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Explore the fascinating world of reptiles with this FREE, engaging educational resource.  Perfect for upper middle to high school students, this freebie includes a comprehensive reading passage on reptiles, along with thoughtfully crafted questions that challenge students to deepen their understanding of these remarkable creatures. Use this resource as a stand-alone activity or as a supplement to your existing curriculum on biology, ecology, or zoology.

Maximize your biology teaching resources with my plant and fungi life cycle reading passages.  Designed for middle and high school students, this comprehensive FREEBIE includes detailed reading passages, comprehension questions, and organized note-taking pages.

Dive into the fascinating world of amphibians with this comprehensive introduction!  This FREEBIE provides an engaging reading passage that covers key topics like the characteristics, habitats, survival strategies, and reproduction of amphibians.  Perfect for upper middle to high school students, this resource offers a glimpse into the full unit study.  It’s an ideal tool for teachers looking to enhance their science lessons with high-quality, content-rich materials.

A worksheet to help students analyze conflicts and themes in Viola's soliloquy in Act 2, Scene 2 of Shakespeare's play: Twelfth Night. Comes with a graphic organizer and answer key. Great for when reading the play or on it's own.

Getting students excited about poetry and figurative language can be difficult. I find that putting it into terms of music often with popular songs makes the process more enjoyable for them and myself. This product contains a powerpoint with links to videos, worksheets which examine both figurative language and poetry, and most of is an interactive lesson that will have your students singing while they're learning.

This flip book goes through all the main characters of the novel. It includes graphic organizers for your students to fill out in order to better understand character development. It makes a great study guide and a good way to have your students understand the differences and similarities between the different characters of the novel. Offers differentiated instruction to meet the needs of all your students!

This flip book goes through all the main characters of the novel. It includes graphic organizers for your students to fill out in order to better understand character development. It makes a great study guide and a good way to have your students understand the differences and similarities between the different characters of the novel. Offers differentiated instruction to meet the needs of all your students!

This flip book goes through all the main characters of the novel. It includes graphic organizers for your students to fill out in order to better understand character development. It makes a great study guide and a good way to have your students understand the differences and similarities between the different characters of the novel. Offers differentiated instruction to meet the needs of all your students!

Print and go resource.

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.

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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.

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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15 Commonly Confused Words A-I with engaging activities for students to learn. Includes:

A-I game with fill-in-the-blank, definitions, make your own

sentences/slides (individual/groups & competitive play)

2 Crossword puzzles with Commonly Confused Words

2 Word Searches with Commonly Confused Words

All answer sheets included

Directions and Suggestions with Extensions

Words used are:

1. accept except

2. aloud allowed

3. bare bear4. brake break

5. coarse course6. council counsel

7. desert dessert

8. dose doze

9. envelope envelop

10. forbear forebear

11. grisly grizzly

12. glance glimpse

13. hair hare

14. hole whole

15. ingenious ingenuous

Students will have fun learning these Commonly Confused Words.

Do your students need help with analysis? Use these ten graphic organizers with images for analysis practice and writing a thesis. These exercises and graphic organizers help students springboard to analyzing more complex illustrations and essays for future coursework.

This easy to implement, step-by-step analysis guide for individual, small/whole group practice includes:

Full picture slides for whole group discussion and preview

10 Analysis Graphic Organizers with images

One Blank Analysis Graphic Organizer

Analysis categories include: Assumptions/Inferences, Year, Time, Season, Setting, Stereotypes, Characterization, Genre, Emotions, and Others

Writing a Thesis Statement

This step-by-step guide is simple to follow, great for test prep, and helps students uncover the process of analysis.

Fun prepositional activity to get kids up and moving! Insert a map of your school campus, have kids illustrate their path, and travel the school as kids write sentences with prepositions that match their walk. Before teaching, use chairs and have students actively demonstrate prepositions: Stand beside the chair, go over the chair, in front of, behind...

Reinforce word origins by having students come up with their own made-up words! Use compound words, foreign words, prefixes/suffixes, shortened words, sound words, rhyming words, etc...for this fun, visual activity. Includes: Directions Definition Example from Classic Poem Student Examples Application Activity Publishing Activities Meets CCSS, improves vocabulary, uses decoding skills, and visualization. Use for individual or group activity.

This is a 62-page set of worksheets for the story "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" by J. K. Rowling.

I grouped the chapters into pairs (C1-C2, C3-C4, C5-C6, etc...). For each set of two chapters, there are two worksheets:

* comprehension questions

* vocabulary and story analysis

This novel study also includes a wide variety of differentiated worksheets and activities:

* story review

* story reflection

* parts of a story

* author study

* "w" questions

* illustrations

* story map

* summaries

* point of view

* character analysis

* comic strip

* book design

* news report

* interview activity

* story analysis

* compare and contrast

* cause and effect

* problems and solutions

* scrambled sentences

* crossword puzzles

* fallen phrases

* word search

There is also an answer key included at the end of the file.

Distance Learning

There are also links to 12 Google Forms. There is one Google Form for each set of two chapters in the book, plus one Google Form with review activities. Each Google Form has five pages of online worksheets. You can use the links to save a copy of the Google Forms to your own Google Drive. Then from your Google Drive, you can share the online worksheets with your students.

The following activities are included in the online worksheets (Google Forms):

* comprehension questions (multiple choice)

* comprehension questions (short answer)

* vocabulary

* paragraphs

* true or false

Note that the content in the online worksheets is essentially the same as the related content in the PDF file. The purpose of the online worksheets is to allow students the possibility to complete some of the activities online.

Worksheets for the Harry Potter series:

1. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

2. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

3. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

4. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

5. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

6. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

7. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

This is a 60-page set of worksheets for the story "The Wind in the Willows" by Kenneth Grahame.

This also includes a 4-page story test.

For each chapter, there are two worksheets:

* comprehension questions

* vocabulary and story analysis

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

* story review

* similes

* personification

* alliteration

* story reflection

* theme

* indirect characterization

* connections

* cause and effect

* compare and contrast

* point of view

* letter writing

* w questions

* illustrations

* characters

* character analysis

* comic strip

* story elements

* book design

* news report

* critical thinking

* inferences

* summaries

* transformation

* interviews

* crossword puzzle

* word search

* story test (4 pages)

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

Please note that I used the original edition of this story (published in 1908) to make these worksheets. You can verify that your edition of the story is the same unabridged version that I used to make these worksheets:

https://books.google.co.kr/books/about/The\_Wind\_in\_the\_Willows.html?id=bqhaAAAAMAAJ\&printsec=frontcover\&source=kp\_read\_button\&redir\_esc=y#v=onepage\&q\&f=false

Worksheets for novels and chapter books:

Betty G. Birney: The World according to Humphrey

Beverly Cleary: Ramona Quimby, Age 8

Andrew Clements: Frindle

Roald Dahl: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Roald Dahl: Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator

Roald Dahl: Danny the Champion of the World

Roald Dahl: James and the Giant Peach

Roald Dahl: Matilda

Roald Dahl: The BFG

Roald Dahl: The Twits

Kate DiCamillo: Because of Winn-Dixie

Kate DiCamillo: Flora & Ulysses

Kate DiCamillo: Leroy Ninker Saddles Up

Kate DiCamillo: The Magician’s Elephant

Kate DiCamillo: Raymie Nightingale

Kate DiCamillo: The Tale of Despereaux

Kate DiCamillo: The Tiger Rising

Kate DiCamillo: Mercy Watson to the Rescue

Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol

Jean Craighead George: Julie of the Wolves

Kenneth Grahame: The Wind in the Willows

John Green: The Fault in Our Stars

John Green: Paper Towns

C. S. Lewis: The Magician's Nephew

C. S. Lewis: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

C. S. Lewis: The Horse and His Boy

C. S. Lewis: Prince Caspian

Astrid Lindgren: Pippi Longstocking

Astrid Lindgren: Pippi in the South Seas

Patricia MacLachlan: Sarah, Plain and Tall

Patricia MacLachlan: Skylark

Kate Messner: Danger in Ancient Rome

Kate Messner: Long Road to Freedom

Scott O’Dell: Island of the Blue Dolphins

Veronica Roth: Divergent

J. K. Rowling: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

J. K. Rowling: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

J. K. Rowling: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

J. K. Rowling: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

J. K. Rowling: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

J. K. Rowling: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

J. K. Rowling: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Louis Sachar: Holes

Armstrong Sperry: Call It Courage

Lauren Tarshis: I Survived the Destruction of Pompeii

Lauren Tarshis: I Survived the Nazi Invasion, 1944

Bill Wallace: Red Dog

E. B. White: Charlotte’s Web

E. B. White: Stuart Little

Laura Ingalls Wilder: Little House in the Big Woods

This is a 56-page set of worksheets for the story "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas" by John Boyne.

For each chapter, there are two worksheets:

* comprehension questions

* vocabulary and story analysis

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

* story review

* similes

* story reflection

* theme

* symbols

* indirect characterization

* connections

* cause and effect

* compare and contrast

* point of view

* letter writing

* w questions

* illustrations

* characters

* character analysis

* comic strip

* story elements

* book design

* news report

* critical thinking

* inferences

* summaries

* transformation

* interviews

* crossword puzzle

* word search

* story test (4 pages)

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

Worksheets for novels and chapter books:

Richard and Florence Atwater: Mr. Popper’s Penguins

Betty G. Birney: The World according to Humphrey

Judy Blume: Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing

Patrick Skene Catling: The Chocolate Touch

Beverly Cleary: Ramona Quimby, Age 8

Andrew Clements: Frindle

Roald Dahl: The BFG

Kate DiCamillo: The Tale of Despereaux

Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol

Jean Craighead George: Julie of the Wolves

Kenneth Grahame: The Wind in the Willows

John Green: The Fault in Our Stars

Madeleine L’Engle: A Wrinkle in Time

C. S. Lewis: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

Astrid Lindgren: Pippi Longstocking

Patricia MacLachlan: Sarah, Plain and Tall

Kate Messner: Danger in Ancient Rome

Scott O’Dell: Island of the Blue Dolphins

Veronica Roth: Divergent

J. K. Rowling: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

Louis Sachar: Holes

Armstrong Sperry: Call It Courage

Lauren Tarshis: I Survived the Nazi Invasion, 1944

Bill Wallace: Red Dog

E. B. White: Charlotte’s Web

Laura Ingalls Wilder: Little House in the Big Woods

...and more worksheets for Novels and Chapter Books

This is a 50-page set of worksheets for the story "The Magician's Nephew" by C. S. Lewis.

This also includes a 4-page story test.

For each set of two chapters (C1-C2, C3-C4, etc...), there are two worksheets:

* comprehension questions

* vocabulary and story analysis

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

* story review

* language skills

* similes

* personification

* story reflection

* theme

* symbols

* indirect characterization

* connections

* review activity

* cause and effect

* compare and contrast

* point of view

* letter writing

* w questions

* illustrations

* characters

* character analysis

* comic strip

* story map

* parts of a story

* book design

* news report

* critical thinking

* inferences

* summaries

* interviews

* crossword puzzle

* word search

* story test (4 pages)

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

Worksheets for The Chronicles of Narnia:

The Magician’s Nephew

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

The Horse and His Boy

Prince Caspian

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

The Silver Chair

The Last Battle