Less than $5 2nd Grade Reading Strategies Handouts

Need a great, easy-to-use reading log? This was successfully used for many years when we had a time slot cut out for a 30-minute reading time each day. Students earn points towards rewards such as homework passes, computer time, or have your students earn point each six weeks or quarter for a special movie day event.

My Frog Life Cycle Booklet Includes:

-Color and Black & White of each handout.

-A fictional frog story that incorporates the handouts that come in the booklet.

- Graphic Organizer of the Frog Cycle (Descriptive-Writing).

- Graphic Organizer of the Frog Cycle (Students will illustrate).

- Reading Comprehension Sheet with fictional story (Questions for reading strategies).

This is a wonderful booklet to combine with a Science lesson on the frog cycle. Students will enjoy writing and drawing the frog cycle. The fictional story is fun and goes well with the lesson. I also created a reading comprehension sheet that incorporates the Reading Common Core as well.

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Completely revised product that includes 25 pages of fun for elementary learners to practice parts of speech and inferencing skills. Students use clues to come up with answers for "What's in the Bag?". All can be colored, cut apart, and pasted onto answer sheets. Comes with: Directions for individual, small, whole groups Extra activities and games suggestions How to Use with Student Writings Answer Sheet with Sight Words List of Parts of Speech Inferencing Clues Bag Handouts Bag Handout for My Parts of Speech Excellent for young learners to practice inferencing skills, parts of speech, eye and hand coordination, sight words, use with student writings, and more... Meets CCSS.

This book tasting menue provides students with a structured way to explore different books and genres. Divided into three sections - Appetizer, Entree, and Dessert - students can engage with a variety of questions that prompt them to think critically about the books they're interested in.

Whether used individually or in group settings, this Book Tasting Menu encourages students to discover new books, share their thoughts with peers, and foster a deeper appreciation for reading.

This is fully editable on PowerPoint

This is a movie watch along for Wall-E. This product focuses on main idea and theme, along with supporting details for both. This is a great product to help keep students on task during a movie day and also a great assessment for main idea and theme.

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This is a 40-page set of worksheets for Magic Tree House #11 "Lions at Lunchtime". There are three worksheets for each chapter: * comprehension questions * vocabulary * story analysis Also, there are ten worksheets at the end: * story review * animal activity page * cause and effect * compare and contrast * picture practice * story map * news report * scrambled sentences * word search * crossword puzzle There is also an answer key included at the end of the file. Worksheets for the Magic Tree House series: Magic Tree House Bundle: Worksheets for Books #1 to #10 Magic Tree House Bundle: Worksheets for Books #11 to #20 Magic Tree House Bundle: Worksheets for Books #21 to #30 Magic Tree House Bundle: Worksheets for Books #31 to #40 Magic Tree House Bundle: Worksheets for Books #41 to #50 #1 Dinosaurs Before Dark #2 The Knight at Dawn #3 Mummies in the Morning #4 Pirates Past Noon #5 Night of the Ninjas #6 Afternoon on the Amazon #7 Sunset of the Sabertooth #8 Midnight on the Moon #9 Dolphins at Daybreak #10 Ghost Town at Sundown #11 Lions at Lunchtime #12 Polar Bears Past Bedtime #13 Vacation Under the Volcano #14 Day of the Dragon King #15 Viking Ships at Sunrise #16 Hour of the Olympics #17 Tonight on the Titanic #18 Buffalo Before Breakfast #19 Tigers at Twilight #20 Dingoes at Dinnertime #21 Civil War on Sunday #22 Revolutionary War on Wednesday #23 Twister on Tuesday #24 Earthquake in the Early Morning #25 Stage Fright on a Summer Night #26 Good Morning, Gorillas #27 Thanksgiving on Thursday #28 High Tide in Hawaii #29 Christmas in Camelot #30 Haunted Castle on Hallows Eve #31 Summer of the Sea Serpent #32 Winter of the Ice Wizard #33 Carnival at Candlelight #34 Season of the Sandstorms #35 Night of the New Magicians #36 Blizzard of the Blue Moon #37 Dragon of the Red Dawn #38 Monday with a Mad Genius #39 Dark Day in the Deep Ocean #40 Eve of the Emperor Penguin #41 Moonlight on the Magic Flute #42 A Good Night for Ghosts #43 Leprechaun in Late Winter #44 A Ghost Tale for Christmas Time #45 A Crazy Day with Cobras #46 Dogs in the Dead of Night #47 Abe Lincoln at Last! #48 A Perfect Time for Pandas #49 Stallion by Starlight #50 Hurry Up, Houdini! #51 High Time for Heroes #52 Soccer on Sunday #53 Shadow of the Shark #54 Balto of the Blue Dawn #55 Night of the Ninth Dragon

This Decodable Sentence Pyramids Worksheet are designed for Kindergarten and First Grade students, offering two differentiated activities to cater to varying skill levels. One activity focuses on building sentences from simple words, helping students connect individual words to form complete sentences. The other activity emphasizes comprehension, encouraging students to understand and engage with the sentences they create to develop confidence and fluency in reading. Focusing on CVC words and sight words, which are foundational for early literacy, these worksheets gradually increase sentence complexity to help students enhance their decoding skills, improve comprehension, and build a solid foundation for reading success.

Benefits

• Develop confidence and fluency in reading
• Focus on CVC words and sight words
• Enhance decoding skill
• Improve comprehension
• Build a solid foundation for reading success

Instructions/Tips for Implementation

This worksheet can be used in small group, whole class, or individually. Teachers can incorporate them into their reading lessons to help students practice reading decodable sentences and improve their literacy skills.

Testimonials

"My students loved using these worksheets to practice their reading skills. It really helped improve their fluency and confidence!" - Adams

This grasslands newsletter is a comprehensive and student-friendly nonfiction research newsletter designed to empower students with valuable resources for academic exploration. Tailored for students at various educational levels, this newsletter serves as a gateway to a treasure trove of research materials, cutting-edge studies, and scholarly insights. It's the go-to source for those seeking reliable and relevant information to enhance their research endeavors.

Key Features:

1. Student-Centric Content: Recognizing the unique needs of students, our newsletter focuses on content that is not only academically rigorous but also accessible and engaging. We bridge the gap between complex research and student comprehension, making it easier for learners to incorporate cutting-edge information into their work.

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-Forest

-Ocean

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Are your students struggling with the new V9 Australian Curriculum whole class reading language? Look no further than this ever growing vocabulary defined reading poster pack! It is ready to print and use in your classroom today!

What's included in this Reading Poster Pack:

- 23 colour and 23 black and white versions of:

• purpose of information texts
• purpose of narrative texts
• main idea
• authoritative source
• simple sentence
• compound sentence
• complex sentence
• paragraphs
• supported by evidence - in the text
• who would read this text
• language features
• subjective language
• objective language
• literacy devices
• visual features
• salience
• placement
• framing
• contrast
• text features
• layout
• characteristic features

How can you use this Reading Poster Pack:

- print and display in classroom

- print smaller and give to students to glue into a reading book

- copy in to PowerPoints to reinforce learning wall

- print for learning wall or reading corner or desk reference

Why you'll love this Reading Poster Pack:

- no prep - great for busy teachers!

- aligns to the Australian Curriculum V9

- print and go - ready to use (B&W or Colour versions)

- engaging, informative and visually appealing resource

Enhance your students reading experience with these vibrant and adorable Monster Bookmarks pack. These cute and fun printable bookmarks will be the perfect Back to School or End of Year gift for your students. This printable pack includes 10 unique bookmarks, each featuring an adorable monster and an inspiring quote. These colorful bookmarks can be printed and laminated, making them durable and perfect for use as rewards, classroom incentives, or gifts for the first or last day of school. Teachers can use these monster bookmarks to encourage reading engagement and provide a fun visual aid during reading activities. The captivating quotes like Reading with monsters is monstrously fun! and Join the monster reading club and embark on extraordinary journeys will spark enthusiasm and curiosity among students. Give your students a whimsical companion as they dive into the pages of their favorite books and discover the joy of reading with these delightful monster bookmarks.

You can use these Monster bookmarks in your classroom in various ways:

1. Reading Incentives: Use bookmarks as rewards or incentives for students who reach reading goals, complete book reports, or participate in reading challenges.
2. Guided Reading: Provide bookmarks to students during guided reading sessions to help them keep track of their progress, mark important pages, or jot down notes and questions.
3. Reading Comprehension: Encourage students to use bookmarks to mark passages they find interesting, confusing, or important for discussions and comprehension activities.
4. Independent Reading: Encourage students to personalize their bookmarks and use them during independent reading time to keep their place in the book and track their reading progress.
5. Book Clubs or Literature Circles: Use bookmarks as discussion prompts or conversation starters during book club meetings or literature circle discussions.
6. Book Reviews: Have students design bookmarks with their own book reviews or recommendations to share with their peers.
7. Library Organization: Use bookmarks to categorize books in the classroom library or to mark specific genres, themes, or reading levels.

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Birthday Gift Reading Comprehension Package: Engaging Worksheets for Grades 2-3 and Special Education

Boost your students' reading comprehension skills with this versatile, engaging, and easy-to-differentiate resource!

Perfect for grade 2-3 students, as well as special education classrooms, this Birthday Gift Reading Comprehension Package includes a variety of worksheets that target essential skills like answering WH questions, sequencing, and cloze activities, all while accommodating students with varying abilities.

What’s Inside This Comprehensive Package?

This package features three activity types that target different aspects of reading comprehension, with carefully designed levels of support to help your students progress step-by-step:

1. WH Question Worksheets
   Help your students improve their ability to locate answers to WH questions (who, what, when, where, why, and how) in a text. This activity includes:

• 3 levels of worksheets for each set of questions:

  • Level 1: Highlight prompts and multiple-choice answers
  • Level 2: Highlight prompts with written answers
  • Level 3: No prompts, students provide written answers independently

1. Cloze Worksheets
   Perfect for practicing vocabulary and understanding context clues. These worksheets come in 3 levels:

• Level 1: Highlighted words with a word bank for students to complete
• Level 2: Word bank provided, no highlights
• Level 3: No prompts, students fill in the blanks independently

1. Story Sequencing Worksheets
   Build your students' understanding of story structure and sequencing. This activity includes 4 levels:

• Level 1: Guided with sentence order and highlight prompts
• Level 2: Sentence order given, no highlights
• Level 3: Highlighted text, no sentence order provided
• Level 4: No highlights or sentence order – students complete independently

Why You’ll Love This Resource:

• Differentiated Learning: With 3-4 levels for each activity, you can easily adapt this resource to meet the needs of students at various skill levels. Whether you’re working with advanced readers or students who need extra support, this resource provides the flexibility to ensure every student is engaged and challenged.
• Ideal for Diverse Classrooms: This package is perfect for older struggling readers, special education students, and ESL learners, thanks to the scaffolded support and visually engaging design.
• Builds Confidence Gradually: As students move through the levels of each activity, they will gain the confidence to work independently. The gradual reduction of support helps them develop critical reading and comprehension skills at their own pace.
• Comprehensive Answer Key: Each worksheet includes an answer key to make grading and assessing progress quick and easy.

Perfect for:

• Teachers of Grades 2-3 who need engaging and easy-to-use reading comprehension activities.
• Special Education and ESL Classrooms where students need targeted practice with visual prompts and scaffolding.
• Parents and Tutors seeking fun, educational worksheets to support their child’s reading comprehension development.

Product Features:

• 3 activity types: WH Questions, Cloze Worksheets, and Story Sequencing
• 3-4 levels per activity for easy differentiation
• Scaffolding and support gradually reduce as students progress
• Answer Key for each worksheet
• Perfect for struggling readers, ESL students, and special education classrooms
• Visually engaging and age-appropriate content for older elementary students

Help your students become more confident readers with this thoughtfully designed resource!

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Do you have literacy buddies with a younger class? Do you sometimes find your students off topic when they should be reading? Want to make life easier for yourself...and your buddy teacher? This package is for you.

This Literacy Buddy Handbook has been classroom tested and worked very well with my grade 6 class, working with a grade 3 class.

Common Core standards listed for grade 4, also meet standards for grades 5 and 6.

Included is:

* expectation sheet,

*questions to for students to ask their buddies,

* graphics reminders,

* reading log.

What others are saying:

• Great Resource! My students found this to be helpful. (Keshana M)
• Easy to use! (Dustin's Delights)

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This product is PERFECT for pairing with a Because of Winn Dixie novel study in your classroom. Each page comes with a study guide that includes 6 vocabulary words and definitions, a comprehension strategy, a comprehension skill, a writing skill, and a grammar skill. It divides the novel in the following way:

Chapters 1-3

Chapters 4-6

Chapters 7-9

Chapters 10-12

Chapters 13-15

Chapters 16-18

Chapters 19-22

Chapters 23-26

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Practice inferencing and real life connections with these ten exercises for individual, small or whole groups. Visual clues provide inference activities for students to draw conclusions. Answers can be drawn or written, and students.

This is a movie watch along for Dr. Seuss's Horton Hears a Who. This product focuses on main idea and theme, along with supporting details for both. This is a great product to help keep students on task during a movie day and also a great assessment for main idea and theme.

I hope you enjoy it! Please rate and review.

This is a 38-page set of worksheets for the story "George's Marvelous Medicine" by Roald Dahl. This includes a 4-page story test.

For every chapter, there is one page of comprehension questions (multiple choice and short answer).

In addition, this novel study includes a variety of differentiated worksheets and activities:

* vocabulary (3 pages)

* story review

* story reflection

* language skills

* review activity

* cause and effect

* compare and contrast

* illustrations

* story map

* news report

* critical thinking

* inferences

* summaries

* scrambled sentences

* crossword puzzle

* word search

* story test (4 pages)

Also, there is an answer key at the end of the file.

Worksheets for stories by Roald Dahl:

* Billy and the Minpins

* Boy: Tales of Childhood

* Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

* Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator

* Danny the Champion of the World

* Esio Trot

* Fantastic Mr. Fox

* George’s Marvelous Medicine

* Going Solo

* James and the Giant Peach

* Matilda

* The BFG

* The Enormous Crocodile

* The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me

* The Magic Finger

* The Twits

* The Witches

These Decodable Sentence Pyramids Worksheets are designed for Kindergarten and First Grade students, offering two differentiated activities to cater to varying skill levels. One activity focuses on building sentences from simple words, helping students connect individual words to form complete sentences. The other activity emphasizes comprehension, encouraging students to understand and engage with the sentences they create to develop confidence and fluency in reading. Focusing on CVC words and sight words, which are foundational for early literacy, these worksheets gradually increase sentence complexity to help students enhance their decoding skills, improve comprehension, and build a solid foundation for reading success.

Benefits

• Develop confidence and fluency in reading
• Focus on CVC words and sight words
• Enhance decoding skill
• Improve comprehension
• Build a solid foundation for reading success

Instructions/Tips for Implementation

These worksheets can be used in small group, whole class, or individually. Teachers can incorporate them into their reading lessons to help students practice reading decodable sentences and improve their literacy skills.

Testimonials

"My students loved using these worksheets to practice their reading skills. It really helped improve their fluency and confidence!" - Adams

Welcome to the exciting world of communities!

In these reading passages (newsletters), we explore different types of communities - suburban, urban, and rural. Communities are where people live, work, and play, and each type has its own unique characteristics.

Three informational newsletters addressing the three community types. Each newsletter is 2 pages long.

Great resource for research projects and close reading!

This resource is PERFECT for pairing with a Because of Winn Dixie novel study in your classroom. It includes 4 original Because of Winn Dixie products. Included in this bundle is pre-reading reflection questions, a complete novel study guides, 19 writing prompt pages, and a vocabulary list & assessments. It is everything you need for a successful novel study in your classroom on the book Because of Winn Dixie!

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This is a movie watch along to go with Pixar's Toy Story. Students will answer questions about main idea and theme while they watch the movie. This is a great product for a fun Friday, and even a quick assessment of main idea and theme.

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