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Characters Traits List Graphic Organizer Worksheet | Reading Comprehension

By The Sassy Apple

Are you ready to help your students dive deeper into internal and external character traits? These graphic organizers, lesson plans, anchor charts, posters, and comprehensive lesson plans provide everything you need to teach students how to

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Reading Strategies

Grades:

1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd

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Worksheets, Activities, Graphic Organizers

CCSS:

RL.1.3, RL.1.7, RL.2.1, RL.2.3, RL.2.7, RL.3.3

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Reading Comprehension Strategies Skills Activities Graphic Organizers BUNDLE

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Are you looking for consistent and effective materials for teaching reading comprehension skills? This resource includes EVERYTHING you need to introduce, practice and review crucial reading comprehension skills. This BUNDLE includes:Lesson

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English Language Arts, Literature, Reading Strategies

Grades:

2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th

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Activities, Printables, Graphic Organizers

CCSS:

RL.2.1, RL.2.3, RL.2.5, RL.2.6, RL.2.9, RL.3.3, RL.3.9, RL.4.3, RL.4.6

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Author's Purpose Task Cards Activities Worksheets Anchor Chart Graphic Organizer

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Everything you need for teaching a mini-lesson about author's purpose PLUS a variety of options for differentiated independent practice for your students is in this resource! I have included a lesson plan written in the "I do, We do, You do" format,

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Other (ELA), Reading Strategies

Grades:

2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, Homeschool

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Worksheets, Printables, Graphic Organizers

CCSS:

RI.2.6, RI.3.6

$5.75

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Nonfiction Text Features Activities Worksheet Graphic Organizers Mini Lessons

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This resource includes EVERYTHING you need for a comprehensive lesson on nonfiction text features! Your students will explore nonfiction text structures including headings, photographs, captions, table of contents and more! This resource includes

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading Strategies, Informational Text

Grades:

1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd

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Worksheets, Activities, Graphic Organizers

CCSS:

RI.2.5, RI.2.7, RI.3.7

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Story Elements Anchor Chart Story Map Activities Retelling Graphic Organizers

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Looking for activities to practice story elements and structure? These activities can be used with any fiction book to retell and examine the story's elements. It includes graphic organizers, anchor charts, worksheets and posters. This resource

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Reading Strategies

Grades:

1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Graphic Organizers

CCSS:

RL.1.3, RL.1.7, RL.2.1, RL.2.5, RL.3.1, RL.3.10, RL.4.10

$4.00

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Story Sequencing Activities Sequence of Events Graphic Organizers Worksheets

By The Sassy Apple

Do you need some refreshing resources for teaching how to retell the sequence of events of a story? This COMPLETE resource includes everything you need to introduce and practice ordering events in a story with your students. These resources are easy

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Literature, Reading Strategies

Grades:

1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th

Types:

Activities, Printables, Graphic Organizers

CCSS:

RL.1.2, RL.1.3, RL.1.7, RL.2.5, RL.2.7, RL.3.3

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Analyze & Evaluate Graphic Organizers Literary Analysis Activities Text Evidence

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Analyzing and evaluating text requires higher order thinking skills. These complex processes require a lot of modeling and guided practice. These mini-lesson and independent practice resources will support your students in acquiring these

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading Strategies, Informational Text

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Graphic Organizers

CCSS:

CCRA.R.1, CCRA.R.3, CCRA.R.4, CCRA.R.5, CCRA.R.8

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Fact & Opinion Activities Worksheets Graphic Organizers Anchor Chart Lesson

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Everything you need to introduce, practice and review Fact and Opinion is right here! You can easily differentiate with many graphic organizer options. The lesson plan is ready to print and teach! Mini-lesson materials and anchor charts provide

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading Strategies, Informational Text

Grades:

1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Graphic Organizers

CCSS:

RI.1.8, RI.2.8, RI.3.6

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Free Nonfiction Text Features Graphic Organizers and Activities

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These graphic organizers will help your students identify and understand the purpose of text features in nonfiction books. Includes 3 unique graphic organizers for teaching this often difficult skill. This is a part of a COMPLETE lesson plan with

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading Strategies, Informational Text

Grades:

2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Graphic Organizers

CCSS:

RI.2.5, RI.3.5

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Cause and Effect Activities Graphic Organizers Anchor Chart Lesson Plan

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Cause and effect is a pattern of organization gives reasons why something happened or explains the results of an action. Students will use interactive anchor charts and differentiated graphic organizers to identify cause and effect while

Subjects:

English Language Arts, ELA Test Prep, Reading Strategies

Grades:

2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Printables

CCSS:

RI.3.8, RI.4.5

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Main Idea and Supporting Details Graphic Organizers, Worksheets and Activities

By The Sassy Apple

Identifying the main idea of a text is an important comprehension skill. This resource includes Common Core Aligned lesson plans, reference posters and graphic organizers focus on determining the main idea of a text using multiple strategies. • • •

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading Strategies, Informational Text

Grades:

1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Graphic Organizers

CCSS:

RL.2.1, RI.2.1, RI.2.2, RI.2.6, CCRA.R.2

$4.00

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Compare and Contrast Reading Comprehension Passages Graphic Organizer Worksheets

By The Sassy Apple

Are you looking for resources for teaching compare and contrast? Practice, review, explore and expand knowledge of comparing and contrasting with this complete resource including lesson plan! These resources are extremely flexible in their use.

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading Strategies, Informational Text

Grades:

2^nd, 3^rd

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Graphic Organizers

CCSS:

RL.2.9, RL.3.9

$5.50

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Polar Bears Activities: Nonfiction Reading Writing Science Polar Bear Study Unit

By The Sassy Apple

Experience the Arctic with Polar Bear Activities! With this versatile resource, you get engaging reading, writing, and grammar activities that teach about polar bears and the frozen north during your study unit. This easy-to-follow lesson plan

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Writing-Expository, Informational Text

Grades:

1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd

Types:

Thematic Unit Plans, Activities, Graphic Organizers

CCSS:

RI.2.1, RI.2.3, RI.2.4, RI.2.5, L.2.1, L.2.2, L.2.4e

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Reading Comprehension Skills Reference Posters: Shiplap Chic theme

By The Sassy Apple

Are you "Fixer Upper"-ing your classroom? Love that rustic look?These shiplap chic reference posters include a student-friendly description of important comprehension skills with helpful clip art!12 posters included in TWO formats (total of 24

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Vocabulary, Reading Strategies

Grades:

1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd

Types:

Printables, Posters, Centers

$4.25

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Infer and Predict Activities Graphic Organizers

By The Sassy Apple

Making inferences and predications are essential comprehension skills. But, sometimes it's easy to mix up inferring and predicting! What's the difference? This resource will clarify the different between making inferences and predictions with

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Reading Strategies

Grades:

2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Graphic Organizers

CCSS:

RI.3.1, RI.3.7, RI.4.1

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*FREE* Comprehension Skills Scope and Sequence Mentor Text List CCSS aligned

By The Sassy Apple

Looking for an easy to follow scope and sequence with mentor texts to teach comprehension skills? Quality texts for shared/interactive read alouds are key for comprehension. This document includes suggested mentor texts for the skills in my

Subjects:

Reading, Other (ELA), Reading Strategies

Grades:

1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th

Types:

Handouts

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Former 6x long term substitute, 5 years in 2nd and now K-4 Reading Specialist. I have taught ESL, Intervention, Kindergarten cyber school, and pre-school. One of my most demanding but rewarding gigs was summer school in 6th grade ELA. I am certified to teach Pre-K through 6th grade. I also have certification in Reading.

MY TEACHING STYLE

My style is a balance between practicality and creativity. Fostering a classroom community is priority. After that, I value effort and productivity but also allow for flexibility.

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Diamond Peer Teacher, Education.com contributor

MY OWN EDUCATIONAL HISTORY

Temple University B.S. in Education: Early Childhood and Elementary Wilkes University M.S. in Reading

ADDITIONAL BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

My name is Molly. I am married with two boys. I try not to take myself too seriously. I believe in reading to students every single day and making learning fun.

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PreK, Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Homeschool, Staff, Not Grade Specific

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