$5 - $10 3rd Grade Reading Strategies Resources (by price, high to low)

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Mnemonic Sound Cards

By K3 Homeschool Foundations

These keyword letter cards will help your students remember their sounds! When you add pictures and keywords research has shown it helps in the retention and retrieval of information.

Included:

  • Mnemonic keywords
  • All 26 letters of the alphabet
  • Long Vowels
  • Digraphs; th (voiced and unvoiced), ch, sh, ck, ph, wh
  • Vowel Teams: ai, ay, ee, ea, ey, oi, oy, oa, oe, ow, ou, ue, ew, au, aw, oo
  • Word Families: all, am, an, ang, ing, ong, ung, ank, ink, onk, unk
  • R-Controlled Vowels: ar, or, er, ir, ur

I always have my kids create actions that go with the pictures. This allows them to be active while doing letter sounds! Research shows that adding movement to learning can also help in the retrieval and retention of information.

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RACE Writing Strategy | Citing Text Evidence | BUNDLE

By Christina Bush

Do your students struggle with answering text-dependent questions? Introducing them to the RACE writing strategy could be a total game-changer for you and your students!

RACE Stands For:

Restate the question

Answer all parts of the question

Cite evidence to support your answer

Explain how your evidence proves your answer

What's Included:

  • Google Slides Presentation | Graphic Organizer | EDITABLE
  • Printable Presentation | Graphic Organizer
  • Printable Bookmarks Checklist | Color & Black and White
  • Printable Guided Notes | Color-Coded & Black and White
  • Color-Coded Printable Bulletin Board Posters Set

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Differentiated Reading Comprehension Bundle Grades 2-5 (Print and Digital)

By Queen's Educational Resources

ABOUT THIS BUNDLE

  • Includes 5 Products
  • 82 pages
  • Print and Digital (PDF and Google Slides)
  • Grades 2 - 5
  • Suitable for ELL students, Special Ed. students, and students with Autism
  • Differentiated Passages and Worksheets
  • ANSWER KEYS included

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Products included in this BUNDLE:

  • "Reading Boy" Differentiated Reading Packet
  • "Owning A Dog" Differentiated Reading Packet
  • "A Missed Slam Dunk" Differentiated Reading Packet
  • "Pop Quiz" Differentiated Reading Packet
  • "Birthday Surprise" Differentiated Reading Packet

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Items included:

------ 30 Question Worksheets (6 Differentiated Question Worksheets for each passage - different level questions and formats)

------ 30 ANSWER KEYS (one for each Question Worksheet)

------ 20 Bulletin Board Task Display Pages (to display with student work)

------ 2 Rubrics (one for Short Answer Questions and one for Short Response Question)

------ Google Slide Links

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***This bundle is also included in Google Slides! Text boxes have already been created to make it easier for you and your students! Each worksheet slide includes two instruction solution tabs for when students accidentally delete text boxes and when they want to zoom in (to enlarge worksheets). It's super helpful for students who are not that familiar with how to use Google Slides or need the extra assistance.

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30 Question Worksheets

  • This resource includes six differentiated question worksheets (Multiple-Choice, Short Answer, and Short Response) for EACH passage to help you differentiate for students of ALL levels. Most worksheets require students to use evidence/details from the passages to support ideas. Worksheets come in different formats. ANSWER KEYS for all worksheets are included!

Level Complexity:

  • The passages have different levels of difficulty for differentiation. In addition, Question Worksheets range from basic comprehension questions (lower-level) to inferential questions (higher-level).

  • These Question Worksheets can be used as a quiz, test, formative assessment, homework assignment, classwork assignment, or can even be used during guided practice! A great idea would be to see how well students perform with the basic comprehension questions, and if they do well on that, you can challenge them further by giving them the inferential thinking question worksheets!

  • You can even gather a small group of students and practice skills including basic comprehension, inferences, details, and writing. There's a worksheet for each skill! Just imagine your principal walking into your classroom and seeing all students reading the same passage, with different level questions based on their levels?! - Awesome!

20 Bulletin Board Task Display Pages

  • Included in this resource are Bulletin Board Task Display Pages that can be used to display your students' work. Bulletin Board Task Display Pages are beautifully created and visually pleasing. These Bulletin Board Task Display Pages will improve the overall appearance of your classroom bulletin boards. Please note, the Bulletin Board Task Display Pages should be printed on gloss or photo copy paper for optimal quality and shine.

2 Scoring Rubrics

  • Finally, this resource includes two student-friendly rubrics to evaluate students’ responses - Easy to use! One Rubric is a 4-point score Rubric used to score Short Answer Questions and one Rubric is a 2-point score Rubric used to score the Short Response question.

  • You have everything you need to score your students’ responses, and immediately display on bulletin boards with the Bulletin Board Task Display Pages and Rubrics! Absolutely no preparation needed! - YAY!

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Printable Physics Activities & Games - Fun Science Activities

By The Students Palace

Printable Physics activities are perfect for keeping kids engaged and entertained Quotes . These activities include a variety of fun and educational options that can be easily printed and completed at home or on the go.

this bundle contains, Quotes Coloring Pages, Quotes cut and paste ,jigsaw puzzles and reading comprehension.

WHAT YOU WILL RECEIVE

  • ( PDF + PNG)

  • Large 8.5'' x 11'' designs that can easily be printed on regular sized paper

  • High-resolution images

  • Unlimited prints

  • Great for kids, boys and girls

JUST DOWNLOAD, PRINT AND GET STARTED

  • This item comes as a high-resolution PDF + PNG files that you can download straight after purchasing.

  • You can print as many copies as you want.

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  • This is a digital item.

  • No physical product or printed material will be shipped.

  • No refunds as this is a digital product.

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Paperless Picture of The Day Morning Meeting Work Digital Resources

By Professional Development and Teacher Prep

Do your students need highly engaging morning meeting digital resources or a picture of the day to start off their morning? Morning Meeting Picture Slides are important to utilize to develop strong relationships with students and peer-to-peer relationships.  The picture of the day allows for deeper conversations and the building of a strong classroom community, which in turn raises academic achievement skills. The digital resource has many diverse pictures where everyone can feel represented.

How I Use Picture of The Day

We use a picture of the day every morning during our morning meeting routine. The morning meeting slides are projected on our screen for all students to see. Students are asked to infer, visualize, synthesize, and create connections with the picture. Looking closely at a picture is an important reading skill for students to develop to create inferences about what they are reading. 

Additionally, The picture of the day can be used for writing prompts or centers. Students can look at the picture and write a story based on the picture. 

This is also an excellent resource to use with your remote learners. You could assign one or more morning meeting slides to their learning management system for morning meetings and writing or reading activities. 

“Morning Meeting is an engaging way to start each day, build a strong sense of community, and set children up for success socially and academically.” -Responsive Classroom

“Morning meetings are an excellent way to help students transition from home to school and help them get ready to learn. In addition, these meetings can help you connect with your students, help students build relationships with each other, and promote an overall sense of community in the classroom.” -Centervention

The topics and what is included:

  • 180 pages of editable Google Slides. 
  • Diverse, beautiful pictures.
  • Pictures were either taken by me or were purchased stock photos. 
  • No worksheets. 
  • An excellent time-saver where all of the pictures are ready to go in one place!

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Reading Comprehension Passages & Questions 3rd-5th Grade | Animals BUNDLE

By TaughtOught Homeschooling

This bundle of reading comprehension passages with interesting questions covers all the cool things about jungle, aquatic, insects, and desert animals. Did you know that snow can be pink? Or that ice cream was invented 500 years ago and was only available to the rich and privileged? Grab this bundle of 40 animal-themed reading comprehension worksheets with questions to learn more!

This resource includes:

   ✏ 10 jungle & rainforest-themed worksheets

   ✏ 10 desert animal-themed worksheets

   ✏ 10 aquatic animal-themed worksheets

   ✏ 10 insects & bug-themed worksheets

   ✏ All answer key cards

   ✏ No prep! Simply print and distribute

If you liked this product, check out my other reading comprehension products:

   ✏ Reading Comprehension Passages & Questions 3rd & 4th Grade | Four Seasons BUNDLE

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Reading Comprehension Passages & Questions 3rd & 4th Grade | Four Seasons BUNDLE

By TaughtOught Homeschooling

This bundle of reading comprehension passages with interesting questions covers all the cool things about the four seasons. Did you know that snow can be pink? Or that ice cream was invented 500 years ago and was only available to the rich and privileged? Grab this bundle of 40 winter, summer, spring, and autumn season-themed reading comprehension worksheets to learn more!

This resource includes:

   ✏ 10 winter-themed worksheets

   ✏ 10 spring-themed worksheets

   ✏ 10 summer-themed worksheets

   ✏ 10 fall-themed worksheets

   ✏ All answer key cards

   ✏ No prep! Simply print and distribute

If you liked this product, CLICK to check out my other Reading Comprehension products!

Please download the preview to view a sample of the included pages.

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BOY IN THE TOWER by Polly Ho-Yen NOVEL STUDY and Reading Comprehension

By The Book Bandit

A NOVEL STUDY and Reading Comprehension Unit for BOY IN THE TOWER by Polly Ho-Yen. This 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 many of the Grades 4, and 5 and 6 ELA Common Core State Standards in context.**This unit is packed with Common Core aligned activities and includes printable and digital versions.

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. PMI, writing, point of view, and vocabulary work.
  • 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

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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CORALINE by Neil Gaiman NOVEL STUDY and Reading Comprehension

By The Book Bandit

A NOVEL STUDY and Reading Comprehension Unit for CORALINE by Neil Gaiman.

This 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

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.

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THE SONG WALKER Novel Study

By The Book Bandit

A NOVEL STUDY for THE SONG WALKER based on the book byZillah Bethell.

This 70 page Novel Study includes highly engaging and comprehensive questions and activities that allow your students to respond to the story by using a wide range of reading comprehension strategies and skills.

This is a NO-PREP resource that has been created with questions and activities following the order of the book. Students will be able to respond to each chapter after they have read it. Teachers can use this resource as either an independent work packet for students or as a guide to questions and discussion whilst working alongside students. Students will cover a wide range of Curriculum Standards in context.

This novel study is ideal as an independent activity or follow-up to 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.
  • 5 Non-fiction passages with questions -Indigenous Australians, The Stolen Generation, The Australian Desert, Mirages and Black-Winged Stilts.
  • Written tasks - using a range of genres as relevant to the story including diary writing
  • 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.

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THE THING ABOUT OLIVER Novel Study and Reading Comprehension Questions

By The Book Bandit

A NOVEL STUDY and Reading Comprehension Questions for THE THING ABOUT OLIVER by Deborah Kelly.

This 75 page Novel Study includes highly engaging and comprehensive 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.

The unit can be followed chapter by chapter, with no extra preparation or planning required by the teacher.

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 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

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.

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THE ONE AND ONLY FAMILY Novel Study

By The Book Bandit

A NOVEL STUDY for THE ONE AND ONLY FAMILY based on the book by Katherine Applegate.

This 50 page Novel Study includes highly engaging and comprehensive questions and activities that allow your students to respond to the story by using a wide range of reading comprehension strategies and skills.

This is a NO-PREP resource that has been created with questions and activities following the order of the book. Students will be able to respond to each section after they have read it. Teachers can use this resource as either an independent work packet for students or as a guide to questions and discussion whilst working alongside students. Students will cover a wide range of Curriculum Standards in context.

This novel study is ideal as an independent activity or follow-up to 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.
  • 4 Non-fiction passages with questions - Silverback Gorillas, Gorilla Communication, Captive Gorillas and Gorilla Sanctuaries.
  • Written tasks - using a range of genres as relevant to the story including diary writing
  • 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.

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SCOUT AND THE RESCUE DOGS Novel Study

By The Book Bandit

A NOVEL STUDY for SCOUT AND THE RESCUE DOGS based on the book by Dianne Wolfer.

This 72 page Novel Study includes highly engaging and comprehensive questions and activities that allow your students to respond to the story by using a wide range of reading comprehension strategies and skills.

This is a NO-PREP resource that has been created with questions and activities following the order of the book. Students will be able to respond to each chapter after they have read it. Teachers can use this resource as either an independent work packet for students or as a guide to questions and discussion whilst working alongside students. Students will cover a wide range of Curriculum Standards in context.

This novel study is ideal as an independent activity or follow-up to 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.
  • 4 Non-fiction passages with questions -Bushfires, Puggles, Caves and Dog Breeding.
  • Written tasks - using a range of genres as relevant to the story including a newspaper report, diary writing, a narrative prompt and a personal narrative prompt.
  • 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.

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RUNT by Craig Silvey NOVEL STUDY and Reading Comprehension

By The Book Bandit

A NOVEL STUDY and Reading Comprehension Unit for RUNT by Craig Silvey.

This 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 150 page 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

AN ANSWER KEY IS 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.

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THE PHANTOM TOLLBOOTH by Norton Juster NOVEL STUDY and Reading Comprehension

By The Book Bandit

A NOVEL STUDY and Reading Comprehension Unit for THE PHANTOM TOLLBOOTH by Norton Juster.

This 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 many of the Grades 4, and 5 and 6 ELA Common Core State Standards in context.**This unit is packed with Common Core aligned activities and includes printable and digital versions.

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. PMI, venn diagrams, writing, point of view, mentor text activities, prefix and vocabulary work, idioms.
  • 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

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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BECAUSE OF WINN-DIXIE by Kate DiCamillo NOVEL STUDY and Reading Comprehension

By The Book Bandit

A NOVEL STUDY and Reading Comprehension Unit for BECAUSE OF WINN-DIXIE by Kate DiCamillo.

This 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 many of the Grades 4, and 5 and 6 ELA Common Core State Standards in context.**This unit is packed with Common Core aligned activities and includes printable and digital versions.

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. PMI, venn diagrams, writing, point of view, mentor text activities, prefix and vocabulary work, idioms.
  • 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

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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DIARY OF A WIMPY KID Hard Luck NOVEL STUDY and Reading Comprehension

By The Book Bandit

A NOVEL STUDY and Reading Comprehension Unit for DIARY OF A WIMPY KID Hard Luck by Jeff Kinney.

This 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

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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THE SHARK CALLER by Zillah Bethell NOVEL STUDY and Reading Comprehension

By The Book Bandit

A NOVEL STUDY and Reading Comprehension Unit for THE SHARK CALLER by Zillah Bethell.

This 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 many of the Grades 4, and 5 and 6 ELA Common Core State Standards in context.**This unit is packed with Common Core aligned activities and includes printable and digital versions.

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. PMI, venn diagrams, writing, point of view, mentor text activities, prefix and vocabulary work, idioms.
  • 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

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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SKELETON KEYS The Unimaginary Friend NOVEL STUDY and Reading Comprehension

By The Book Bandit

A NOVEL STUDY and Reading Comprehension Unit for SKELETON KEYS The Unimaginary Friend.

This 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 many of the Grades 3, 4, 5 and 6 ELA Common Core State Standards in context.**This unit is packed with Common Core aligned activities and includes printable and digital versions.

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

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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RAVEN WINTER by Susanna Bailey NOVEL STUDY and Reading Comprehension

By The Book Bandit

A NOVEL STUDY and Reading Comprehension Unit for RAVEN WINTER by Susanna Bailey.

This 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 many of the Grades 4, and 5 and 6 ELA Common Core State Standards in context.**This unit is packed with Common Core aligned activities and includes printable and digital versions.

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. PMI, venn diagrams, writing, point of view, mentor text activities, prefix and vocabulary work, idioms.
  • 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

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.

Balanced Literacy
Reading Strategies
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