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Are you looking for a fun and educational activity to bring the magic of Christmas into your classroom? The Christmas Reading Comprehension Escape Room is just what you need! Four unique reading comprehension challenges that focus on making inferences, character analysis, context clues, and elements of plot. Designed for students in grades 3-6, this engaging resource combines holiday excitement with critical reading practice. Your students will help Santa recover his missing star by solving puzzles and challenges that build essential reading skills—all while having a blast!

➡️ What’s It All About?

This festive escape room features four unique reading comprehension challenges that will get your students thinking critically and working together to save the day. Each task focuses on an important skill:

• Making Inferences: Students read between the lines to find clues and draw conclusions.
• Character Analysis: They’ll explore characters’ traits and motivations to uncover key details.
• Using Context Clues: Tough vocabulary? No problem! Students will learn to decode tricky words by examining the surrounding text.
• Plot Comprehension: From the introduction to the resolution, they’ll piece together the sequence of events to unlock the next clue.

Every challenge is tied to TEKS standards, making it both fun and academically meaningful. Plus, the question formats mimic those on the STAAR assessments, so it’s a great way to prepare students for testing season without them even realizing it.

➡️ Here’s what’s included:

• Easy Prep Materials: Print-and-go worksheets that make set-up simple and stress-free.
• Built-in Decoder: A fun twist that adds a layer of mystery to every task.
• Clear Instructions: Step-by-step guidance to help you implement the activity smoothly, even if you’re new to escape rooms.
• Group or Individual Options: Let students work independently or in teams, depending on your classroom needs.

➡️ Suggested Classroom Use

• As a whole-class activity, fostering collaboration and a sense of holiday fun.
• In small literacy groups for targeted practice on specific skills.
• As a test prep tool, giving students hands-on experience with STAAR-style questions.
• For differentiated instruction, customizing tasks for various reading levels.

➡️ Benefits

1. Encourages Active Learning: Students move, interact, and think critically.
2. Boosts Engagement: Gamified elements make comprehension exciting.
3. Supports Differentiation: Flexible setup works for individuals, pairs, or groups.
4. Reinforces Key Skills: Focuses on mastering reading comprehension skills. 
5. Saves Time for Teachers: Ready-to-use materials make lesson planning simple.

Enhance learning, inspire students, and create memorable classroom moments with an Escape Room!

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Help students master essential reading skills with this Text Structure Spin and Match Activity! Perfect for grades 3-6, this interactive game provides hands-on practice with key text structures, including compare/contrast, cause/effect, sequence, problem/solution, and description. It’s designed to make learning fun, engaging, and memorable!

What’s Included:

• 37 pages of text structure practice
• 12 game card sets with mini stories to match to one of five text structure types (cause and effect, compare and contrast, description, sequence, problem and solution)
• 5 game board options for a variety of play
• Labels for each game card set for easy storage and year-after-year use
• Teacher implementation directions for quick setup
• Student playing directions for easy, independent learning

How It Works: Students spin and match the text structure from the mini stories to one of the five text structure types, making this a great addition to literacy centers, small group instruction, or review sessions. The included labels make organization simple, so you can reuse this game for years to come!

This resource is perfect for reinforcing text structure skills in a hands-on, engaging way. Just print, laminate, and let the fun begin!

Ideas for Use: This resource is perfect for small group activities, literacy centers, and partner work. Use it as a review game before an assessment or integrate it into daily lessons for ongoing practice. Ideal for mixed-ability classrooms, this activity is designed to engage and challenge all students!

Why They’ll Love It: Teachers will love the ease of this print-and-go resource, while students will enjoy learning in a game format that reinforces comprehension skills. No prep is needed—just print, cut, and get ready to sort and match! Plus, it’s adaptable for various learning styles and perfect for skill-building.

I hope you find this resource just as helpful for your students as it has been for mine!

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Make simile and metaphor practice spook-tacular with this set of 50 Halloween-themed task cards! Perfect for engaging your students in identifying and understanding figurative language, these fun and interactive cards are a must-have for your literacy centers, small group work, or independent practice. Designed for 3rd to 5th graders, these task cards help students differentiate between similes and metaphors while adding a festive touch to your language arts lessons.

What’s Included:

• 50 Halloween Simile vs. Metaphor Task Cards with a variety of examples ranging from simple to complex
• A student recording sheet for easy tracking of answers
• An answer key for quick and easy grading
• A fun, spooky Halloween design to keep students engaged

Key Features:

• Perfect for Literacy Centers: Students can work individually or with partners to solve each card, making figurative language practice interactive and collaborative.
• Versatile Use: Ideal for center activities, homework, early finishers, or a whole-class scoot game. Great for reviewing similes and metaphors in a fun, themed way.
• Differentiated Learning: Cards are crafted with varying levels of difficulty, allowing you to support all learners in your classroom.
• Engaging Halloween Theme: Capture your students' attention with Halloween-themed examples that make learning figurative language fun and festive!

Whether you’re teaching similes and metaphors for the first time or reviewing for mastery, these Halloween task cards provide the perfect mix of challenge and engagement. Your students will love practicing figurative language with these spooky, themed cards!

I hope you find this resource just as helpful for your students as it has been for mine! If you have any questions or would like to share feedback, please reach out to me on Instagram: MrsBaileyandHerClass.

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What’s Included?

• 20 Bookmarks, each featuring a critical reading skill or strategy for grades 3 - 8:

  • Main Idea & Supporting Details
  • Summarizing
  • Making Inferences
  • Context Clues
  • Identifying Theme
  • and many more!

Why You'll Love This Resource

• Student-Friendly Format: Each bookmark simplifies complex skills into bite-sized, actionable steps.
• Versatile Use: Perfect for guided reading groups, independent practice, or homework aids.
• Aligned with Curriculum Standards: Helps reinforce essential reading skills aligned with Common Core and other standards.
• Durable and Reusable: Print, laminate, and reuse for years!

This product is made for:

• adapting instruction
• differentiating instruction
• on level learners
• struggling writers
• struggling readers
• ESL/ENL
• Deaf Education
• Homework
• Classwork
• Homeschooling
• Bell Work
• Virtual Instruction
• Remote Instruction

This book series is great for young children as they can relate with what Franklin and his friends experience as they are growing up and helping each other. This book, Franklin Goes to School discusses Franklin's feelings about going to school, what his strengths are, making friends, etc. The comprehension questions in this product relate with the text as well as students own experiences. Images are located throughout packet to help students answer questions. As the book is being read aloud, as students are reading the book or after the book has been read, students can answer the comprehension questions in this packet.

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This book series is great for young children as they can relate with what Franklin and his friends experience as they are growing up and helping each other. The book, Franklin's Halloween discusses Franklin's feelings about going to a haunted house, making decisions, having fun with his friends, being a good friend, etc. The comprehension questions in this product relate with the text as well as students own experiences. Images are located throughout packet to help students answer questions. As the book is being read aloud, as students are reading the book or after the book has been read, students can answer the comprehension questions in this packet.

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Arthur Babysits is a great book to read for students to learn responsibility, not just with babysitting or taking care of a younger sibling or cousin, but with homework, cleaning their bedroom, etc. Students are presented with a variety of comprehension questions based on what happens in the book, Arthur Babysits. Students can answer these questions as the book is read to them, as they read the book independently or they can use the text for lookbacks once the book is finished.

This product is made for:

• adapting instruction
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This book series is great for young children as they can relate with what Franklin and his friends experience as they are growing up and helping each other. The book, Franklin is Messy, discusses Franklin being responsible, taking care of his things, cleaning his bedroom, returning things when he borrows them, reusing items, being a good friend, etc. The comprehension questions in this product relate with the text as well as students own experiences. Images are located throughout packet to help students answer questions. As the book is being read aloud, as students are reading the book or after the book has been read, students can answer the comprehension questions in this packet.

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• Virtual Instruction
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Reading Comprehension Fiction: Lotto

Our worksheets cover a variety of genres and themes from popular children's literature, making reading fun and enjoyable for kids of all ages

- Improve reading comprehension

- Engage with popular children's literature

- Enhance critical thinking skills

These are fun, interactive reading comprehension worksheets. Students will receive the lucky lottery number if they answer all the questions correctly.

Students must correctly complete the five comprehension questions to get the daily PICK 5 lottery numbers. (They will only have a winning lottery ticket if they complete all the questions correctly.) This activity has an independent and guided component.

Set includes 5 Passages from

The Birthday Party by Oliver Optic

The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams

A Gallery of Children by A.A. Milne

The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baun

The Story of Dr. Dolittle by Hugh Lofting

Allow students to take control of their learning by creating text-dependent questions based off of the levels of Bloom's Taxonomy! This activity requires students to develop and apply higher-order thinking skills by coming up with their own questions while also coming up with an answer key using the R.A.C.E writing strategy.

This Activity Pack Includes:

• Black & White Printable Version - Handouts and Activities
• Color Digital Version - Handouts and Activities
• Teacher Presentation

The Digital and Print Options Each Include:

• Handout explaining what Bloom's Taxonomy is
• Question starters/examples
• Assigned-level activity pages (R.A.C.E setup)
• Choose-your-level activity pages (one per page AND two per page options)

Teacher Presentation Reviews:

• Bloom's Taxonomy basic overview
• Each level explained

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Bookmarks | Reading Bookmarks | Inspirational Bookmarks | Bookworm

About This Bundle

**★ **Bookmarks

**★ **PDF File

**★ **Includes 3 products

**★ **49 Pages 49 Bookmarks

**★ **Suitable for ALL Grades!

This resource includes:

★ 15 Growth Mindset Bookmarks

★ 12 Reading Strategies Bookmarks

★ 22 Urban Motivational Bookmarks

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This bundle resource includes three sets of Bookmarks:

❤️ Growth Mindset

❤️ Motivational Bookmarks

❤️ Reading Strategy Bookmarks

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❤️ Growth Mindset Bookmarks

These Growth Mindset Bookmarks are a constant source of inspiration, encouraging students to stay positive, practice mindfulness, and persevere. With 15 unique and vibrant designs tailored to students' interests, these bookmarks are beautifully crafted to promote a growth mindset wherever they go.

❤️ Reading Strategy Bookmarks

Enhance your students’ reading comprehension with Reading Strategy Bookmarks! This set includes 10 attractive bookmarks, each featuring sentence stems aligned with essential reading strategies, such as predicting, visualizing, and summarizing. These bookmarks serve as handy tools to stimulate thinking, increase comprehension, and actively engage students in reading and discussion. The sentence stems can also be used to support students’ writing, making them versatile for various activities. Perfect for any text, these bookmarks help students develop deeper understanding and become more confident readers. Great for use during independent reading, group work, or homework assignments!

Reading Strategies featured in this resource:

☆ Determining Importance

☆ Making Inferences

☆ Questioning

☆ Evaluating

☆ Predicting

☆ Summarizing

☆ Visualizing

☆ Text-to-Self Connections

☆ Text-to-Text Connections

☆ Text-to-World Connections

❤️ Urban Motivational Bookmarks

This AMAZING set of 22 uplifting motivational bookmarks features vibrant, urban-style African American clipart that will captivate your students’ attention. Designed to encourage positive thinking, these bookmarks are perfect for inspiring a love for reading. They make a great addition to school libraries, classroom prizes, or thoughtful gifts for students—just because!

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These bookmarks can be used in classrooms in several impactful ways:

❤️ Promote Reading Engagement:

• Use the bookmarks as tools to motivate students to read more frequently and foster a love for reading.
• Distribute them during book checkout or reading assignments to create excitement around reading.

❤️ Encourage Positive Thinking:

• Highlight the motivational messages on the bookmarks to inspire students to adopt a positive mindset in both academics and daily life.

❤️ Classroom Incentives and Rewards:

• Offer bookmarks as rewards for meeting academic goals, such as completing a book, excelling in a test, or demonstrating good behavior.
• Include them in a prize box for students to choose from when earning classroom rewards.

❤️ Enhance Library Displays:

• Place the bookmarks in the school library as a free resource for students to take, linking positive messages with the joy of reading.

❤️ Celebrate Diversity:

• Use the urban-style African American clipart as a way to celebrate representation and diversity, helping students see themselves reflected in positive and uplifting materials.

❤️ Boost Classroom Morale:

• Give bookmarks to students "just because," reminding them they are valued and appreciated.
• Incorporate them into activities like surprise desk drops or as part of a "Random Acts of Kindness" initiative.

❤️Incorporate into Literacy Activities:

• Pair bookmarks with specific books or themes in literacy lessons, encouraging discussions around the motivational messages they display.
• Use them as part of a book club to signify membership or participation.

❤️ Creative Projects:

• Encourage students to create their own bookmarks inspired by the motivational messages as a creative classroom project.

You may:

• Print and cut each one out (as there are four bookmarks on each sheet)
• For long lasting use, photocopy onto card stock paper, or laminate them.
• For personal touch you can also hole-punch the tops and tie a ribbon through!

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