Nonfiction Reading Interactive Notebooks for Nonfiction Text - Common Core Aligned Grades 4-8 This reading interactive notebook is the nonfiction (informational text) companion for my TpT top seller Interactive Reading Literature Notebooks. This is the *original* Interactive Reading Notebooks for Informational Text! Over 32,000 copies sold! -------------------------------------------------------------- After learning about interactive notebooks two summers ago, I resolved to use this techniq

***************************************Picture of the Day now available in Volume 2.Picture of the Day now available in Volume 3 (Google Slides compatible) posted 8/24/2020.***************************************This Picture of the Day product is a great way for students to practice three very important reading skills - observing details by being able to describe them and making inferences about what you notice and observe based on what you see and what you already know. Observing, describing an

Dig deeply into the text for reading comprehension and close reading practice with these high-interest, standards-based reading passages written by a published nonfiction children’s author with more than 100 books in print.What's Included?60 Printable passages (Each with 2 levels! 120 passages total.)Printable passages with QR codes for audio supportGoogle Slides digital versionGoogle Slides digital version with audio supportTpT Easel Activity with Audio Support (If you don't want the audio supp

How do you get your students enjoy writing? This is a question that I asked myself for years! After being in the classroom for 8 years, I had the idea of giving my students a say in what they would be writing. This idea changed it all!PLEASE TAKE TIME TO VISIT MY DETAILED PREVIEW ABOVE!By offering a variety of topics that they could choose to learn and write about, I found that my students weren't just writing, they were asking to write! I filled my bulletin board with a "writing menu." It allow

This resource includes all standards including reading comprehension (literature and informational), writing, language/grammar, fluency, speaking and listening.These are COMPLETE 400+ pages of Assessments and Teaching Notes for ALL English Language Arts Standards for 5th Grade. These will cover your entire year! Use them for more than just assessments. They are a perfect supplement to your English Language Arts Curriculum.·These will work with ANY reading program and allow teachers to conduct a

Are you looking to expand your collection of short informational text perfect for close reading? Text that you and your students can read and reread in one session? If so, then I think you will love this first volume of articles in a new Informational Text series of mine called Hello 411. I wrote and designed these informational text articles for my students because I was looking for text that was short, interesting, looked like a real article with real photographs and were good examples of dif

Your students will learn about the Northeast, Southeast, Midwest, Southwest, and West regions of the United States with this bundle of five units.This bundle includes both printable and digital options. If you would like a printable, paper-based unit, check out my Five Regions Unit Bundle, or you can get the digital options only.Each region includes a 6-page informational text packet that can be used as a "textbook chapter" when teaching about the region. While reading the complex text, your stu

Reading responses do not have to be challenging when you can use sentence stems to get you started! These reading response posters are great as a wall display, as a reference ring, or for student interactive notebooks. There are 12 categories that include over 80 sentence starters in large and mini size.Each chart gives students multiple ways to begin their written response to eliminate starting each response the same way. These charts will also assist all students (general education, special ed

This 5th Grade Spiral Reading resource is perfect for Reading HOMEWORK, Reading MORNING WORK, or a DAILY READING REVIEW! These professionally written, on-level passages and text-dependent questions build in complexity each week, as more skills are introduced. All questions are EDITABLE and easy to differentiate to fit your students' needs.✪ CLICK HERE to see more SUBJECTS & GRADE LEVELS!✪ CLICK HERE to see the DIGITAL VERSION!★★SAVE $$ with these BUNDLES★★5th Grade Language Arts BUNDLE: Spi

Make Close Reading Easy with this TOOLKIT! It's jam-packed with posters, graphic organizers, discussion starters, writing prompts and plenty of close reading strategies and teaching tips. Check out the preview to see more!These resources will work with any informational (nonfiction) text or passage and can address all of the Common Core RI standards. Use these materials for your entire lesson or supplement the close reading materials you already have. Use them in a variety of ways: individuallyi

This Inferencing Activity bundle is a complete pack of resources to help you teach your students how to make and defend inferences. This resource was created to align with the Common Core Standards for 4th and 5th grade Language Arts. They teach students what an inference is, and how to use their background knowledge and text clues to make an inference. No Prep! Just Print & Teach!!!This Resource Includes...✔ One page of student notes/explanation. Can be added to any Reading Notebook!✔ 3

This 3-day Making Inferences Mini-Unit provides numerous opportunities to develop the skill of inferring. Through creative activities like Inference Charades, Top Secret Tips Puzzle, “Inside the Principal’s Files,” and Whose Locker is This?, students develop their inferring skills while they are actively engaged in their learning. Direct instruction on the reading comprehension skill combined with the analysis of five separate inferencing reading passages further develop students’ ability to a

This guided reading response set includes 15 Reading Response Stem Cards that cover a variety of reading skills and strategies. Students will stay engaged while using sticky notes! Great for literacy centers and independent reading, too! Looking for more skills/strategies on these cards? Check out my 2nd set! 15 Reading Response Stem Cards - 2nd Edition for 15 more cards!*Update* This resource now comes DIGITAL compatible with Google Slides for no additional charge. If you are using a different

Looking for a way to help your students make meaningful inferences using nonfiction text? You'll love this print and digital ready-to-teach complete unit with 7 passages (historical, scientific, and technical), 3 sets of task cards, posters, games, and fun activities. Each learning activity will reinforce the importance of making inferences as a reading comprehension strategy. The scaffolded resources and teacher notes provide lots of helpful tips to make the unit easy for you to teach and manag

This Step-by-Step Text Evidence unit is a complete, STANDARD-BASED unit with a variety of activities scaffolded to help students learn an effective approach to analyze text and increase reading comprehension. Through anchor charts, modeling, mentor text, differentiated informative passages and interactive pages, practice, task cards, and graphic organizers, students will have a thorough understanding of how to provide text evidence. It now comes in PDF, POWERPOINT, AND GOOGLE. SEE THE PREVIEW!

This bundle contains multiple resources for teaching students how to find and cite text evidence when reading. In total, the bundle contains 15 original passages- some fiction and some nonfiction. The resources include:1. A 35-slide PowerPoint and companion handout (You have my permission to convert this PowerPoint to Google Slides, if you wish. Also, the companion handout includes both a printable version and a Google Slides version.)2. Anchor Chart Activity3. A Text Evidence Craftivity (1 f

Veterans Day Activities for Close Reading, includes DIFFERENTIATED versions and aligns with the Common Core standards you need to teach. This product includes 7 fun, challenging, and engaging reading activities that all have a Veterans Day theme and are aligned to Common Core.Please view the preview file for an in-depth look at these activities.Download, print, and you're ready to teach!Each activity includes multiple versions with varying levels of difficulty and scaffolding to help you accommo

Thanksgiving Activities for Reading and Writing, Grades 4-8 Forget your old Thanksgiving lesson plans! Your students do NOT want to hear about the first Thanksgiving, and they DEFINITELY do NOT want to write dull paragraphs about the things they are thankful for. Seriously. They DON’T! Spice up your lesson plans with this DIFFERENT differentiated unit for Thanksgiving! Your students will: • View and analyze a video clip about innovative humane practices at turkey farms and processing plants

*EDITABLE* A Year of Journal Prompts Bell Ringers or Exit Slips Bundle includes: Over 400 writing prompts aligned with the ELA Common Core Standards for reading, writing, speaking and listening, language, and history strands. The prompts are provided in Powerpoint and in Microsoft Word, so they are completely editable and perfect for distance learning! NOTE: If you are looking for a version of the prompts already formatted in Google Drive, they are here: JOURNAL PROMPTS in GOOGLE SLIDESThis IS i

ONE HUNDRED AND FIVE original 5th grade leveled close reading passages and activities that are PERFECT for teaching your students to become masters of close reading. There are sixteen standards-based earning targets in this product. Each learning target has 5 passages specifically dedicated to it except for all of the comparing learning targets because they all have a total of 10 passages so that your students can compare away!Each passage has 2 pages of carefully written and consistent close r

My BLOG POST about how to use this graph with your students. And, a follow-up blog post HERE.By now, we all know the Common Core emphasis on TB Q&A with TBE (text based questions and answers with text based evidence), but if you were at all like me, I couldn't get the kids to DO IT, until THIS, My TBE Graph. While I was racking my brain trying to figure how to get kids to speak and show where in the text they were finding the answer, with words and phrases FROM the text...it occurred to me

Give students three reading response choices each week that encourage higher order thinking and citing text evidence. This is now available as a PDF or as a digital copy through Google Files for use in Google Classroom!**************************************************************************************What's IncludedThere are 36 weeks worth of reading response questions. On each page, there are three questions or prompts. Students should select one prompt and write a response paragraph on the

This reading unit is designed to provide six weeks of detailed reading instruction! In addition to the traditional PDF file, I've also made all student pages available in digital copies for use in Google Classroom! This guided reading unit is 100% aligned to the Common Core Standards and MANY other state standards, including TEKS. The combination of all six of my reading units will teach all of the Reading Standards for Literature and Reading Standards for Information.***************************

Your students will LOVE these informational text worksheets, graphic organizers, & activities!This resource is designed to help your students get more out of their informational text (nonfiction) reading. These printables will work with any nonfiction book. The first 24 pages are printables that include pre-reading activities, exploring text features and practicing reading strategies such as finding the main idea, identifying vocabulary words, summarizing, and making connections. There are