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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.
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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
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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
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Kindergarten Dolch High-Frequency Heart Words (Science of Reading)
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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
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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
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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)
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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)
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First Grade Dolch High-Frequency Heart Words (Science of Reading)
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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
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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
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Second Grade Dolch High-Frequency Heart Words (Science of Reading)
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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
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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?
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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!
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Here’s a fun and engaging way to help your students learn about blends!
This resource is the perfect tool to help students blend sounds together to create new words. With a set of letter cards, students can create a series of words, learning about common blends in the process. These worksheets are great for helping students build their vocabulary and phonemic awareness skills.
This bundle contains 5 word-building worksheets focused on the following:
final blends
3 letter blends
L blends
R blends
S blends
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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
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Help students master reading and writing diphthongs with these handy word building worksheets!
With these games, students will get valuable practice constructing and reading words with common diphthongs.
Each word building worksheet comes with a set of letters that students can cut out and manipulate in order to build diphthongs. After building the word, students can practice reading the words.
This bundle contains 3 word-building worksheets focused on the following:
diphthongs oi, oy
diphthong ou
diphthong ow
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Quick and easy resource to practice building words with short vowels!
Building words with short vowels is a fun way for students to practice reading and writing short vowel words.
Each worksheet in this bundle includes a set of letters that can be cut apart and used to build words. After building words students can further engage with short vowel practice by reading each word three times.
This bundle contains 5 word building worksheets focused on the following:
short vowel a
short vowel e
short vowel i
short vowel o
short vowel u
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