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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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 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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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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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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• 3rd-5th Grade Guided Reading Unit

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This reading unit is designed to provide six weeks of detailed reading instruction for any reading workshop or guided reading classroom! In addition to the PDF file, all student pages are available digitally through Google Slides. This unit includes 30 day-by-day lessons. You’ll also find pacing guides and standard alignment to keep you organized.

Reading Comprehension

There is a balance between informational reading and literature within this reading unit. Each detailed lesson plan includes a mini lesson, independent reading time, and closing. The mini lesson typically includes a mentor text with multiple text suggestions. There is also a handout or guided practice activity for each of the 30 comprehension lessons lessons.

Skills/Concepts Included

Figurative Language

• similes
• metaphors
• idioms
• proverbs and adages

Poetry

• lines
• stanza
• rhyme scheme
• meter

Drama

• cast of characters
• stage directions
• description of setting

Prose

• characteristics: chapters, paragraphs, etc.

Standardized Test

• reading directions and questions
• eliminating incorrect answers
• stamina

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: 165
File Size: 15 MB

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• 3rd-5th Grade Guided Reading Unit

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Reading Comprehension

The bulk of the unit focuses on reading comprehension. There is a balance between informational reading and literature within each of the reading units. Each detailed lesson plan includes a mini lesson, independent reading time, and closing. The mini lesson typically includes a mentor text, where I give you multiple text suggestions. There is also a handout or guided practice activity for each of the 30 comprehension lessons lessons.

Skills/Concepts in Unit 4 Include:

• theme
• characterization
• making inferences & drawing conclusions
• point of view
• making comparisons (setting, character, theme)
• main idea
• nonfiction text features
• supporting details
• combining information from multiple texts

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

Novel Studies

There is one novel study that can be used for a book club or literature circle that is aligned to the lessons within the unit! The novel study is completely optional, so if it’s not right for your students-no worries!

Novel Study in Unit 4 Includes:

• Wishtree

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: 127–163
File Size: 26 MB

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• 3rd-5th Grade Guided Reading Unit

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This reading unit is designed to provide six weeks of detailed reading instruction for any reading workshop or guided reading classroom! In addition to the PDF file, all student pages are available digitally through Google Slides. This unit includes 30 day-by-day lessons. You’ll also find pacing guides and standard alignment to keep you organized.

Reading Comprehension

The bulk of the unit focuses on reading comprehension. There is a balance between informational reading and literature within each of the reading units. Each detailed lesson plan includes a mini lesson, independent reading time, and closing. The mini lesson typically includes a mentor text, where I give you multiple text suggestions. There is also a handout or guided practice activity for each of the 30 comprehension lessons.

Skills/Concepts in Unit 1 Include:

• procedures
• visualizing
• connections
• asking and answering questions
• inferring and drawing conclusions
• making predictions
• summarizing

Novel Studies

There are FIVE novel studies that can be used for book clubs that are aligned to the lessons within the unit! These novel studies are completely optional, so if they’re not right for your students-no worries!

Novel Studies in Unit 1 Include:

• 39 Clues
• Escape From Mr. Lemoncello’s Library
• Fish in a Tree
• One Crazy Summer
• Theodore Boone Kid Lawyer
• The Hotel Between

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: 325 + 197 book club pages
File Size: 77 MB

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• 3rd-5th Grade Guided Reading Unit

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Reading Comprehension

There is a balance between informational reading and literature within this reading unit. Each detailed lesson plan includes a mini lesson, independent reading time, and closing. The mini lesson typically includes a mentor text, where I give you multiple text suggestions. There is also a handout or guided practice activity for each of the 30 comprehension lessons lessons.

Skills/Concepts in the 3RD GRADE VERSION Include:

• Characterization
• Setting
• Plot
• Nonfiction Text Features-table of contents, index, glossary, captions, diagrams, maps, insets, sidebars, hyperlinks, charts, and tables
• Nonfiction Text Structure

Skills/Concepts in the 4th GRADE VERSION Include:

• Characterization
• Setting
• Plot
• Main Idea
• Nonfiction Text Structures-compare & contrast, cause & effect, sequential order, question & answer, problem & solution

When there is an overlap of skills/concepts in the third and fourth/fifth grade versions, the lessons are more advanced and in-depth in the fourth/fifth grade version.

Novel Studies

There are FIVE novel studies that can be used for book clubs that are aligned to the lessons within the unit! These novel studies are completely optional, so if they’re not right for your students-no worries!

Novel Studies Include:

• Ghost
• Holes
• Out of My Mind
• The Wild Robot
• The Van Gogh Deception

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: 160-170
File Size: 44 MB

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3rd-5th Grade Guided Reading Unit

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