$5 - $10 1st Grade Reading Strategies Independent Work Packet (by date, latest first)

This is a GROWING BUNDLE of my 1st Grade Reading Passages with Comprehension Questions! These resources are designed to help first-grade teachers solve the challenge of finding high-quality, engaging, and low-prep reading comprehension materials that align with monthly and holiday themes.

With 20 passages per month, this bundle is perfect for teachers looking for ready-to-use resources that promote fluency, text-based comprehension, and confidence in their readers. Each passage includes text-dependent comprehension questions, making it easy for students to practice finding answers directly in the text.

What’s Currently Included?

• November Reading Passages with Comprehension Questions
• December Reading Passages with Comprehension Questions
• January Reading Passages with Comprehension Questions

What’s Coming Next?

This growing bundle will include 12 months of reading comprehension passages.

• February Passages: Available by January 15th
• March Passages: Available by February 15th
• April Passages: Available by March 15th
• May Passages: Available by April 15th
• June Passages: Available by May 15th
• July Passages: Available by June 15th
• August Passages: Available by July 15th
• September Passages: Available by August 15th
• October Passages: Available by September 15th

When you purchase this bundle now, you’ll lock in the current price and receive all future updates for free! As more months are added, the price will increase, and once complete, this bundle will value at $36+!

Why You’ll Love This Bundle:

• Includes 20 reading comprehension passages per month
• Aligned with monthly and holiday themes to keep students engaged year-round
• Saves teachers time and effort with low-prep resources
• Promotes fluency practice and strengthens text-based comprehension skills
• Perfect for use in reading centers, small groups, independent practice, and homework

Why You Will LOVE This Bundle

Teachers often spend hours searching for meaningful reading comprehension materials that fit into their monthly curriculum and holiday units. This bundle provides a consistent, high-quality resource every month, ensuring your students get engaging and purposeful practice without the extra planning time.

These 1st Grade Reading Passages with Comprehension Questions are designed to support young readers in developing confidence, fluency, and comprehension all year long.

Grab this bundle today to start using the included passages immediately, and watch your students grow as readers! Don’t forget to leave feedback—it helps others and earns you TeachShare credits for future purchases.

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Looking for the perfect Christmas 1st Grade Busy Work Packet? This holiday bundle includes text evidence comprehension passages and math practice activities packed into over 40 pages of engaging, no-prep materials. With a math and reading comprehension sheet for every school day in December, this resource will keep students focused, learning, and on task right up until Christmas break.

What’s Included:

• Christmas Comprehension Passages: Build essential text evidence skills with short, engaging stories and questions that promote critical thinking.
• Math Practice Activities: Reinforce key math concepts like addition, subtraction, and number sense with fun, holiday-themed problems tailored for 1st graders.
• Daily Practice Sheets: Simplify your planning with ready-to-use activities for every day in December.
• Over 40 Pages: A wide variety of activities designed to keep students engaged and progressing all month long.
• No Prep Format: The planning and prepping is all done for you, so you can simply print and go.

Perfect For:

• Morning Work or Centers
• Fast Finishers
• December Classroom Activities
• Substitute Teacher Plans
• Engaging Holiday Lessons

Enjoy extra time to focus on grading, planning, or even just taking a moment to breathe—this resource has everything you need to make your December stress-free and successful. Get your Christmas 1st Grade Busy Work Packet today and keep your classroom running smoothly all month long!

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Alphabet pages are a NO PREP printable activity that align with the Science of Reading with vocabulary that contains the target sounds for K-2 French students. Each page helps students build phonological awareness, phonemic awareness, and endoding and decoding skills with sweet graphics and easy to read fonts. Build a strong foundation in French language with educational resources designed specifically with your students in mind!

What’s in my workbook?

-In each page, you will find a large bubble letter, upper and lower case, for students to colour or trace inside the lines.

-A section for identifying upper and lowercase letters by colouring the appropriate boxes.

-There is a section for tracing letters in upper and lowercase to build efficiency in printing.

-Students then have a quick little sentence using the target sound by circling the target letter.

-Next is a word practice.

-Finally, the student is asked to colour images that have the target sound.

Option 1:

Alphabet Worksheets have been organised by vowel sound first, followed by the consonant sound letters. Please note the ‘e accent aigu’ has been introduced early in each version.

Option 2:

Alphabet sounds have been organised as they are introduced by the Bien lire, Aimer lire formatting preferred by many French schools in Canada and abroad.

This is done to make it easier to sequence lessons based on the preferred letter introduction sequence.

Alphabet sounds:

-all vowel sounds a, e, i, o, u, y (as i), and e accent aigu

-consonant sounds including hard and soft g, and c

-y as a consonant

-images containing each of the letter sounds

-on sentence of decodable words with primarily simple sounds (complex sounds also present as are some heart words)

Activity Sheets include:

-printing practice

-tracing letters

-upper and lowercase letter recognition

-identifying letters

-decoding sentences

-word recognition

-identifying sound in an image

-find the images with the target sound

Who can use this resource:

-Any teacher using the strategies of the Science of Reading in the K-3 French Immersion classroom, Grade 4-6 Core French classroom.

-Make a set and send them home with students to build fluency in reading and confidence in reading strategies.

-Sentences are designed to build a number of common French sounds and get more challenging as they go on.

-Correction sheet is handy for use with a substitute as they can confidently assess students and command the lesson even when they are not assured of their French skills.

What grade level:

I personally use these texts with Grade 1 and Grade 2 students in French Immersion. I feel confident that students from K-3 will find these most useful and teachers can come back to the texts with any students who may be experiencing challenges in their French reading skills. Core French teachers will be sure to add the resource to their repertoire for Grades 4 to 6 as they learn to read and write at the Junior level.

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Some of the Benefits of this resource:

1. Students use hands on materials
2. Boost confidence in French language acquisition with whole group, small group, independent work, and one-to-one instruction using the same resource
3. Each alphabet sheet may be used independently or as a cumulative workbook of French activities
4. Students grow in independence at their own pace
5. Reinforce decoding and encoding skills
6. Social wellness and personal autonomy in using French in the classroom
7. Scaffold and support language acquisition, oral communication, and writing skills
8. Alphabet set can be used all year long and re-introduced each year going forward

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Everything you need for supplementing First Grade Wonders Unit 4 Week 1.

By bundling resources, you save money, save planning time, as well as enrich your reading instruction for the week.

Focus Wall

Spelling Pattern Cards

ai ay worksheets for class or home use

Reading Group resources

Word Family Short i CVC Bundle

No Prep, just print and go!

Hands-On Interactive notebook pages!

Interactive Notebooks make learning to read FUN!

These interactive notebook pages are designed to help first-grade students practice and master short-i CVC words. Each page focuses on a specific word family, such as -it, -in, or -ib, and includes activities and exercises to reinforce phonics skills. Students will engage in hands-on learning as they cut, paste, write, and read words in a fun and interactive way. These notebook pages are perfect for use in the classroom or at home for extra practice.

Features:

- Interactive activities for hands-on learning

- Focus on short-i CVC word families

- Cut, paste, write, and read exercises

- Engaging and fun for students

Benefits:

- Helps students practice and master phonics skills

- Reinforces word recognition and reading fluency

- Provides a visual and interactive way to learn

- Suitable for use in the classroom or at home

What you get:

Five pages for practicing short-a words

• Word sort with pictures
• Build-a-Word Picture Puzzles
• Label the picture with short-a words
• Word family fluency reading page
• Easy spelling test page

Short 'i' cvc Decodable Books with Comprehension Questions

• Your students can practice reading in a fun and engaging way using these decodable readers booklets. 
• Can be used with ANY curriculum
• Science of Reading Aligned
• Low Prep Required. Simply print the decodable books and you're good to go!
• These decodable books will align with ANY phonics program you teach.
• Perfect for centers, homework, morning work, and more.
• Perfect for Preschool Kindergarten, 1st grade, and RTI for second grade
•  CCSS and TEKS Aligned
• Added benefit of Comprehension Questions, too!

Short 'i' cvc Decodable Books with Comprehension Questions are perfect for your small groups or homework. Cute, easy to read stories that focus on sound spellings and comprehension. Your students will love these little books and you will love that you don't have to plan a big lesson to cover the basics like comprehension questions, fluency, and even sight word practice. Do yourself a favor and get these Short 'i' cvc Decodable Books with Comprehension Questions now!

Word Family Short i CVC Word Work Pages

No Prep, just print and go!

Hands-On, multi-modal activity pages!

Great for Centers or Homework

These Word Families Short i CVC Words Word Work Pages are designed to help first-grade students practice and master their phonics skills. This resource includes a variety of activities to reinforce the short-i sound. Students engage in activities such as word sorting, word building, and sentence writing to strengthen their understanding of CVC words. These word work pages are a valuable resource for teachers and parents looking to support their first-grade students' phonics development.

Features:

- Word sorting activities to help students identify and categorize short-i words

- Word-building activities to encourage students to manipulate and create new words

- Sentence writing activities to practice using short-i words in context

- Clear and concise instructions for easy implementation- Just print and go!

Benefits:

- Reinforce phonics skills: These word work pages provide targeted practice for working with short-i words, helping students develop their phonics skills.

- Build vocabulary: By engaging with a variety of short-i words, students will expand their vocabulary and become more confident readers and writers.

- Enhance reading fluency: Regular practice with CVC words will improve students' ability to decode and read words fluently.

- Support independent learning: These word work pages can be used in the classroom or at home, allowing students to practice and reinforce their phonics skills independently.

What you get:

Six pages for practicing short-i words

with a variety of strategies

Word Family Short i CVC Small Group Fluency Practice

Take the guess work, hours of planning, and the headache out of prepping for your small group reading instruction!

>>>What you get:

A week's worth of researched based, classroom

tested word sorts, segmenting, blending, writing,

fluency, and even nonsense word practice, as well

as an end-of-unit assessment page.

Also includes sample small group schedule and

tracking sheets to make planning your small groups

EASY!

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Word Family Short A CVC Interactive Notebook Pages

No Prep, just print and go!

Hands-On Interactive notebook pages!

Great for Centers or Homework

These Word Families Short A CVC Words Word Work Pages are designed to help first-grade students practice and master their phonics skills. This resource includes a variety of activities to reinforce the short-a sound. Students engage in activities such as word sorting, word building, and sentence writing to strengthen their understanding of CVC words. These word work pages are a valuable resource for teachers and parents looking to support their first-grade students' phonics development.

Features:

- Word sorting activities to help students identify and categorize short-a words

- Word-building activities to encourage students to manipulate and create new words

- Sentence writing activities to practice using short-a words in context

- Clear and concise instructions for easy implementation- Just print and go!

Benefits:

- Reinforce phonics skills: These word work pages provide targeted practice for working with short-a words, helping students develop their phonics skills.

- Build vocabulary: By engaging with a variety of short-a words, students will expand their vocabulary and become more confident readers and writers.

- Enhance reading fluency: Regular practice with CVC words will improve students' ability to decode and read words fluently.

- Support independent learning: These word work pages can be used in the classroom or at home, allowing students to practice and reinforce their phonics skills independently.

What you get:

Five pages for practicing short-a words

with a variety of strategies

I'd love to see how you use this in your classroom! Tag me on Instagram @smalltownteacherlife or use #smalltownteacherlife

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-Leslie @smalltownteacherlife

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Word Family Short U CVC Word Work Pages

No Prep, just print and go!

Hands-On, multi-modal activity pages!

Great for Centers or Homework

These Word Families Short U CVC Words Word Work Pages are designed to help first-grade students practice and master their phonics skills. This resource includes a variety of activities to reinforce the short-u sound. Students engage in activities such as word sorting, word building, and sentence writing to strengthen their understanding of CVC words. These word work pages are a valuable resource for teachers and parents looking to support their first-grade students' phonics development.

Features:

- Word sorting activities to help students identify and categorize short-u words

- Word-building activities to encourage students to manipulate and create new words

- Sentence writing activities to practice using short-u words in context

- Clear and concise instructions for easy implementation- Just print and go!

Benefits:

- Reinforce phonics skills: These word work pages provide targeted practice for working with short-u words, helping students develop their phonics skills.

- Build vocabulary: By engaging with a variety of short-u words, students will expand their vocabulary and become more confident readers and writers.

- Enhance reading fluency: Regular practice with CVC words will improve students' ability to decode and read words fluently.

- Support independent learning: These word work pages can be used in the classroom or at home, allowing students to practice and reinforce their phonics skills independently.

What you get:

Seven pages for practicing short-u words

with a variety of strategies

I'd love to see how you use this in your classroom! Tag me on Instagram @smalltownteacherlife or use #smalltownteacherlife

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-Leslie @smalltownteacherlife

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Word Family Short i CVC Word Work Pages

No Prep, just print and go!

Hands-On, multi-modal activity pages!

Great for Centers or Homework

These Word Families Short i CVC Words Word Work Pages are designed to help first-grade students practice and master their phonics skills. This resource includes a variety of activities to reinforce the short-i sound. Students engage in activities such as word sorting, word building, and sentence writing to strengthen their understanding of CVC words. These word work pages are a valuable resource for teachers and parents looking to support their first-grade students' phonics development.

Features:

- Word sorting activities to help students identify and categorize short-i words

- Word-building activities to encourage students to manipulate and create new words

- Sentence writing activities to practice using short-i words in context

- Clear and concise instructions for easy implementation- Just print and go!

Benefits:

- Reinforce phonics skills: These word work pages provide targeted practice for working with short-i words, helping students develop their phonics skills.

- Build vocabulary: By engaging with a variety of short-i words, students will expand their vocabulary and become more confident readers and writers.

- Enhance reading fluency: Regular practice with CVC words will improve students' ability to decode and read words fluently.

- Support independent learning: These word work pages can be used in the classroom or at home, allowing students to practice and reinforce their phonics skills independently.

What you get:

Six pages for practicing short-i words

with a variety of strategies

I'd love to see how you use this in your classroom! Tag me on Instagram @smalltownteacherlife or use #smalltownteacherlife

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The 5 Jobs of Silent E

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-Leslie @smalltownteacherlife

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Word Family Short E CVC Word Work Pages

No Prep, just print and go!

Hands-On, multi-modal activity pages!

Great for Centers or Homework

These Word Families Short E CVC Words Word Work Pages are designed to help first-grade students practice and master their phonics skills. This resource includes a variety of activities to reinforce the short-e sound. Students engage in activities such as word sorting, word building, and sentence writing to strengthen their understanding of CVC words. These word work pages are a valuable resource for teachers and parents looking to support their first-grade students' phonics development.

Features:

- Word sorting activities to help students identify and categorize short-e words

- Word-building activities to encourage students to manipulate and create new words

- Sentence writing activities to practice using short-e words in context

- Clear and concise instructions for easy implementation- Just print and go!

Benefits:

- Reinforce phonics skills: These word work pages provide targeted practice for working with short-a words, helping students develop their phonics skills.

- Build vocabulary: By engaging with a variety of short-e words, students will expand their vocabulary and become more confident readers and writers.

- Enhance reading fluency: Regular practice with CVC words will improve students' ability to decode and read words fluently.

- Support independent learning: These word work pages can be used in the classroom or at home, allowing students to practice and reinforce their phonics skills independently.

What you get:

Five pages for practicing short-e words

with a variety of strategies

I'd love to see how you use this in your classroom! Tag me on Instagram @smalltownteacherlife or use #smalltownteacherlife

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-Leslie @smalltownteacherlife

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Word Family Short O CVC Word Work Pages

No Prep, just print and go!

Hands-On, multi-modal activity pages!

Great for Centers or Homework

These Word Families Short O CVC Words Word Work Pages are designed to help first-grade students practice and master their phonics skills. This resource includes a variety of activities to reinforce the short-o sound. Students engage in activities such as word sorting, word building, and sentence writing to strengthen their understanding of CVC words. These word work pages are a valuable resource for teachers and parents looking to support their first-grade students' phonics development.

Features:

- Word sorting activities to help students identify and categorize short-o words

- Word-building activities to encourage students to manipulate and create new words

- Sentence writing activities to practice using short-o words in context

- Clear and concise instructions for easy implementation- Just print and go!

Benefits:

- Reinforce phonics skills: These word work pages provide targeted practice for working with short-o words, helping students develop their phonics skills.

- Build vocabulary: By engaging with a variety of short-o words, students will expand their vocabulary and become more confident readers and writers.

- Enhance reading fluency: Regular practice with CVC words will improve students' ability to decode and read words fluently.

- Support independent learning: These word work pages can be used in the classroom or at home, allowing students to practice and reinforce their phonics skills independently.

What you get:

Six pages for practicing short-o words

with a variety of strategies

I'd love to see how you use this in your classroom! Tag me on Instagram @smalltownteacherlife or use #smalltownteacherlife

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The 5 Jobs of Silent E

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AR Word Family R Controlled Vowels Word Work Pages

No Prep, just print and go!

Hands-On, multi-modal activity pages!

Great for Centers or Homework

These AR Words-Word Work Pages are designed to help first-grade students practice and master their phonics skills. This resource includes a variety of activities to reinforce the ar sound spelling. Students engage in activities such as word sorting, word building, and sentence writing to strengthen their understanding of ar words. These word work pages are a valuable resource for teachers and parents looking to support their first-grade students' phonics development and align with the science of reading strands: phonemic awareness, decoding, and sight.

Features:

- Word sorting activities to help students identify and categorize ai and ay words

- Word-building activities to encourage students to manipulate and create new words

- Sentence writing activities to practice using ai and ay words in context

- Clear and concise instructions for easy implementation- Just print and go!

Benefits:

- Reinforce phonics skills: These ar word work pages provide targeted practice for working with ar words, helping students develop their phonics skills.

- Build vocabulary: By engaging with a variety of ar words, students will expand their vocabulary and become more confident readers and writers.

- Enhance reading fluency: Regular practice with word families will improve students' ability to decode and read words fluently.

- Support independent learning: These word work pages can be used in the classroom or at home, allowing students to practice and reinforce their phonics skills independently.

What you get:

14 pages for practicing ar vowel team words

with a variety of strategies

I'd love to see how you use this in your classroom! Tag me on Instagram @smalltownteacherlife or use #smalltownteacherlife

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-Leslie @smalltownteacherlife

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Beginning Blends Word Work Pages for First Grade

No Prep, just print and go!

Hands-On, multi-modal activity pages!

Great for Centers or Homework

These Beginning Blends Word Work Pages are designed to help first-grade students practice and master their phonics skills. This resource includes a variety of activities to reinforce the s and r blends sound spelling. Students engage in activities such as word sorting, word building, and sentence writing to strengthen their understanding of words with blends. These word work pages are a valuable resource for teachers and parents looking to support their first-grade students' phonics development and align with the science of reading strands: phonemic awareness, decoding, and sight.

Features:

- Word sorting activities to help students identify and categorize ai and ay words

- Word-building activities to encourage students to manipulate and create new words

- Sentence writing activities to practice using words in context

- Clear and concise instructions for easy implementation- Just print and go!

Benefits:

- Reinforce phonics skills: These beginning blends word work pages provide targeted practice for working with s and r blend words, helping students develop their phonics skills.

- Build vocabulary: By engaging with a variety of words with l blends, students will expand their vocabulary and become more confident readers and writers.

- Enhance reading fluency: Regular practice with word families will improve students' ability to decode and read words fluently.

- Support independent learning: These word work pages can be used in the classroom or at home, allowing students to practice and reinforce their phonics skills independently.

What you get:

8 pages for practicing words with s and r blends

with a variety of strategies

I'd love to see how you use this in your classroom! Tag me on Instagram @smalltownteacherlife or use #smalltownteacherlife

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-Leslie @smalltownteacherlife

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AI AY Worksheets- Long A Word Work Pages

No Prep, just print and go!

Hands-On, multi-modal activity pages!

Great for Centers or Homework

These Word Families AI AY Worksheets are great word work pages and are designed to help first-grade students practice and master their phonics skills. These ai ay worksheets include a variety of activities to reinforce the long a sound. Students engage in activities such as word sorting, word building, and sentence writing to strengthen their understanding of ai and ay words. These ai ay worksheets are a valuable resource for teachers and parents looking to support their first-grade students' phonics development.

Ai Ay Worksheet Features:

- Word sorting activities to help students identify and categorize ai and ay words

- Word-building activities to encourage students to manipulate and create new words

- Sentence writing activities to practice using ai and ay words in context

- Clear and concise instructions for easy implementation- Just print and go!

Benefits of these AI AY worksheets:

- Reinforce phonics skills: These word work pages provide targeted practice for working with long a words, helping students develop their phonics skills.

- Build vocabulary: By engaging with a variety of long a words, students will expand their vocabulary and become more confident readers and writers.

- Enhance reading fluency: Regular practice with word families will improve students' ability to decode and read words fluently.

- Support independent learning: These word work pages can be used in the classroom or at home, allowing students to practice and reinforce their phonics skills independently.

What you get:

Seven ai ay worksheets for practicing long a vowel team words

with a variety of strategies

I'd love to see how you use this in your classroom! Tag me on Instagram @smalltownteacherlife or use #smalltownteacherlife

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L Blends Word Work Pages for First Grade

No Prep, just print and go!

Hands-On, multi-modal activity pages!

Great for Centers or Homework

These L Blends Word Work Pages are designed to help first-grade students practice and master their phonics skills. This resource includes a variety of activities to reinforce the l blends sound spelling. Students engage in activities such as word sorting, word building, and sentence writing to strengthen their understanding of words with blends. These word work pages are a valuable resource for teachers and parents looking to support their first-grade students' phonics development and align with the science of reading strands: phonemic awareness, decoding, and sight.

Features:

- Word sorting activities to help students identify and categorize ai and ay words

- Word-building activities to encourage students to manipulate and create new words

- Sentence writing activities to practice using words in context

- Clear and concise instructions for easy implementation- Just print and go!

Benefits:

- Reinforce phonics skills: These l blend word work pages provide targeted practice for working with l blend words, helping students develop their phonics skills.

- Build vocabulary: By engaging with a variety of words with l blends, students will expand their vocabulary and become more confident readers and writers.

- Enhance reading fluency: Regular practice with word families will improve students' ability to decode and read words fluently.

- Support independent learning: These word work pages can be used in the classroom or at home, allowing students to practice and reinforce their phonics skills independently.

What you get:

7 pages for practicing words with l blends

with a variety of strategies

I'd love to see how you use this in your classroom! Tag me on Instagram @smalltownteacherlife or use #smalltownteacherlife

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The 5 Jobs of Silent E

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-Leslie @smalltownteacherlife

Keywords: Word Families, CVC Words, Reading Fluency, Reading Groups, Kindergarten, Home School, 1st grade, Interactive Notebooks

A NOVEL STUDY and Reading Comprehension Unit for DRAGON MASTERS #10 Waking the Rainbow Dragon by Tracey West.

This 47 page BOOK COMPANION is a highly engaging and comprehensive literature unit that allows your students to respond to a story by using a wide range of reading comprehension strategies and skills.

With comprehension questions and activities for each chapter, students will cover a wide range of the English Curriculum Standards in context.

The unit can be followed chapter by chapter, with no extra preparation or planning required by the teacher. Follow-up activities include a comprehension follow up and one to three extra literacy task for each chapter. The extra activities allow for students to demonstrate their understanding through tasks that require them to synthesise, analyse and apply, drawing from their understanding of the story.

The responses in the unit have been planned and arranged so that your students will practise a wide range of comprehension strategies in context. It has been designed to promote thinking and comprehension. Tasks can be completed independently, collaboratively or alongside a teacher. The unit has been planned so that over the course of the book, students will become familiar with and well-practised in using comprehension strategies to make meaning from text.

Activities include:

• COMPREHENSION ACTIVITIES FOR EACH CHAPTER
• Comprehension strategies - inference, prediction , visualizing, questioning, retrieving information, activating prior knowledge, making connections, summarizing, analyzing, synthesizing, understanding vocabulary in context.
• Literacy Skills - sequencing, cause and effect, main idea and events, compare and contrast, point of view.
• Story elements - character descriptions, character analysis, character emotions, character challenges, setting, plot, theme.
• Book response - creative responses, critical thinking, partner discussion response, written responses.
• Vocabulary - a focus on vocabulary words in context, word work.
• Applying and Synthesising
• Research - relevant to the story and children's interests
• Written tasks - using a range of genres as relevant to the story
• Creative Thinking - engaging activities allowing student to apply their own knowledge and themes from the story to be creative.
• Critical Thinking - using themes from the story to consider wider issues
• Answers for comprehension questions included.

All activities have been designed with student engagement at the forefront. In responding to the book, students will be required to think both within and beyond the text. Children learn best when they are having fun! Even better that they are learning the love of books at the same time!

This product is not associated with this book's author or publishing company. The book must be purchased separately in order to be used alongside this product.

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A BOOK COMPANION for DRAGON MASTERS #13 Eye of the Earthquake Dragon by Tracey West.

This 54 page Chapter Book Companion includes highly engaging and comprehensive reading comprehension questions and activities that allow your students to respond to the story by using a wide range of reading comprehension strategies and skills.

With comprehension questions and activities for each chapter, students will cover a wide range of the English Curriculum Standards in context. Check out the PREVIEW for an example of some of the content included.

This is a NO-PREP resource that has been created in the order of the book.

AN ANSWER KEY IS INCLUDED

Activities include:

• Comprehension strategies - inference, prediction , visualizing, questioning, retrieving information, activating prior knowledge, making connections, cause and effect, summarizing, analyzing, synthesizing, understanding vocabulary in context.
• Literacy Skills - sequencing, cause and effect, main idea and events, compare and contrast, point of view.
• Story elements - character descriptions, character analysis, character emotions, character challenges, setting, plot, theme.
• Book response - creative responses, critical thinking, partner discussion response, written responses.
• Vocabulary - a focus on vocabulary words in context, word work.
• Applying and Synthesising - engaging activities designed for your student to show a deeper understanding of the story.
• Research - relevant to the story including bats, turtles, volcanoes and owls.
• Written tasks - using a range of genres as relevant to the story
• Creative Thinking - engaging activities allowing student to apply their own knowledge and themes from the story to be creative.
• Critical Thinking - using themes from the story to consider wider issues

All activities have been designed with student engagement at the forefront. In responding to the book, students will be required to think both within and beyond the text. Children learn best when they are having fun! Even better that they are learning the love of books at the same time!

This product is not associated with this book's author or publishing company. The book must be purchased separately in order to be used alongside this product.

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You are welcome to request a novel study in the questions and answers section of my shop!

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A NOVEL STUDY and Reading Comprehension Unit for DRAGON MASTERS #11 Shine of the Silver Dragon by Tracey West.

This 48 page BOOK COMPANION is a highly engaging and comprehensive literature unit that allows your students to respond to a story by using a wide range of reading comprehension strategies and skills.

With comprehension questions and activities for each chapter, students will cover a wide range of the English Curriculum Standards in context.

The unit can be followed chapter by chapter, with no extra preparation or planning required by the teacher. Follow-up activities include a comprehension follow up and one to three extra literacy task for each chapter. The extra activities allow for students to demonstrate their understanding through tasks that require them to synthesise, analyse and apply, drawing from their understanding of the story.

The responses in the unit have been planned and arranged so that your students will practise a wide range of comprehension strategies in context. It has been designed to promote thinking and comprehension. Tasks can be completed independently, collaboratively or alongside a teacher. The unit has been planned so that over the course of the book, students will become familiar with and well-practised in using comprehension strategies to make meaning from text.

Activities include:

• COMPREHENSION ACTIVITIES FOR EACH CHAPTER
• Comprehension strategies - inference, prediction , visualizing, questioning, retrieving information, activating prior knowledge, making connections, summarizing, analyzing, synthesizing, understanding vocabulary in context.
• Literacy Skills - sequencing, cause and effect, main idea and events, compare and contrast, point of view.
• Story elements - character descriptions, character analysis, character emotions, character challenges, setting, plot, theme.
• Book response - creative responses, critical thinking, partner discussion response, written responses.
• Vocabulary - a focus on vocabulary words in context, word work.
• Applying and Synthesising
• Research - relevant to the story and children's interests
• Written tasks - using a range of genres as relevant to the story
• Creative Thinking - engaging activities allowing student to apply their own knowledge and themes from the story to be creative.
• Critical Thinking - using themes from the story to consider wider issues
• Answers for comprehension questions included.

All activities have been designed with student engagement at the forefront. In responding to the book, students will be required to think both within and beyond the text. Children learn best when they are having fun! Even better that they are learning the love of books at the same time!

This product is not associated with this book's author or publishing company. The book must be purchased separately in order to be used alongside this product.

Please follow me for more literacy units - particularly new releases.

Thank you for your continued support.