I mean...why WOULDN'T you use cootie catchers in your reading block? It makes perfect sense. Ok - remember last week how I was talking about doing a little spring cleaning with some of my TpT resources? Well, I did a little spring cleaning in my file folders on my computer as well. Yikes. Now THAT'S a bit of a rabbit hole. I got in a little deeper than I wanted to, but I figured I might as well finish the job. I got rid of a lot (a LOT) of cringe worthy products that just didn't make the cut anymore, and I got some major organizing done as well. BUT - you know what I found? THIS >>> It's a reading comprehension cootie catcher that I TOTALLY forgot I made! And since it resurfaced for me - I thought I'd resurface it for you! I'm sure I made it for you guys in the first place, but I can't for the life of me find it anywhere on the blog. There's actually 3 different versions. They have different comprehension questions that can be used with any fictional book. They work great as a quick partner review game. You can download them here! Find any long-lost things in your spring cleaning, lately? Pin and Share this freebie:

Planning to tutor over the summer? Here are tips for quick and easy planning! Hi there! It's Sarah! I've been tutoring kiddos for the last year and have developed a routine that makes my planning easy and my session flow smoothly. All of the kiddos I tutor are grades K-2 and in need of a boost in their reading skills...fluency, comprehension, and phonics. Warm-up I like to start with some reading that is simple or familiar. I'll either have the kiddo re-read a text from the previous session or read fluency sentences. I have my kiddos keep a composition notebook with past passages to go back and re-read. I use lots of guided reader books to find the just right text for my kiddos to read. These are also great books to leave for kiddos to practice between sessions. Fluency sentence strips from The Moffatt Girls are a GREAT help to boost fluency and confidence! They are also super easy to leave for practice between sessions. Fluency Reading Practice My kiddos have all had good sight word recognition and really need fluency work. I switch between leveled readers and text passages. I usually have kiddos read the text themselves first. After reading, we go back through the text and find words that were tricky and read them. Next, I have the kiddo read through the text with me or by themselves if they are confident. Using a leveled reader Using fluency passages and recording words read per minute (the kiddos love to see their growth!) Find these fluency passages HERE! Using text evidence passages. Grab these passages HERE! Comprehension After some fluency practice with the selected text, I move into comprehension work. In our district, kiddos need to do a written response comprehension question as part of their reading assessment. I have my kiddos practice a written response question with every text and in every session. Comprehension with level reader I use these question stems to develop questions based on the text. Grab the question stems HERE! Completed written response, kiddos write in their composition journal Comprehension with text evidence passages. Grab these passages HERE! Here I use a reading passage with several comprehension tasks for a 2nd grade kiddo. Find these reading passage + comprehension packets HERE! Phonics After the reading and comprehension tasks are complete, I work on some phonics task with my kiddos. One of my favorite tasks is doing a word family word splash. I select a word from our text. I like how this tasks shows kiddos that if they can spell a work like bat, they can also spell cat, mat, sat, etc. Writing short sentences with words from the Word Family Splash Word building and sounding out Extras I like to use phonics poems as an additional fluency tool. The kiddos glue them into their composition notebook so they can go back and re-read between sessions, continuing to build fluency with familiar texts. These phonics poems are from Susan Jones. I use our Literacy Bags in between reading tasks. Literacy Bags break up the rigorous reading and fluency practice we do for much of the session. You can find Literacy Bags HERE! I'm working with a few Kindergartners who need sight word practice. I use the K version of our Differentiated Reading Fluency passages. In K, the passages start as reading letters, then sight words fluently. It perfect support for my K kiddos! You can grab these HERE! Additionally, our Print a Standard packs have been a great support for targeting specific skills students need to work on. Each pack contains tasks for one standard and has several activities for that standard, so there are a lot of opportunities to help the student learn, practice, and master standards based skills. You can grab Print a Standard packs for ELA AND MATH HERE! Connecting with students and parents on a more personal level is the best part of tutoring. I love giving kiddos instant feedback and celebrating their successes! I also love that I can give them more choices to foster a love of reading. In the picture above, I'm showing several text selections. The kiddos I'm working with is able to choose the book he'll read with me for the session. I also love being able to help parents foster learning at home. I've found most all of my parents did not really know about their kiddo's reading level or reading abilities. This makes it difficult for parents to find the best "just right" books for reading at home. After I work with a kiddo, I leave the text piece we worked on for that session (a passage or a book) so the kiddo can re-read it with parents. I leave their composition notebooks with phonics poems for the kiddos to go back a re-read. I also leave the fluency sentence strips for practice between sessions.

Increase reading abilities with an activity that build skills in drawing conclusions.

Reading Comprehension for beginner and Elementary Students - ESL worksheets

These ideas give active reading a whole new meaning.

Cultivate lifelong reading skills.

Reading Comprehension for beginner and Elementary Students 3 - ESL worksheets

My daughter loves when we have storytime at our house. Every day we can easy read for 15-30 minutes. Visits to our local library is always exciting because of the idea of finding new books to enjoy. There has been one book that is not new to most, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. Although I've heard great reviews about this book I never made the decision to borrow it. I have found another fun way to find books and that is at yard sales! When I see a bin of books I'm all over it! Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs was one I recently found and grabbed it for .25 cents!! After the first read my daughter was hooked! She smiled and laughed and thoroughly enjoyed the story. She loves how it rains and snows food! Each night before bed my daughter chooses a book which is alot more fun and easier now that we have our rain gutter book shelf. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs was a favorite for at least a week straight! To help my daughter with reading comprehension I made up this activity, here's what I used and how we played: Giant Post it Notes (these are awesome!) Permanent Marker Brown paper bags Prizes for bag This was such an easy set up. I had a list of questions I asked my daughter about the story and wrote 2 choices to each question onto the Post It Notes. After I read the question my daughter had to choose which was the correct answer by jumping on it. At the end of each path I taped a brown paper bag, if she chose the right path she would receive some goodies I hid in the bag. If she chose the wrong path the bag would be empty. She chose the correct answers so she got the prizes on the first try - had she not we would have just kept playing until she got it right! This was a really fun activity that helped my daughter with her reading comprehension and got her moving at the same time.....and a little prize at the end never hurts!!

Pupils will know more facts about the seven continents . They will read the passages and answer the questions to measure their understanding. This will improve their reading skills. Asia is the w

Reading strategies useful in every content area include Questioning the text, Visualization, and using Context Clues to infer meaning.

Classroom decor with a purpose. Reinforce Reading Comprehension skills with these vibrant reading posters! Display on your focus wall, use in student binders, and create a fun classroom display with these 16 posters! Makes an excellent ELA Bulletin Board and helps students visualize the skills or concepts as they are introduced and reinforced throughout the year! Refer back to them often and make them a working part of your ELA instruction! This Resource Includes: ★Tips for Teachers 16 posters ⭐Title Poster ⭐Main Idea ⭐Setting ⭐Point of View ⭐Theme ⭐Character Traits ⭐Character Analysis ⭐Cause and Effect ⭐Summary (2) ⭐Author’s Purpose ⭐Inference ⭐Predict ⭐Visualize ⭐Text Connections ⭐*BONUS* Writing a Short Response using RACE ★Thank You ★Credits SEE ALSO Reading Skills & Strategies POSTERS SERIES 2 ***PERFECT COMPANION TO GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS This product is available as part of a bundle ELA Skills & Strategies BUNDLE Did you know? You can get TPT credit to use on future purchases. Go to your My Purchases page. You'll see a Provide Feedback button. Click it and give a quick rating and/or comment. Every time you give feedback, you earn TPT credits that you can use toward future purchases. Your feedback is so important and greatly appreciated! *Look for the green star next to my logo and click to FOLLOW ME! THANK YOU & HAPPY TEACHING! - Elena Elena Weiss © 2016 All rights reserved by the author. Permission to copy for classroom use only. This product is to be used by a single teacher. Copying for more than one teacher, classroom, department, school or school system is prohibited. This product may not be displayed or distributed digitally for public view without written permission from the author.

I really thought that Socratic Seminars were something that happened in AP English classes in high school or at the college level until I was hired at a particular elementary school several years ago. The

Our principal has really been encouraging us to add more writing into our daily lesson plans. "They should be writing all day long" he tells us. The research is there to back him up. I bumped into this Roll and Retell page from Fun In First on Pinterest awhile back and finally figured out how to add it to our learning day. I printed and laminated four copies of the Roll and Retell page to hand out to each of my four table groups. After a round of Daily 5 I handed them out. I also gave each table one die. Each student at the table took turns rolling the die and then answering the question based on the number they rolled. They each used the individual book they were reading to answer the questions. I felt like it would be a great advertisement for new books for each child to read when they were done with the one they were working on. I also knew it would be great oral practice BEFORE they started writing. Once they had a chance to talk about what they were going to write, I set the timer for 5 minutes and let them write. Then we shared our responses. Here are a few of their responses. I had so much success with this activity with my students, that I created versions that cover the standards for 2nd, 3rd and 4th grades. There are 6 different Roll and Respond Sheets that cover all of the Second Grade ELA Common Core Standards for both literary and informational text. There are 5 different Roll and Respond Sheets that cover all of the Third Grade ELA Common Core Standards for both literary and informational text. There are 7 different Roll and Respond Sheets that cover all of the Fourth Grade ELA Common Core Standards for both literary and informational text. Before you go, head on over to our giveaway page to enter our current giveaway! Every week one lucky winner gets a $25 Teachers pay Teachers gift card! Dr. Susan Hall, literacy leader and founder of 95 Percent Group, mentions this Roll and Retell Activity as a Reading Comprehension Game that Students Will Want to Play Over and Over! Check it out for the other ideas there as well! What have you tried in your classroom lately? Link up with Fourth Grade Flipper for Tried It Tuesday and share! This post contains affiliate links. I earn a small commission each time someone makes a purchase using one of my links, which helps to support the blog. All opinions are my own and I only promote brands and products that I have used myself and truly love. I would love to hear from you! ❤️ Have a question? Idea for a resource you might find helpful? Be so kind and leave a comment below.

Reading Comprehension for beginner and Elementary Students 5 - ESL worksheets

Freebie! One of the keys to teaching reading comprehension is showing kids how proficient readers think about text. Teachers have to find a way to make their thinking visible. One way is with graphic organizers.

Each classroom brings students of multiple learning styles and backgrounds. It is our job to provide opportunities that reach all of the many different learning styles that come to us. For this reason, it is

Will two lost campers find their way back? Kids practice writing story endings with this engaging writing prompt.

This is a reading comprehension worksheet for teaching the present simple and likes and dislikes. Recommended for elementary students who are asked to read the text and then answer the

A short reading comprehension about daily routines in the present simple tense. Suitable for beginners and low level Elementary learners.Check out the ohers in the series: Sharon the Chef, Paul the Policeman, Fred the Fireman, Tony the Teacher and Nino the Waiter. - ESL worksheets

These Reading Comprehension Bookmarks give students the tools they need to successfully share their great ideas about what they have read.

Beginning readers, enjoy this passage from Twain's classic "The Prince and the Pauper" and then complete some vocabulary and comprehension questions.

This worksheet is for Elementary school students at Beginner level who learn reading and their vocabulary is not too big. The worksheet is good for developing Reading and Writing skills.There are 8 exercises with short "e and o " sounds. - ESL worksheets

An elementary text about family and family members. I added multiple reading comprehension tasks. - ESL worksheets

Looking for easy, classroom-proven, science of reading-aligned comprehension resources? This article has all you need to teach comprehension.

Bring clarity and consistency to your lesson plans with Bloom's Verbs Posters! These bright and colorful posters with cleverly defined terms will transform your classroom into a learning powerhouse. Whether you're a teacher, student teacher, or even a homeschooling parent, these posters are an essential addition to your curriculum. This is your chance to get organized and improve learning outcomes and get the most out of your classroom! With two colored versions and a black-and-white version included, you have the flexibility to choose what best suits your class.  Take your teaching to the next level with Bloom's Verbs Posters!

Try our 3rd grade reading comprehension worksheets for free. We created this specially for kids to take skills of your 3rd graders reading to the next level

A short reading comprehension in the present simple tense about a day in the life of a fireman. Suitable for beginners or low level elementary learners.Check out the ohers in the series: Sharon the Chef, Paul the Policeman, Tony the Teacher, Nelly the Nurse and Nino the Waiter. - ESL worksheets

This reading comprehension worksheet tells a simple story about a house. The short story describes different things about the house and they people that live there. Kids are asked to read the story and then to answer the questions at the bottom of the page. This worksheet is perfect for any kids that are developing their reading comprehension skills.

I created this simple reading comprehension for my Entry 2 ESOL learners. First they read the passage. Understand it and then complete a comprehension tasks. I hope you find it helpful. - ESL worksheets

This packet helps to build a great foundation of reading comprehension skills! Printable stories with close reading activities require students to go back into the text to find information. Your students will love highlighting, circling, and coloring important information and completing a response activity for each story. Skills Addressed: *Genre identification *Reading for Details *Characters *Setting *Problem *Solution *Sequencing *Cause/Effect *Main Idea/Details

Howdy! Jen Bradshaw here from Teacher Karma. Thinking strategies to improve reading comprehension Reading without meaning is like eating pizza without cheese....and NOBODY wants that! So how do we get our students to make connections to the text, think while they are reading, and focus on what is most important......MEANING?? When I was in the classroom, I had great success with using the following anchor chart, Reading is Thinking. It is a great way to kick off a mini-lesson by presenting the thinking strategies that they will be learning about and USING EVERY DAY...really for the rest of their lives. Reading strategies to improve comprehension In my opinion, the 6 most important reading strategies are: asking questions predicting summarizing visualizing inferencing making connections Never try and do all of these strategies in one day! Depending on the grade level you teach, you may want to spend a whole week on each thinking strategy before moving on to the next one. If you would like to pick up your freebie and learn more about strategies to improve your student's comprehension, click here please. :) Best wishes!

Image by Getty Images via @daylifeMore amazing things I’m learning in the BrainSMART graduate program... Students who are taught reading comprehension strategies are more successful readers. While some students may eventually learn some of these strategies on their own, they can be taught quite effectively in the early elementary grades. Here are ten reading comprehension strategies from Ellin Keene’s book Assessing Comprehension Thinking Strategies to consider. 1. Think out loud. Good readers monitor their thinking while reading. 2. Use schema. Consciously connect the text to preexisting knowledge and experiences and consider how it helps their understanding of the text. 3. Inferring. Use experience and information from the text to draw conclusions, make connections, predictions, and form opinions. 4. Ask questions about the text before, during, and after reading. 5. Make decisions about what is important in the text (elements and themes). Be able to summarize the main points. 6. Set a purpose for reading to make it meaningful. 7. Monitor comprehension. Make sure students have strategies in place if they find the text too difficult. 8. Visualize what is being read. Make brain movies! Tune into the sensory and emotional images of the text to enhance the visualization. Use this information to help make inferences and draw conclusions. 9. Synthesizing and retelling. Keeping track of their impressions while reading and identifying the underlying meaning of the text. Connect the text to information from other sources. Extending that information beyond the text to form opinions and read critically. 10. Text structure. Understanding the elements of a story and how stories are put together helps students analyze and think critically about meaning. Even learning just one or two of these metacognitive strategies has been shown to make a difference in reading performance. Which strategies do your students already use? Which ones will they learn next?

This week, we learned … … there’s a lost continent in the Indian Ocean. How do you lose a continent? What’s a microcontinent? How’d scientists find the lost continent? … how Ikea names…

This worksheet is for Elementary school students at Beginner level who learn reading and their vocabulary is not too big. The worksheet is good for developing Reading and Writing skills.There are 8 exercises with long sounds ou, ow and oa. - ESL worksheets

Reading comprehension for elementary level about kids and their favourite TV programmes. Comprehension exercises and key included. - ESL worksheets

Dig deep with these fun activities!

3rd Grade Reading Comprehension Worksheets are a valuable resource for elementary school students to enhance their reading skills. These worksheets provide engaging passages and accompanying questions that focus on various reading skills such as vocabulary, main idea, inferencing, and summarizing. With a wide range of topics catered to their age group, these worksheets make learning enjoyable while improving comprehension abilities.

This worksheet is for Elementary school students at Beginner level who learn reading and their vocabulary is not too big. The worksheet is good for developing Reading and Writing skills.There are7 exercises with short "a" sound. - ESL worksheets