Teaching learners to write using sensory language can seem a little tricky. This simple writing activity allows your writers to read a story where the author's use of sensory language helps bring the story to life. Fish Wish I love this story from Bob Barner (and so many of his other books, as well). This
This BOOK COMPANION for Oliver Jeffers' book STUCK includes a wide variety of extension activities to fully engage students with literature in hands-on ways! Students will explore several different types of storytelling props, integration of hands-on STEM concepts, a variety of story element worksheets and an ORIGINAL game focused on alphabet recognition and/or Dolch pre-primer and primer sight words. CONTENTS: Printable full-color storytelling props (6 pages) Build & Balance Retelling (9) Matching Game Cards (4 pages) Extension Worksheets including: - Cut & paste pictures - Cut & paste words (match with pictures) - Blank squares for drawing original objects. - Story Elements - Main Idea - Problem Solving - Creative Writing (2) Original Board Game: "Up in a Tree" with focus on Oral Language, Social Skills and Early Literacy/Math Concepts. (9 pages) Game Variations - Alphabet & Sight Word Options (8 pages) MATERIALS NEEDED: Book - "Stuck" by Oliver Jeffers crayons, markers and/or colored pencils glue scissors tape paper/cardstock laminator (optional) wooden blocks (for story blocks) PREP: Storytelling Props - Print on cardstock, laminate & cut. Attach velcro, magnets or poster putty for use. Foldable story props OR story blocks - print, cut, laminate, fold or tape. Game - Print gameboards on cardstock & laminate. Print desired game pieces on cardstock, laminate & cut. Worksheets - print & go! COMMON CORE ALIGNMENT: RF.K.1d, RF.K.3c, RL.K.2, RL.K.3, RL.K.7, SL.K.5, SL.K.6, W.K.3, W.K.8 Looking for other BOOK COMPANION packs? ROOM ON THE BROOM BOOK COMPANION COPYRIGHT: © 2019, E.Medley @ TeachMeHow.
Have you heard the term Structured Literacy? What exactly is structured literacy? I’m so glad you asked! Let’s explore what it means and why it’s an important to know about it. *This post contains affiliate links. What is Structured Literacy? Structured literacy refers to a specific way or method in which literacy skills and strategies ... Read More about What is Structured Literacy?
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Retelling Sticks are a tool for students to help them retell stories, while identifying and describing story elements. The visual cues will aid students in providing key ideas and details as they retell and sequence. Glue the laminate circles to popsicle sticks and they are ready to use!
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We, as teachers, are always stopping while reading to ask students what is going to happen next. We want students to be able to stop and monitor their understanding of the text. This will, in turn, help with their comprehension of the story. I wanted to stop in today to share some new resources I am using in my classroom to help students with this strategy. I always like to start by introducing the strategy of the week with an anchor chart. Did you know you can print poster-size anchor charts from Adobe??!! This anchor chart is in my Making Predictions Pack, along with the directions on how to print posters from home or school. I also print mini-anchor charts for my students to put in their reading journals. We, together, create our anchor chart for the week. I usually use a read aloud as an example to add to our anchor chart so that I can model using the strategy. Students complete their own little anchor charts with me. This, my friends, is such a powerful tool for my students to anchor their thinking and take ownership of our anchor charts. :) I also have this little poster I hang as a reminder during read to self and partner for students. Students can be very apprehensive about making predictions. We know that they do not want to guess the wrong prediction, so it's important to have that conversation with them that it's okay to not always be right. We want them to feel comfortable using clues from the text to make their best predictions, along with their schema. Sometimes it's fun to be surprised by the author! I know that this book is perfect for encouraging students to make predictions in that safe environment. Enemy Pie by Derek Munson is a darling book that not only is perfect for practicing the strategy of making predictions, but it also teaches the importance of kindness. I like to stop during the reading and ask students what they think is in Enemy Pie? Do you think he's really going to give it to his enemy? I have students record their prediction on top of the pie in the craft below. You may want them to write their prediction with a pen, marker, or crayon, because they often want to change their prediction after finding out what actually happened. ;) After reading, they record what was actually in the pie underneath the flap. It's such a cute story and fun little craft that your students will love! At the end of the lesson, I showed this Pixar clip of Ormie the Pig. I stopped at 2:38 and asked students to predict whether or not Ormie was going to get the cookies this time. I gave them the option of a picture or words. They recorded their prediction on an exit ticket and placed it in the Prediction Pail. I found this idea at Kindergarten Boom Boom. It was just adorable and super fun! You can click the image below for this freebie label for you and your teammates. These are the exit tickets I used throughout the week. I switched it up each day and we threw them in the prediction pail or clipped on our round up clips. I also have students participate in a cooperative group activity. If time is an issue for you, you could have them do this during small group instruction or even during centers. It would also be a great early finisher activity students could easily grab and work on. I create 3 or 4 case files like the one below and fill each with graphic organizers and a book or passage. Students read the book or passage inside and complete the graphic organizer together. The first time I do this unit, I like to use all picture books. When I do this unit again, I might vary it with other books and passages. The great thing about my predictions pack is that you can use it over and over throughout the year. There are too many activities to fit in one week. I like to give them a page to stop at with a prediction question in the file. It gives them a purpose and keeps them focused. It's the "CASE" they have to solve! After reading, they record what actually happened. I also use this graphic organizer all throughout the week. I love to stick them in a Smart Pal to reuse again and again. Another day, just to switch it up, we used this interactive notebook template to record predictions about If You Took a Mouse to the Movies by Laura Numeroff. The following day, we read If You Give a Pig a Pancake by Laura Numeroff focusing a little bit more on the clues students use from the text or illustrations to make predictions. These little mini-booklets are great to throw in a Read to Self tub for students to practice the strategy independently. And finally, my littles LOVE bookmarks! Like, can't get enough! These will help them remember to stop and predict while reading independently. You can check out this unit by clicking the images below. You can also check out my Interactive Anchor Charts below if you think that is something that might benefit you. It makes it much easier for me to have my anchor charts ready to print and go each week. Thanks for stopping by, friends! Have a great break!
I need to be honest with you. I hate planning a literacy block. Even though I have all sorts of resources and ideas for engaging language units, I absolutely DREAD figuring out how to break up my time every year.
When I started at my new school last year, I came into a new reading program. I was used to doing almost all of my reading instruction WHOLE CLASS, but my school uses a guided reading model all the way up to 5th grade. I definitely had to rethink my reading block! I had done centers in the past, but wanted a really clear way to maximize the time and make the transitions clear for the students. Here's how I do my guided reading block! ROTATIONS We have Guided Reading/Centers Monday-Thursday from about 1:10-2:00 and I rotate through four groups. This means each center is 12 minutes long, with about 30 seconds for a transition. 12 minutes can fly by, so the students have to work on getting those transitions DOWN. I found a FANTASTIC resource by my friend Kristen of Chalk & Apples, and it has made centers SO easy. There are tons of different icons that can be easily swapped out on different days or weeks. I change mine up all the time! In a typical week, I do guided reading with leveled passages on Monday and Wednesday, and we do literature circles on Tuesdays and Thursdays. GROUPS My students are grouped according to DRA levels, because that is what my school uses. You might use AR, Lexile, or another measure. I have four groups: Low, Low-Mid, High-Mid, and High. Each group has a number, but I assign the number randomly so it doesn't match up to skill level in any way. I have 24 students in my class this year, so there will be 6 kids in each group. If you have a larger class, you can still make it work by having your higher groups work on their own while you work with a lower group and just check in! GUIDED READING I LOVE this close reading resource from Fifth in the Middle. I bought the entire bundle so I have TONS of options. Each reading comes in four reading levels, but they are on the same topic and look the same so students don't notice. There is also a paired text that I try to use for morning work toward the end of the week. There are several pages of activities for each passage, and I often have the students start these at the table with me after we've read the passage out loud. When it is their turn for guided reading, the students come to me at our back table with a pencil and a highlighter. I give them their sheets for that day and discuss what we will be looking for while we read (unfamiliar words usually) and we begin reading. I like to make sure each child reads, so however I have to break it up to make that happen. After reading through, I ask them to scan through again to find specific information. This changes week to week, so one time it might be looking for transition phrases, and another it might be looking for dates to create a timeline. Then, we talk about what everyone found and work on putting together the information on the worksheet. I, of course, provide a lot more scaffolding and support to my lower readers, while my high readers are able to do the activity on their own. LIT CIRCLES On the days that we have literature circles, the students still come to the back table with me, but this time they bring their lit circle book (which varies) and their lit circle binder. In their binder, they keep all of their jobs and their reading schedule. I have used about a GAZILLION resources for lit circles (including online blogs), but this one from Pocketful of Primary is my absolute FAVORITE: It is SOO easy to adapt to groups of different sizes and I found it very user-friendly for both the kiddos and for myself! I organize the jobs using a hanging file I found on Amazon. You can find it here: THE OTHER CENTERS So what do the kiddos do during their other blocks of time? Here's some options I cycle through: STAPLES: Partner Reading Each student has a partner from their reading group that they meet up with for this activity. I typically use "I Survived" books or similar short chapter books. I stock up through Scholastic! I have 6 shared books for the entire class, and I place a sheet inside the front cover so the students can write their names and where they ended each day they read. I always have new books ready to go for the students who finish. I do this strictly for fluency, so I don't do quizzes or worksheets. Silent Reading (KBAR) In my class, we call silent reading KBAR- Kick Back and Read. When we do a whole class KBAR, I sometimes take it outside. Spelling (Spelling City) I typically use Spelling City for centers, but sometimes do a worksheet instead. Vocabulary (Quizlet)Quizlet is AMAZING. I love using this for vocabulary! The students really enjoy it as well. Keyboarding (KWT) This is a tough one since monitoring the students' finger placement is so important. I don't do this OFTEN as a center, but throw it in now and again. Writing If we are working on a longer project (such as the state report), I have the students use this chunk of time for that. Otherwise, I sometimes provide a prompt or allow them to free write. Here's one of the resources I use: NoRedInk If you've never used this site, CHECK IT OUT! It's one of the best ways to get some extra grammar practice into your day! Be aware that the initial set up takes a bit of time because the students have to select a bunch of their favorites from different categories: books, tv shows, movies. What's neat is the site uses their preferences and their name + their friends' names when building the practice sentences. The kids get a kick out of it! Task Cards (small group) Students work with their reading group and record their answers on individual answer sheets. I have a huge selection of task cards that I keep in one of these bad boys from Michael's: Cursive (Can Do) I love that my school teaches cursive, but in fifth grade, we don't have a lot of specific time for it. To keep the kid's practicing, I assign pages from our cursive book during centers. Reading Comprehension (Reading Plus) We use Reading Plus, but there are many online reading comprehension sites. Use whatever your district provides or what works for your class! Games I will occasionally throw in a review game for the kids to play with their small group. The key is they have to be short and not too loud! Comment below if you have other questions or want to add some advice on running smooth ELA centers with Guided Reading!
Point of view can be a tricky skill for students. We want to make sure that we are teaching point of view in a very explicit, yet memorable way. I decided to revamp my whole point of view unit with a fun, retro theme which is sure to be engaging and unforgettable for students. In this post, I will share some teaching tips, my favorite mentor texts for point of view, and some groovy activities for point of view with a fun room transformation idea! Before teaching point of view, look at your standard. In first grade, students have to be able to identify who is telling the story at different points, while in second grade, students should be able to determine when characters have different points of view. All of these activities can be used for first and second grades! This post may contain affiliate links. Point of View Room Transformation You do not have to go all out on a huge room transformation. Just by simply having a theme and printing these decorations I have included will be enough to get your students super excited to learn all about point of view. If you want to do a room transformation, I am including links to some fun items that you could use with your students. Families are always willing to contribute or purchase room transformation items for my classroom. So it doesn't hurt to ask if anyone wants to donate! I just send a wishlist on Dojo. Decorations Banner Hippie Sunglasses and Headbands Hanging Paper Lanterns Mentor Texts You can see below some of my favorite mentor texts to use when teaching point of view. All of the activities can be used with any text, passage, or even with your basal. The Three Little Pigs The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs Little Red Riding Hood Honestly, Red Riding Hood was Rotten Goldilocks and the Three Bears Believe Me, Goldilocks Rocks! Three Hens and a Peacock Hey, Little Ant Introducing Point of View Even if you teach second grade, you should still cover this part of point of view. I have found that students need review of what different points of view a story can be told. A story can be told from a character's, the narrator's, or from the author's point of view. I then go into first, second, and third person points of view using these posters. Give students key words that they can look for in the text to determine from whose point of view a story is told. We then do this sort together, which I leave up during the unit for student reference. If you teach second grade, you will also need to teach that characters can have different points of view on a situation or event from the story. I then go into what perspective means. Craft If you teach first, you might want to do this craft at the end of your unit. Second grade will want to do this on the first day of your unit. Students will make this fun VW bus craft, including from whose point of view the story is told on the bumper and two pieces of text evidence to prove their thinking. Point of View Activities We want students to be able to provide text evidence that helps determine from whose point of view the story is told. You can do this activity with groups and then can use it as a center for further practice. The graphic organizers go in a progression from identifying point of view of a whole text to identifying when point of view changes in a story. Some stories provide different points of view. I also included a Venn diagram to compare and contrast when characters have different points of view or perspectives. Of course, you always want to do some sort of exit ticket at the end of a lesson. I like to just grab a quick passage and have them tell me from whose point of view it was told or the perspective of the speaker. When I teach point of view, I ask students to think about it as if we are seeing the story through someone else's eyes. So I made these retro Point of Viewers glasses that students can wear when they are identifying and describing point of view. I always give my students bookmarks that go along with our standard, because I want them to apply that skill to their independent reading. By having these in their book bins, it reminds them that applying this skill is important to their comprehension of texts. A fun little activity that you can do at the end of your unit is Brown Bag Book Club. They can fill out the graphic organizer over the text you use that day and glue it to a brown bag. Then, you fill the bag with popcorn. They get into groups to discuss the text and their thinking. There are also discussion questions that I include. This is a great little assessment to use that students will love! If you do a room transformation with this, you have to tell me! I cannot tell you how excited I am about the new retro look! The clip art is so cute and fun! Not only will this unit be engaging for students, but it's really fun for the teacher, too. You can grab the pack by clicking any of the photos or by clicking HERE. Happy reading!!! Save BIG on all of my comprehension units by grabbing the bundle below! So many fun themes!
I need to be honest with you. I hate planning a literacy block. Even though I have all sorts of resources and ideas for engaging language units, I absolutely DREAD figuring out how to break up my time every year.
A meticulously designed mini unit to support the book "The Cool Bean" by Jory John. Whether in the classroom or at-home platforms, there is no better way to execute a balanced literacy platform in your classroom than by anchoring your daily activities to a rich, interactive read-aloud. Don't have the book yet? It's a must have! Buy it here: https://amzn.to/3eHvJkU Listen to it here: https://bit.ly/387m5VZ INCLUDED: Responses to Reading Writing Prompts Printable Take-home Book QR Code for Reading Center Grammar Math: Graphing, Word Problems, Addition/Subtraction Practice Craft Chart helpers / Retell cards Vocabulary cards More... ©MakeTeachingFun! Resources Keywords: first grade, 1st grade, kinder, kindergarten, k-2, book unit, literacy unit, mini book unit, worksheets, printables, printable books, key details, reading, reading units, balanced literacy
This Personal Financial Literacy Activity Bundle includes 6 classroom activities to practice personal financial literacy concepts including comparing salaries, the costs and features of a checking account, debit cards vs. credit cards, balancing a check register, information found on a credit report, and methods of payment for college. These hands-on and engaging activities are all easy to prep! Students are able to practice and apply concepts with these decimal operations activities, while collaborating and having fun! Math can be fun and interactive! Standards: TEKS (6.14A, 6.14B, 6.14C, 6.14D, 6.14E, 6.14F, 6.14G, 6.14H) More details on what is included: Six hands-on activities that can be utilized in pairs or groups of 3-4. All activities include any necessary recording sheets and answer keys. Solve and Color: comparing salaries Stations: balancing a check register Card Match: debit vs. credit cards Card Sort: credit reports Find It, Fix It: methods of paying for college Scavenger Hunt: personal financial literacy unit review ***Please download a preview to see sample pages and more information.*** How to use this resource: Use as a whole group classroom activity Use in a small group for additional remediation, tutoring, or enrichment Use as an alternative homework or independent practice assignment Incorporate within our Personal Financial Literacy Unit to support the mastery of concepts and skills. Time to Complete: Most activities can be utilized within one class period. Performance tasks summarize the entire unit and may need 2-3 class periods. However, feel free to review the activities and select specific problems to meet your students’ needs and time specifications. There are multiple problems to practice the same concepts, so you can adjust as needed. Looking for instructional materials? Check out the corresponding Personal Financial Literacy Unit, which includes student handouts, independent practice, assessments, and answer keys. More 6th Grade Activity Bundles: Unit 1: Numerical Representations Unit 2: Positive Rational Numbers Unit 3: Integer Operations Unit 4: Ratios and Rates Unit Unit 5: Percents Unit 6: Expressions Unit 7: Equations and Inequalities Unit 8: Algebraic Representations Unit 9: Geometry Unit 10: Data and Statistics Unit 11: Personal Financial Literacy More 6th Grade TEKS-Aligned Units: Unit 1: Numerical Representations Unit 2: Positive Rational Numbers Unit 3: Integer Operations Unit 4: Ratios and Rates Unit 5: Percents Unit 6: Expressions Unit 7: Equations and Inequalities Unit 8: Algebraic Representations Unit 9: Geometry Unit 10: Data and Statistics Unit 11: Personal Financial Literacy Licensing: This file is a license for ONE teacher and their students. Please purchase the appropriate number of licenses if you plan to use this resource with your team. Thank you! Customer Service: If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out for assistance. We aim to provide quality resources to help teachers and students alike, so contact me before leaving feedback if you have a need. Maneuvering the Middle® Terms of Use Products by Maneuvering the Middle®, LLC may be used by the purchaser for their classroom use only. This is a single classroom license only. All rights reserved. Resources may only be posted online in an LMS such as Google Classroom, Canvas, or Schoology. Students should be the only ones able to access the resources. It is a copyright violation to upload the files to school/district servers or shared Google Drives. See more information on our terms of use here. If you are interested in a personalized quote for campus and district licenses, please click here. ©Maneuvering the Middle® LLC, 2012-present
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Turn vocabulary practice of content area words into a fun, cooperative game with lots of opportunities to practice the word's definition, sketch of the word, synonym, antonym, sentence and syllables in a fast, energetic, hands-on, linguistic and non-linguistic game, with this colorful vocabulary freebie. This vocabulary game is done best with the Lewo Tumbling Tower blocks from Amazon (affiliate link). One sheet is provided for teachers to write in 6 content area vocabulary words by hand and one editable sheet is provided for teachers to type 6 content area vocabulary words into each square before printing. You could also provide vocabulary words in a bag and students could pick words out of the bag. And, as always, if you want to use this sheet in a completely digital format, you can do that too, by opening it in iBooks app (Apple) or Aldiko app (Android). I just laminate 3-5 sheets and kids reuse the laminated sheets and I save on colored ink. Vocabulary sheet provided in color and black/white. Take care! Jen Jones - Hello Literacy IG: @hellojenjones FB: /helloliteracy © 2017, Hello Literacy, Inc. This Vocabulary Jenga sheet is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
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Have you heard the term Structured Literacy? What exactly is structured literacy? I’m so glad you asked! Let’s explore what it means and why it’s an important to know about it. *This post contains affiliate links. What is Structured Literacy? Structured literacy refers to a specific way or method in which literacy skills and strategies ... Read More about What is Structured Literacy?
I have a secret to share with you... one little thing made all the difference in how I felt about and approached the first few days of kindergarten.
In this post, I’ll share the components of my literacy block for second grade. I've also included some sample schedules for you!
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An inspiring picture-book biography of Louis Braille—a blind boy so determined to read that he invented his own alphabet. **Winner of a Schneider Family Book Award!** Louis Braille was just five years old when he lost his sight. He was a clever boy, determined to live like everyone else, and what he wanted more than anything was to be able to read. Even at the school for the blind in Paris, there were no books for him. And so he invented his own alphabet—a whole new system for writing that could be read by touch. A system so ingenious that it is still used by the blind community today. Award-winning writer Jen Bryant tells Braille’s inspiring story with a lively and accessible text, filled with the sounds, the smells, and the touch of Louis’s world. Boris Kulikov’s inspired paintings help readers to understand what Louis lost, and what he was determined to gain back through books. An author’s note and additional resources at the end of the book complement the simple story and offer more information for parents and teachers. I have created 25 book extension activities for this title. Activities Include: Cover Page Braille Alphabet Cover Story Pre-Reading Activity Making Connections Before Reading (2 Options) Let’s Take a Picture Walk (2 Options) I Wonder… Formulating Questions Comprehension Questions and Answer Key Compare and Contrast Louis and You Story Map Main Character Portrait All About Louis Identifying Problem and Solution Making Connections Text to Self Making Connections Text to Text Making Connections Text to World What Do You Think? Writing Activity What is the Lesson? Recommend Books for Louis Bookmarks for Louis Cover Art (Design a New Cover) 3-2-1 Summarizing Activity Word Search Book Review (2 Options)
This BOOK COMPANION for Oliver Jeffers' book STUCK includes a wide variety of extension activities to fully engage students with literature in hands-on ways! Students will explore several different types of storytelling props, integration of hands-on STEM concepts, a variety of story element worksheets and an ORIGINAL game focused on alphabet recognition and/or Dolch pre-primer and primer sight words. CONTENTS: Printable full-color storytelling props (6 pages) Build & Balance Retelling (9) Matching Game Cards (4 pages) Extension Worksheets including: - Cut & paste pictures - Cut & paste words (match with pictures) - Blank squares for drawing original objects. - Story Elements - Main Idea - Problem Solving - Creative Writing (2) Original Board Game: "Up in a Tree" with focus on Oral Language, Social Skills and Early Literacy/Math Concepts. (9 pages) Game Variations - Alphabet & Sight Word Options (8 pages) MATERIALS NEEDED: Book - "Stuck" by Oliver Jeffers crayons, markers and/or colored pencils glue scissors tape paper/cardstock laminator (optional) wooden blocks (for story blocks) PREP: Storytelling Props - Print on cardstock, laminate & cut. Attach velcro, magnets or poster putty for use. Foldable story props OR story blocks - print, cut, laminate, fold or tape. Game - Print gameboards on cardstock & laminate. Print desired game pieces on cardstock, laminate & cut. Worksheets - print & go! COMMON CORE ALIGNMENT: RF.K.1d, RF.K.3c, RL.K.2, RL.K.3, RL.K.7, SL.K.5, SL.K.6, W.K.3, W.K.8 Looking for other BOOK COMPANION packs? ROOM ON THE BROOM BOOK COMPANION COPYRIGHT: © 2019, E.Medley @ TeachMeHow.
What does author's purpose mean? This comprehensive resource will help your students understand the author's purpose and recognize the differences between persuade, inform and entertain with these engaging author's purpose worksheet and activities. The best part, use this resource with ANY book! Teaching Author's Purpose can be tricky. The goal of this unit is to make it easier for you! Plus, this resource includes both digital and printable worksheets and activities making it easy to use in-person or virtually. I personally love teaching all comprehension strategies. It is kind of my teaching jam! I have a strong belief in teaching comprehension strategies in the younger grades in order for them to fall in love with reading. I mean, who really wants to just read words for nothing?! What I have done is developed my Author's Purpose activities into a product that now makes it so you can teach Author’s Purpose with ANY book that is a fiction or a non-fiction story/selection! That way no matter what program you are using you can tie these activities in with it. I have laid out for you a simple way to use Anchor Charts and examples of writing to persuade, entertain, and inform that I have provided in this unit to initially teach Author’s Purpose. Along with some simple worksheets to help them recognize Author’s Purpose. Other than that; all crafts, graphic organizers, etc., have no limit to what book to tie it in with. Activities Included and Printable Options: Teaching Outline Suggestions C.C.S.S. Addressed for Kindergarten 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Grade Teaching Cards/ Posters for your Focus Wall 5 different Anchor Charts: One for Author's Purpose in General (PIE), One for each of the following; Entertain, Persuade, and Inform. Also a generic Author's Purpose Anchor Chart to be used with any book. Whole Group Sorting Activity with Short passages to determine author's purpose. Author's Purpose Chant Author's Purpose Graphic Organizers and Worksheets Interactive Notebook Pages Persuade Magnet Craft Persuade Speech Podium Kiddo Craft Inform Scroll Craft Informer Iguana Craft Entertain Ferris Wheel Craft Hollywood Red Carpet Craft Author's Purpose Comprehension Tri-Folds (2) Google Slide Options for: -Move and Place Author's Purpose (6) -Find it! Type it! (3) -Graphic Organizers -Read the Passage and Type out the Author's Purpose one recording sheet. Has 6 different passages with audio option. -Chant with Recording Click here to buy it in my Comprehension Strategies Bundle! Like this unit? You may also like my Story Structure/ Story Elements Unit Click Here Terms Copyright © Emily Barnes of Emily Education. All rights reserved by author. This product is to be used by the original downloader only. Copying for more than one teacher, classroom, department, school, or school system is prohibited. This product may not be distributed or displayed digitally for public view. Failure to comply is a copyright infringement and a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Clipart and elements found in this PDF are copyrighted and cannot be extracted and used outside of this file without permission or license. Intended for classroom and personal use ONLY. See product file for clip-art and font credits.
In the early primary classroom Write the Room is a perfect way to incorporate movement into your reading or writing centers rotation. Students will love exploring the classroom in the fun spring themed I Spy activity.This themed activity includes 10 spring themed I Spy slides, editable write the roo...
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