Common core aligned worksheets to supplement Around the Pond: Who's Been Here? as published in Houghton Mifflin Reading 2.1. Common core aligned activities include: two vocabulary activities (6 words each) which focus on using a combination of dictionary skills and context clues, ten comprehension questions/activities with a focus on Bloom's Taxonomy, a sequencing activity, a summarizing activity, two categorizing and classifying activities, a vocabulary puzzle and an informational reading extension; Different Kinds of Animals. (15 pages of activities) Included in this purchase is a BONUS: Around the Pond: Who's Been Here? Sequencing and Summarize sentence strips activity and poster. An answer key is included. Created Sept 2015

Common core aligned worksheets to supplement Exploring Parks with Ranger Dockett as published in Houghton Mifflin Reading 2.1. Common core aligned activities include: two vocabulary activities (6 words each) which focus on using a combination of dictionary skills and context clues, ten comprehension questions/activities with a focus on Bloom's Taxonomy, two KWL charts, two fact and opinion activities, a vocabulary puzzle and an informational reading extension; Urban Forest Creatures. Two additional publishing sheets are included for creative activities. (13 pages of activities) An answer key is included. Created Sept 2015

Common core aligned worksheets to supplement Chinatown as published in Houghton Mifflin Reading 2.1. Common core aligned activities include: two vocabulary activities (6 words each) which focus on using a combination of dictionary skills and context clues, ten comprehension questions/activities with a focus on Bloom's Taxonomy, a KWL chart, a making judgements activity, a vocabulary puzzle, an informational reading extension; What's Your Kung Fu? and a template for a map activity. (10 pages of activities) Revised Jan 2016

Common core aligned worksheets to supplement Jamaica Louise James as published in Houghton Mifflin Reading 2.1. Common core aligned activities include: two vocabulary activities (6 words each) which focus on using a combination of dictionary skills and context clues, ten comprehension questions/activities with a focus on Bloom's Taxonomy, a sequencing activity, a summarizing activity, a main idea and details activity, a making inferences activity, a compare and contrast activity, a vocabulary puzzle, a draw a portrait activity and a create a selfie activity. (14 pages of activities) Included in this purchase is a BONUS: Jamaica Louise James Sequencing and Summarizing sentence strips activity and poster. Revised Jan 2015

Common Core aligned worksheets and activities for The Legend of the Persian Carpet by Tomie dePaola as published in Scholastic Literacy Place. Included are: two vocabulary activities which focus on using a combination of dictionary skills and context clues, ten comprehension questions with a focus on higher order thinking and creative activities, a story map, three cause and effect activities, a sequencing activity, a complex sentences activity and a vocabulary crossword puzzle. (12 pages) Created Aug 2015

A double-sided worksheet for Marven of the Great North Woods, as published in Houghton and Mifflin Reading 4, that tri-folds into a pamphlet. It includes an illustration section, a vocabulary practice (10 words), a sequence & summarize activity or write a letter home activity (according to teacher choice), comprehension questions (3), a problem & solution activity and 5 star review/recommendation section. An instruction page and answer key are included. Created Feb 2015 Revised Feb 25, 2015 (Additional vocabulary choices have been added)

This is a double-sided worksheet for The Stranger, as published in Houghton and Mifflin Reading 4, that is tri-folded into a pamphlet. It includes an illustration section, a past tense vocabulary practice (10 words), a Write a Poem activity OR a Create Character Cards for the four seasons activity (according to teacher preference), comprehension questions (5), and a 5 Star review/recommendation section. An instruction page and answer key are included. There are two versions of the create a poem activity; an acrostic with the word AUTUMN or a blank template for any other kind of poem.

A double-sided worksheet for Boss of the Plains, as published in Houghton and Mifflin Reading 4, that tri-folds into a pamphlet. It includes an illustration section, a vocabulary practice (10 words), a making generalizations activity or a creative activity "The Hat that Changed the Future" (according to teacher preference), comprehension questions (3), a picture this idioms activity, and 5 star review/recommendation section. An instruction page and answer key are included. Revised April 2016

A double-sided worksheet for Finding the Titanic, as published in Houghton and Mifflin Reading 4, that tri-folds into a pamphlet. It includes an illustration section, a vocabulary practice (10 words), a making inferences activity or an opinion writing activity about the Titanic (according to teacher preference), comprehension questions (3), a write a synopsis section and a 5 star review/recommendation section. A graphic organizer with sentence starters for prewriting the opinion piece is provided also. An instruction page and answer key are included.

A double-sided worksheet for Tomás and the Library Lady, as published in Houghton Mifflin Reading 4, that tri-folds into a pamphlet. It includes an illustration section, a vocabulary practice (10 words), a sequence and summarize activity or a sequence and comic summary activity (according to teacher preference), comprehension questions (3), a character changes activity, and 5 star review/recommendation section. An instruction page and answer key are included. Revised April 2016

Common Core aligned worksheets and activities for Gila Monsters Meet You at the Airport by Marjorie W. Sharmat as published in Scholastic Literacy Place. Common core aligned activities are two vocabulary activities which focus on using a combination of dictionary skills and context clues, ten comprehension questions with a focus on higher order thinking and creative activities, a story map, a fact versus opinion activity, two vocabulary puzzles and an informational reading extension. (10 pages of activities) Created Aug 2015

Common Core aligned worksheets and activities for The Little Red Ant and the Great Big Crumb retold by Shirley Climo as published in Scholastic Literacy Place. Included are: two vocabulary activities which focus on using a combination of dictionary skills and context clues, ten comprehension questions with a focus on higher order thinking and creative activities, a story map, a cause and effect activity, a sequencing activity, a summarizing activity, an Ant Fact Sheet, Amazing Ants reading extension with questions and a vocabulary puzzle. (14 pages of activities) Created Aug 2015

Common core aligned worksheets to supplement Jalapeño Bagels as published in Houghton Mifflin Reading 2.2. Common core aligned activities include: two vocabulary activities (6 words each) which focus on using a combination of dictionary skills and context clues, ten comprehension questions/activities with a focus on Bloom's Taxonomy, a making jalapeño bagels sequencing and summarizing activity, a vocabulary puzzle, a making bread informational reading activity, and two international day creative activities. (14 pages of activities) The answer key will be completed and uploaded later. Until then the price is discounted to $4 from the usual $5. Created Mar 2016

Common Core aligned worksheets and activities for Dragon in the Rocks by Marie Day as published in Scholastic Literacy Place. Included are: two vocabulary activities which focus on using a combination of dictionary skills and context clues, ten comprehension questions with a focus on higher order thinking and creative activities, a story map, a sequencing activity, a summarizing activity, a nouns and adjective activity, a creating similes activity, two vocabulary puzzles and a Fossil reading extension with questions. (12 pages of activities) Created Aug 2015

Common Core aligned worksheets and activities for Doctor De Soto by William Steig as published in Scholastic Literacy Place. Included are: two vocabulary activities which focus on using a combination of dictionary skills and context clues, ten comprehension questions with a focus on higher order thinking and creative activities, a story map, two making inferences activities, three cause and effect activities, a character chart, a vocabulary crossword puzzle, and a compare and contrast activity about foxes and wolves. (16 pages of activities) An answer key for the puzzle is included. Revised Feb 2016

Common core aligned worksheets to supplement Thunder Cake as published in Houghton Mifflin Reading 2.2. Common core aligned activities include: two vocabulary activities (6 words each) which focus on using a combination of dictionary skills and context clues, ten comprehension questions/activities with a focus on Bloom's Taxonomy, a sequencing and summarizing activity, a story map, a vocabulary puzzle, and a write a sense poem creative activity. (15 pages of activities) Included in this purchase is a BONUS: Thunder Cake Sequence and Summarize sentence strips activity and poster. The answer key will be completed and uploaded later. Until then the price is discounted to $4 from the usual $5. Created Mar 2016

A step by step, scaffolded approach to teaching your students how to write a three paragraph personal narrative with; beginning (problem), middle, end (solution and transformation). There are two writing models. Each of which has a graphic organiser to aid students in deconstructing the structure of the narrative. There is also a matching graphic organiser for brainstorming. This process helps students to intuit the structure of the writing. It draws attention to a six-step writing process; brainstorm, draft, share, edit, revise and publish. There are check boxes to aid students and teacher in monitoring their progress through a writing process. The workbook is printed on loose leaf notebook style paper. An extra blank page is provided for extra writing space. A second version is provided for some of the pages to account for variations in US/UK spelling.

Sentence strips, worksheets and a poster for sequencing and summarizing Mrs. Brown Went to Town. Includes a colorful sequencing poster, double sided sentences strips for laminating, matching worksheets and suggestions for how use these in your classroom. This pack is offered separately but is included in Mrs. Brown Went to Town Student Workbook.

The Twits, Fantastic Mr. Fox, The Enormous Crocodile, The Magic Finger and The BFG are all included in this bundle of comic-style worksheets. The total number of pages for all workbooks is 110+. 1.) The Twits has a cover page with a prediction activity, vocabulary (4 pages), questions (5 pages), alliteration (1 page), diamante poem (1 page), puzzles (2 pages), describe the characters (1 page) and make a comic (1 page). The vocabulary pages practice synonyms, antonyms, classifying adjectives and adverbs. A blank vocabulary template and answer the questions template is included so you can write in your own content. It includes the answers to the two puzzle pages. No other answer keys are provided. There are twenty pages. 2.) Fantastic Mr. Fox has a cover page with a background knowledge activity, vocabulary activities (5 pages), comprehension activities (5 pages) and creative activities (2 pages). There are twenty pages. Creative activities are; Creating a Newspaper Designing an Underground Home 3.) The Enormous Crocodile has a cover page with a prediction activity, comparative & superlative adjectives introduction, vocabulary with comparative & superlative adjectives practice, vocabulary with a focus on verbs, ten questions, a secret plan and clever trick comic creating activity and two puzzle pages. An answer key is included. There are seventeen pages. 4.) The Magic Finger has a cover page with a background knowledge activity, details activities for character and setting, vocabulary (2 pages), idioms (1 page), comprehension questions (3 pages), a comic creating activity and a crossword puzzle (with answer key). There are fourteen pages. 5.) The BFG has a cover page with a background knowledge activity, vocabulary (14 pages), questions (6 pages), similes (1 page), creative activities (5 pages), puzzles (2 pages), and word problems (1 page). It also includes the answers to the two puzzle pages. No other answer keys are provided. There are thirty-two pages. The vocabulary pages include nouns, verbs, adverbs, adjective, synonyms and antonyms. Each question page has five questions. Creative activities are; Cooking with Snozzcumbers Frobscottle Advertising Poster Letter to Human Beans Make a Dream Jar Giant Menu Clipart is intentionally absent from these workbooks. They are designed so students can add their own artwork. Blank question pages and blank vocabulary pages are included with all workbooks so you can write in your own content. __________ Roald Dahl Novel Study Workbook Bundles by Michael Allen Kelly are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.