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Daily Reading Comprehension Practice | Set 3 | Print & Digital

Ashleigh — Mon, 02 Dec 2019 03:50:39 +0000

This Daily Reading Practice resource, offers valuable reading comprehension practice for students. There are six weeks worth of reading practice for a total of 30 passages! Each page includes a brief reading passage and comprehension questions. This can be used for morning work, homework, exit tickets, reading centers, and more! The digital version is included in Google Forms, with an included answer key.

I’ve organized this set of practice questions by skill, and each week focuses on a different skill or strategy. The skills follow the same layout and pacing as my 3rd-5th grade reading units. Regardless of which curriculum you teach, you can still use these review questions. In each assessment, at least two of the reading comprehension questions focus on the featured skill of the week.

Week 1: fairy tales-compare & contrast
Week 2: fables-central message
Week 3: myths-cause & effect
Week 4: nonfiction text features
Week 5: text structure (compare & contrast and cause & effect)
Week 6: point of view

Total Pages: 66
File Size: 7 MB

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Daily Reading Comprehension Practice | Set 2 | Print & Digital

Ashleigh — Mon, 02 Dec 2019 03:50:39 +0000

The practice questions are organized by reading skill, and each week focuses on a different skill. The skills follow the same layout and pacing as my 3rd-5th grade reading units. However, regardless of which curriculum you teach, students will benefit from these reading review questions. In each assessment, at least two of the comprehension questions focus on the featured skill of the week.

Week 1: characterization
Week 2: setting
Week 3: plot
Week 4: nonfiction text features
Week 5: nonfiction text structure (cause & effect and compare & contrast)
Week 6: nonfiction text structure (sequential order and problem & solution)

Total Pages: 66
File Size: 9 MB

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Daily Reading Comprehension Practice | Set 1 | Print & Digital

Ashleigh — Mon, 02 Dec 2019 03:50:37 +0000

You will love this Daily Reading Practice resource, which offers valuable reading comprehension practice. In this first unit there are six weeks worth of reading practice, which includes a brief reading passage and comprehension questions for each day of the week. This can be used for morning work, homework, exit tickets, reading centers, and more! Each day students will read a brief passage answer two multiple choice questions and two short answer questions.

I’ve organized this set of practice questions by skill, and each week focuses on a different school. The skills follow the same layout and pacing as my 3rd-5th grade reading units. However, regardless of which curriculum you teach, you can still use these review questions. I like to use these as a formative assessment to guide my reading instruction. In each assessment, at least two of the comprehension questions focus on the featured skill of the week.

Week 1: basic comprehension
Week 2: visualizing
Week 3: connections
Week 4: explicit questions
Week 5: implicit questions
Week 6: summarizing

Total Pages: 66
File Size: 7 MB

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3rd-5th Grade Reading Workshop BUNDLE | Print & Digital

Ashleigh — Mon, 02 Dec 2019 02:37:08 +0000

This reading workshop bundle is designed to provide an entire year of detailed reading instruction for 3rd, 4th, and 5th grades!

In addition to the PDF version of this file, there is a digital copy of all student files.

What’s Included?

Each of the six units includes 30 day-by-day lessons. Each lesson contains directions for a mini lesson, independent reading time, and closing. There is also an additional handout or guided practice activity for each of the lessons. These lessons will work with any guided reading or reading workshop lessons!

That’s not all!

Each week of the unit also includes the following:

reading choice board for homework
fluency passage
vocabulary words and vocabulary quiz

All of the mentor texts are suggested texts. You may replace any of the texts with a book of your choice. I like to integrate my informational mentor texts with my social studies and science lessons.

Unit 1

procedures
visualizing
connections
asking and answering questions
inferring
predictions
summarizing

Unit 2

characterization
setting
plot
nonfiction text features (table of contents, index, glossary, captions, diagrams, maps, insets, sidebars, hyperlinks, charts, and tables)
nonfiction text structure (compare & contrast, cause & effect, sequential order, question & answer, problem & solution)
main idea

Unit 3

Third grade lessons are taught through traditional literature: fables, fairy tales, tall tales, folk tales, myths, and legends.

compare and contrast
summary
using illustrations
finding the central message
identifying the speaker
point of view (including first and third person)
cause and effect
supporting details
figurative vs literal language

Unit 4

Unit 4 is organized around six author studies with one week of instruction for each author.

3rd Grade Version:

Patricia Polacco
Chris Van Allsburg
Eve Bunting
Seymour Simon
Gail Gibbons
Brian Floca

4th & 5th Grade Version:

Patricia Polacco
Chris Van Allsburg
Eve Bunting
Patricia C. McKissack
Jacqueline Woodson
Jerry Pallotta

Unit 5

Figurative Langauge (similes, metaphors, idioms, proverbs & adages)
Poetry (stanza, rhyme, meter)
Prose
Drama (cast of characters, stage directions, setting & description)
Standardized Tests

Unit 6

Includes one lesson from each of the language arts Common Core Standards (reading for literature and reading for information).

Vocabulary

Each week’s vocabulary instruction follows the same format to provide consistency and easy to follow routines. All vocabulary words are Tier 2 words from the mentor texts in the reading units. Students create a vocabulary notebook or journal for their vocabulary words. The first few pages of the notebooks are used for a general word bank. The next set of pages include a word bank for prefixes and suffixes. The remainder of the notebook is for students’ weekly vocabulary practice.

Monday: As a class produce brief definitions for each word.
Tuesday: Brainstorm examples and non examples of each vocabulary word.
Wednesday: Draw a picture representation of each word.
Thursday: Students write words in high-quality sentences.
Friday: Students take a brief vocabulary quiz over the six terms.

Fluency

Since repeated reading is one of the best ways to improve students’ reading fluency, there is one fluency passage for each week of instruction. The fluency passages should be sent home on Monday, and students should read the passage orally to an adult each night of the school week. These passages may be sent home on an as-needed basis.

Reading Centers/Literacy Centers and/or Reading Homework

There is a weekly choice board that can be used as part of your centers or as a homework assignment. As with all parts of this unit, the choice board is completely optional. On the choice board, there are 9 reading activities for students to choose from. You can set the parameters on what activities to complete, how many activities to complete, etc.

Total Pages: 1270+
File Size: 227 MB

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