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Common Core RL.3.2 songs
Reading Fluency Passages for Upper Grades Packet #2
Reading Fluency Passages for Upper Grades is a collection of poems, songs, quotes, and speeches that teach about America’s history as students focus on reading fluency.
Common Core Anchor Reading Standards posters can also be used to remind students of the strategies they are using while working on their fluency. Poems by Robert Frost and songs about westward expansion help students understand about different time periods and introduce them to many different vocabulary words. Students learn to
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in: Reading Fluency Passages Bundle (Distance Learning)
"What a Wonderful World"
This Socratic seminar unit of study features the iconic Louis Armstrong song that celebrates our world. It is designed for grades 2-5, as teachers can alter rigor as needed to ensure students are challenged accordingly. Students will have the opportunity to build reading comprehension, fluency, and text dependent writing skills through these lyrics. Activities include creative expression, building background knowledge and text connections, and writing prompts that involve using text evidence to
Radio Disney -- Using Disney Songs to Teach Theme
A great way to teach theme, or central message, is to use songs, especially songs students are familiar with. By using popular Disney songs, students actively engage with content from their real lives to determine the theme/lesson/message from the song. Product includes: - Graphic organizers to use with songs- Compare and contrast worksheet to look at the similarities and differences between songs and themes- List of common Disney themes- Lyrics to 11 songs with possible themes for each
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3rd - 6th
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The Great Kapok Tree-Play
This is an adaptation of The Great Kapok Tree Book by Lynne Cherry as a play. This contains stage suggestions and songs that can be used with the students for a fun play. Students will enjoy dressing up as each one of the characters in the story.
Theme Review: Using Text and Song Lyrics
This slideshow can be used as an introduction to or review of theme and how to find the moral/life lesson of a story. It is split into 2 days of instruction, but you can also pick and choose parts to use to teach the review in one day. "Let Them Play" by Margot Theis Raven is a suggested read aloud to use. There are also slides with song lyrics and links to the videos of these song lyrics. Work with the students to teach, model, and practice how to find the theme of a story using both the book
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3rd - 6th
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Comprehension Strategies Editable Posters and Video
This 2-minute video is designed to be a daily "commercial of your classroom." It teaches children to use comprehension strategies before, during, and after they read. The tune will help concepts to "stick" in your students' brains, and I've highlighted key words in red as a research-based way to further promote retention. Along with the video that streams from TpT, you'll get:1. A private link to the video on Vimeo--ONLY accessible to people who purchase the product on TpT. From Vimeo, you can s
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K - 3rd, Staff
Also included in: First Grade Music Bundle
Story Elements Activity with Graphic Organizer
This story elements activity is based on our "Spiderdude" Teaches Story Elements song. This song was written by elementary students and is sure to connect with your students.Along the way, Spiderdude explains story elements to students such as the setting and theme of a story. For this activity, students will use a story elements graphic organizer that has visuals and lines to help them organize the story elements.Students will listen to the parody song then use the song's lyrics as a reading pa
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3rd - 5th
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Animals of Eden: A Story of Teamwork in the Wild (eBook Version)
In this poetic children's verse, woodland creatures learn to work together and save their precious land from forest fires. A lyrical tale that encourages hard work, persistence, and "watchful balance" with nature. "Teamwork and quick wit saves us all!"This eBook text allows for several layers of differentiated learning as the poetic stanzas and literary devices include varied levels of complexity. Younger students will enjoy the suggestive images that go along with the story while older studen
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Not Grade Specific
The Elves and the Shoemaker A Musical Adaptation
It's holiday time and the Elves are helping the Shoemaker and his wife! As they sing and dance, they remind everyone how important it is to do a good deed every day. This musical adaptation uses piggy-back songs to enhance the familiar story. The whole classroom can be involved. Easy costuming and props makes staging this play a snap! Students can make and gather their own costumes and decorating the stage can be as elaborate as you wish. A perfect Christmas program in a flash! It is also
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2nd - 4th
Aesop's Fables "The Mouse Council" A Reader's Theater Musical Playlet.
Aesop’s Fables are classic children’s stories with a moral. The playlet includes a dramatized fable with large letter student scripts and music. Used as Reader’s Theater it is a great way to improve your student’s reading fluency and expression. The music is not required for Reader’s Theater but is a fun addition to the script and can be sung in unison or as individual parts. The music can also be easily added to a music class or a musical program.This Reader's Theater Musical Playlet is based o
Theme (Song)
FREEBIEThis "THEME Song" is a great tool to incorporate within your class to teach students what theme is. (Sung to the tune of the A Family Theme Song).
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