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12 task cards allow students to practice identifying the main idea and details of a passage- with zombies! Any teacher of intermediate grade students knows that they can have some unique interests. Keep them motivated while practicing main idea and details with these task cards about zombies. Each task card contains a short passage followed by a multiple choice question about main idea or supporting details. The passages vary in style and whether the main idea is right there or has to be inf

Tired of giving the same-old matching or fill in the blank vocabulary work sheets? Here are four game sheets that you can print, laminate, and put in your centers. These games are meant for vocabulary practice. They are great for reading programs that teach a set list of vocabulary words each week. They are also great for content area vocabulary! These games work with as few as two players and as many as a whole class! Each game requires vocabulary word cards. Simply use the words you are

FUN! Language Arts Menus for independent work with a fun diner theme! Activities for vocabulary, comprehension, spelling, writing, and fluency practice! This bundle contains ALL 5 of my Language Arts Menus: 1-4 for fiction readers and a nonfiction menu at 20 percent off the individual price! The activities assume the students are reading SOMETHING, whether that be a novel, picture book, or something from their textbook. Simply print, laminate, and let students choose their work. This downl

10 task cards allow students to practice author's purpose with zombies! Teachers of intermediate students know that they have unique interests. Keep them motivated while practicing author's purpose with these task cards about zombies. These task cards ask whether the author of a short passage is trying to persuade, inform, or entertain. And, I promise, minimal mention of eating brains. If you have purchased my main idea zombie cards, a few of the passages will sound familiar. There are als

These task cards are a great review for students on the important parts of nonfiction text. They can be used in a center, in a small group, or even as a whole class. Simply read a nonfiction book or article, pull out a task card, and discuss! Since these cards work with any piece of nonfiction, you can use them all year long! The task cards go over concepts like text features (glossary, table of contents, headings and subheadings, photographs, charts and graphs), text structure (compare

This matching game contains 20 cards that help reinforce what regular possessives should look like. Simply match the card with the sentence and underlined word to the correct corresponding possessive form. This activity could be used during your centers, small group work, or for fast finishers. I created this game for my 4th grade intervention students. I hope your kiddos enjoy it as much as mine do!

A menu of fun, independent activities specifically designed for your nonfiction readers! This is the fifth in the series of fun, funky menus you can use to give your students choice in independent work. This menu addresses skills such as fluency, vocabulary, spelling, comprehension, and more! Each menu item is given a "price," and the menu has a fun diner theme. This menu is part of a bundle! See it here: http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Language-Arts-Menu-Bundle-FIVE-Menus-for-I

This Language Arts Menu is a fun and funky way of giving students some choice in their independent work. The activities support important reading and writing skills including vocabulary, spelling, understanding prefixes, figurative language, narrative writing, persuasive writing, comprehension, and more! Each activity is given a "price," and the menu has a fun diner theme. This menu is part of a bundle. See it here: http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Language-Arts-Menu-Bundle-FIVE-Me

This is the second in a series of menus for independent work in Language Arts. This menu is part of a bundle! Check it out here: http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Language-Arts-Menu-Bundle-FIVE-Menus-for-Independent-Literacy-Work This Language Arts Menu is a fun and funky way of giving students some choice in their independent work. The activities support important reading and writing skills including vocabulary, spelling, understanding prefixes, figurative language, narrative writin

This mini-bundle includes two items: my best-selling nonfiction task cards and a nonfiction scavenger hunt. The task cards are a great review for students on the important parts of nonfiction text. They can be used in a center, in a small group, or even as a whole class. Simply read a nonfiction book or article, pull out a task card, and discuss! Since these cards work with any piece of nonfiction, you can use them all year long! The task cards go over concepts like text features (glossary, tab

A scavenger hunt through nonfiction text! This activity allows students to explore text structure and text features of nonfiction text. They will search through book and articles for nonfiction features including diagrams, cross-sections, photographs, and glossaries and nonfiction strucutres including compare and contrast, cause and effect, and facts and opinion. Try pairing students up and encouraging them to race against the clock to find as many items as they can. This activity is aligned

This is the third menu in the series of Language Arts Menus for independent work, fast-finishers, or extensions for high-level learners. Your students have a variety of options covering many aspects of reading and writing, including vocabulary, comprehension, fluency, word parts, spelling, figurative language, and more! This menu is part of a bundle. Check it out here: http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Language-Arts-Menu-Bundle-FIVE-Menus-for-Independent-Literacy-Work To imp

This is the fourth in a series of menus for independent Language Arts activities! This menu is part of a bundle. Check it out here: http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Language-Arts-Menu-Bundle-FIVE-Menus-for-Independent-Literacy-Work This Language Arts Menu is a fun and funky way of giving students some choice in their independent work. The activities support important reading and writing skills including vocabulary, spelling, understanding prefixes, figurative language, narrative wr

This "I have, who has" card game is a great activity to solidify the relationship between decimals and percents. Students will practice converting decimals to percents and percents to decimals. Simply deal out the cards and start with the student who has the card that reads "I have 0. Who has the percent that equals 0.8?" The students will look at their cards and answer the question until it gets back to the first student. Time your students and challenge them to get through the cards faste

This is a quick activity that gives students an authentic reason to reflect on their day! During your closing circle or end of the day routine, have students brainstorm things that happened that day. Write their ideas in the bubbles on the letter to give to their absent classmates. Or pass the pen for a great interactive writing activity! It's also an example of friendly letter format. The letter then doubles as a great cover sheet for make-up work and other pa

I whipped up these icons for use in our 4th grade literacy centers. There are icons for the following centers: buddy reading, writing, vocabulary, computer, and language arts. There are 8 1/2" by 11" icons for hanging around your room and mini icons for a pocket or rotational chart. Enjoy, and please rate!