Use “Clementine” by Sara Pennypacker to Teach Literal and Nonliteral Language   “Clementine” is an ideal text to use as a springboard for instruction focused on distinguishing literal and nonliteral language. Each meeting provides opportunities for the students to absorb new concepts, discuss their thoughts and findings, work collaboratively with peers, and reflect on their learning and how it can be applied to their future independent reading.   HERE’S WHAT YOU’LL GET: Literal and Nonliteral Language Lesson Plans for 5 Book Club Meetings Each book club meeting includes: Chapter by Chapter Discussion Guide Chapter by Chapter Vocabulary Guide Specific Instructional Focus Step By Step Guided Mini Lesson   Book Club Management Resources Book Club Calendar Conversation Prompts Student Reading Response Option Board (with optional Common Core Alignment) Expectations for Book Club Anchor Chart / Student Reference Sheet Student Self-Evaluation Forms   Assessments Focus Assessment and Rubric Common Core Aligned Comprehension Assessment Running Record Assessment   Vocabulary Development Resources The vocabulary resources included in this bundle focus on words that are important for readers to know and understand in order to comprehend “Clementine”.   The vocabulary resources include the following: Vocabulary Word List Flash Cards ( match words to definitions) Interactive Vocabulary Notebook Cards Vocabulary Word Games Printable Personal Vocabulary Word Bookmark   This set of resources also includes the following: Answer Keys Common Core State Standard Alignment TEKS Alignment Spanish translation of Book Club Management Resources for use with “Clementine”   I hope that you will enjoy using the BookPagez resources for “Clementine” by Sara Pennypacker. Please note that a copy of the book is not included in this resource set. You will need your own copy/copies of the book.   Have questions about the resource Please get in touch with any questions you might have via the contact form on the BookPagez website.   Read the Book Club Teacher Guide If you’d like to learn more about the BookPagez Book Club Resource sets, you can read the teacher guide here.   View the FULL PREVIEW here.

Third Grade Dolch High-Frequency Heart Words (Science of Reading)   Click here to download the preview and sample pages for full product details.   Support your student’s ability to decode texts and become more successful readers with this collection of worksheets for Dolch High-Frequency Heart Words. Heart words are high-frequency words that are not very decodable. Because they are tricky, heart words are words students must learn “by heart”. This resource includes worksheets for all 33 heart words included in the list of third grade Dolch Sight Words. Each word is categorized as a permanent heart word, permanent with temporary letters, or temporary heart word. There are three worksheets for each heart word. They are as follows:   Worksheet 1: Introduce the Heart Word Use this worksheet to introduce new sight words. Students will trace the heart word and practice identifying the word by coloring circles containing the word.   Worksheet 2: Read it, Map it, Write it, Color it Use this worksheet to provide your students with diverse opportunities to interact with the heart word. Students will read the word, map the sounds, write the word, and color the word after finding it in a grid.   Worksheet 3: Sentence Building and Fluency with High-Frequency Words Use this worksheet to help your students use the heart word in a string of 3 related sentences. Each sentence uses the heart words along with other words on the list of third grade high-frequency words. After students build the heart word sentences they can work on their fluency by reading the sentences three times.   List of Third Grade Heart Words used in this resource: about, better, bring, carry, clean, done, draw, eight, fall, far, full, grow, hold, hurt, keep, kind, laugh, light, long, much, myself, never, only, own, pick, shall, show, small, start, today, together, try, warm   Have questions about the resource? Please get in touch with any questions you might have via the contact form on the BookPagez website.

Please click here to download the preview for full product details.   This set of Realistic Fiction Task cards comes with 144 task cards to choose from.   These task cards focus on the characteristics of realistic fiction across the following story elements: Characters Setting Plot Mood Theme   Use these task cards to support readers of all ability levels as they learn about the specific characteristics of Realistic Fiction. Here are some examples of the questions included in this set of genre task cards:   Characters • What is the main character like on the outside? (What does he/she look like?) • Are there any characters in the story that are like you? Setting • What does the location of this story remind you of? • Could the story have taken place in another location? If yes, where? Plot • What are the most important events in the story? • Does the story move at a good pace? Why or why not? Mood • How does this story make you feel? Why? • How did your feelings change as you read this story? Theme • What will you remember about this story? • Connect the theme of this story with something that has happened in your life   Have questions about the resource? Please get in touch with any questions you might have via the contact form on the BookPagez website.

Please click here to download the preview for full product details.   Use this flexible resource with any award-winning book.   Engage readers at all levels with this differentiated resource that encourages students to think about award-winning books.   The differentiated writing prompts included in this resource make it easy to explore the work of award-winning authors and illustrators.   Teach students about the Newberry and Caldecott awards by exploring the text and illustrations in award-winning picture and chapter books as well as classroom favorites. For ease of use, this resource set comes with a list of Caldecott and Newbery Medal and Honor books.   Have questions about the resource? Please get in touch with any questions you might have via the contact form on the BookPagez website.

Please click here to download the preview for full product details.   A set of 20 high-interest, full-color photographs. Each photo has been carefully selected to appeal to students across all grade levels. That means even the earliest of readers will be able to make observations and use those observations to practice the thought processes connected to comprehension.   In addition to the photographs, this resource set includes comprehension strategy practice pages for both lower elementary and upper elementary students. The practice pages are designed to guide students as they work to comprehend pictures.   The comprehension strategy practice pages support students at they do the following: Ask questions about the pictures Determine the most important parts of the picture Identify the photographer’s purpose for taking the picture Make connections to the picture Make inferences about the picture Make predictions about what could have happened before and after the picture was taken Retell and Summarize what’s happening in the picture Synthesize their thoughts about the picture Identify a text structure represented in the picture   Have questions about the resource? Please get in touch with any questions you might have via the contact form on the BookPagez website.

Click Here to View the Preview of Features of Nonfiction Text Posters   Help students to better comprehend nonfiction with these colorful Features of Nonfiction Text Posters.   Make nonfiction reading easier with these Features of Nonfiction Text Posters. Print this set of posters on 8 1/2″ x 11″ cardstock and laminate for use year after year.   These posters come in full size, half size, and pages perfect for a pocket chart.   These colorful posters can be used to introduce students to the features of nonfiction text. Simply hang in your classroom library and challenge students to find at least one feature in each nonfiction book they read. Bind the posters together and add them to the nonfiction section in your classroom library. Or use them as mini anchor charts when reading nonfiction in a whole or small group setting.   This set of 15 Nonfiction Text Feature Posters includes posters for the following: Captions Diagrams Glossary Graphs Headings Index Labels Lists Maps Photographs Subtitles Table of Contents Timelines Titles Types of Print   Have questions about the resource? Please get in touch with any questions you might have via the contact form on the BookPagez website

Kindergarten Dolch High-Frequency Heart Words (Science of Reading) Please click here to download the preview and sample pages. Support your student’s ability to decode texts and become more successful readers with this collection of worksheets for Dolch High-Frequency Heart Words.   Heart words are high-frequency words that are not very decodable. Because they are tricky, heart words are words students must learn “by heart”.   This resource includes worksheets for all 40 heart words included in the list of kindergarten Dolch Sight Words. Each word is categorized as a permanent heart word, permanent with temporary letters, or temporary heart word. There are three worksheets for each heart word. They are as follows:   Worksheet 1: Introduce the Heart Word Use this worksheet to introduce new sight words. Students will trace the heart word and practice identifying the word by coloring circles containing the word.   Worksheet 2: Read it, Map it, Write it, Color it Use this worksheet to provide your students with diverse opportunities to interact with the heart word. Students will read the word, map the sounds, write the word, and color the word after finding it in a grid.   Worksheet 3: Sentence Building and Fluency with High-Frequency Words Use this worksheet to help your students use the heart word in a string of 3 related sentences. Each sentence uses the heart words along with other words on the list of kindergarten high-frequency words. After students build the heart word sentences they can work on their fluency by reading the sentences three times.   List of Kindergarten Heart Words used in this resource: all, are, ate, be, black, brown, came, do, eat, four, good, have, he, into, like, new, no, now, our, out, please, pretty, ride, saw, say, she, so, soon, that, there, they, this, too, under, want, was, what, white, who, with Have questions about the resource? Please get in touch with any questions you might have via the contact form on the BookPagez website.

Give your students a guide to reading with expression and banish robot reading for good with this easy-to-use, quick-prep resource. This resource set includes everything you need to help your students read with confidence, expression, and personality. Inside you’ll find a feelings chart to help students understand and express different emotions, a set of intonation planners to help students plan for pacing, pitch, and voice level, and a Quote the Book student page for practicing expression with favorite quotes from books. Best of all, this resource can be used with any book. Use it to help students engage with texts on a deeper level and better understand the characters in the books you read.   Included in this resource Feelings Chart for 9 Emotions Intonation Planners (for 9 emotions, plus a blank emotion to customize as needed) Quote the Book Student Practice Page   View the FULL PREVIEW here.   Have questions about the resource? Please get in touch with any questions you might have via the contact form on the BookPagez website.

Giving students the opportunity to review books lets them express themselves, practice analytical thinking, and gives them an authentic purpose for writing. It’s also a great way to build a classroom community of readers!   Try using these brochures at the beginning of the year. Students can review their favorite books and share them with the class. The brochure could also be shared with parents on Open House or Curriculum Nights - students will love seeing their parents’ signatures on the back of their review the following morning.   The book reviews could also be used at the end of a genre study, or author study, to spark renewed interest in your classroom library during the middle of the year, or to celebrate Reading Month.   This set of book review includes a brochure for fiction and nonfiction texts and includes prompts for the following:   Fiction: Book Stats (author, illustrator, genre, number of pages) Three Reasons They Like the Book Summary of the Story (setting, main character, main character’s internal and external traits, main problem) Signature Section (a place for people to sign their name after reading the review)   Nonfiction: Book Stats (author, topic, text features, number of pages Two Important Words to Know (word and definition) Summary of the Text Two Interesting Facts Signature Section (a place for people to sign their name after reading the review)   View the FULL PREVIEW here.   Have questions about the resource? Please get in touch with any questions you might have via the contact form on the BookPagez website.  

Host a Comprehension Camp and engage your students in purposeful comprehension strategy practice! Comprehension Camp, much like real camp, is all about honing reading skills and strategies that will make it easier for your students to comprehend and enjoy the books they read. This starter kit provides you with everything you need to get your students excited about honing their comprehension skills! So dim the lights in your classroom, grab your lantern, stream some nature sounds, and get ready to host Comprehension Camp!   Here’s what’s included in this Starter Kit: Getting Started Teacher Guide 5 Day Plan Comprehension Camp Invitations (Color and B/W) Comprehension Camp Backpack and Strategy Badges Comprehension Camp Chant (Color and B/W) Camp Buddy List Templates (Color and B/W) Cabin Assignment Pages (Color and B/W)   View the FULL PREVIEW here.   Have questions about the resource? Please get in touch with any questions you might have via the contact form on the BookPagez website.

First Grade Dolch High-Frequency Heart Words (Science of Reading)   Please click here to download the preview and sample pages for full product details.   Support your student’s ability to decode texts and become more successful readers with this collection of worksheets for Dolch High-Frequency Heart Words. Heart words are high-frequency words that are not very decodable. Because they are tricky, heart words are words students must learn “by heart”. This resource includes worksheets for all 33 heart words included in the list of first grade Dolch Sight Words. Each word is categorized as a permanent heart word, permanent with temporary letters, or temporary heart word. There are three worksheets for each heart word. They are as follows:   Worksheet 1: Introduce the Heart Word Use this worksheet to introduce new sight words. Students will trace the heart word and practice identifying the word by coloring circles containing the word.   Worksheet 2: Read it, Map it, Write it, Color it Use this worksheet to provide your students with diverse opportunities to interact with the heart word. Students will read the word, map the sounds, write the word, and color the word after finding it in a grid.   Worksheet 3: Sentence Building and Fluency with High-Frequency Words Use this worksheet to help your students use the heart word in a string of 3 related sentences. Each sentence uses the heart words along with other words on the list of first grade high-frequency words. After students build the heart word sentences they can work on their fluency by reading the sentences three times.   List of First Grade Heart Words used in this resource: after, again, any, as, by, could, every, fly, from, give, going, has, her, his, how, know, live, may, of, old, once, over, put, round, some, take, thank, them, then, think, walk, were, when   Have questions about the resource? Please get in touch with any questions you might have via the contact form on the BookPagez website.

Please click here to download the preview for full product details.   Help students understand the features of nonfiction text using this set of nonfiction comprehension strategy graphic organizers.   This set of graphic organizers can be used with any nonfiction text. The organizers are designed to help students use the features of nonfiction text along with specific strategies to comprehend nonfiction. Easily differentiate your instruction by choosing from two versions of each graphic organizer or use the Spanish versions to support Spanish speaking students.   This resource includes 20 graphic organizers for the following comprehension strategies: Asking Questions Determining Importance Identifying the Author’s Message Making Connections Making Inferences Making Predictions Retelling and Summarizing Synthesizing Understanding Text Structure Visualizing   Have questions about the resource? Please get in touch with any questions you might have via the contact form on the BookPagez website.

Second Grade Dolch High-Frequency Heart Words (Science of Reading)   Click here to download the preview for full product details.   Support your student’s ability to decode texts and become more successful readers with this collection of worksheets for Dolch High-Frequency Heart Words. Heart words are high-frequency words that are not very decodable. Because they are tricky, heart words are words students must learn “by heart”. This resource includes worksheets for all 38 heart words included in the list of second grade Dolch Sight Words. Each word is categorized as a permanent heart word, permanent with temporary letters, or temporary heart word. There are three worksheets for each heart word. They are as follows:   Worksheet 1: Introduce the Heart Word Use this worksheet to introduce new sight words. Students will trace the heart word and practice identifying the word by coloring circles containing the word.   Worksheet 2: Read it, Map it, Write it, Color it Use this worksheet to provide your students with diverse opportunities to interact with the heart word. Students will read the word, map the sounds, write the word, and color the word after finding it in a grid.   Worksheet 3: Sentence Building and Fluency with High-Frequency Words Use this worksheet to help your students use the heart word in a string of 3 related sentences. Each sentence uses the heart words along with other words on the list of second grade high-frequency words. After students build the heart word sentences they can work on their fluency by reading the sentences three times.   List of Second Grade Heart Words used in this resource: always, around, because, been, before, both, call, cold, does, don’t, first, five, found, gave, goes, green, made, many, off, or, pull, read, right, sing, sleep, their, these, those, use, very, wash, which, why, wish, work, would, write, your   Have questions about the resource? Please get in touch with any questions you might have via the contact form on the BookPagez website.

Please download the preview to preview the ENTIRE Summer Reader’s Notebook   This Summer Reader’s Notebook will ensure that your students are busy reading all summer!   The notebook focuses on reading comprehension strategies and includes material for readers in going into second grade - fifth grade. My goal when I created this resource was to make it easy for you to differentiate the reader’s notebook based on the unique abilities of the students in your classroom.   The Summer Reader’s Notebook Includes the following: 1 summer reading promise (boy and girl version) 23 summer reading lists organized by guided reading level (levels D-Z) A list of websites where students can go to watch, read, and listen to books A Book log 2 types of genre checklists 1 set of lower elementary task cards and 1 set of upper elementary task cards for 10 reading comprehension strategies (retell/summarize, make connections, make inferences, make predictions, visualize, author’s message/purpose, determine importance, ask questions, understand text structure, synthesize). Each comprehension strategy includes 6 task cards for a total of 60 task cards for lower elementary, and 60 for upper elementary readers 60 summer themed reader’s notebook entry pages 10 Bonus Summer Reading Activities -Bonus Activity #1: Favorite Character Cards -Bonus Activity #2: Nonfiction Know How -Bonus Activity #3: Book Review - Extra, Extra, Read All About It -Bonus Activity #4: Dear Friend - Letter to a Favorite Character -Bonus Activity #5: Get Clued In (Infer and Predict) -Bonus Activity #6: Genre Match Up -Bonus Activity #7: Fishing for New Words -Bonus Activity #8: Story Map -Bonus Activity #9: Features of Nonfiction Text Word Search -Bonus Activity #10: Fact or Opinion?   Have questions about the resource? Please get in touch with any questions you might have via the contact form on the BookPagez website.

10 Steps to Writing an AMAZING Research Report that You Can Be Proud Of!   Here is a step by step guide for students to use while researching and drafting nonfiction writing pieces.   This resource includes steps to guide students through researching up to 5 questions associated with a main idea. So in the end, your students will have an intro paragraph, 5 supporting paragraphs, and a closing paragraph. Of course, you can customize this guide to include more or less paragraphs to suit the needs of your specific assignments.   This guide provides students with a step-by-step sequence to follow that will support the following: questioning in order to develop the main idea identifying facts to support the answers to their questions identifying sources of information writing topic sentences composing paragraphs writing closing sentences writing an introductory paragraph writing a closing paragraph using your own words while writing quick editing and revising   This is a great resource for students who struggle to organize their thoughts while writing and for those who find in difficult to use their own words when researching a topic.   Parents will also find this useful for big research reports and projects.   Check out the PREVIEW here.   Have questions about the resource? Please get in touch with any questions you might have via the contact form on the BookPagez website.

Please view or download the preview here of Reading Comprehension Strategy Posters   Introduce and reinforce the 10 essential comprehension strategies. These colorful posters can be printed on 8 1/2″ x 11″ cardstock and laminated for year-long use. Hang them in your classroom library or on bulletin boards to support student use of the strategies.   These posters come in full size, half size, and pages perfect for a pocket chart.   This set of 10 posters comes complete with an easy to read poster for each of the following comprehension strategies: Asking Questions Determining Importance Identifying the Author’s Purpose Making Connections Making Inferences Making Predictions Retelling and Summarizing Synthesizing Understanding Text Structure Visualizing   Have questions about the resource? Please get in touch with any questions you might have via the contact form on the BookPagez website.

Please view the preview here. Nine times out of ten the book is better than the movie. Help students notice the differences between their favorite books and the movies Hollywood produces by providing them with tools to help them critically think about the ways in which films and books are the same and different. This comparing and contrasting resource set is a simple way to guide your students’ viewing experience and to help them form opinions about a book’s film adaptation.   This resource set includes the following: Compare and Contrast Viewing Guide Critical Thinking Questions Writing Prompt   Have questions about the resource? Please get in touch with any questions you might have via the contact form on the BookPagez website.

You can view the Prediction Puzzle Preview here. Prediction Puzzles are a smart solution for readers who are just learning to make predictions and for readers who need work making logical predictions. Use these graphic organizers to make a prediction and track supporting evidence in the text. They can even be used across all content areas! This resource includes 2 Prediction Puzzles for easy differentiation.   Have questions about the resource? Please get in touch with any questions you might have via the contact form on the BookPagez website.

Please click here to download the preview for full product details.   Use this set of 10 task cards to encourage students to use comprehension strategies while reading. This flexible resource can easily be used during centers or during Reader’s Workshop. With tasks for both beginning and advanced readers, every student in your class will have an opportunity to sharpen their comprehension skills. This set of cards comes complete with a coordinating back of card design and can be used with any book. I hope that this set of Mixed Strategy Task Cards will more than meet your needs!   Have questions about the resource? Please get in touch with any questions you might have via the contact form on the BookPagez website.

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE PREVIEW FOR FULL PRODUCT DETAILS.   Practice spelling and reading words with short and long oo vowel sounds using these fun word building games. Each worksheet in the bundle includes a letter set that students can use to create words with short and long oo vowel sounds. Perfect for small group or independent practice, this resource will help students develop phonemic awareness and confidence in reading words with long and short oo sounds. This bundle contains 2 word building worksheets focus on the following: short oo long oo   Have questions about the resource? Please get in touch with any questions you might have via the contact form on the BookPagez website.