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Common Core RL.2.5 thematic unit plans
COMPLETE Fractured Fairy Tale Writing Unit!
***You can view every page in this unit by viewing the preview video above or visitng THIS LINK!***If you are interested in starting fractured fairy tales with your students, LOOK NO FURTHER!!! In this comprehensive unit you will find everything you need to teach students how to write their own versions of fractured fairy tales using the writing process and the structure of classic tales. The duration of this unit depends on what you want to do with it! It can take as little as 1 week or up to 3
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Grades:
2nd - 4th
Apples and Johnny Appleseed | Tall Tales, Writing, Reading Comprehension
The fall season is perfect for theme teaching! This unit utilizes apples and Johnny Appleseed to teach tall tales, fiction and nonfiction reading strategies (analyzing characters, comparing characters, comparing fiction and nonfiction, text features) and SO MUCH MORE! It includes a cute Johnny Appleseed craft, sentence building activities, writing organizers, an opinion writing piece, math activities, language arts activities, comprehension questions, an informational PowerPoint/book about apple
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1st - 2nd
Also included in: Thematic Units for the YEAR | Literacy and Math Activities
Cinderella Around the World | Comparing Cinderella Stories | Print & TPT Easel
Teach students to compare and contrast and hone reading comprehension skills with Cinderella fairy tales! I’ve included activities for the Cinderella stories Cinderella, Cendrillon, The Irish Cinderlad, The Egyptian Cinderella, The Korean Cinderella, and The Rough-Face Girl in order to expose students to fairy tales from a variety of continents. Blank pages are included for many of the activities, so you are free to add in or substitute your own favorite versions as well. To start off the unit,
Grades:
2nd - 3rd
Rooted in Reading for Penguins - Winter Reading Comprehension, Penguin Research
In need of a new way to improve reading comprehension in your classroom? These weeklong winter reading activities center around winter animal research for Penguins! You'll get a week's worth of lesson plans to take the burden of planning for comprehension, vocabulary, and student-led research off of your plate.The following books are used for these read-aloud lessons and follow-up activities (These should be purchased separately): Flight School by Lita Judge and Penguin Problems by Jory John The
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2nd - 3rd
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The Gingerbread Man
Gingerbread Man Ultimate Bundle of ActivitiesThis 270 plus page bundle has everything you need to immerse your students in a delicious gingerbread unit and a gingerbread day!What's Included:5 Gingerbread Themed Math ActivitiesWays to Make 5Ways to Make 10Make a Ten to AddWord ProblemsWhere We Took Our First Bite of Gingerbread Graphing1 Art and Math Activity Combo: Make a Ten to Add Gingerbread House Math Craft2 Art ActivitiesGingerbread Baby CraftGingerbread Paper Plate CraftGingerbread Themed
Grades:
K - 2nd
Fairy Tale Unit to Teach the Common Core Standards - 25 Activities
If you need a fun way to teach the Common Core Standards for English-Language Arts, this fairy tale unit is for you! Through reading, writing, and higher order thinking, you and your students will work your way through ten 2nd Grade Common Core Standards using 25 different activities! The students will write newspaper articles, create posters, publish invitations, write police reports, and more! After reading the fairy tales and fractured fairy tales, students will create their own fractured fai
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2nd - 4th
Goldilocks & The Three Snow Bears - Compare and Contrast Fairy Tales
Comparing traditional fairy tales and fractured fairy tales? This book study is filled with comprehension activities to use with Goldilocks and the Three Bears and The Three Snow Bears by Jan Brett. The following resources are included:Story MapsThe Three Snow Bears Comprehension Question StripsSummary SheetsCharacter Trait MapsCharacter Analysis Writing PromptsVenn Diagrams for Story ComparisonsCompare and Contrast Writing PromptsLetter Writing PromptsOpinion Writing PromptsSnow Bear’s Synonyms
Grades:
1st - 3rd
Also included in: Folktales and Fractured Folktales - Compare and Contrast Folktales
Gingerbread Baby & The Gingerbread Man - Compare and Contrast Folktales
Comparing folktales and fractured folktales? This gingerbread tales book study was created to accompany a traditional retelling of The Gingerbread Man and Gingerbread Baby by Jan Brett. All activities are designed to help students read for understanding and think critically about the texts. Options for scaffolding and/or differentiation are included for many activities to ensure they will meet the varied needs of your students. Several activities also include blank versions of the graphic organi
Grades:
1st - 3rd
Also included in: Folktales and Fractured Folktales - Compare and Contrast Folktales
Thanksgiving Reading Comprehension | Balloons Over Broadway | November
This Thanksgiving reading comprehension unit is great for November since it is all about Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Using authentic literature like Balloons Over Broadway by Melissa Sweet is the best way to teach reading comprehension and engage your students! As well as incorporate social studies with Then and Now comparison and a STEM Challenge too! Perfect for the short week before Thanksgiving Break or anytime in November!This set includes:Story Comprehension Beginning, Middle, End (2 v
Grades:
1st - 3rd
Also included in: Reading Comprehension Bundle Complete Set All Books
Second Grade Interactive Read Aloud Lessons YEARLONG BUNDLE Printable + Digital
Read aloud lessons for the ENTIRE YEAR for SECOND GRADE! Just print and teach! DIGITAL VERSIONS FOR GOOGLE SLIDES TM INCLUDED FOR EACH STORY! Digital IRAs allow you to continue your interactive read alouds when students are distance learning from a remote location. Each month’s lessons include four read aloud units (except December) geared towards second grade RL and RI standards. Read alouds allow us to teach a broad range of standards. You will find that each week’s read aloud will cover many
Grades:
2nd
The Bad Seed and The Good Egg Interactive Read Aloud Lessons
Interactive read aloud lessons for the books The Bad Seed and The Good Egg. Just print and teach! This interactive read aloud is designed to cover five days, and includes the perfect back to school craft and directed drawing! This resource contains one week of lessons that are also included in the monthly bundle.Read alouds allow us to teach a broad range of standards. You will find that the read aloud lessons will cover many standards, but will focus more heavily on a specific one. Discussions
Grades:
2nd
Cinderella - Compare/Contrast
This unit was designed to be used with any traditional version of Cinderella (my favorites are by James Marshall and Marcia Brown) and Cindy Ellen by Susan Lowell. Although these books were kept in mind when creating this unit, the materials could be used with any version of this story!
This unit includes the following activities:
*Crown Craftivity: Templates for a quick and easy crown craft are included. This is a great way to kick off your mini unit and bring a bit of fun/novelty to your s
Grades:
1st - 2nd
Halloween Guided Reading with a Purpose Main Idea and Details Book Companions
I LOVE to embrace Halloween and use it to teach and review comprehension strategies. The focus reading strategy for this week is main idea and details, although there is SO MUCH more included. Each day a different story will focus on main idea and details, characters, setting, and predicting. his unit includes daily lesson plans, posters, parent connect letter,original strategy songs, comprehension strategies,literacy connections, extension activities, sort activities, and crafts.Books Featured
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K - 2nd
Also included in: Reading Comprehension Guided Reading with a Purpose BUNDLE
The Gingerbread Man
Every year, I look forward to reading different versions of the gingerbread story. It is always a hit with my students.
The gingerbread story is perfect for practice with retelling, identifying character traits, and comparing and contrasting. This pack includes resources to address these skills, and more!
Since there are so many versions of this beloved folktale, I have made the materials contained in this packet to be used with any version of the story. There are no book titles referenc
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Grades:
1st - 2nd
Winter Writing Activities Second Grade - Winter Writing Prompts
Engage your second grade students in a variety of winter writing activities, a snowman craft, booklets, and writing paper. Prompt topics include the winter season, snow, snowmen, snowflakes, penguins, polar bears, hibernation, winter weather, response to winter literature, winter sports, and more! Use the packet for guided writing, whole group writing, or for your thematic literacy center. The packet includes:Winter KWL Chart - write what they know, want to learn, and have learned as students le
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2nd
Also included in: Writing for Second Grade Seasons Bundle
Folktales and Fractured Folktales - Compare and Contrast Folktales
Prepping for your fractured folktale literature unit? This bundle contains three Common Core aligned paired book studies designed to help students compare and contrast folktales with related fractured folktales. All the activities will encourage students to read closely and think critically about each pair of texts.Each book study can be taught independently, or you can easily combine them into a cohesive fractured folktale unit if you so choose.--Teachers Like You Said...⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Extremely satisf
Grades:
1st - 3rd
Thanksgiving Activities 1st & 2nd Grade ELA - Standards-Based Reading, Writing
This Thanksgiving activity pack is filled with ELA activities for 1st and 2nd graders, such as reading, writing, language and grammar, and more. There are themed activities for each of the six Common Core Standards domains. Your students will practice their ELA standards while incorporating the Thanksgiving theme as well. This will take some of the stress off of your plate by providing you with standards-based and Common Core-aligned seasonal activities! Each domain will have 3-4 activities or p
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Grades:
1st - 2nd
Rock Your Classroom! A 2nd grade room transformation and theme day!
This is a fun, engaging, and rigorous thematic day that can be done ANY time you'd like to add something a little extra to your teaching! All you need to do is print off this packet of challenges, play some kid-friendly rock music and you're all set to go! You can even up the energy with a couple props, some cool shades or bandannas and get your rock on!!The content included in this resource is:ELA- rhymingELA- long & short vowelsMATH- measurement with centimetersMATH- Roll & color 1-100
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1st - 3rd
Baseball Classroom Transformation and Theme Day
This is the perfect way to work on reading and math content while having FUN in the classroom. Have you been wanting to try a room transformation, but didn't know where to start? This is perfect for GYTO's Rock Your School!Included in this resource are:a reading graphic organizer that can be used with any booka close read article (4 pages) with comprehension activity2 options of fact & opinionaddition (making ten) activityWord problems (w/ answer key and self-checking system)Real-life thinki
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1st - 3rd
Nobody Hugs a Cactus Reading Comprehension Activities Character Traits Lessons
Nobody Hugs a Cactus reading comprehension unit and craft examines character traits in the book, "Nobody Hugs a Cactus" by Carter Goodrich. Focus on feelings with guided reading and writing activities that also review comprehension strategies of story retelling, text connections, character analysis, problem and solution, setting, and more. This feelings-themed unit will help students identify character traits in the text they read. This engaging book companion unit includes:a unique craftwriti
Grades:
2nd - 3rd
The Two Bobbies A True Story of Hurricane Katrina Common Core Literacy Unit
This unit is based on the story Two Bobbies by Kirby Larson and Mary Nethery. It can be used with a unit on weather, hurricanes, friendship, or perseverance. The unit includes vocabulary, Blooms questions, story sequence, cause and effect, compare and contrast, story scoot and questions based on individual learning styles.
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Grades:
K - 3rd
Using Aesop's Fables with Second Grade Common Core ELA Standards
This engaging literature study for second graders revolves around the beloved fables by Aesop. This pack includes anchor charts, sorting cards, foldables, printables, graphic organizers, literacy centers, assessment ideas, and rubrics that address CCSS Reading Literature standards 1-7 and 9 in multiple ways. This will be a valuable addition to your study of fables and folktales.
Here is a detailed list of each page:
1. Title Page
2. Aesop's Fables color poster
3-5 Character, setting, and moral a
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Grades:
2nd
Camping Week with Mr. Magee's Camping Spree Book Activities
Camping in the Classroom keeps students busy with standards-based ELA, Math, Science, and STEM activities.A great companion text, A Camping Spree with Mr. Magee is one of my top-sellers. I've combined these two products for you to use with your camping themed week.The morning meetings will give you some good ideas for activities that you can use during your camp week.
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Grades:
1st - 3rd
COMPLETE Tall Tale Writing Unit!
If you are interested in starting tall tales with your students, LOOK NO FURTHER!!! In this comprehensive unit you will find everything you need to teach students about tall tales and how to write their own version of one! The duration of this unit depends on what you want to do with it! It can take as little as 1 week or up to 3 or more! **Before teaching this unit students should already have a general understanding of the writing process (brainstorming, prewriting, drafting, revising, and edi
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Grades:
2nd - 4th
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