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Detective Inferences | Drawing Conclusions and Inferences | Print and Digital

Ashleigh — Mon, 02 Dec 2019 03:52:31 +0000

Includes print and digital versions. Let your students become detectives with these ten mysteries! Students will need to rely on their inferencing skills and use the clues in the reading passages to solve each case.

Use in many different ways!

This activity is perfect for literacy stations or reading centers. The passages are great for allowing students to practice supporting their thoughts and conclusions with text evidence. The cards would also make a fun morning work activity or even early finisher challenge! If you prefer to not use the passages in the task card format, you can print the page and not cut the cards out.

What’s Included

10 passages (each passage is broken into four different parts)
Cover page for each passage
Cover page for envelopes
Recording sheets
Answer keys

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Total Pages: 48
File Size: 42 MB

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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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Holidays Around the World | Differentiated Reading Passages | Print and Digital

Ashleigh — Mon, 02 Dec 2019 03:31:30 +0000

These holidays around the world close reading passages and comprehension questions help students dig deeper into informational reading.

In this holidays around the world resource, there are ten nonfiction reading passages based on ten cultures/nations’ holiday celebrations. Since we all have students reading on many different reading levels, each passage is written on three different reading levels.

There are also three sets of questions for each set of holidays around the world passages. The first set of questions are text dependent questions that require students to cite evidence in the text, and the second set of questions require students to analyze the text structure and word choice of the passage. The third set of questions have students respond to a question that promotes high order thinking.

Save by purchasing both of my Holidays Around the World products in this Holidays Around the World Bundle!

Countries/Cultures Included:

Australia
Brazil
France
Germany
Greenland
Israel Hanukkah
Italy
Kwanzaa
Mexico
Spain
Sweden

These activities can be completed as a whole group, guided reading group, or even homework. It’s flexible to work in any elementary classroom.

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You can find Holidays Around the World Interactive Notebook activities HERE.

Total Pages: 100
File Size: 14 MB

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Holidays Around the World Bundle | Close Reading & Interactive Notebook

Ashleigh — Mon, 02 Dec 2019 03:30:28 +0000

Save by purchasing both Holidays Around the World resources! Includes print and digital formats.

The resource includes my Holidays Around the World Interactive Notebook and my Holidays Around the World Close Reading resources!

What’s Included in the interactive notebook?

A picture of a completed interactive notebook entry for each country/culture.
A color and black and white version of each activity to save on colored ink.
Two interactive notebook templates for each country.

What’s Included in the close reading product?

10 nonfiction reading passages based on ten cultures/nations holiday celebrations. Each passage is written on three different reading levels to make differentiation a little easier.
3 sets of questions for each set of passages. The first set of questions requires students to cite evidence in the text, and the second set of questions require students to analyze the text structure and word choice of the passage. The third set of questions have students respond to a question that promotes high order thinking.

Countries/Cultures Included:

Australia
Brazil
France
Germany
Greenland
Israel
Italy
Kwanzaa
Mexico
Sweden
Spain
United States

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Total Pages: 279
File Size: 88 MB

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Economics Reading Passages and Questions | Print and Digital

Ashleigh — Mon, 02 Dec 2019 02:11:51 +0000

Help students dig deeper into nonfiction reading with these economics close reading passages and questions.

In this product, there are five nonfiction reading passages based on a variety of topics related to economics. Since we all have students reading on many different reading levels, I’ve written each passage on three different reading levels to make differentiation a little easier for you. I’ve leveled each passage with its Lexile reading level and have included a reading level correlation chart that compares Fountas and Pinnell, DRA, and lexile levels.

There are also three sets of questions for each set of passages. The first set of questions requires students to cite evidence in the text, and the second set of questions require students to analyze the text structure and word choice of the passage. The third set of questions have students respond to a question that promotes high order thinking.

Concepts Included:

Productive Resources: natural resources, human resources, capital resources, and entrepreneurship
Supply and Demand
Goods and Services: consumer, producer, import, and export
Economic Decisions: opportunity cost, needs, wants, and scarcity
Personal Finance: budget, debt, savings, checking

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Total Pages: 47
File Size: 8 MB

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Geography Reading Passages and Questions | Print and Digital

Ashleigh — Mon, 02 Dec 2019 02:10:08 +0000

These geography reading passages and questions help students dig deeper into informational reading. This is a great way to integrate nonfiction reading to your reading AND social studies instruction! There is a print and digital version of the passages and questions.

There are five nonfiction reading passages based on a variety of topics related to geography. Since we all have students reading on many different reading levels, I’ve written each passage on three reading levels to make differentiation a little easier for you.

There are also three sets of questions for each set of passages. The first set of questions requires students to cite evidence in the text, and the second set of questions require students to analyze the text structure and word choice of the passage. The third set of questions have students respond to a question that promotes higher order thinking.

Geography Concepts Included:

Landforms
Types of Maps
Longitude & Latitude (Prime Meridian and Equator)
Communities
U.S. Regions

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Earth Science

Total Pages: 47
File Size: 6 MB

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