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The Spooky Show: Halloween-Themed Reading Passage with Blends Practice and Highe
By Ann Stewart
Delight your 3rd-grade students with "The Spooky Show," a fun Halloween-themed reading passage designed to strengthen their reading skills while practicing common consonant blends! In this charming story, Chase and his sister Shelly attend a spooky show at the town wharf. They’re thrilled to see flying bats and spooky ghosts, but the unexpected appearance of a playful cat brings laughter and fun. This engaging passage will capture students’ imaginations while reinforcing their understanding of blends like ch, sh, th, wh, bl, pl, fl, and sl.
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This worksheet makes phonics practice fun and engaging for your students, all while strengthening reading comprehension! It’s ideal for October and will keep your students excited and focused on learning, just in time for Halloween.
Guided Reading Lesson Plan & Activities for Grade 9
By Bright Classroom Ideas Marketplace
A standard curriculum for 9th grade English language arts will feature a range of literary pieces from diverse cultures globally. Ninth graders typically do book reports, which enhance their reading comprehension and writing abilities, while also building upon the writing skills they developed in earlier grades.
A few of the language arts tasks for 9th graders that your student should engage in are:
- Understand how to recognize the characteristics and intentions of myths, along with comparing myths from various cultures.
- Discover how to understand similes, dissect figurative language, and apply previous knowledge to forecast outcomes.
- Investigating and composing on legendary figures.
- Investigate the various thematic connections in the texts they read, including love, beauty, family, freedom, friendship, and the essence of human nature.
- Read and comprehend progressively difficult texts that enhance knowledge in history, science, and various other subjects.
- Write texts that showcase various perspectives.
- Carry out research and gather data from various sources to back their claims.
This comprehensive lesson outline features guided reading tasks for ninth grade that take around 90 minutes. Suggested answers are also included.
Guided Reading Lesson Plan & Activities for Grade 11
By Bright Classroom Ideas Marketplace
Guided Reading involves grouping students who are reading and understanding texts at comparable levels. The guided reading process is educational and entails a teacher collaborating, evaluating, and aiding each group’s reading and comprehension techniques. This assortment of educational resources, tasks, classroom displays, and blog posts offers assistance and direction for managing literacy groups, including a guided reading area in your classroom.
Learners will have the ability to:
Choose and efficiently utilize various tools to create and enhance presentation material.
Sources of credit information.
React thoughtfully and diplomatically to various viewpoints, encapsulating areas of consensus and conflict.
Employ a range of techniques to engage in active listening and communicate while following proper discussion protocols, being mindful of both verbal and nonverbal signals.
Assess the different methods employed to create arguments in multimodal presentations.
Utilize language that is suitable for the subject matter, the audience, and the intended goal.
This ebook features a comprehensive lesson plan, complete with activities and recommended answers for your grade 11 students.
Guided Reading Lesson Plan & Activities for Grade 6
By Bright Classroom Ideas Marketplace
In their first year of middle school, 6th graders embark on a new phase in their education, facing fresh challenges and changes. In many ways, 6th grade marks an important transition for students, as they apply the skills they have learned before to engage in more complex and self-guided learning in deeper and more demanding ways.
While collaboration continues to be an important element of the curriculum, students often need to produce more detailed independent assignments, especially in writing. This requires improved independence and organizational skills, and it will probably necessitate some adjustment and practice at the beginning of the school year.
The main goal of the 6th grade reading curriculum is to have students interact with increasingly difficult texts over the year, preparing them for high school, advanced studies, and future professions. Students examine a variety of texts and different genres, including fiction, drama, poetry, and non-fiction.
This ebook offers a detailed lesson plan for guided reading along with activities tailored for your sixth-grade classes. Suggested replies are also provided.
Guided Reading Lesson Plan & Activities for Grade 8
By Bright Classroom Ideas Marketplace
During their final year of middle school, 8th graders engage in preparing for high school by refining and enhancing skills acquired in previous middle school years, while also acquiring new (and frequently more challenging) abilities.
In numerous ways, 8th grade serves as a transitional year since students are anticipated to have mastered middle school skills and start evolving into “high-schoolers.” In particular, 8th graders are anticipated to be self-sufficient thinkers and doers, evaluating and articulating what they understand in both their written and spoken communication.
In the 8th grade, students further develop various skills acquired in previous grades, particularly focusing on aspects such as text evidence, language, and comparisons across different genres of text. Nonetheless, 8th graders deepen their text analyses by exploring the details and writing structures while evaluating how these aspects influence the text.
This ebook contains an in-depth guided reading lesson plan complete with activities, which takes around 90 minutes to complete. Proposed responses are also included.
Guided Reading Lesson Plan & Activities for Grade 2
By Bright Classroom Ideas Marketplace
Second Grade Reading
Second graders keep enhancing their literacy abilities as they acquire more intricate vocabulary and engage with lengthier, more challenging texts across various genres, such as fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. Learners enhance their reading comprehension abilities while discussing their readings and cultivate more sophisticated concepts related to those subjects. As in prior years, second graders consistently engage in reading as they utilize texts for other subjects during the day.
This ebooks features a guided reading lesson plan and activities, designed especially for Grade 2, that can last up to 40 minutes.
Guided Reading Lesson Plan & Activities for Grade 1
By Bright Classroom Ideas Marketplace
A few words on guided reading
Guided reading involves small-group instruction where a teacher aids each reader in developing strategies for effectively processing new texts that progressively increase in difficulty. In guided reading, students in a small group read a text chosen by you that matches their instructional reading level. You deliver instruction throughout the lesson to help students develop their mental frameworks of strategies for handling progressively difficult texts. Through guided reading, learners discover how to participate in each aspect of the reading process and utilize that literacy skill across all teaching situations.
This ebook offers a complete guided reading lesson plan for first-grade students. It is inspired by the book Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin Jr., though any other picture book may also be utilized. The length of the lesson is around 30 minutes, though it may change based on class size.
Guided Reading Lesson Plan & Activities for Kindergarten
By Bright Classroom Ideas Marketplace
Guided reading in Kindergarten involves tailored small group reading teaching. It certainly isn't the entire group. The small groups are formed according to the reading abilities of the students. It is very distinct and adaptable. Students are able to enter and exit groups as necessary. Every group utilizes leveled books chosen to cater to their specific requirements.
Developing a guided reading lesson plan may appear overwhelming. Nevertheless, if you divide it into components concentrating on your students’ requirements, the methods you will demonstrate, and the text you will utilize, it becomes significantly easier to handle. Your lesson plans will encompass an objective outlining the strategies you'll teach, vocabulary work, an introduction to the book, the reading of the book, comprehension questions, and activities to follow the reading. If you prefer not to design your own, there are numerous lesson plan templates available for selection.
This comprehensive guided reading ebook includes a complete lesson plan along with activities and recommended answers for your kindergarten students.
Guided Reading Lesson Plan & Activities for Grade 5
By Bright Classroom Ideas Marketplace
Teaching guided reading in 5th grade is one of the most rewarding aspects of teaching this grade. The standards and text levels are more rigorous than in primary grades, and the students are much more independent. The books they read are more engaging, making the teaching experience enjoyable.
When actively in the classroom, use a flexible approach that promotes student choice and variety, paired with explicit instruction and engaging reading practice. Try to teach reading in a way that promotes discussion and enjoyment of reading.
Focus on three key areas:
1. Learning to Read: Developing or growing skills to decode and comprehend grade-level texts.
2. Reading to Learn: Acquiring the skills needed to extract details and information from a text or story and synthesizing it.
3. Reading to Analyze: Building on reading to learn by focusing on specific skills and then being able to write about them.
This ebook contains a detailed 90-minute lesson plan and activities for your Grade 5 students. Suggested answers are provided as well.
Guided Reading Lesson Plan & Activities for Grade 3
By Bright Classroom Ideas Marketplace
Once they have mastered literacy skills in earlier grades, 3rd graders develop into more proficient and self-reliant readers. Third grade reading emphasizes helping children learn to think and discuss their reading in more profound and detailed manners. Students engage with lengthier texts, and the majority read fictional chapter books.
Numerous reading lessons for 3rd graders focus on discussing and writing about the meanings, lessons, and key concepts found in texts. Third graders are prompted to form their own opinions regarding the books they read and to talk about their thoughts on a text or the characters. Series books play a vital role in 3rd grade, as they enable students to link various books and discuss the development of specific characters. As third graders delve into a wider variety of books and extended texts, they enhance their reading fluency and acquire skills to read, define, and pronounce intricate words.
This lesson plan will help you teach guided reading to your grade 3 students.
Guided Reading Lesson Plan & Activities for Grade 12
By Bright Classroom Ideas Marketplace
Guided reading allows teachers to monitor students while they read texts appropriate to their instructional reading levels. It typically includes these standard components:
- Collaborating in small teams
- Aligning student reading skills with text difficulty levels
- Providing each individual in the group with identical text
- Presenting the text
- Hearing people read
- Encouraging students to unify their reading strategies
- Involving students in discussions regarding the text.
The objective is to assist Grade 12 students in creating strategies for independent application. Work emphasizes processes essential for proficient reading, like cross-referencing print with meaning, instead of memorizing the definitions of words from a specific book. In guided reading, educators observe student reading behaviors and ensure that texts are accessible to them, enabling learners to combine their newly learned skills into a cohesive, integrated reading system.
This ebook will assist you in practicing guided reading with your 12th-grade classes. It includes a complete lesson plan with activities and recommended answers that takes about 90 minutes.
Guided Reading Lesson Plan & Activities for Grade 7
By Bright Classroom Ideas Marketplace
Seventh graders can concentrate better on enhancing the skills they started to cultivate in 6th grade without the extra pressure of adapting to the new middle school setting. By 7th grade, it is anticipated that students have adjusted to middle school life and are thus expected to operate more autonomously while managing their time and schedules with diminished (but still some) support.
Typically, in 7th grade, students expand upon the abilities they acquired in 6th grade by engaging with more intricate and lengthy texts and essays in both writing and reading. This effort will equip them for 8th grade, where they will solidify and enhance their skills, ultimately positioning them for success in high school.
In 7th grade, learners enhance their skills in analyzing the texts they read and supporting their analysis with evidence from the text. In particular, 7th grade students focus on scrutinizing texts more thoroughly and utilizing details from the text to formulate ideas, conduct analysis, and draw inferences.
This ebook contains a comprehensive 90-minute lesson plan, featuring activities and suggested answers.
Guided Reading Lesson Plan & Activities for Grade 10
By Bright Classroom Ideas Marketplace
Guided reading is not a novel approach in the realm of education. It has existed for a long time and has been extensively studied.
Fountas and Pinnell (1996) demonstrated that guided reading effectively enhances students' reading skills. This occurs by offering a well-organized and encouraging educational setting in which learners can develop their reading abilities under the supervision of an instructor.
The aim of guided reading is to assist students in cultivating essential reading skills including decoding, fluency, segmenting, and understanding. These abilities can thrive through small group teaching, support, and feedback from educators.
Guided reading enables teachers to address the individual requirements of every student according to their grade level. You will be more equipped to offer each student the specific assistance they require to enhance their reading abilities.
This ebook includes an elaborate guided reading lesson plan for your 10th-grade students. Activities and suggested answers are also included.
Roles of Writer and Reader (Reading and Writing)
By Beth Hammett
Help student writers understand and read their essays from readers' perspectives with this nine page presentation. The analogy of learning to drive is used to help writers understand that reading punctuation is like obeying road signs. Includes: Many roles of a writer Visually stimulating graphics Defining Writer as Reader Practicing Writer as Reader slides (indiividual/group activity) Peer Workshopping Following the steps of reading, listening, and correcting Excellent for introducing writers' roles, peer workshopping, and understanding punctuation.
Q&U Best Friends Coloring Sheet | Q and U Besties Worksheet
By Little Learner Crafts
Teach your littles that Q and U are best friends who are always together.
Use this coloring sheet as a tool when teaching letters Q and U. You can also utilize this worksheet when teaching new readers that Q&U are always together.
Character, Problem, Solution- Reading Passage w/Questions
By Ann Stewart
Engaging Fiction Comprehension - Character, Plot, Solution
This resource includes a 500+ word engaging fiction story centered around a compelling character facing a problem and coming up with a thoughtful solution. The complex narrative is written at a high 5th - 6th grade reading level and tackles mature themes including passion, injury, depression, and overcoming adversity that will resonate with middle school students.
The passage is followed by 5 multiple choice questions and 2 short answer questions focused on analyzing the central character's motivations and development, understanding the plot points and central conflict, and examining how the character grapples with and solves the key problem in the story. Detailed sample responses and an answer key are provided.
This fiction comprehension resource is perfect for:
Analyzing character traits, motivations, and development
Plot analysis and plot structure
Conflict and resolution
Theme and central ideas
Critical thinking and analysis
Key terms: character, plot, conflict, solution, fiction comprehension, upper elementary, middle school reading
With engaging content and thought-provoking questions, this resource provides an excellent opportunity for upper elementary or middle school students to practice standards-aligned ELA skills. This comprehension activity engages learners in analyzing high-level narrative fiction.
Reading - Workshop Set-up, 1st 20 days (Slidedeck)
By Amanda G
Back to School reading program made easy!
Among the lessons included are:
Accessing Reading Materials
Listening to Your Inner Voice
Reasons to Abandon Books
Leaving Tracks of Your Thinking
Different Kinds of Non-Fiction
Reading Response Journals
Creating a List of Your Reading
Book Talks
This resource is the complete first twenty days and is meant for the junior and intermediate classes. Part Fountas and Pinnell, part collaboration, this resource will help you take your students on the next step, beyond the primary level reading workshop. This is a digital accompaniment for my teacher's guides: First 20 Days of Reading - Junior/ Intermediate ELA and First 20 Days - Reading Workshop & Writing Workshop (Bundled). The bundled item is my best selling item on TeachShare!
This file includes both the PPT and a PDF version of the resource.
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Words, Sentences, or Story Builders for Early Writers
By Beth Hammett
Igloos filled with 23 pages of Dolch sight words and basic letters.for working with early elementary students' creative reading strategies and writing techniques. Also includes three blank templates to add your own letters and vocabulary words. How to use: Have students use the basic letters igloos to make words. Use for letter recognition for pre-k Students can make sentences with the words Words can be used to write creative stories Find opposites Find common themes Find parts of speech and so much more... Handouts are easy to use, can be laminated, and are customizable. Target age: pre-k-2
Penguin Reading Passage and Comprehension Questions
By Sign with me TOD
Students will read or follow along as the passage about the emperor penguin is read. Students will then answer comprehension questions as they read or after they have finished reading. Students will then see a diagram of an emperor penguin at the end of the product. Students will then label the diagram using a key.
Groundhog Day Reading Passage and Comprehension Questions
By Sign with me TOD
Students will read or follow along as the passage about Groundhogs Day is read. Students will then answer comprehension questions as they read or after they have finished reading. There are short answer and multiple choice comprehension questions included in this product. Vocabulary words that students may be unfamiliar with and their meanings are presented in this product that include - hibernate, predator, groundhog, and burrow. Students will then see a diagram of a groundhog at the end of the product and will be required to label the diagram using a key. There are also facts about groundhogs included in this product. Students will be required to share two things that they learned about groundhogs that they did not know before.