About the store
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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Days with Frog and Toad by Arnold Lobel Activities, Digital and PDF
Days with Frog and Toad is a wonderful choice for spring reading. Arnold Lobel's books are a hit for the primary grades. This fun and easy to use comprehension focused bundle includes lots of options for close reading. HOW TO USE THE DAYS WITH FROG AND TOAD UNIT:The bundle includes activities for each chapter of the book. Each has a comprehension skill focus along with vocabulary words. You can use these activities in small groups, as mentor text lessons, for book clubs, or for interactive re
1st - 3rd
Reading Strategies
CCSS, VA SOL
RL.1.1
, RL.1.2
, RL.1.3
+29
Also included in: Arnold Lobel Author Study Activities and Lessons for 8 Titles
Frog and Toad Series Book Companions Bundle in Digital and PDF
The Frog and Toad series are a classic for first through third grade, and it's a huge help to have materials that highlight the skills with each book. This product has themes of friendship, overcoming challenges, and more. The bundle focuses on comprehension skills with each chapter and is organized in a before/during/after format for better understanding. It also includes a Boom Card deck for each of the four book titles. WHAT SKILLS ARE INCLUDED IN THE FROG AND TOAD SERIES BUNDLE?The focus i
1st - 2nd
Balanced Literacy, Reading Strategies
CCSS, VA SOL
RL.1.1
, RL.1.2
, RL.1.3
+23
Frog and Toad Together by Arnold Lobel Activities in Digital and PDF
Frog and Toad Together is perfect for 1st and 2nd graders. This grab and go unit has 40 pages in all focused on comprehension including colorful graphic organizers, foldables, and activities. HOW IS THE FROG AND TOAD TOGETHER UNIT HELP STUDENTS?Your students will build schema, practice vocabulary before reading, deepen understanding and practice comprehension skills and strategies throughout the reading process. Additionally, they will work on constructing written responses that make use of tex
1st - 3rd
Balanced Literacy, Reading Strategies
CCSS, VA SOL
RL.1.1
, RL.1.2
, RL.1.3
+19
Also included in: Arnold Lobel Author Study Activities and Lessons for 8 Titles
Mem Fox Author Study in Digital and PDF, Comprehension and Writing Lessons
This Mem Fox Author Study is just what you need to celebrate this famous Aussie author. It has all the materials you need to go with Wilfred Gordan McDonald Partridge, Koala Lou, Harriet, You Drive Me Wild, Possum Magic, and Shoes from Grandpa in both Digital and PDF formats. These wonderful books celebrate life in Australia and family relationships. This bundle includes guided reading materials that you can use with the books, writing options, and more. HOW TEACHERS CAN USE THIS MEM FOX AUTHOR
2nd - 4th
Balanced Literacy, Reading Strategies
CCSS, TEKS, VA SOL
RL.2.1
, RL.2.3
, RL.2.5
+41
Parts of a Story Activity Paper Bag Book Project Close Reading 2nd & 3rd Grade
This parts of a story project includes step by step lesson activities for any book. In the primary grades, learning the parts of a story is a common standard. This story elements paper bag book will help your students focus on the three parts of a story including characters, setting, and plot. You can use it with ANY fictional book. HOW TEACHERS CAN USE THIS PARTS OF A STORY PROJECT:This paper bag book project hits all of the teaching points for all three story elements with multiple practice op
1st - 3rd
Close Reading, Reading Strategies
CCSS, VA SOL
RL.1.2
, RL.1.3
, RL.1.7
+15
Reading Anchor Charts Reading Skills Comprehension Minilessons
Reading Anchor Charts take a long time to make and they are best done with your students. Sometimes it's nice though to have them for reference later. I love projecting these for review lessons, putting them in interactive notebooks, and for helping parents at home. You get them in B & W and in Color for Google Slides TM. HOW I USE THESE READING ANCHOR CHARTS IN MY LESSONS:In my classroom, I have projected as I am modeling a skill. I have also provided my students with printed copies that the
3rd - 5th
Balanced Literacy, Reading Strategies
CCSS, VA SOL
RL.4.1
, RL.4.2
, RL.4.3
+18
Frog and Toad All Year by Arnold Lobel Activities in Digital and PDF
Save time and keep your students focused on comprehension with these PRINT and Go activities for Frog and Toad All Year. It will help your students with using key comprehension strategies before, during, and after reading. Use it for small group strategy discussions as well as literature circles or book clubs. Each chapter focuses on a different comprehension standard. Check out the preview to see how the chapters are organized.WHAT'S INCLUDED IN THE FROG AND TOAD ALL YEAR UNIT?Story Vocabul
1st - 3rd
Balanced Literacy, Reading Strategies
CCSS, VA SOL
RL.2.1
, RL.2.2
, RL.2.3
+22
Also included in: Arnold Lobel Author Study Activities and Lessons for 8 Titles
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
Story Retelling Activity Paper Bag Book Project Close Reading 3rd & 4th Grade
Story retellings are an important sign of a student's comprehension. With this story reteling project, the skill is broken down into the key components students should attend to when reading culminating in summarizing skills. HOW THE RETELLING PAPER BAG BOOK WORKS:You can use it with your small group instruction, as practice in a workstation or for partner work. Students work on a section at a time and complete the book as they work with a given text. You can use them as guided practice to mode
2nd - 4th
Close Reading, Reading Strategies
CCSS, VA SOL
RL.1.2
, RL.1.3
, RL.2.2
+11
Characterization Activity - Character Traits & Analysis Paper Bag Book Project
This characterization project includes key teaching points for Common Core and VA SOLs. Characterization and character change are standards for most upper elementary grades. If you're looking for an engaging, hands-on way to help your students analyze characters, try my flexible and fun paper bag book character analysis project! HOW TEACHERS USE THIS CHARACTERIZATION PROJECT:This hands-on project, perfect for upper elementary language arts classes, guides students to really take a hard look at
3rd - 5th
English Language Arts, Reading Strategies
CCSS, VA SOL
RL.2.3
, RL.3.3
, RL.4.3
+6
Determining Importance Anchor Chart Handout
This printable anchor chart would be helpful to students during small group guided reading lessons. I am using it with my students to help them identify information in articles that we'd want to highlight or underline to remember and use later to answer questions or with graphic organizers.
2nd - 4th
Reading Strategies
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
Reading Comprehension Graphic Organizers in Digital and PDF Fiction & Nonfiction
Running guided reading groups and setting up literacy stations takes so much time. These comprehension activities for any book will provide teachers with GRAB AND GO tools for quick instruction and assessment of key reading skills. HOW TEACHERS CAN USE THESE GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS IN THE CLASSROOM:This bundle of organizers, in color for Google Slides TM and in B & W PDF, are PERFECT for GUIDED READING and STRATEGY GROUPS. Teachers can print a set for each student, laminate and bind them, put them
3rd - 5th
Reading Strategies
CCSS, VA SOL
RL.3.1
, RL.3.2
, RL.3.3
+30
Making Predictions Activity Paper Bag Book Project Close Reading 3rd & 4th Grade
This making predictions project is perfect for intervention lessons. Making and confirming predictions helps students stay engaged and improves comprehension. This paper bag project hits all of the teaching points to teach, guide, and practice making predictions. Students work with pictures, text, paragraphs, and with self selected books. HOW TEACHERS CAN USE THIS PREDICTIONS PROJECT IN THE CLASSROOM:This predictions activity can be used with your small group instruction, as practice in a works
2nd - 4th
Close Reading, Reading Strategies
CCSS, VA SOL
RL.2.1
, RL.3.1
, RL.4.1
+3
Theme Paper Bag Book, Theme activities, Theme Project
Teaching theme can be tricky, but with this hands-on theme project your students will be ENGAGED as you explain what theme is, how it's different from main idea, and as they discover common themes in literature. HOW IS THE PAPER BAG BOOK ORGANIZED?This project includes before, during, after activities that you can use with a variety of books. It works beautifully for strategy groups, in guided reading, as a work station activity, for test prep review, or as an at home project. Students write
3rd - 5th
Close Reading, Reading Strategies
CCSS, VA SOL
RL.4.9
, RL.5.2
, R.5.5.d
+1
Cause and Effect Activity Paper Bag Book Project Close Reading 3rd & 4th Grade
Cause and Effect Relationships are taught by nearly every teacher, but it's such a hard skill for students. This cause and effect project can help BREAK IT DOWN for your kids. It includes teaching materials, guided practice and independent work. It can be used as a work station, in interactive notebooks, with strategy groups, or as an at home project. WHAT DO STUDENTS LEARN WITH THIS CAUSE AND EFFECT PROJECT?Students explore the difference between cause and effect, work on signal words, create
3rd - 5th
Close Reading, Reading Strategies
CCSS, VA SOL
RL.3.1
, RL.3.3
, RL.3.5
+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
45 Vocabulary Activities for Any List Upper Elementary Context Clues Bundle
Having vocabulary activities at your finger tips is essential for teachers. We know that vocabulary development is critical to reading comprehension. With this one bundle, you have over 45 activities to choose in PDF AND in Digital for Google Slides from that are perfect for grades 2 through 5. You can use them all with ANY WORD LIST you have offering a great variety all year long. Print on bright paper for a polished look too. HOW TEACHERS CAN INCLUDE THESE VOCABULARY ACTIVITIES WITH ANY LE
2nd - 5th
Vocabulary, Writing
CCSS, TEKS, VA SOL
CCRA.L.4
, CCRA.L.5
, CCRA.L.6
+14
Drawing Conclusions Activity Paper Bag Book Project Reading Strategies Lesson
This drawing conclusions project guides your students through this challenging skill. Drawing conclusions is one of the toughest comprehension skills we teach because it requires such deep thinking. This hands-on drawing conclusions project will keep your students engaged and supported as you work on the skill. Children need lots of practice, and this is just what you need. HOW TEACHERS CAN USE THIS DRAWING CONCLUSIONS PROJECT:The project offers multiple instructional activities for teaching and
3rd - 5th
English Language Arts, Reading Strategies
CCSS, VA SOL
RL.3.1
, RL.3.3
, RL.3.7
+8
Reading Behaviors Checklist
Use this checklist to assess how your readers are progressing with the reading continuum. Checklist includes phonics, fluency, comprehension, and writing behaviors.
1st - 5th
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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
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