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Critical thinking Common Core RL.1.4 resources
Comprehension and Metacognition, Reading is THINKING, Good Readers
Reading is THINKING! These reading comprehension strategies, lessons, and student handouts are perfect for students needing extra practice with metacognition skills and learning to REALLY READ. Students will learn the difference between "FAKE READING" and "REAL READING."Lessons are great for:RTI / InterventionsGuided Reading lessonsSmall group reading instructionWhole group mini-lessonsLiteracy stations / centersInteractive Reading JournalsIncluded in this READING IS THINKING download:Teaching
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1st - 4th
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Also included in:Â Metacognition, Reading Comprehension MEGA BUNDLE
Comprehension Questions to Use with ANY TEXT
Tired of creating comprehension assessments each week? These Comprehension Questions may be used with ANY TEXT and are perfect for assessing guided reading! Thinking Questions is a tool designed for teachers to measure and assess their students’ reading progress. A built-in rubric is embedded on each one! Using this assessment resource in your classroom will provide you with information in the following areas:Comprehension skillsMetacognition strategiesGuided Reading strategiesVocabularyLiterac
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1st - 4th
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Also included in:Â Metacognition, Reading Comprehension MEGA BUNDLE
STEM Read Aloud Books & Activities With Makerspace Activities and Read Aloud
Motivating reluctant readers can feel like a HUGE hurdle to overcome, especially around books and reading. That's why Makerspace STEAM Read Aloud Challenges are so powerful. They take literature and stories and bring them to life through innovation, creativity, community, collaboration, and critical thinking!This Makerspace STEM Read Aloud & Challenges YEAR-LONG BUNDLE is for you! This bundle is specifically designed for busy teachers who want to engage their students and instill a love of r
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1st - 2nd
Teach CCSS with Encanto's Song Surface Pressure | Theme | Craft & Structure
Teach CCSS with Encanto's Song Surface Pressure! Use this short 3 minute song to teach a ton of CCSS standards. Explore how lyrics and visuals reveal how Luisa feels about herself and how Mirabel must feel about her older sister. Discuss word/phrase meanings in the lyrics like 'under the surface' and 'cerebus'. Finally, identify the theme and lessons that can be learned from Luisa's song. This song by Jessica Darrow, along with the lyrics on screen, can be found on YouTube here. (Note: I do no
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1st - 5th
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Also included in:Â Encanto Movie Guide & CCSS Targeted Mini Lesson Plans | Bundle | SAVE 25%
COMMON CORE READING Comprehension Bundle
Save with these two best sellers together in a NO PREP 2 IN 1 BUNDLE, which includes over 100 reading comprehension response printables aligned and compatible with the Common Core Reading for grades 1-3. The resource packets in this bundle require no laminating or color ink. Just print and use with any book during whole group instruction, reading centers, literature circles, as homework, and more. IMPORTANT TO NOTE:This is a discounted, BUNDLED pack of 2 resource items that are also available in
Grades:
1st - 3rd
Christmas Trolls Read Aloud & Christmas Makerspace Activity and Challenge
Christmas Makerspace/STEM brings Christmas Trolls to life! Your students will experience a choice of close reading activities focused on the standards of characters, retelling, main idea/theme, vocabulary, and point of view. Then the little engineers in them will solve the problem of one or more of the characters. A conversation about push and pull brings science into literature! MakerSpace Activity: STEAM takes the E for engineering and the A for arts from STEAM and you get Maker Space Moments
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1st - 2nd
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Makerspace Activity Are You Grumpy Santa Christmas READ ALOUD & Christmas Craft
Christmas makerspace/STEM activity brings Are You Grumpy Santa? to life! Students will focus on standards with close reading responses and activities as well as design, create, and built a solution to Santa's problem. MakerSpace Activity: STEAM takes the E for engineering and the A for arts from STEAM and you get Maker Space Moments in Literature. Makerspace Moments In Literature allow you to do a focused Close Reading with text as well as extend on a piece of literature with the same function
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1st - 2nd
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Also included in:Â STEM Read Aloud Books & Activities With Makerspace Activities and Read Aloud
Context Clues in Google: Multiple Meaning Words, Level 1 - Set 1
Do your students need practice finding the meaning of a word in a text? Do you need exercises where students not only find the meaning but also explain why they get their answer? Do you use Google Classroom and need exercises in which your students can practice this? This exercise does all of the above and is in the format of Google Forms (set up as quizzes for easier grading). [If you have your students email their assignments to you or you use a drop-box, CLICK HERE to access this series of ex
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2nd - 5th
Also included in:Â Context Clues in Google: Multiple Meaning Words, Level 1, Bundle 1, Sets 1-4
Making Inferences Using Picturebooks: Grades K-5
This unit includes 20+ pages of reusable graphic organizers and multiple lessons utilizing quality children's books that will help your students understand the many ways to make inferences while reading.
The unit begins with an anchor lesson teaching the concept of making inferences. The anchor lesson uses the story Two Bad Ants by Chris VanAllsburg. This story beautifully lends itself to making inferences with the help of the author's brilliant ability to use words and illustrations to lead
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K - 5th
George's Marvelous Medicine Novel Unit
Product DescriptionAre you looking for yet another fun Roald Dahl novel to read to your students that includes silliness, mystery, and magic? Then George's Marvelous Medicine is the perfect book for you and your students. It is equivalent to a 640 Lexile reading level but can be used for lower grades as well with the teacher's assistance. This would be a great novel unit for the whole class, or for a reading group.This novel unit includes:-15 Comprehension Checks/Quizzes (1 for each chapter) wit
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1st - 5th
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Use Your Noggin: Figurative Language Task Card Game
Looking for a way to spice up your reading and writing task cards? Wanting to help your students build a strong working vocabulary? This picture driven game will provide your students with the higher-level thinking practice they need to develop a strong vocabulary as well as an understanding of figurative language necessary for successful reading and writing. Students will produce figurative language phrases to describe the picture. Then they will practice writing these phrases into fully desc
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1st - 5th
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Halloween STEM Read Alouds Makerspace Challenge with Engineering Design Process
Halloween activity in reading takes makerspace and literature and brings both focuses together. Halloween Bundle brings 4 stories together with a makerspace extension for each story. MakerSpace Activity: STEAM takes the E for engineering and the A for arts from STEAM and you get Maker Space Moments in Literature. Makerspace Moments In Literature allow you to do a focused Close Reading with text as well as extend on a piece of literature with the same function and creativity of a Makerspace usin
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1st - 2nd
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Building Vocabulary
Vocabulary: Building Vocabulary the Common Core Way
*Revised Version
Boost your students’ vocabulary using what they can relate to ~ Weather and Feelings
A Weather Journal that exposes students to alternate vocabulary words using real-life experiences with the weather. Journal includes synonym and antonym pages, writing about the weather using vocabulary, practice weather vocabulary using context clues, an organizational web, role playing cards and a homework assignment.
Have students explo
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1st - 3rd
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Using Picture Books to Teach Text Interaction
Teaching children to comprehend can be an overwhelming task. I've put together a system that uses quality picture books to introduce and reinforce comprehension strategies! There are 7 all together! Each anchor text was chosen not only for its style and quality, but for how its characters and plot can be tied with one of the core reading strategies. Hopefully by tying the characters and their experiences to a reading strategy this strategy can develop a deep meaning and understanding of the s
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PreK - 5th
Teach CCSS with a 6 minute clip from Encanto (2021) | Character Study
Teach CCSS with Encanto using a short 6 minute clip from the movie. This resource is for teachers looking to find a short movie clip to supplement teaching Common Core State Standards for reading literature that target character description (RL.1.3 & RL.2.3), character perspective (RL.2.6 & RL.3.6), and word meaning (RL.3.4, RL.4.4 & RL.5.4).Check the thumbnails for high resolution sample questions to see if this resource is suitable for your students. This resource consists of 6 hig
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1st - 5th
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Also included in:Â Encanto Movie Guide & CCSS Targeted Mini Lesson Plans | Bundle | SAVE 25%
Context Clues in Google: Multiple Meaning Words, Level 1 Workbook Sets 1-10
Do your students need practice finding the meaning of a word in a text? Do you need exercises where students not only find the meaning but also explain why they get their answer? Do you use Google Classroom and need exercises in which your students can practice this? This is a workbook of exercises that does all of the above and is in the format of Google Forms (set up as quizzes for easier grading). This bundle includes the entire set of 10 exercises and is offered at a discounted price. [If yo
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2nd - 5th
Across the Curriculum with Pirates - Projects & PBL
Driving Question:ARRR, Matey! How much language treasure can we steal from a pirate?Description:In this theme-based project, students cover different elements of the curriculum through the theme of pirates. They listen to stories and answer comprehension questions, write descriptions, listen to and compose different types of poetry, listen for and use pirate language in conversation, use simple coordinates for battleship type pirate games, and make their own floating pirate ships. Arts and craft
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K - 2nd
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Also included in:Â PBL Bundle (Grades K-2) - In Collaboration with A.J. Juliani - 26 Projects!
Teach CCSS with Moana's Song Shiny | Craft & Structure | Character Study
Teach CCSS with Moana's Song Shiny! Use this short 3 minute song to teach a ton of CCSS standards. Explore how lyrics reveal what Tamatoa feels about himself and how he responds to those feelings. Compare Tamatoa to Maui, identify metaphors and discuss what they mean in the context of the song. This song by Jemaine Clement, along with the lyrics on screen, can be found on YouTube here.(Note: I do not own this link, if it changes, search 'Shiny Moana lyrics' and another video should be available
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1st - 5th
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Dr. DooRiddles A1: Fun Associative Reasoning Early Learning Riddle Activities
This 48-page printable PDF ebook for Preschool through Grade 2 is packed full of brain-scratching riddles that develop students' fluency and understanding of word meanings and associations. These riddles also develop spelling, vocabulary, reading, critical thinking and creative problem-solving skills. Everyone loves the mystery of a riddle and Dr. DooRiddles will bring laughter, groans, and challenges (perhaps for as much as a week or more per riddle) to you and your students. Perceiving relatio
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PreK - 2nd
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Dr. DooRiddles A2: Fun Associative Reasoning Riddle Activities for Grades PreK-2
This 48-page printable PDF ebook for early learners is packed full of brain-scratching riddles that develop students' fluency and understanding of word meanings and associations. These riddles also develop spelling, vocabulary, reading, critical thinking and creative problem-solving skills. Everyone loves the mystery of a riddle and Dr. DooRiddles will bring laughter, groans,and challenges (perhaps for as much as a week or more per riddle) to you and your students.Perceiving relationships betwee
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PreK - 2nd
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Context Clues in Google: Multiple Meaning Words, Level 1, Bundle 1, Sets 1-4
Do your students need practice finding the meaning of a word in a text? Do you need exercises where students not only find the meaning but also explain why they get their answer? Do you use Google Classroom and need exercises in which your students can practice this? This is a bundle of exercises that does all of the above and is in the format of Google Forms (set up as quizzes for easier grading). This bundle includes Set 1 (my Free Download) and Sets 2, 3 and 4 and is offered at a discounted p
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2nd - 5th
Context Clues: Multiple Meaning Words Fillable PDF Level 1 Complete Workbook
Do your students need practice finding the meaning of a word in a text? Do you need exercises where students not only find the meaning but also explain why they get their answer? Do you have your students email their assignments to you or you use a drop-box? This workbook of exercises does all of the above and is in a fillable PDF format which enables you to assign this to students and have them return it to you in a fully digital format. This workbook contains the complete set of 10 resources c
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2nd - 5th
Recommended Reading: "What If" Children's Book
This popular e-book allows children to experience a delightful journey into a fantasy world that can only be imagined. What If? is a whimsical story that provides kids with new ways to look at simple pleasures by using rhyming questions and colorful illustrations. Recommended by Parent and Child Magazines. For ages 3-7.
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PreK - 2nd
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Context Clues: Multiple Meaning Words Fillable PDF Level 1 Bundle 1 Sets 1-4
Do your students need practice finding the meaning of a word in a text? Do you need exercises where students not only find the meaning but also explain why they get their answer? Do you have your students email their assignments to you or you use a drop-box? This bundle of exercises does all of the above and is in a fillable PDF format which enables you to assign this to students and have them return it to you in a fully digital format. This bundle contains Worksheet 1 (my Free Download) and Wor
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Grades:
2nd - 5th
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