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3rd grade informational text handouts
Thanksgiving Reading Comprehension Passages and Questions Activities
Thanksgiving Activities - This comprehensive activities resource includes a variety of Thanksgiving activities including nonfiction reading, poetry, writing, speaking and listening, and math activities. Related Thanksgiving ActivitiesThanksgiving Create Your Own Luck BingoThanksgiving I Have...Who Has? GameFormattingAll worksheet pages for the Thanksgiving Activities are in black and white. The word wall cards related to the vocabulary words are in color. Thanksgiving Activities Packet Descrip
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3rd - 5th
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January 3rd Grade Florida F.A.S.T. Reading ELA Daily Practice
This daily FSA/PARCC style daily reading practice packet was designed to help students practice Part A and Part B style questions that students struggle with. We've noticed that many students needed to practice answering this style of question daily to help students prep for the new testing formats. We've created the packet to engage students with January and winter themed passages to make learning fun.In the preview you can download a freebie of one week of the daily packet for January. If yo
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2nd - 4th
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Also included in: Monthly 3rd Grade Florida F.A.S.T. Reading ELA Daily Practice Bundle
Wax Museum Biography Research Report for 3rd - 6th Grade Social Studies Project
Need an easy to use, meaningful research project that your students, parents, and principal will love? This Wax Museum Project is a highlight of the year and will guide your students to create a biography research report on a famous person. The culminating part of the project is an amazing Wax Museum event, where students dress up as the person they have learned about and stand “still”, like a Wax Museum, until someone walks up to them and presses the “button” on their backdrops to hear a short
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3rd - 6th
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Citing Text Evidence in Essays Lesson - PowerPoint - Worksheet - Anchor Charts
Want to teach your students about writing text evidence in their essays, but you're not sure where to begin? Look no more! This resource comes with a PowerPoint and a companion handout that makes it easy to teach students what text evidence is, how to smoothly incorporate it into their essays, and how to cite it- skills that can be challenging to teach. The 174-slide PowerPoint that comes with this product is very thorough and engaging. It tells students that they are like detectives, but instea
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3rd - 5th
Regions of the United States: Southwest, Complete Unit (5 Regions)
Your students will enjoy reading this complex informational text about the Southwest region, home of the giant saguaro cactus, the Hoover Dam, and the Grand Canyon. This unit includes printable options only. If you would like a digital option using Google Drive, check out my Southwest Region Digital Only for Distance Learning with a Google Slides version of the reading text and questions, and a self-grading Google Forms version of the unit test, or get the bundle with both printable and digital
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3rd - 6th
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Nonfiction Text Features Charts / Handout - Student Notes, Anchor Chart
These charts give the name, purpose, and an example of 18 different nonfiction text features. Use this chart to teach text features to your students, to use as a text features handout or text features cheat sheet for reference, or to put in their interactive notebooks. The charts are also available with some missing pieces so you can have students fill in the charts while you are teaching them about the text features. This allows them to take their own notes in a scaffolded way. There is an
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3rd - 5th
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4th Grade Reading, Language Arts, ELA Morning Work, Daily Work, HW FULL YEAR
SAVE ON THE FULL YEAR BUNDLE!! Great reviews from the individual semesters. This product has been proven to help students write constructed response questions, complete multiple choice, and have a better understanding of the ELA 4th grade curriculum.
This is a resource packet full of 230+ pages of morning work/daily work/homework. It was designed using fourth grade common core standards and was designed according to the state curriculum map. It is 100% aligned to the Common Core Standards.
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3rd - 5th
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Identifying the Topic and Main Idea
Do your students always correctly identify the topic and main idea of an informational text? I find that some students can identify the topic of a nonfiction text (“ice cream”), but may have trouble identifying the main idea ABOUT the topic that the author wants them to know. They might repeat or generalize the topic (“stuff about ice cream”), rather than expressing a full idea about it (“you can eat lots of toppings with your ice cream”).These differentiated, scaffolded worksheets are a helpful
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3rd - 5th
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Regions of the United States: Northeast, Complete Unit (5 Regions)
Your students will enjoy reading this complex informational text about the Northeast region, home of the largest city, the smallest state, and our nation's capital. Find out what makes the Northeast an interesting and unique region.This unit includes printable options only. If you would like a digital option using Google Drive, check out my Northeast Region Digital Only for Distance Learning with a Google Slides version of the reading text and questions, and a self-grading Google Forms version o
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3rd - 6th
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Regions of the United States: Southeast, Complete Unit (5 Regions)
Your students will enjoy reading this complex informational text about the Southeast region. There's more to the Southeast than just sunny beaches! Find out what makes the Southeast an interesting and unique region.This unit includes printable options only. If you would like a digital option using Google Drive, check out my Southeast Region Digital Only for Distance Learning with a Google Slides version of the reading text and questions, and a self-grading Google Forms version of the unit test,
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3rd - 6th
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Volcano Research Unit with PowerPoint
Volcano Research Unit with PowerPoint This jam-packed Volcano Research Packet contains everything you will need to teach a unit about volcanoes!! Students will learn characteristics, causes, destruction, interesting facts and more through a variety of hands on, interactive activities that include dozens colorful photographs. At the end, they will compile the information they have learned and create a writing piece demonstrating their knowledge of volcanoes. There are 85 pages that include the
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2nd - 5th
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4th Grade Informational Text Structure & Main Idea - Nonfiction Reading Passages
This ELA resource includes an introduction to text structure, multiple passages for whole group and independent practice for each of the five text structures, graphic organizers, prompts to help students identify structure and main idea, and a bulletin board display kit to engage your students in learning about nonfiction text structure.Students will learn not only how to identify text structure but also how to apply that knowledge to explain the main idea of a text. And think of all the time yo
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3rd - 6th
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Regions of the United States: Midwest, Complete Unit (5 Regions)
Your students will enjoy reading this complex informational text about the Midwest region. Discover what makes the "Heart of America" a unique place.This unit includes printable options only. If you would like a digital option using Google Drive, check out my Midwest Region Digital Only for Distance Learning with a Google Slides version of the reading text and questions, and a self-grading Google Forms version of the unit test, or get the bundle with both printable and digital options.Each regio
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3rd - 6th
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Regions of the United States: West, Complete Unit (5 Regions)
Your students will enjoy reading this complex informational text about the West region, from the cold frozen tundra of Alaska to the sunny beaches of Hawaii and California.This unit includes printable options only. If you would like a digital option using Google Drive, check out my West Region Digital Only for Distance Learning with a Google Slides version of the reading text and questions, and a self-grading Google Forms version of the unit test, or get the bundle with both printable and digita
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3rd - 6th
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Winter Non-Fiction Passages | Reading Comprehension
This pack includes 7 non-fiction stories with themes centered around the winter season. High-resolution photos are included for each story. Stories are perfect small group instruction, tiered intervention or as a whole class activity. Each story is common core aligned and targets vocabulary and comprehension. Stories were written for 2-5th grade students. Review the preview story for complexity. Each story includes a student copy, vocabulary cards, "printer-friendly" copy with comprehension ques
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2nd - 5th
Also included in: Seasonal Non-Fiction Passages Bundle | Reading Comprehension
Informational (Expository) Writing w/ Leveled Sentence Frames: DIGITAL or PRINT
This product includes posters and work pages (digital or printable) on "how to" write an introduction, detail paragraphs, and conclusions. It also includes examples of what a graphic organizer and final product would look like. Each section incorporates leveled sentence frames from beginning/"simple" (circle), Intermediate/ "Sufficient" (triangle), and Advanced/"Sophisticated" (diamond).This Informational Writing is based on TBEAR (Topic, Background info, Examples/Evidence, Analysis, Reflect/Res
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3rd - 12th
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Functional Text Passages with Comprehension Questions: Flier, Recipe, Directions
This purchase includes a one set of directions, one flier, and one recipe. Each functional text has Virginia Standards of Learning formatted comprehension questions that are aimed toward third or fourth grade readers. Functional texts:All About Me Poster Directions (11 questions)Pudding Cake Recipe (12 questions)Exploring the Forest Field Trip Flier (11 questions)Answer sheets are provided for each passage. Thank you for purchasing my product!
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2nd - 4th
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Main Idea and Supporting Details Worksheets | Main Idea Graphic Organizers
Grasping the concept of main idea can be challenging for students. There is often confusion about the difference between the main idea and the topic.We developed this unit to help students become successful in finding the main idea as well as supporting details. The passages and activities have an engaging boot camp theme to get students excited to learn. The activities are scaffolded so that by the end of the unit students will feel confident in their understanding of main idea. We also added p
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2nd - 4th
No-Prep Physical Regions of Canada Mini-Unit - Distance Learning Compatible
This no-prep pack comes with information and reading comprehension questions about the 8 Physical Regions of Canada - *The Appalachians*Arctic Lowlands*Canadian Shield*Cordillera*Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Lowlands*Hudson Bay Lowlands *Innuitian Mountains*Interior Plains.The pack includes:-Full colour map of the 8 physical regions-Introduction page with black and white map of Canada's 8 Physical Regions-A worksheet for each region including a map of Canada with the region highlighted, information
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3rd - 5th
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Reading Comprehension Skills Posters and Digital Anchor Charts
Create a colorful reading display with these posters! Or project them onto your board to use as digital anchor charts! These posters include 9 different reading comprehension skills with definitions and examples to make it easy for students to use and understand!It is so important that students are continually applying various reading skills to texts read in class and texts read independently. These posters are a great review of common reading skills that students can use to continually refine t
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2nd - 6th
Also included in: ELA Display Bundle
Fall Activities Why do Leaves Change Colors, Experiments, Interactive Notebook
This unit includes fall science common core based Informational texts to prepare students for the high-interest experiments, interactive notebook, and leaf observation journal. Students will be fascinated with why leaves change color in the fall during the close reading, vocabulary, 2 science experiments and more.
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Leaves Can, Have, Are
Leaf KWL
Vocabulary Cards
4 Days of Vocabulary Practice
Interactive Notebook Vocabulary Inserts
Fall Informational Text
3 Close Reading Act
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2nd - 3rd
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Reading Comprehension in Spanish - Comprensión de lectura con preguntas
This resource has 5 passages for the students to practice their reading skills. Each passage has 4 comprehension questions that tackle main idea, author's purpose, context clues, character traits, and more. This product is ideal for third grade and up. Este recurso tiene 5 pasajes para que los estudiantes practiquen sus habilidades de lectura como idea principal, propósito del autor, claves de contexto, rasgos del personaje y más. Este recurso es ideal para estudiantes de tercero en adelante.
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3rd - 4th
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News Report: Who? What? Where? When? Why? How?
A simple graphic organizer for students to use when reading a newspaper for the 5 Ws and How. Once students have completed the graphic organizer they can write a summary paragraph using the information they have gathered. Rubric included!!!!
It is also a great tool for students when brainstorming ideas for a creative writing news report.
*Updated August 2017*
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K - 12th
Weather Reading Comprehension Passages & Questions ~ Tornado ~ Hurricane
Included in this pack are 5 1-page reading comprehension passage and question sets on different weather topics:-tornadoes-hurricanes-lightning and thunder (thunderstorms)-snow-clouds (types of clouds)Basic scientific explanations are given, as well as safety preparedness in each situation.Use the passages for homework, small group, whole group discussion, independent assignment, science research, etc. Did you know??You can earn feedback credits from Teachers Pay Teachers?Just go to your My Purch
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K - 5th
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