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$1.75Buy NowHelp students develop their reading comprehension skills as they gain knowledge about the planets within our solar system with this informational article and assessment questions. This has been written for 5th-6th grade classrooms. The assessment includes 11 multiple choice questions, 1 opinion, short answer question and asks students to draw the planets in relation to the sun. Answer Key provided.
Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level: 6.5
Grade level: Sixth Grade
Automated Readability Index: 5.5
Grade level: 8-9 yrs. old (Fifth graders) -
$10.00Buy NowThis is a fun, engaging unit on trains!
See description for details
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$2.50Buy NowThis Reading / Literacy resource offers guided reading questions and journal response activities that will help students enjoy and gain greater appreciation for Saint George and the Dragon, written by Margaret Hodges and illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman (1985 Caldecott Medal award winning book) During this unit, students will be asked to give opinions, answer factual questions about the story, use critical thinking skills and be creative!
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$1.50Buy NowThis resource offers reading comprehension and discussion questions about the story and characters.
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Peter Hatcher’s summer is not looking good. First of all, Peter’s brother Fudge—the five-year-old human hurricane–has a plan: to marry Peter’s sworn enemy, Sheila Tubman. Disgusting! Could anything be worse? Yes! Because Peter’s parents have decided to rent a summer house next door to the Tubman’s. Which means Peter will be stuck with Fudge and Sheila the Cootie Queen for three whole weeks! -
$1.50Buy NowThis resource offers reading comprehension and discussion questions about the story and characters.
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Little House in the Big Woods was Laura Ingall’s Wilder’s first book published and it inaugurated her Little House series. It is based on memories of her early childhood in the Big Woods near Pepin, Wisconsin, in the early 1870s.Interest: Grades 4 – 8 Reading Level: Grades 4 – 5 -
$1.50Buy NowStudents will love the challenge of this dice game and at the same time will be practicing and reinforcing vocabulary skills! This game has been designed for older students (4th, 5th, 6th grades) as they will need to be able to come up with words with up to 6 syllables.
Included: Student activity sheet and instructions (game play and scoring)
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$2.00Buy NowThis informational text resource centers around the life of 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln and created for 3rd-4th grades. It begins with his early life in Kentucky and progresses through his life touching on his family, his career as a lawyer, his presidency and finally his death by the hands of John Wilkes Booth. This is a cross-curricular resource and may be used for both Social Studies/History and Language Arts!
Automated Readability Index: 3
Grade level: 8-9 yrs. old (Third and Fourth graders) -
$2.00Buy NowThis informational resource on Abraham Lincoln is designed to give 5th – 7th graders practice reading and comprehending content area text. There are two pages of text which will cover Lincoln’s life beginning in Kentucky and progresses through his life touching on his family, his career as a lawyer, his election in 1860 and finally his death by the hands of John Wilkes Booth. After reading both the text and two charts (quick facts and fun facts), students will complete a comprehension worksheet. Finally, there is a fun postcard writing activity asking them to write to President Lincoln.
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$2.00Buy NowThis resource offers vocabulary work, reading comprehension and discussion questions about the story and characters.
This resource offers vocabulary work, reading comprehension and discussion questions about the story and characters.
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Out of the Dust is a verse novel by Karen Hesse, first published in 1997 and the recipient of the 1998 Newbery Award. A poem cycle that reads as a novel, Out of the Dust tells the story of a girl named Billie Jo, who struggles to help her family survive the dust-bowl years of the Depression. Fighting against the elements on her Oklahoma farm, Billie Jo takes on even more responsibilities when her mother dies in a tragic accident.
Interest level:
Grades 5 – 8Reading level:
Grades 5 – 8 -
$1.50Buy NowSet of 8 classroom posters naming different reading strategies:
- Author’s purpose
- Summarizing
- Connecting
- Compare and Contrast
- Inference
- Questioning
- Visualizing
- Predicting
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$2.00Buy NowThis resource offers vocabulary work, reading comprehension and discussion questions about the story and characters..
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Sarah, Plain and Tall was written by Patricia MacLachlan, and the winner of the 1986 Newbery Medal, the 1986 Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction and the 1986 Golden Kite Award. It explores themes of loneliness, abandonment, and coping with change.
Interest level:
Grades 4 – 8Reading level:
Grades 2 – 5 -
$1.25Buy NowThis resource offers reading comprehension and discussion questions about the story and characters.
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Any fan of Fudge knows that he never does anything halfway. And so it should come as no surprise that when he discovers the value of money, he goes whole hog, making his own “Fudge Bucks,” and thumbing through catalogs to choose his birthday presents years in advance. His older brother Peter, who’s just starting 7th grade, finds it all highly embarrassing, as usual. A wild and wacky beginning to a new school year.
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$2.00Buy NowStudents will read about the muscular system and learn facts such as how many muscles are in the body, what are muscle fibers, the three different types of muscles and much more. After reading and learning about the body / human anatomy, students will answer multiple choice questions.
Also included: A research and writing activity that may be assigned at your discretion!
Answer Key provided.
Reading level:
Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level: 5.3
Linsear Write Formula : 5.1 -
$2.00Buy NowThis resource offers vocabulary work, reading comprehension and discussion questions about the story and characters..
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Maniac Magee is a novel written by American author Jerry Spinelli and published in 1990. Exploring themes of racism and homelessness, it follows the story of an orphan boy looking for a home in the fictional Pennsylvania town of Two Mills. He becomes a local legend for feats of athleticism and fearlessness, and his ignorance of sharp racial boundaries in the town. It is popular in elementary school curricula, and has been used in scholarly studies on the relationship of children to racial identity and reading.Reading level: 5th Grade
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$2.00Buy NowThis resource offers reading comprehension and discussion questions about the story and characters as well as vocabulary activities. (25 pages – Answer Keys provided)
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This stirring and unforgettable novel from renowned author Katherine Applegate celebrates the transformative power of unexpected friendships. Inspired by the true story of a captive gorilla known as Ivan, this illustrated novel is told from the point of view of Ivan himself.
Having spent 27 years behind the glass walls of his enclosure in a shopping mall, Ivan has grown accustomed to humans watching him. He hardly ever thinks about his life in the jungle. Instead, Ivan occupies himself with television, his friends Stella and Bob, and painting. But when he meets Ruby, a baby elephant taken from the wild, he is forced to see their home, and his art, through new eyes.
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$3.00Buy NowEngaging, cross-curricular unit all about reindeer!
Includes:
- – Informational Text and worksheet (true/false)
- – Vocabulary work
- – Acrostic poetry
- – Venn diagrams
- – Map work
- – Reindeer anatomy
- – Mini-Book creation
- – Word Search
- – Informational Text and worksheet (true/false)
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$2.50Buy NowHelp students develop their reading comprehension while building vocabulary and content knowledge plus practice their writing skills using this cross-curricular resource based on jellyfish! You can use this resource to reinforce Language Arts skills while teaching about sea life – the jellyfish.
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$2.00Buy NowThis resource offers vocabulary work, reading comprehension and discussion questions about the story and characters.
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The Midwife’s Apprentice is a children’s novel by Karen Cushman. It tells of how a homeless girl becomes a midwife’s apprentice—and establishes a name and a place in the world, and learns to hope and overcome failure. This novel won the John Newbery Medal in 1996.
Interest level:
Grades 4 – 8Reading level:
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$3.50Buy NowThis Language Arts resource as been created to teach and reinforce an important comprehension skill: determining cause and effect (the relationship between events – actions and reactions) within the written text. They will also be instructed on ‘signal words’ such as because, do, since, if, as a result of and as.
In this resource, you’ll get…
- Classroom poster
- Student handout
- 13 student activity pages
- 3 assessments
- Answer Keys
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$2.00Buy NowThis resource offers vocabulary work, reading comprehension and discussion questions about the story and characters..
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A Year Down Yonder is a novel by Richard Peck published in 2000 and won the Newbery Medal in 2001.
The Great Depression is finally over in 1937, but times are still hard. Because her parents cannot care for her while they struggle to regain their financial footing back in Chicago, fifteen-year-old Mary Alice is sent to live with her Grandma Dowdel in a small town in southern Illinois…
Interest level: Grades 4 – 8 Reading level: Grades 4 – 8
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