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Welcome to Comprehension Connection, an ELA focused shop for grades K-5 established in 2012. Here, you'll find a large assortment of mentor text units with a focus on social emotional learning, comprehension and writing, poem of the week and partner play resources for building fluency, literacy projects and anchor charts for comprehension, author studies, and more.
Carla Fedeler, owner of Comprehension Connection, is a licensed reading specialist with 27 years of public education experience in the regular classroom, as a K-5 Title 1 reading interventionist, as an ITRT (one year), and finally a literacy coach. Carla has been designing literacy resources for over 10 years, and since retirement, she's delved into web development with a focus on educational and small business websites.
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Summer Reading Lists for Grades K through 5
These summer reading lists are perfect for printing and sending home with your end of year report cards. The lists aren't huge, but certainly they can get your students rolling and help them avoid summer learning loss. Plus, this resource now comes with a collection of printables that you can share with your parents for discussion. If parents want to duplicate them, they can be used with multiple books too.WHAT'S INCLUDED IN THE SUMMER READING LISTS RESOURCE?In this resource, you'll find a list
K - 5th
Reading
Fall Winter Spring Poem of the Week for Kindergarten and 1st, Shared Reading
This Poem of the Week bundle for Fall, Winter, and Spring offers many opportunities for K/1 readers. Use them for shared reading, working on alphabet recognition and sounds, CVC words, high frequency words, recognizing white space and punctuation, and on vocabulary building. A Poem of the Week routine helps kids grow reading skills and easily includes all students from low to high. HOW THIS POEM OF THE WEEK YEARLY BUNDLE HELPS STUDENTS:These short four lined poems can be extremely helpful with c
PreK - 1st
Poetry, Reading Strategies
CCSS, TEKS, VA SOL
RF.K.1
, RF.K.1a
, RF.K.1b
+15
Kindergarten Readiness Assessment Boom Cards, Kindergarten Screening Tool
When kindergarten students come in the door on day one, it's hard to know where to begin. This kindergarten readiness assessment will help you know. You'll find out what they know already. There is always a HUGE range. With this interactive kindergarten screening tool, you can see who knows colors and shapes, letters. This resource is self checking and includes audio directions. Your students can complete the screening with a parent volunteer or teaching assistant OR you can use it as a review
PreK - K
English Language Arts, Phonics & Phonological Awareness, Reading Strategies
CCSS, VA SOL
RF.K.2a
, RF.K.3a
, RF.1.3b
+4
RTI Reading Assessment and Screening Tool for Kindergarten
Monitoring progress and screening students in kindergarten can be challenging. This kindergarten RTI Reading Assessment and Screening Tool is just what you need to KNOW what your students know and what to work on next. You can give all or part of this tool and use it to make the best decisions for your small group lessons. WHAT SKILLS ARE ADDRESSED WITH THE RTI READING ASSESSMENT AND SCREENING TOOL FOR KINDERGARTEN:Teachers can use this resource at the beginning of the year to screen kindergart
PreK - K
Other (ELA), Phonics & Phonological Awareness, Reading Strategies
CCSS
RF.K.1d
, RF.K.2
, RF.K.2a
+4
Fall Poem of the Week for Kindergarten and First Grade, Pocket Chart Activities
Poem of the Week is not just for older readers. This bundle includes 14 poetry sets for early readers. Teachers can include the sets with themed units and use the poems to work on alphabet recognition and sounds, CVC words, high frequency words, recognizing white space and punctuation, and on vocabulary building. A Poem of the Week routine helps kids grow reading skills and easily includes all students from low to high. HOW THIS RESOURCE HELPS STUDENTS:These short four lined poems can be extre
PreK - 1st
Poetry, Reading Strategies
CCSS, VA SOL
RF.K.1
, RF.K.1a
, RF.K.1b
+12
Nursery Rhyme Activities, Concept of Print, Rhyming Words, Pocket Chart Lessons
Nursery rhymes are so helpful for introducing rhyme, beginning sounds, and so many other early reader skills. This Nursery Rhymes Bundle includes *12* sets formatted for working on building a concept of print. With each set, students work on accurate tracking, beginning sounds recognition, sightwords, rhyming, reading white space, and punctuation. HOW PREK-FIRST GRADE TEACHERS CAN USE THE NURSERY RHYME SETS:Each of the rhymes are set up like the preview. You get it in color and black and white
PreK - 1st
Poetry, Reading Strategies
CCSS, VA SOL
RF.K.1
, RF.K.2
, R.K.6.b
+5
Word Building Tool Kit
Word building is so important in the development of phonics skills. This tool kit can be used to provide students with the manipulatives you need. The set includes printable phoneme cards that can be used for making words, push it say it, cards for modeling rhyme, or teacher made games. Print on colored paper as outlined, laminate, and cut apart. Then, store them in a small tackle box for guided reading or add velcro to create student phoneme folders WHAT'S INCLUDED IN THIS WORD BUILDING TOOL
K - 4th
Reading Strategies, Spelling
Also included in: Letter Name Word Sorts and Activities Yearly Bundle
Growing Vegetable Soup by Lois Ehlert Activities, Lessons, Graphic Organizers
Growing Vegetable Soup is a great book for the beginning reader, and these comprehension focused pages in DIGITAL and PDF will help your students connect to and comprehend the story. Skills are presented in a before, during, and after activities for the book. What's included:️ schema builder about gardening️tier 2 vocabulary intro and practice️sequencing events️making connections️thick and thin questions️writing about reading (how to plant a garden)️visualizing️categorizing information (vocabu
K - 2nd
Balanced Literacy, Reading Strategies, Writing
VA SOL
R.1.9.i
, R.1.8.b
, R.1.9.g
+8
Also included in: Lois Ehlert Author Study Bundle, Lessons, Activities, and Projects
Biscuit by Alyssa Capucilli Activities
Biscuit is a lovely book and a great choice for beginning guided reading. This PRINT AND GO unit will help your students get plenty of reading practice as close reading routines are implemented. It's organized in a BEFORE/DURING/AFTER format for consistent skill modeling and practice. WHAT'S INCLUDED IN THIS UNIT?✱ prereading schema builder about dogs ✱ vocabulary organizer and word cards✱ fiction and nonfiction anchor chart ✱ fiction vs nonfiction text evidence and opinion✱ making comparisons b
K - 1st
Balanced Literacy, Literature, Reading Strategies
CCSS, VA SOL
RL.1.1
, RL.1.2
, RL.1.3
+12
Also included in: Beginning Reader Book Bundle
Apple Poem of the Week for Kindergarten and First Grade Bundle Sample
This Apple Poem of the Week set is perfect to use in September during apple picking season! The set has everything you need from teaching charts, to the poem on sentence strips for modeling with and without touch points, the poem in book form and a printable of the poem for your students' poetry anthologies. Having a concept of word is the sign a child is ready to read, and including Concept of Word lessons into the language arts routine is very important for kindergarten (and first grade) teach
PreK - 1st
Reading Strategies
CCSS, VA SOL
RF.K.1a
, RF.K.1b
, RF.K.1c
+9
Beginning Reader Book Bundle
This bundled set of beginning reader book companions will make planning so much easier for the K-1 teachers. The companions include vocabulary and comprehension activities your students can use in Guided Reading Groups, Literature Circles, or with a partner. Titles include the following: Biscuit by Alyssa CapicilliBiscuit and the Little Pup by Alyssa CapicilliBiscuit and the Big City by Alyssa CapicilliMittens by Lola SchaeferFollow Me, MIttens by Lola SchaeferThe Fall Festival by Mercer Mayer,
K - 2nd
Balanced Literacy, Literature, Reading Strategies
Beginning Sounds Sorting Mats Boom Cards, Picture Sorting by Sound
Identifying the beginning sounds of words is an essential kindergarten skill, but handling tons of manipulatives for modeling can be cumbersome. Thankfully, most kids love tech and you'll have all eyes on you as you model using your Smartboard with these Boom Card activities! HOW TEACHERS USE THE BEGINNING SOUNDS SORTING MATS:Once the resource is loaded using the fast pin link, you can click and drag the pictures to the correct beginning sound as you name the picture. With 25 mats and a nice c
Kindergarten
Phonics & Phonological Awareness, Reading, Spelling
CCSS
RF.K.1d
, RF.K.2d
Biscuit and the Little Pup Book Companion
Biscuit and the LIttle Pup is one of my favorites for beginning readers. This PRINT AND GO unit will help your students get plenty of reading practice as close reading routines are implemented. It's organized in a BEFORE/DURING/AFTER format for consistent skill modeling and practice. WHAT'S INCLUDED IN THIS UNIT?✱ prereading schema builder about dogs✱ vocabulary organizer and word cards✱ themed poem✱ story retelling (framed paragraph)✱ visualizing✱ making connections organizer✱ summarizing infor
K - 1st
Balanced Literacy, Reading, Reading Strategies
CCSS, VA SOL
RL.K.1
, RL.K.2
, RL.K.3
+19
Also included in: Beginning Reader Book Bundle
Winter Poem of the Week for Kindergarten First Grade Emergent Reader Activities
This Winter Poem of the Week bundle will be lots of fun for your K or 1 readers. You get 12 poetry sets for early readers with lots of activity options. Teachers can include the sets with themed units and use the poems to work on alphabet recognition and sounds, CVC words, high frequency words, recognizing white space and punctuation, and on vocabulary building. A Poem of the Week routine helps kids grow reading skills and easily includes all students from low to high. HOW THIS RESOURCE HELPS ST
PreK - 1st
Poetry, Reading Strategies
CCSS, VA SOL
RF.K.1
, RF.K.1a
, RF.K.1b
+12
Biscuit Visits the Big City Activities
Biscuit Visits the Big City is a lovely book and a great choice for beginning guided reading. This PRINT AND GO unit will help your students get plenty of reading practice as close reading routines are implemented. It's organized in a BEFORE/DURING/AFTER format for consistent skill modeling and practice. WHAT'S INCLUDED IN THIS UNIT?✱ prereading schema builder about living in the city✱ vocabulary organizer and word cards✱ comparing cities and counties✱ puppy poetry for fluency practice✱ visualiz
K - 1st
Literature, Reading, Reading Strategies
CCSS, VA SOL
RL.K.1
, RL.K.2
, RL.K.3
+22
Also included in: Beginning Reader Book Bundle
Rhyming Intervention Resource for RTI and Small Group Lessons
Rhyming is an important kindergarten concept. This rhyming intervention resource will help teaching assistants, parent tutors, and the classroom teacher with addressing how to rhyme with your struggling students. The rhyming intervention resource was written with clear step by step directions for anyone to pick up and use. Game boards and manipulatives can be placed in sheet protectors for storage behind the plan so that they can be pulled from a binder and used with individuals or small groups
PreK - 1st
Phonics & Phonological Awareness, Reading Strategies
CCSS, VA SOL
RF.K.2a
, R.K.3.b
Lois Ehlert Author Study Bundle, Lessons, Activities, and Projects
This Lois Ehlert Author Study is a great choice for a first or second grade. Lois Ehlert's books offer animal connections which kids love. This author study bundle includes FOUR TITLES plus a lapbook project focused on Lois Ehlert's life. It includes Waiting on Wings, Feathers for Lunch, Growing Vegetable Soup, and Nuts for You. The focus with all titles is comprehension. The activities are easy to use and engaging. WHAT'S INCLUDED IN THE LOIS EHLERT AUTHOR STUDY:schema builders for each to
K - 2nd
Balanced Literacy, Reading Strategies, Writing
CCSS, VA SOL
RL.1.1
, RL.1.2
, RL.1.3
+17
Poem of the Week Shared Reading & Fluency Poetry Activities | Year Long Bundle
This Poem of a Week bundle includes 78 POETRY SETS and ~1000+ PAGES. You get seasonal poems, nursery rhymes, and animal themed poetry sets. Use them for shared reading to model connecting voice to print, working on beginning sounds, identifying words in text, building sightword fluency, and identifying words in isolation. You have ample options to choose from for an entire year of learning fun. Great for tutoring, small group, workstations, and for parents to have at home. WHAT IS INCLUDED WI
PreK - 1st
Poetry, Reading Strategies
CCSS, VA SOL
RF.K.1
, RF.K.1a
, RF.K.1b
+12
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom CVC Word Builder Boom Cards
If you've been searching for fun activities to use with the book Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, check out this engaging word building game for CVC words. Your students will love being able to click and drag the correct letters to make CVC words in this digital activity. It includes 25 colorful task cards that can be used on laptops, ipads, and Smartboards. There is audio support, so your students can be completely independent. Things to Know:1) To use Boom Cards, you must be connected to the Interne
K - 1st
Phonics & Phonological Awareness
CCSS, VA SOL
RF.K.2d
, RF.K.3a
, RF.1.3
+5
Alphabet Activities, Beginning Sounds, Letter Names, Letter Sounds, RTI
Knowing the alphabet is a must for kindergarten students, but it isn't an easy task for some. This RTI kit for letter recognition and sounds will help kindergarteners who are needing support with letter names, writing letters, letter sounds, blending sounds and segmenting words. HOW ARE THESE ALPHABET ACTIVITIES ORGANIZED?This set is intended to help teaching assistants, parent tutors, and the classroom teacher with addressing student deficits with letters in student names, letter recognition,
PreK - K
Balanced Literacy, Other (ELA)
CCSS
RF.K.1
, RF.K.2
, RF.K.3
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About the store
Experience
Welcome to Comprehension Connection, an ELA focused shop for grades K-5 established in 2012. Here, you'll find a large assortment of mentor text units with a focus on social emotional learning, comprehension and writing, poem of the week and partner play resources for building fluency, literacy projects and anchor charts for comprehension, author studies, and more.
Carla Fedeler, owner of Comprehension Connection, is a licensed reading specialist with 27 years of public education experience in the regular classroom, as a K-5 Title 1 reading interventionist, as an ITRT (one year), and finally a literacy coach. Carla has been designing literacy resources for over 10 years, and since retirement, she's delved into web development with a focus on educational and small business websites.
Teaching style
Because Carla's primary responsibility has been with reading intervention for struggling readers, her instructional methods are based upon the individual needs of the student. Her lessons are hands-on, active, and thoughtful. She encourages lots of oral discussion with high level questioning, and she includes writing throughout the reading process. She LOVES interactive notebooks, anchor charts, mentor texts, and working with anything fun and active.
Awards & shining teacher moments
In the past, Carla has received several educational grants totaling almost five thousand dollars to purchase books for classroom lending libraries and literacy workstation resources for her schools lending room. With these funds combined with Title 1 reading funding, she was able to add nearly 3000 books to her school's classroom libraries. She has also presented many workshops through her involvement with the Virginia State Literacy Association and with her local reading council where she served in multiple leadership capacities including web development, social media, secretary, vice president and president. Now, she supports other TPTers with web design and development and continues presenting in workshops both for teachers and TPTers.
My own education history
Carla has a bachelor's degree in Elementary Education from Iowa State University and a Master's degree in Reading Education from the University of Virginia.
Additional biographical information
You can follow Carla's website, Comprehension Connection, for lesson ideas and to learn more about Carla's teaching resources. Be sure to grab exclusive freebies from her website by joining her email list. Carla looks forward to sharing with you regularly there as well as through the notes to followers on TPT.
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