Reading Comprehension Activities - Scaffolded Worksheets, Practice & Review

By Kalena Baker - Teaching Made Practical

This low prep reading skills bundle is a collection of my best selling reading comprehension resources. It addresses main idea, comparing and contrasting, point of view, text features, cause and effect, and character traits. There are no prep

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading Strategies, Tools for Common Core

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, Homeschool

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Worksheets, Activities, Printables

$44.00

$28.00

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Character Traits Activities Bundle - Passages, Games, Task Cards, and More!

By Kalena Baker - Teaching Made Practical

This huge bundle has everything you need to introduce, teach, and review character traits to your upper elementary students. There are reading passages, no prep activities, worksheets, cut and paste activities, task cards, graphic organizers,

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Reading Strategies

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Printables, Centers

CCSS:

RL.3.3, RL.4.3

$19.50

$12.75

570

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Finding the Main Idea & Supporting Details Lessons Bundle - Worksheets, Games

By Kalena Baker - Teaching Made Practical

This is a bundle of my 3 best selling main idea resources so you can save time planning lessons while still making sure your students understand this difficult skill. Using this resource will help your students have a firm grasp on how to find the

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Balanced Literacy, Reading Strategies

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Printables, Centers

CCSS:

RL.3.2, RI.3.2, RI.4.2

$14.00

$10.00

891

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Teaching Theme Activities Bundle - Identifying Theme Worksheets, Games, Practice

By Kalena Baker - Teaching Made Practical

This resource includes 4 low prep determining theme resources to make teaching theme easier on you and more understandable for your students. There are worksheets, reading passages, games, centers, cut and paste activities, lists of common themes,

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Reading Strategies

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, Homeschool

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Printables

CCSS:

RL.4.2, RL.5.2

$15.00

$10.50

343

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Character Traits Task Cards to Build Vocabulary - Requires Citing Evidence

By Kalena Baker - Teaching Made Practical

These character traits task cards are a fun way for students to practice identifying character traits and citing evidence. Each task card contains a short reading passage. Students read the task card and then use the clues to make an inference

Subjects:

Reading, Reading Strategies, Tools for Common Core

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Printables, Task Cards

CCSS:

RL.3.3

$2.00

1,704

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Making Inferences Task Card & Activities Bundle - Short Stories for Inferencing

By Kalena Baker - Teaching Made Practical

This low prep resource bundles 4 of my inferencing task resources, giving you a total of 64 task cards and 10 cut and paste activities to help your students practice their inferencing skills. The task cards and activities each contain short fiction

Subjects:

Reading, Reading Strategies, Tools for Common Core

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Printables, Task Cards

$9.00

$5.25

518

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Point of View Activities in Fiction - Worksheets, Reading Passages, Perspective

By Kalena Baker - Teaching Made Practical

This point of view & perspective resource covers essential point of view skills within fiction / narratives. The reading passages, worksheets, and activities encourage students to think about the character's perspective and how that might differ

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Reading Strategies

Grades:

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

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Printables

CCSS:

RL.3.6, RL.4.6

$5.00

1,475

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Nonfiction Text Features Charts / Handout - Student Notes, Anchor Chart

By Kalena Baker - Teaching Made Practical

These charts give the name, purpose, and an example of 18 different nonfiction text features. Use this chart to teach text features to your students, to use as a text features handout or text features cheat sheet for reference, or to put in their

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading Strategies, Informational Text

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Handouts, Printables

CCSS:

RI.3.5

$3.00

378

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Cause and Effect Task Cards - Use for Cause and Effect Scoot

By Kalena Baker - Teaching Made Practical

Use this low prep resource to help your students practice cause and effect within shorter texts in a fun way. Students will read This product contains 24 cause and effect task cards. Students must read a short paragraph, and then determine the

Subjects:

Reading, Reading Strategies, Test Preparation

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Task Cards, Centers

$2.00

742

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Point of View Activities Bundle, Author's Perspective, Reading Passages and More

By Kalena Baker - Teaching Made Practical

Teaching students about point of view is more important than ever. Students need to learn that they can disagree with an author or character, how to consider thoughts and actions from a different perspective, and how an author's own biases might

Subjects:

Reading, Reading Strategies, Tools for Common Core

Grades:

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

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Printables

CCSS:

RL.3.6, RI.3.6

$12.00

$8.00

488

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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

303

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Making Inferences Task Cards - Inferring Feelings and Emotions

By Kalena Baker - Teaching Made Practical

Use this low prep activity to help your students improve their inferencing skills while also building compassion and empathy for others. These 20 task cards contain short fiction texts with clues about how a character is feeling. Students must use

Subjects:

Reading, Critical Thinking, Reading Strategies

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Task Cards, Centers

$2.00

596

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Compare and Contrast Activities Unit - Comparing Informational Texts and Stories

By Kalena Baker - Teaching Made Practical

Teach comparing and contrasting in both fiction and nonfiction in a variety of fun ways. This compare and contrast unit combines my Comparing and Contrasting Stories Resource with my Comparing and Contrasting Nonfiction resource (almost 100 pages

Subjects:

Literature, Reading Strategies, Informational Text

Grades:

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

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Printables

CCSS:

RL.3.9, RI.3.9

$12.00

$8.40

496

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Point of View Task Cards - Distinguish Point of View from Character's / Author's

By Kalena Baker - Teaching Made Practical

These 24 point of view task cards are designed to help students thinking about what a character or an author's point of view is, and whether they agree or disagree with that point of view. Each task cards contains a short reading passage. There

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Reading Strategies

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Printables, Task Cards

CCSS:

RL.3.6, RI.3.6

$2.00

602

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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