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Reading Workshop Bundle for Years 3 & 4
This bundle combines different resources related to Reading Workshop, including writing, reading, and listening.
Included resources:
Punctuation Dice for Years 3 & 4
Grammar Dice for Years 3 & 4
Guided Reading Questions for Comprehension
Guided Reading Story Starters
Reading Workshop Tracker for Years 3 & 4
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Reading Workshop Bundle for Years 5 & 6
This bundle combines different resources related to Reading Workshop, including writing, reading, and listening.
Included resources:
Guided Reading Story Starters
Ted-Ed Listen & Write FREEBIE
Listening to Classic Fiction with QR Codes FREEBIE
Guided Reading Questions for Comprehension
Grammar Dice for Years 5 & 6
Punctuation Dice for Years 5 & 6
Reading Workshop Tracker for Years 5 & 6
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Teams & Athletes: Sports Equipment Design (Explanation Text and Persuasive Text BUNDLE)
Great to tie in with the 2018 Olympic Games!
Children will look at how sports equipment has changed over time before making a modification of their own.
Children will follow the DT process outlined in the 2014 National Curriculum of England, designing their own prototype, making their prototype, and then participating in peer- and self- evaluation of their prototype.
When finished the design process, there are also resources included for writing an explanation text (of how their sports equipment has changed over time or how their new sports equipment modifications will work); and writing a persuasive text including an advert about their product.
A link to digital files for editing and sharing on Google Classroom or Seesaw is available with download.
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Teams & Athletes: Design a Team Jersey (with Explanation Text)
Teams & Athletes: Design a Team Jersey (with Explanation Text)
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Fortune Hunters: Crown Study (Chronology & Explanation Text)
Children will learn about the significance of crowns before looking at their chronology and writing an explanation text either about how they have changed over time or the significance of the different parts of a crown.
This pack includes lesson plans, rubrics, and editable rubrics to support with the learning process. Lessons and objectives are aligned with objectives from the 2014 National Curriculum of England.
A digital file for editing and sharing on digital platforms is available by clicking on the links provided with download.
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Fortune Hunters: Geography of Gems (Persuasive Writing about Mining)
Children will investigate different gemstones and where they are found around the world. They will also do a study of how the gemstones are extracted from the earth and will write a persuasive text about whether mining should continue or stop.
This pack includes lesson plans, rubrics, and editable rubrics to support with the learning process. Lessons and objectives are aligned with the objectives from the 2014 National Curriculum of England, and lesson plans list links to the CCSS in the United States.
A digital copy for editing and sharing on digital platforms is available with download.
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Self & Peer Editing Checklists (Narrative, Persuasive, Explanation, Information Writing)
This resource can be used for self or peer editing in a Key Stage 2 classroom. The guidelines used for mechanics, structure, grammar, and style have been taken from the Interim Guidelines for End of Key Stage 2 Expectations in England.
When I have used these in the classroom, I will place coloured pencils in yellow, green, pink, and blue on tables and have the children mark where specific requirements are missing or needing change on the papers of their peers.
I have included additional pages where the requirements are blank so that you can design them as a class or with focus groups. I have also included the digital copy for editing or sharing on Google Classroom or Seesaw (ideal for paperless classrooms), with a link provided with download.
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Fortune Hunters: Jewelry Design
Children will investigate jewelry design from around the world before designing their own.
In the past, I have used the finished jewelry to sell for our school’s art show.
This pack includes lesson plans, rubrics, and editable rubrics to support with the learning process. Lessons and objectives are aligned with objectives from the 2014 National Curriculum of England, and links to NGSS in the United States are listed where appropriate.
A digital copy for editing and sharing on digital platforms is available with download.
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Digging Deeper in Novel Studies with Social Media
Give children an opportunity to use critical thinking and dig deeper into their understanding of events in stories as well as the characters by using social media.
The pack provides scaffolded templates of Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook with suggestions related to the reading and writing standards for the 2014 National Curriculum of England in Key Stage 2.
A link is also provided to a digital copy of the file for editing and sharing on Google Classroom and Seesaw.
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Navigating Early Novel Study
This resource is designed to be used during Reading Workshop and is to be used with Navigating Early by Clare Vanderpool.
ABOUT THE NOVEL: From the author of Newbery Medal winner Moon Over Manifest comes the odyssey-like adventure of two boys’ incredible quest on the Appalachian Trail.
When Jack Baker’s father sends him from his home in Kansas to attend a boys’ boarding school in Maine, Jack doesn’t know what to expect. Certainly not Early Auden, the strangest of boys. Early keeps to himself, reads the number pi as a story, and refuses to accept truths others take for granted. Jack, feeling lonely and out of place, connects with Early, and the two become friends.
During a break from school, the boys set out for the Appalachian Trail on a quest for a great black bear. As Jack and Early travel deeper into the mountains, they meet peculiar and dangerous characters, and they make some shocking discoveries. But their adventure is only just beginning. Will Jack’s and Early’s friendship last the journey? Can the boys make it home alive?
ABOUT THE RESOURCE: Designed in alignment with the 2014 National Curriculum of England’s reading objectives for Year 6, the pack includes: Chapter Summaries, Comprehension Questions, Digging Deeper Opportunities (includes character studies and plot studies), Creative Writing Tasks, and Non-Fiction Tasks related to content of the novel (General D. Eisenhower, Holy Grail, pi, constellations, crew).
Resource is provided as a PDF but a digital copy of the pack is available for editing and sharing on Google Classroom and Seesaw available with download.
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Teams & Athletes: Design a Team Jersey (with Explanation Text)
Children will look at how sports team logos have changed over time before designing a team logo of their own. Children then repeat the same structure, this time looking at team jerseys. Last, they will write an explanation text of how logos or jerseys have changed over time.
This pack includes lesson plans, rubrics, and editable rubrics to support with the learning process. Lessons and objectives are aligned with objectives from the 2014 National Curriculum of England. Links to the Common Core State Standards are also outlined, where appropriate.
A digital copy for editing and sharing on digital platforms is available by following the link provided at the time of download.
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Teams and Athletes: Significant Athletes
Children will learn about different Olympic athletes and their accomplishments.
After their study, they will write an information text about their chosen athlete and their significance (number of medals, records broken).
This pack includes lesson plans, rubrics, and editable rubrics to support with the learning process. Lessons and objectives are aligned with objectives from the 2014 National Curriculum of England.
A digital copy for editing and sharing on digital platforms is available with download.
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Bridge to Terabithia Novel Study
This resource is designed to be used during Reading Workshop and is to be used with Bridge to Terabithia by Katharine Paterson.
*Updated to include additional opportunities to show understanding under "Digging Deeper", including theme, setting analysis, and excerpts from the text.
ABOUT THE NOVEL: Jess Aarons has been practicing all summer so he can be the fastest runner in the fifth grade. And he almost is, until the new girl in school, Leslie Burke, outpaces him. The two become fast friends and spend most days in the woods behind Leslie’s house, where they invent an enchanted land called Terabithia. One morning, Leslie goes to Terabithia without Jess and a tragedy occurs. It will take the love of his family and the strength that Leslie has given him for Jess to be able to deal with his grief.
ABOUT THE RESOURCE: Designed in alignment with the 2014 National Curriculum of England’s reading objectives for Year 6, the pack includes: Chapter Summaries, Comprehension Questions, Digging Deeper Opportunities (includes character studies and plot studies), Creative Writing Tasks, and Non-Fiction Tasks related to content of the novel (milking cows, racing, scuba diving, Jacques Cousteau, Smithsonian).
Resource is provided as a PDF but a digital copy of the pack is available for editing and sharing on Google Classroom and Seesaw available with download.
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The Girl of Ink and Stars Novel Study
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Navigating Early Novel Study
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Turtles All The Way Down Novel Study
This resource is designed to be used during Reading Workshop and is to be used with Turtles All the Way Down by John Green.
ABOUT THE NOVEL: It’s quite rare to find someone who sees the same world you see.
Sixteen-year-old Aza never intended to pursue the mystery of fugitive billionaire Russell Pickett, but there’s a hundred-thousand-dollar reward at stake and her Best and Most Fearless Friend, Daisy, is eager to investigate. So together, they navigate the short distance and broad divides that separate them from Russell Pickett’s son, Davis.
Aza is trying. She is trying to be a good daughter, a good friend, a good student, and maybe even a good detective, while also living within the ever-tightening spiral of her own thoughts.
ABOUT THE RESOURCE: Designed in alignment with the 2014 National Curriculum of England’s reading objectives for Year 6, the pack includes: Chapter Summaries, Comprehension Questions, Digging Deeper Opportunities (includes character studies and plot studies), Creative Writing Tasks, and Non-Fiction Tasks related to content of the novel (black hole, meteor shower, Star Wars, tuatara, zoologist, Iron Man, microbiome).
Resource is provided as a PDF but a digital copy of the pack is available for editing and sharing on Google Classroom and Seesaw available with download.
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A Skinful of Shadows Novel Study *Updated
This resource is designed to be used during Reading Workshop and is to be used with A Skinful of Shadows by Frances Hardinge
and has been updated for deeper learning with additional tasks for character analysis, literary motifs, themes, and extracts from the text.
ABOUT THE NOVEL: A Skinful of Shadows is a dark YA historical fantasy set in the early part of the English Civil War. Makepeace is an illegitimate daughter of the aristocratic Fellmotte family, and as such, she shares their unique hereditary gift: the capacity to be possessed by ghosts. Reluctant to accept her appointed destiny as vessel for a coterie of her ancestors, she escapes. As she flees the pursuing Fellmottes across war-torn England, she accumulates a motley crew of her own allies, including outcasts, misfits, criminals, and one extremely angry dead bear.
ABOUT THE RESOURCE: Designed in alignment with the 2014 National Curriculum of England’s reading objectives for Year 6, the pack includes:
- Background information on the historical context (English Civil War)
- Chapter Summaries
- Comprehension Questions
- Digging Deeper Opportunities (includes character studies and plot studies)
- Creative Writing Tasks
- Non-Fiction Tasks related to content of the novel (Puritans, King Charles, Lambeth Palace, Traitor's Gate, witchcraft).
Resource is provided as a PDF but a digital copy of the pack is available for editing and sharing on Google Classroom and Seesaw available with download.
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Other Novel Studies
The Girl of Ink and Stars Novel Study
The Skeleton Tree Novel Study
Wolf Hollow Novel Study
Turtles All The Way Down Novel Study
Navigating Early Novel Study
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The Book of Dust (Vol. 1) Novel Study
This resource is designed to be used during Reading Workshop and is to be used with The Book of Dust by Philip Pullman.
ABOUT THE NOVEL: Malcolm Polstead is the kind of boy who notices everything but is not much noticed himself. And so perhaps it was inevitable that he would become a spy…
Malcolm’s parents run an inn called the Trout, on the banks of the river Thames, and all of Oxford passes through its doors. Malcolm and his daemon, Asta, routinely overhear news and gossip, and the occasional scandal, but during a winter of unceasing rain, Malcolm catches wind of something new: intrigue.
He finds a secret message inquiring about a dangerous substance called Dust - and the spy it was intended for finds him.
When she asks Malcolm to keep his eyes open, he sees suspicious characters everywhere: the explorer Lord Asriel, clearly on the run; enforcement agents from the Magisterium; a gyptian named Coram with warnings just for Malcolm; and a beautiful woman with an evil monkey for a daemon. All are asking about the same thing: a girl - just a baby - named Lyra.
Lyra is the kind of person who draws people in like magnets. And Malcolm will brave any danger, and make shocking sacrifices, to bring her safely through the storm.
ABOUT THE RESOURCE: Designed in alignment with the 2014 National Curriculum of England’s reading objectives for Year 6, the pack includes: Background information on the novel (about the setting, about daemons), Chapter Summaries, Comprehension Questions, Digging Deeper Opportunities (includes character studies and plot studies), Creative Writing Tasks, and Non-Fiction Tasks related to content of the novel (daemons, spies, Aurora, priory).
Resource is provided as a PDF but a digital copy of the pack is available for editing and sharing on Google Classroom and Seesaw available with download.
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Colony Collapse Disorder - Persuasion Text
**Updated with new graphics
In this resource, children will learn about the importance of honey bees before being introduced to Colony Collapse Disorder. Children will then write a persuasive text using modal verbs and Point, Evidence, Explain either persuading their audience to end Colony Collapse Disorder.
In the past, I have introduced this outcome by teaching lessons on three consecutive days in the styles of Authoritarianism, Democracy, and Communism. The children then write their persuasive text in one of these styles.
A digital copy of the resource is available to editing and sharing on Google Classroom and Seesaw with download.
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Insect Study - Evolution & Inheritance
In this resource, children will learn about heredity and adaptations by looking at variations in different insects. This resource can easily be tied in with <a title=“Insect Study - Adapted Insect Forms” href=“https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/insect-study-adapted-insect-forms-11843240”>Insect Study - Adapted Insect Forms</a> where they can design and build a form of their own adapted insect.
A digital copy of the resource is available to editing and sharing on Google Classroom and Seesaw by following link provided with download.
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<a title=“Insect Study - Adapted Insect Forms” href=“https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/insect-study-adapted-insect-forms-11843240”>Insect Study - Adapted Insect Forms</a>
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Once Upon a Dream: A Twisted Tale Novel Study
**This resource is designed to be used during Reading Workshop and is to be used with Once Upon a Time: A Twisted Tale by Liz Braswell. The pack has been designed in alignment with the 2014 National Curriculum of England’s reading objectives for Year 6.
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ABOUT THE NOVEL: What if the sleeping beauty never woke up?Once Upon a Dream marks the second book in a new YA line that reimagines classic Disney stories in surprising new ways.
It should be simple–a dragon defeated, a slumbering princess in a castle, a prince poised to wake her. But when the prince falls asleep as his lips touch the fair maiden’s, it is clear that this fairy tale is far from over.
With a desperate fairy’s last curse controlling her mind, Princess Aurora must escape from a different castle of thorns and navigate a dangerously magical landscape–created from her very own dreams. Aurora isn’t alone–a charming prince is eager to join her quest, and old friends offer their help. But as Maleficent’s agents follow her every move, Aurora struggles to discover who her true allies are and, moreover, who she truly is. Time is running out. Will the sleeping beauty be able to wake herself up?
**ABOUT THE RESOURCE: **This pack includes: Chapter Summaries, Comprehension Questions, Digging Deeper Opportunities (includes character studies and plot studies), Creative Writing Tasks, and Non-Fiction Tasks related to content of the novel (mud dauber wasp, feathers, dungeons, bluebird, medieval armour, foxes).
Resource is provided as a PDF but a digital copy of the pack is available for editing and sharing on Google Classroom and Seesaw available with download.
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The Skeleton Tree Novel Study with STEAM BUNDLE
This resource is designed to be used during Reading Workshop and is to be used with The Skeleton Tree by Iain Lawrence.
ABOUT THE NOVEL: Less than 48 hours after twelve-year-old Chris casts off on a trip to sail down the Alaskan coast with his uncle, their boat sinks. The only survivors are Chris and a boy named Frank, who hates Chris immediately. Chris and Frank have no radio, no flares, no food. Suddenly, they’ve got to find a way to forage, fish and scavenge supplies from the shore. Chris likes the company of a curious friendly raven more than he likes the prickly Frank. But the boys have to get along if they want to survive.
Because as the days get colder, and the salmon migration ends, survival will take more than sheer force of will. There in the wilderness of Kodiak, they discover a bond they didn’t expect, and through it, the compassion and teamwork that might truly be the path to rescue.
ABOUT THE RESOURCE: Designed in alignment with the 2014 National Curriculum of England’s reading objectives for Year 6, the pack includes: Chapter Summaries, Comprehension Questions, Digging Deeper Opportunities (includes character studies and plot studies), Creative Writing Tasks, and Non-Fiction Tasks related to content of the novel (tide, Alaska, northern lights, salmon, ravens, Marconi, wolves, Grizzly bears, tsunami, sailing).
**STEAM ADD-ON **This pack also includes a STEAM activity for children to research different survival needs (shelter, food gathering, water collection) before designing a and making a prototype.
Resource is provided as a PDF but a digital copy of the pack is available for editing and sharing on Google Classroom and Seesaw available with download.
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Hatchet Novel Study with STEAM BUNDLE
This resource is designed to be used during Reading Workshop and is to be used with Hatchet by Gary Paulsen.
ABOUT THE NOVEL: Thirteen-year-old Brian Robeson is on his way to visit his father when the single-engine plane in which he is flying crashes. Suddenly, Brian finds himself alone in the Canadian wilderness with nothing but a tattered Windbreaker and the hatchet his mother gave him as a present—and the dreadful secret that has been tearing him apart since his parent’s divorce. But now Brian has no time for anger, self pity, or despair—it will take all his know-how and determination, and more courage than he knew he possessed, to survive.
**ABOUT THE RESOURCE: ** Designed in alignment with the 2014 National Curriculum of England’s reading objectives for Year 6, the pack includes: Chapter Summaries, Comprehension Questions, Digging Deeper Opportunities (includes character studies and plot studies), Creative Writing Tasks, and Non-Fiction Tasks related to content of the novel (porcupines, black bears, black flies, mosquitoes, bush planes, moose).
STEAM ADD-ON This pack also includes a STEAM activity for children to research different survival needs (shelter, food gathering, water collection) before designing a and making a prototype.
Resource is provided as a PDF but a digital copy of the pack is available for editing and sharing on Google Classroom and Seesaw available with download.