2nd Grade Reading Strategies Graphic Organizers (by date, latest first)

Pre-reading graphic organizers can be used prior to starting any read aloud or novel study.

Includes:

• character analysis
• illustration analysis
• vocabulary

This Reading Comprehension - Predicting Pack can be used with any text, both fiction and nonfiction. With differentiated graphic organisers, to build your students predicting skills and depth of understanding.

What's Included:

• 6 Different Graphic Organisers - to suit your student's level of understanding in 'making predictions.'
• Predicting Bookmark - Guided instructions on how to make a prediction.

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This Reading Comprehension - Making Connections Pack can be used with any text, both fiction and nonfiction. With differentiated graphic organisers, to build your students 'making connections' skills and depth of understanding.

What's Included:

• Making Connections graphic organiser.
• Text-to-Self: Three differentiated graphic organisers. Compare the similarities and differences between a character and the reader. Recall emotions, experiences or memories that are similar to a characters experience in the text.
• Text-to-Text: Two different graphic organisers. Link multiple texts together and explain how they are connected.
• Text-to-World: Two different graphic organisers to make connections between past/real world events and the text.
• Making Connections Bookmark

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This Reading Comprehension - Summarizing Pack can be used with any text, both fiction and nonfiction. With differentiated graphic organisers, to build your students 'summarizing' skills and depth of understanding.

What's Included:

• 6 Different Summarizing graphic organisers (American and British Spelling)
• Somebody, Wanted, But, So, Then Poster
• Summarizing Bookmark

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This packet is a literature response to Those Shoes. It can be used as a literature response for a book club or as a whole class reading comprehension packet. There are prompts on when to answer each response page in the upper right corner in blue.

This book is at a Level L.

Reading Comprehension Strategies Addressed-

- Predicting

- Visualizing

- Short Answer Response

- Questioning

- Character Analysis

- Quotes

- Text Connections

- Opinion

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This packet is a literature response to Caps for Sale. It can be used as a literature response for a book club or as a whole class reading comprehension packet. There are prompts on when to answer each response page in the upper right corner in blue. These are graphic organizers with reading comprehension questions to promote a deeper understanding.

This book is at a Level K.

Reading Comprehension Strategies Addressed-

- Predicting

- Visualizing

- Short Answer Response

- Questioning

- Opinion

This packet is a literature response to several books at Level N, Level O, Level P, Level Q and Level R. It can be used as a literature response for a book club or as a whole class reading comprehension packet. These packets can also be used during guided reading. There are prompts on when to answer each response page in the upper right corner in blue.

Reading Comprehension Strategies Addressed-

- Predicting

- Visualizing

- Short Answer Response

-Text Connections

- Major Event

- Author's Purpose

- Questioning

- Grammar

- Opinion

Includes these titles…

The Giving Tree

Strega Nona

Owl Moon

Amber Brown

Jumanji

Mr. Popper’s Penguins

The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses

Tikki Tikki Tembo

And Still the Turtle Watched

Fantastic Mr. Fox

Gleam and Glow

A Bad Case of Stripes

**LEVELS N, O, P, Q, R**

This packet is a literature response to several books at Level N, Level O, Level P, Level Q and Level R. It can be used as a literature response for a book club or as a whole class reading comprehension packet. These packets can also be used during guided reading. There are prompts on when to answer each response page in the upper right corner in blue.

Reading Comprehension Strategies Addressed-

- Predicting

- Visualizing

- Short Answer Response

-Text Connections

- Major Event

- Author's Purpose

- Questioning

- Grammar

- Opinion

Includes these titles…

The Giving Tree

Strega Nona

Owl Moon

Amber Brown

Jumanji

Mr. Popper’s Penguins

The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses

Tikki Tikki Tembo

And Still the Turtle Watched

Fantastic Mr. Fox

Gleam and Glow

A Bad Case of Stripes

**LEVELS N, O, P, Q, R**

This packet is a literature response to several books at Level N, Level O, Level P, Level Q and Level R. It can be used as a literature response for a book club or as a whole class reading comprehension packet. These packets can also be used during guided reading. There are prompts on when to answer each response page in the upper right corner in blue.

Reading Comprehension Strategies Addressed-

- Predicting

- Visualizing

- Short Answer Response

-Text Connections

- Major Event

- Author's Purpose

- Questioning

- Grammar

- Opinion

Includes these titles…

The Giving Tree

Strega Nona

Owl Moon

Amber Brown

Jumanji

Mr. Popper’s Penguins

The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses

Tikki Tikki Tembo

And Still the Turtle Watched

Fantastic Mr. Fox

Gleam and Glow

A Bad Case of Stripes

**LEVELS N, O, P, Q, R**

Three Compare and Contrast Review sheets for elementary students. Includes stories and graphs for comprehension. Students read the short essays then chart comparisons and contrasts on graphs. Uses relationship words for comparisons and contrasts. Great for in-class practice or assessment, as well as homework assignments.

TWELVE Dragon Masters NOVEL STUDIES for #1 Rise of the Earth Dragon #2 Saving the Sun Dragon, #3 Secret of the Water Dragon, #4 Power of the Fire Dragon, #5 Song of the Poison Dragon, # 6 Flight of the Moon Dragon, #7 Search for the Lightning Dragon, #8 Roar of the Thunder Dragon, #9 Chill of the Ice Dragon #10 Waking the Rainbow Dragon, #11 Shine of the Silver Dragon and #12 Treasure of the Gold Dragon.

These novel studies are highly engaging and comprehensive literature units that allow 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.

These units can be followed chapter by chapter.

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 and children's interests - including polar bears, Svalbard, Global Warming and more.
• 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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SIX NOVEL STUDIES for DRAGON GIRLS #1 to #6.

These are engaging and comprehensive units 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 the units can be followed chapter by chapter, with no extra preparation or planning required by the teacher. The responses in the unit have been planned and arranged so that your students will practise a wide range of comprehension strategies in context. They have been designed to promote thinking and understanding. Tasks can be completed independently, collaboratively or alongside a teacher. The units have 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 , visualising, questioning, retrieving information, activating prior knowledge, making connections, summarizing, analysing, synthesising, understanding vocabulary in context.
• Literacy Skills - sequencing, cause and effect, main idea and events, compare and contrast, point of view, venn diagrams, writing, point of view, vocabulary work.
• Story elements - character descriptions, character analysis, character emotions, character challenges, setting, plot, theme,
• Book response - creative responses, written responses, critical thinking.

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!

BUNDLE INCLUDES:

***PLUS BONUS FILE: 154 WRITING PROMPTS FOR CHILDREN***

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Thank you for your continued support

Six DRAGON MASTERS Chapter Book Studies for #1 RISE OF THE EARTH DRAGON, #2 SAVING THE SUN DRAGON, #3 SECRET OF THE WATER DRAGON, #4 POWER OF THE FIRE DRAGON, #5 SONG OF THE POISON DRAGON and #6 FLIGHT OF THE MOON DRAGON.

These are engaging and comprehensive units 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 the units can be followed chapter by chapter, with no extra preparation or planning required by the teacher. The responses in the unit have been planned and arranged so that your students will practise a wide range of comprehension strategies in context. They have been designed to promote thinking and understanding. Tasks can be completed independently, collaboratively or alongside a teacher. The units have 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 , visualising, questioning, retrieving information, activating prior knowledge, making connections, summarizing, analysing, synthesising, understanding vocabulary in context.
• Literacy Skills - sequencing, cause and effect, main idea and events, compare and contrast, point of view, venn diagrams, writing, point of view, vocabulary work.
• Story elements - character descriptions, character analysis, character emotions, character challenges, setting, plot, theme,
• Book response - creative responses, written responses, critical thinking.

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!

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

Thank you for your continued support

SIX Dragon Masters NOVEL STUDIES for #7 Search for the Lightning Dragon, #8 Roar of the Thunder Dragon, #9 Chill of the Ice Dragon #10 Waking the Rainbow Dragon, #11 Shine of the Silver Dragon and #12 Treasure of the Gold Dragon.

These novel studies are highly engaging and comprehensive literature units that allow 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.

These units can be followed chapter by chapter.

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 and children's interests - including polar bears, Svalbard, Global Warming and more.
• 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.

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

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

Thank you for your continued support.

Three DRAGON MASTERS Chapter Book Studies for #7 SEARCH FOR THE LIGHTNING DRAGON, #8 ROAR OF THE THUNDER DRAGON and #9 CHILL OF THE ICE DRAGON.

These are engaging and comprehensive units 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 the units can be followed chapter by chapter, with no extra preparation or planning required by the teacher. The responses in the unit have been planned and arranged so that your students will practise a wide range of comprehension strategies in context. They have been designed to promote thinking and understanding. Tasks can be completed independently, collaboratively or alongside a teacher. The units have 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 , visualising, questioning, retrieving information, activating prior knowledge, making connections, summarizing, analysing, synthesising, understanding vocabulary in context.
• Literacy Skills - sequencing, cause and effect, main idea and events, compare and contrast, point of view, venn diagrams, writing, point of view, vocabulary work.
• Story elements - character descriptions, character analysis, character emotions, character challenges, setting, plot, theme,
• Book response - creative responses, written responses, critical thinking.

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!

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

Thank you for your continued support

Three GERONIMO STILTON NOVEL STUDIES for Save the White Whale, Lost Treasure of the Emerald Eye and The Giant Diamond Robbery.

These are engaging and comprehensive units 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 the units can be followed chapter by chapter, with no extra preparation or planning required by the teacher. The responses in the unit have been planned and arranged so that your students will practise a wide range of comprehension strategies in context. They have been designed to promote thinking and understanding. Tasks can be completed independently, collaboratively or alongside a teacher. The units have 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 , visualising, questioning, retrieving information, activating prior knowledge, making connections, summarizing, analysing, synthesising, understanding vocabulary in context.
• Literacy Skills - sequencing, cause and effect, main idea and events, compare and contrast, point of view, venn diagrams, writing, point of view, vocabulary work.
• Story elements - character descriptions, character analysis, character emotions, character challenges, setting, plot, theme,
• Book response - creative responses, written responses, critical thinking.

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!

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

George's Marvellous Medicine

Diary of a Wimpy Kid

The Magic Faraway Tree

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Three NOVEL STUDIES for DRAGON GIRLS #7 Rosie the Twilight Dragon, #8 Phoebe the Moonlight Dragon and #9 Stella the Starlight Dragon.

These are engaging and comprehensive units 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 the units can be followed chapter by chapter, with no extra preparation or planning required by the teacher. The responses in the unit have been planned and arranged so that your students will practise a wide range of comprehension strategies in context. They have been designed to promote thinking and understanding. Tasks can be completed independently, collaboratively or alongside a teacher. The units have 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 , visualising, questioning, retrieving information, activating prior knowledge, making connections, summarizing, analysing, synthesising, understanding vocabulary in context.
• Literacy Skills - sequencing, cause and effect, main idea and events, compare and contrast, point of view, venn diagrams, writing, point of view, vocabulary work.
• Story elements - character descriptions, character analysis, character emotions, character challenges, setting, plot, theme,
• Book response - creative responses, written responses, critical thinking.

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!

BUNDLE INCLUDES:

***PLUS BONUS FILE: 154 WRITING PROMPTS FOR CHILDREN***

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

Thank you for your continued support

Three DRAGON MASTERS Chapter Book Studies for #4 POWER OF THE FIRE DRAGON, #5 SONG OF THE POISON DRAGON and #6 FLIGHT OF THE MOON DRAGON.

These are engaging and comprehensive units 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 the units can be followed chapter by chapter, with no extra preparation or planning required by the teacher. The responses in the unit have been planned and arranged so that your students will practise a wide range of comprehension strategies in context. They have been designed to promote thinking and understanding. Tasks can be completed independently, collaboratively or alongside a teacher. The units have 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 , visualising, questioning, retrieving information, activating prior knowledge, making connections, summarizing, analysing, synthesising, understanding vocabulary in context.
• Literacy Skills - sequencing, cause and effect, main idea and events, compare and contrast, point of view, venn diagrams, writing, point of view, vocabulary work.
• Story elements - character descriptions, character analysis, character emotions, character challenges, setting, plot, theme,
• Book response - creative responses, written responses, critical thinking.

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!

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Thank you for your continued support

Three NOVEL STUDIES for DRAGON GIRLS #1 Azmina the Gold Glitter Dragon, #2 Willa the Silver Glitter Dragon and #3 Naomi the Rainbow Glitter Dragon.

These are engaging and comprehensive units 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 the units can be followed chapter by chapter, with no extra preparation or planning required by the teacher. The responses in the unit have been planned and arranged so that your students will practise a wide range of comprehension strategies in context. They have been designed to promote thinking and understanding. Tasks can be completed independently, collaboratively or alongside a teacher. The units have 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 , visualising, questioning, retrieving information, activating prior knowledge, making connections, summarizing, analysing, synthesising, understanding vocabulary in context.
• Literacy Skills - sequencing, cause and effect, main idea and events, compare and contrast, point of view, venn diagrams, writing, point of view, vocabulary work.
• Story elements - character descriptions, character analysis, character emotions, character challenges, setting, plot, theme,
• Book response - creative responses, written responses, critical thinking.

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!

BUNDLE INCLUDES:

***PLUS BONUS FILE: 154 WRITING PROMPTS FOR CHILDREN***

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Thank you for your continued support

Three NOVEL STUDIES for DRAGON GIRLS #4 Mei the Ruby Treasure Dragon, #5 Aisha the Sapphire Glitter Dragon and #6 Quinn the Jade Glitter Dragon.

These are engaging and comprehensive units 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 the units can be followed chapter by chapter, with no extra preparation or planning required by the teacher. The responses in the unit have been planned and arranged so that your students will practise a wide range of comprehension strategies in context. They have been designed to promote thinking and understanding. Tasks can be completed independently, collaboratively or alongside a teacher. The units have 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 , visualising, questioning, retrieving information, activating prior knowledge, making connections, summarizing, analysing, synthesising, understanding vocabulary in context.
• Literacy Skills - sequencing, cause and effect, main idea and events, compare and contrast, point of view, venn diagrams, writing, point of view, vocabulary work.
• Story elements - character descriptions, character analysis, character emotions, character challenges, setting, plot, theme,
• Book response - creative responses, written responses, critical thinking.

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!

BUNDLE INCLUDES:

***PLUS BONUS FILE: 154 WRITING PROMPTS FOR CHILDREN***

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

Thank you for your continued support