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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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Henry's Freedom Box Read Aloud Book Companion Activities for Reading & Writing
Henry's Freedom Box narrates the compelling journey of Henry "Box" Brown escaping his life as a slave. This book is an engaging read-aloud to use when teaching about the Underground Railroad. In this resource, you get activities, task cards, graphic organizers, and a lapbook project in digital for Google Slides TM and in PDF. WHAT'S INCLUDED IN YOUR HENRY'S FREEDOM BOX UNIT?The unit includes the following skills. There is a version for printing and a color version for Google Drive TM. Schema B
4th - 6th
Creative Writing, Reading Strategies
CCSS, VA SOL
RL.4.6
, RL.4.9
, RL.5.2
+7
Writing a Memoir Writing Lesson
Studying and writing memoirs are an important part of a reading and writing program, and are very enjoyable. There are many wonderful examples of memoirs that teachers can use as mentor texts including books by Patricia Polacco, Cynthia Rylant, Eve Bunting, and Mem Fox. After learning about the memoir genre and analyzing a few, students are ready to write their own. WHAT'S INCLUDED IN THIS DOWNLOAD:This writing set will guide your students through the memoir writing process. The set includes
4th - 6th
Creative Writing, Writing
CCSS, VA SOL
W.4.3
, W.5.3
, W.5.3a
+27
When Marian Sang Read Aloud Activities Book Companion for Black History Month
When Marian Sang by Pam Munoz Ryan shares how Marian Anderson made her mark in our history. Marian broke barriers and shared her "velvety voice" with the world at a time when prejudice was widespread. HOW IS THE WHEN MARIAN SANG BUNDLE ORGANIZED?This reading and writing bundle includes PDFand Google slides TM comprehension activities that you can use with the book for mentor text lessons, in small groups, or with partners. It has a lapbook project for post reading, and a writing prompt that pul
4th - 6th
Creative Writing, Reading Strategies
CCSS, VA SOL
RL.3.1
, RL.3.2
, RL.3.3
+36
Test Prep for Reading Comprehension, Test Taking, Study Skills
This Test Prep Toolkit for reading is much more than passages and questions. These test taking strategies are really strategies your students need for LIFE. The set includes comprehension and vocabulary strategies that will help your students break down the text information into tasks they can confidently attack. The materials included were used successfully with my students last year in conjunction with weekly close reading sets, reader’s theater, and partner plays. This year, I am building no
3rd - 6th
Reading Strategies
Snowflake Bentley Think Aloud Lesson for Upper Elementary
Snowflake Bentley is a great book for the winter months, and the Think Aloud process is a valuable strategy. Use these printables with this title to walk your students through the process. Product includes a column notes page with text examples for group discussion and a Think Aloud bookmark that can be used with any text. For a post reading option, check out this Snowflake Bentley LapbookFor specific lesson detail, this blog post explains how the resource is used.
4th - 6th
Reading Strategies
Digital Guided Reading Binder for Google Slides TM
This Digital Guided Reading Binder for Google Slides includes materials addressing fiction and nonfiction strategies to use before, during, and after reading with any book. The table of contents is listed below, and sample pages are viewable in the preview file. The materials are interactive and most include written responses. Directions are included on how to use one slide or assignment at a time, and students can either print their finished assignments or submit them to you electronically th
3rd - 7th
Balanced Literacy, Creative Writing, Reading Strategies
Analyzing Poetry Discussion Guide for Any Poem
This poetry page can be used to help your students with analyzing poems that you choose. It is intended for upper elementary students working in pairs, in guided reading groups, or independently. I enjoyed using it with poems by Jack Prelutsky, Shel Silverstein, Brod Baggert, and Ken Nesbitt. Target skills include: Author's Purpose Theme Sensory Words and Imagery Rhyme Scheme Literary Devices and Poetry Frameworks How to get TPT credit to use on future purchases: ✱ Please go to your My P
4th - 6th
Poetry
Motivational Posters
Motivational Posters send positive messages to our students when displayed and/or projected and help students learn effort counts. These 28 posters include inspirational messages in a purple chevron and green polka dot pattern for soft color.. Print, laminate, and display in a group for added punch and focus or project for a morning message to encourage your students.
K - 12th
For All Subjects
Red Dirt Jessie by Anna Myers Novel Study
Red Dirt Jessie takes place during the Great Depression in Oklahoma and is a great choice if you are studying this period in social studies. The unit is 27 pages in length and does include an answer key. It is organized in a before, during, after reading style, and has specific focus skills for each reading section. The skills are listed below. Skills addressed with this unit include:prereading vocabulary cause/effect plot author's craft making connections questioning drawing conclusions charac
4th - 6th
Balanced Literacy, Literature, Reading Strategies
Back to School Lapbook Classroom Community Reflection Project
This Back to School and End of Year Lapbook is just plain fun and provides an open house display project at the start of the year and a keepsake for end of year. The beginning of the year is an exciting time, and it's great for your students to set goals and grow as a community of learners, and by the end of the year, you'll enjoy this project for reflection on the growth your kids made. Your kids will love making it, and with this project, you get two in one! Display it in the hallway for all
3rd - 6th
Writing
CCSS, VA SOL
CCRA.W.2
, CCRA.W.4
, CCRA.W.5
+19
Checking for Understanding Flipbook
This product is a flipbook for classroom management. It is easy to put together and something every student can use to privately signal the teacher his/her level of understanding.
To construct the flipbook, the teacher will make copies on colored cardstock or paper for the signal pages and white cardstock for the base. There are two options for construction-staple and glue according to the directions or use a binding machine to allow the student to flip back the tabs he/she doesn't need.
Fo
2nd - 8th
Fresh Baked Comprehension Graphic Organizers
This set of graphic organizers highlight the sweet things in fictional reading. The set includes 8 usable pages/organizers that can be used with any book. The set includes: reading task cards (12), a story map, a summarizer page, a character analysis page, a theme/author's message page, and an open ended writing page that can be used as a journal or with a writing prompt to go with any book. Enjoy!
2nd - 7th
Balanced Literacy, Reading Strategies
Alphabet Table Tent Flipbook
This product is a alphabet table tent flipbook for use in whole group or small group as the teacher reviews letter sounds. Students manipulate their table tents to reveal the appropriate letter to match the beginning or ending sounds of words or sounds the teacher produces. They are easy to put together and something every student can use to privately signal the teacher his/her response.
To construct the flipbook, the teacher will make copies on colored cardstock or paper for the alphabet page
PreK - 6th
Phonics & Phonological Awareness, Spelling
Responding to Fiction and Nonfiction
Are you looking for materials to supplement your guided reading books, independent reading materials, or class novel? These graphic organizers for fiction and nonfiction can be used to help your students record important information as they read. Many students fail to use during reading activities and need help with identifying what information they need to remember. The thought boxes identify what information is needed. The organizers also work well in helping students identify talking poin
3rd - 6th
Reading Strategies
Overused Words
This Parking Lot Game is intended to help your students learn to replace overused words with vivid synonyms. Students can play in pairs, or the teacher can divide into two teams. The first student/team to replace all the words in their parking lot wins. Easy to use and yet, it will help your kids expand their thinking and vocabulary.
4th - 6th
English Language Arts, Vocabulary
Dogs at School Writing Prompt
This writing prompt is meant to be paired with the bat books by Brian Lies. Each of these books is written in verses that have rhythm and rhyme. The writing is lots of fun, but it may be a little complicated for some, so I'd recommend working as a group project to avoid frustration to students who struggle with rhythm and rhyme. (and is honestly best used as enrichment)
4th - 6th
Creative Writing
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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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