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Middle school literature professional documents for parents
Summer Reading Activities 2023
This packet of summer reading activities includes: A Note On Summer ReadingSummer Reading List - Picture Books (30 Titles) - Color & BW - HyperlinkedSummer Reading List - Chapter Books (30 Titles) - Color & BW - HyperlinkedSummer Reading List - Blank (Fill in Your Own Titles)Walk A Mile In Someone Else's Shoes - Picture Books (30 Titles)Walk A Mile In Someone Else's Shoes - Chapter Books (30 Titles)Walk A Mile In Someone Else's Shoes - Choose Your Own The Taylor Swift Summer Reading Play
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K - 6th
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Leveled Book Lists for Elementary School (for Teachers and Parents)
Many elementary classrooms now give students text level assessments to determine their reading instructional, independent, and frustration levels. Once this is done, it is important that students are making good book choices and not just reading books that are extremely easy or too hard. These leveled lists suggest titles at each level that can be found at local libraries. Since there are so many different leveling systems for books, these suggested lists become very important for parents try
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K - 6th
Reading Comprehension Questions (Fountas and Pinnell Correlated by Level)
Looking for reading comprehension questions by level to help your classroom parents or yourself support student comprehension? Look no further!The resource EVERY reading teacher needs at hand!! Parent or Teacher Resource for Comprehension Questioning!Need a quick one pager to encourage parents (or help yourself) to easily prompt student discussion after reading? Look no further! This is a full set of prompts for both fiction and nonfiction books for Fountas and Pinnell levels A-Z by bands (A-D,
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K - 6th
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Guided Reading Grade Leveled Book Lists
Would you like to know which guided reading levels match which grade level? Popular book titles are organized by their guided reading grade levels according to the Fountas Pinnell leveled system. This resource is helpful for choosing books for instruction, independent reading time, and helping at parent-teacher conferences.Also, at the end of the school year, you can provide appropriate lists as a reference tool for summer reading!How Does This Help You?Parents and students have a guide to help
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K - 6th
Canadian Indigenous and First Nation Read Aloud's with Curriculum Connections
{ALL SALES FROM THIS DOCUMENT continue to support Indigenous people and communities as we amply their voice in our classroom. For August 2021-October 2021 donations will be used to #clearthelist for teachers teaching in the Northern Terrorities or communities collecting for back-to-school drives supporting Indigenous Communities. FOR AUGUST 2020 - SEPTEMBER 2020 went to The Blue Dot Movement in providing clean water in communities within Canada. We raised a total of $500. For the Month of Octob
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PreK - 9th, Adult Education, Staff
THE COMPLETE MAUS | MAUS I & II BUNDLE | TEACHER NOTES, TEST, GRAPHIC NOVEL
THE COMPLETE MAUS | MAUS I & II BUNDLE | TEACHER NOTES, TEST, GRAPHIC NOVELWhat teachers are saying:My students LOVED doing the project ideas that were in this resource. I also really appreciated the tests as they were all around engaging and asked questions that had a variety of Bloom's Taxonomy associated with them. One of the best resources I have found for these novels. Thank you so much!PRINT AND DIGITAL!❤️❤️THIS BUNDLED PRODUCT ON MAUS I AND II IS DISCOUNTED BY OVER 20%! ❤️❤️I teach Ma
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Reading Questions for Parents Hooray! {Great for Open House and Conferences!}
Reading is an area where parents want to help at home, so why not provide them with questions for taking their child's comprehension to the next level? This packet provides questions to use with any fiction and nonfiction text as well as a guide for setting up happy and productive reading time at home! All you have to do is print and hand them out at Back-to-School night, orientation, open house, or parent conferences!
Want more resources to use with parents? Check out my Parent Reading Packet!
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K - 6th
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Literal and Inferential Comprehension Questions for ANY book! (Grades 6-8)
This product includes literal, inferential, and critical questions to use with any book for students in grades 6-8. The questions focus on summarizing, making predictions, making connections, synthesizing, inferring, analyzing, and critiquing.
The questions included reflect expectations of students in grades 6-8. Use the questions to help students dig deeper when reading and to propel them toward more difficult texts.
Question Lists: Use the lists whether you're working one on one, with sma
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6th - 8th
Reading Comprehension Questions for ANY Text 3rd, 4th, 5th, & 6th grades
Increase students' reading comprehension with these reading comprehension questions for 3rd, 4th, 5th, & grade. These comprehension question stems will help you ask questions and facilitate discussions that encourage higher order thinking while covering ALL of the informational and literature standards for K, 1, and 2nd grade.Avoid asking the same questions over and over again by having these question stems available during any read aloud or guided reading group as a support to asking deeper
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3rd - 6th
Fountas and Pinnell Text Level Descriptors & Book Recommendations (J-Z)
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Description of leveled text (J through Z, which TYPICALLY reaches grades 2-6)
List of fiction and nonfiction text at each level
Helpful Fountas and Pinnell resources - websites for searching levels of many novels
I use these as a handout at conferences. Rather than informing parents that their child reads at a certain letter, explain the type of text and supply parents with possible titles for their children to read at home.
I use these as a reference as well when recommending boo
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2nd - 6th
Parent Resource- Fiction and Informational Questions to Ask Your Child
Higher Level Thinking Fiction and Informational Questions to Ask Your Child Bookmark
- During parent teacher conferences, I have struggled with which resources to distribute to my above level readers. This resource has answered that question. Many parents no longer "check in" with their child after they become independent readers and as a result may not be aware of potential comprehension problems. This handy bookmark includes over 30 higher level thinking questions (both fiction and nonfi
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K - 6th
Independent Reading Parent Letter
Worried that the books you recommend to students or have on your shelves might upset a parent or guardian? Take that stress off your plate with this Independent Reading Parent Letter! This parent "permission slip" has served me in my classroom for many years, so I decided to share it with you! It completely removes your responsibility to censor students' book choices, and instead puts the responsibility on the parent or guardian to monitor their child's book (with no penalty to the child if they
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Independent Reading Bundle- Systems and Strategies for Middle School
QRI-5 (Qualitative Reading Inventory) Narrative Report
This is a narrative report that I compiled after I tested a 5th grader in a local school. Writing a QRI report is tedious and difficult. I included this report to give you an example of the format you can follow when writing a report such as this, as well as getting some ideas about things to focus on when testing students.Feel free to view and share!QRI-5 Narrative Report by E. Doher is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
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PreK - 8th
Reading Lesson: Creating a Reading Habit with Tips, Sketch Notes, and Posters
Are your students compliant about independent reading during the day, but you don't necessarily see their enthusiasm spreading into the type of reading habit where they read for pleasure outside of class? The more time students spend reading, the more they know! Creating a reading habit that sticks can be challenging, but it's important that we allow students space to get to know themselves as readers and to prioritize their reading lives.RESOURCE CONTENTS1. Suggested Use2. Reading Habits Stude
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5th - 10th
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NWEA Learning Continuum Chart
Teacher can identify curricular standards within RIT ranges, and easily plan NWEA lessons for specific RIT ranges.
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1st - 11th
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Adventures of Tom Sawyer: Obsolete Vocabulary, Slang Translations, Word Search
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer contains so much obsolete, colloquial, and archaic vocabulary that students and teachers may shy away from reading it. What's a body to do when stumbling upon the "white alley", "Old Scratch", or the dreaded "bully taw" in the early chapters of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" with no context clue in sight? Using this product, students quickly check meanings to obsolete expressions, and colloquialisms, while still leaving enough room for vocabulary instruction from the
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6th - 10th
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Also included in: Tom Sawyer and Treasure Island Discount Bundled Translator Package
Picture Book Mentor Text List for Upper Grade - VOL. 1
Behold! A complete list of picture books to use as mentor texts in your upper grade classroom!I love reading picture books with my fifth graders. Not only do we share a good story, but students are also motivated to try new strategies in their own writing. From character development to figurative language to dialog to mechanics, we learn so much from the amazing books that we read aloud in class. "By using mentor texts, the reader can virtually position him-or herself to sit beside the author an
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4th - 6th, Adult Education
Also included in: Picture Book Mentor Text Resources - Growing Bundle!
Guided Reading Level Parent Letter
This set includes 5 parent letters to be used throughout the year to inform parents of guided reading levels. One is explaining what guided reading levels are and how F&P works, three are for first grade and one is blank and can be used for any grade or time of year! I use this letter to send home with parents after benchmark F&P testing to let them know what level their child is working on. It also shows them the current expected grade level so that they can compare their child's level
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K - 7th
Sentence Stems for Comprehension Strategies and Skills
This is a collection of sentence stems that I use for thinkmarks, reader's response, and just to teach my students the language to use when comprehending a text.
Enjoy the freebie!
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2nd - 6th
Guided Reading Level Info for Families
As I aimed to create a balance between leveling my student's reading books and pushing them to read complex texts I found that their families often needed information about the "levels" and the differences. Guided Reading levels A-Z. I created these one page sheets that give examples of skills that readers at each level should focus on, a description of the text and an example of what the pages might look like.
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PreK - 6th
MAUS I by Art Spiegelman, test, questions, teacher notes, Digital & Print
MAUS I by Art Spiegelman, test, questions, teacher notes, Digital & PrintThere are few books that can match Maus for its emotional power and intellectual depth. It is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand the Holocaust and its impact on humanity.Students enjoy the graphic novel format and seem very engaged with the material.THIS IS PART OF A BUNDLE:MAUS I & II GROWING BUNDLEINCLUDED IN THIS PRODUCT ON MAUS I ARE THE FOLLOWING:⭐ THIS PRODUCT ASSISTS IN DIFFERENTIATION OF INSTRUCT
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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The Doughnut Fix Novel Study
Here is a novel study for a recent Mark Twain 2020-2021 Nominee: "The Doughnut Fix" by Jessie Janowitz!The novel study includes: - Comprehension questions for each chapter - Character log - Mini book review - Answer key If you have any questions, don't hesitate to reach out! Thanks (:
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3rd - 6th
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Reading Questions for Parents
This is a great list of questions for you to give your parents in order to help support all six levels of Bloom's Taxonomy at home and at school. Many parents are lost when it comes to what kind of questions to ask while reading to their child. Often times, parents only as "yes" or "no" questions and we know that is not helping, so we need to offer some guidance. These questions are all higher order thinking questions to help provide rigor while reading at home. The license has been purchased to
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1st - 6th
The BFG Movie Permission Slip for PG movie
Use this form to get permission to show The BFG, directed by Stephen Spielberg (Rated PG) after reading the novel, The BFG by Roald Dahl.
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1st - 8th
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