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

Check out these additional reading products!

• Integrated Fluency Passages
• Daily Reading Passages

Total Pages: 48
File Size: 42 MB

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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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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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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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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

Unit 2

In this second 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 skill. 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: 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)

Unit 3

In this third 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 skill or strategy. 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: 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: 198
File Size: 14.4 MB

SET 1 PREVIEW
SET 2 PREVIEW
SET 3 PREVIEW

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Escape rooms and breakout classrooms have found their way into today’s elementary classroom! They are such a great way to increase student engagement and to promote collaborative learning. This holiday escape activity is a perfect way to celebrate with FUN end of the year activities.

Here’s what’s included:

• Teacher Directions: including a link to a detailed blog post with example set-up pictures.
• Student Directions: easy to understand and student friendly.
• Clue 1: To prove that you belong on the nice list, you’ll need to sing a few Christmas carols. Decipher the picture clues to determine which 12 carols to sing. Write the title of the song that each card represents on your recording sheet.
• Clue 2: Santa accidentally jumbled up his Christmas list. Help him by finding the hidden words on the list. The letters that are NOT used will give you the next clue
• Clue 3: Help Santa find what number goes at the top of his tree. You should add side-by-side numbers and write the sum of those numbers on the hexagon above that number. The number at the top is your code!
• Clue 4: To help Santa organize his supplies, you need to match the Christmas items on the Christmas puzzle. To complete the 3-by-3 puzzle, you should reconstruct the squares so that all of the images match on every interior side. Remember, you are making a square. Once you complete the puzzle, use the top three images and the decoder wheel to crack the code!
• These puzzles are not specific to any standard or grade level. Instead, this version is centered around critical thinking skills.

This can be used with Breakout Edu boxes or with your own boxes and locks. If you do not have boxes and locks, you may use the digital version, where students submit their answers on Google Forms.

Total Pages: 18
File Size: 22 MB

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Incorporate reading standards while teaching students about holidays around the world with these interactive notebook activities!

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

What’s Included?

• A picture of a completed interactive notebook entry for each country/culture.
• A black and white version of each activity.
• I’ve include two options for some countries to keep the interactive notebooks flexible for all classroom needs. All countries come with one generic template where students can record what they learned, facts, important info, etc.
• There is a second version for most countries that requires students to apply reading skills and strategies from the Common Core Language Arts Standards for Informational Text. For instance, students may have to determine the text structure of the passage they were reading about that holiday or need to identify the point of view of the passage.

Countries/Cultures Included:

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

What About the Reading Passages
This product does NOT contain reading passages for holidays around the world. I’ve written them so they can be used with any text. I plan to use these activities with my Holidays Around the World Close Reading pack. That product includes three reading passages for each of the countries/cultures included in this pack, along with close reading questions and writing prompts.

Check these other holiday products!
Twas the Week Before Christmas
Christmas Math Centers

Total Pages: 77
File Size: 18 MB

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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.

You may also enjoy these holiday resources:

• Christmas Escape Room
• Christmas Fraction Project
• Christmas Geometry Project
• Christmas Literacy Activities
• Christmas Around the World Nonfiction Text Structure

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

Total Pages: 100
File Size: 14 MB

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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

Check these other holiday products!

• Twas the Week Before Christmas
• Christmas Math Centers

Total Pages: 279
File Size: 88 MB

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This detailed six week reading unit is 100% aligned to the Common Core Standards but can be used with any state standards (including TKES). The combination of all six of my reading units will teach all of the Reading Standards for Literature and Reading Standards for Information.

What’s Included?

This is a 6-week unit that is broken down to day by day lessons. This last unit of the year includes a review lesson for all of the reading for literature and reading for information standards. Each lesson contains directions for a mini lesson, independent reading time, and closing. There is also an additional handout or guided practice activity for most of the 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

Total Pages: 131
File Size: 16 MB

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Check out the year long bundle!

• 3rd-5th Grade Guided Reading Unit

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