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  • Child determining inferences

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    Inferences in Reading: Teach Students to Make Inferences

    Download for free! As you may have inferred...this is a critical reading skill! Making an inference involves using what…

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    Questions Before, During, and After Reading

    To encourage critical reading, teachers should ask students questions about the text before, during, and after they…

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    Activating Prior Knowledge

    A complete collection of resources for applying this critical reading strategy Help your students be good readers with…

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    Visualizing

    Learn and apply this critical reading instruction strategy Visualizing refers to our ability to create pictures in our…

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  • Who Am I: Character Traits Worksheet

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    Who Am I: Character Traits Worksheet

    Extends students' learning experience reading literature. Students will use this printable worksheet to describe in…

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    Identify Story Elements Lesson

    The ability to identify the elements of a story (plot, characters, setting, and theme) aids in reading comprehension,…

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  • Five Elements of Plot Graphic Organizer for Language Arts

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    Five Elements of a Plot

    Five elements of a story's plot (introduction, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution) provide the…

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    "The Fox and the Goat": A Lesson on Aesop's Fable

    Use a lesson that provides students with an opportunity to learn about the characters in a fable by investigating their…

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  • ELA Graphic Organizer Cause and Effect

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    Cause and Effect Graphic Organizer

    An essential graphic organizer for all ELA classes! Students are asked to identify cause and effect of a story with…

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  • Sharks Reading Warm-Up

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    Sharks Reading Warm-Up

    Students learn about sharks and improve their reading comprehension skills with a nonfiction reading passage and…

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  • Nelson Mandela Biography: A Reading Warm-Up

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    Nelson Mandela Biography: A Reading Warm-Up

    In this printable warm-up, students read a short biography on Nobel Peace Prize recipient Nelson Mandela and answer…

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  • Three Paragraph Main Idea and Details Chart

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    Three Paragraph Main Idea and Details Chart

    This graphic organizer will help your students identify the main idea and supporting facts in three paragraphs. It's…

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  • Event Map

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    Event Map

    Organizing the who, what, where, when, why, and how of an event is the goal of this graphic organizer. This printable is…

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  • Story Pyramid for Creative Writing

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    Story Pyramid

    Use a printable that contains instructions for using a story pyramid to describe important information from a story,…

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  • Using Mad Libs® in the Classroom

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    Using Mad Libs® in the Classroom

    Use Mad Libs® books to supplement your English language arts curriculum. They're a fun and engaging way to teach kids…

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    Skill Builders: Word Analogy Questions, Week 1

    Week 1: Word analogies to sharpen students' thinking skills and prepare them for standardized tests.

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  • Reading Warm-Up 155 for Gr. 5 & 6: Fantasy

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    Reading Warm-Up 155 for Gr. 5 & 6: Fantasy

    Spark students' imagination with the passage of fantasy fiction and reading comprehension questions in this printable…

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    Question-Answer Relationships

    Question-Answer Relationships, or QAR, is a reading comprehension strategy developed to encourage students to be active,…

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    Island of the Blue Dolphins

    Island of the Blue Dolphins tells the story of an American Indian girl stranded on an island, alone, for 18 years. This…

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    Establishing the Main Idea

    An important task of reading comprehension is to determine the importance and meanings of individual words, sentences,…

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    Main Idea and Supporting Details
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  • Three choice boards to support middle school students to demonstrate reading comprehension

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    English Language Arts Choice Board: Middle School Short Stories

    This resource contains three different choice boards that align with “All Summer in a Day” by Ray Bradbury, “The Fun…

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  • Scoring Rubric: Literary Analysis/Interpretation

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    Scoring Rubric: Literary Analysis/Interpretation

    The organization, elements of literary analysis/interpretation writing, grammar, usage, mechanics, and spelling of a…

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    Skill Builders: Word Analogy Questions, Week 19

    Week 19: Word analogies to sharpen students' thinking skills and prepare them for standardized tests.

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  • Changes for Women Reading Warm-Up

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    Changes for Women Reading Warm-Up

    Read about the history of women's rights in the United States. This printable warm-up includes a nonfiction passage…

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