Reading Strategies Resources

Making Inferences is an important reading skill, and these inferencing task cards and digital activities can help!Each card/slide features a short passage with a text-dependent question plus a follow-up question asking students to explain their reasoning. Students will need to use clues within the text to infer their answers. WHAT’S INCLUDED:✍️ PRINT:24 Task Cards (prints 4 to a page)Black-lineColorRecording SheetsAnswer KeysDirections & SuggestionsDIGITAL:Google Slides (Regular & Self-c

These close reading comprehension passages are the perfect no-prep, standards-based, and high interest way to strengthen your students' close reading skills!This resource includes 100 passages professionally written by a published children's author with more than 100 books in print!WHAT’S INCLUDED:✍️ PRINT:60 printable passages with comprehension questions (Each with 2 levels! 120 passages total.)Teacher answer keysStudent annotation guide3 graphic organizers to use with the 5 included paired pa

Theme is a tricky skill to master, but this resource can make teaching theme easier for you and learning it easier for your students! WHAT’S INCLUDED:✍️ PRINT:16 Task Cards (prints 4 to a page)Black-lineColorRecording Sheets (3 different formats)Answer KeysDIGITAL:Google Slides (3 versions)Google Forms Assessment - Self-CheckingEasel Assessment - Self-CheckingDIFFERENTIATION OPTIONS:Digital or PrintChallenge Cards to extend the lessonReference PosterAudio Support Self-Checking and Short AnswerMu

Master Main Idea with these task cards! Build student confidence with this engaging and differentiated resource!WHAT’S INCLUDED: ✍️ PRINT:48 Task Cards (prints 4 to a page)Black-lineColorRecording SheetsAnswer KeysDIGITAL:4 Google Slides versions Easel Activity Easel Assessment - Self-CheckingDIFFERENTIATION OPTIONS:Digital or PrintChallenge Cards to extend the lessonAudio Support Two Sets: Multiple Choice or Short AnswerMultiple versions of the recording sheet includedGreat for 3rd, 4th, or 5t

Are you having a hard time teaching your students how to find the main idea and supporting details of a passage? Many students struggle with this skill. They tend to get confused and caught up in all the little details. These reading passages with graphic organizers are perfect for students to use as they practice finding the main idea and supporting details. After years of trial and error, I have found that this solution works time and time again.These PRINT & DIGITAL main idea practice act

This discounted BUNDLE of three resources includes 90 printable (and DIGITAL!) pages to teach, review, and apply reading and writing skills! The following resources are included in the bundle:Using Pictures to Teach Reading Skills40 pages teaching 8 key reading skills. Each reading skill has five pages devoted to it!Using Pictures to Review Mixed Reading Skills20 pages reviewing key reading skills. Each page reviews a variety of reading skills.Using Pictures to Teach Figurative Language15 pag

This Guided Reading resource is packed full of guided reading activities and lessons for your small group instruction! Just add books! This resource contains everything you need to conduct successful, engaging guided reading group lessons. NOTE: This resource underwent a HUGE revision on May 6, 2021, and it doubled in size. This best selling guided reading resource includes:Reading Strategy Charts for each strategy in pennant format and poster formatReading Strategy Chart for StudentsTrading Ca

Root Words, Prefixes, and Suffixes - Greek and Latin Roots Vocabulary Interactive Notebook and Vocabulary ActivitiesThis Interactive Vocabulary Notebook is full of dynamic activities for teaching Greek and Latin roots, prefixes, and suffixes. Please see the preview file for a list of the specific roots, prefixes, and suffixes included!These interactive notebook activities can be used along with ANY vocabulary program - teach them in whatever order you like. Or, I've included a suggested pacing g

Reading interventions don't have to be time-consuming. Quick, easy, and specific activities can help students achieve their reading goals! My Reading Comprehension Interventions resource is just that! Digital and Print are both available! Each page is designed to be completed in no more than 10 minutes! There are 120 student pages with 12 different reading skills included. Each student page comes with a 1/2 page teacher lesson plan. (60 pages of lesson plans) This is great for volunteers, s

This bundle contains a full FORTY weeks of daily reading skill review. It is just what you need for consistent spiral review of reading skills throughout the year.You save 20% by buying bundled!This valuable resource contains a full year's worth of reading skill review, plus extra weeks for homework, test prep, and more! Engage your students in a daily review of 17 key reading skills with this *HUGE* Reading Skill of the Day Weekly Journal. Included in the file you will find:• 80+ Pages of Print

Inferencing is such a challenging skill to master! Use these two sets of 40 task cards (80 cards total) that help students practice making inferences and inferencing. The first 20 cards have pictures that students make inferences from. The next 20 cards have short stories that students make inferences from.There are TWO kinds of task cards included:20 Picture Task Cards (Make an inference from a picture)20 Story Task Cards (Make an inference from a story)The following different versions of thi

This is a year-long bundle of 576 differentiated 2nd grade reading comprehension passages and questions on three different levels. These reading fluency passages are a game changer! Digital 2nd grade reading comprehension passages and questions are also included! ⭐️Download the preview file to see each title!⭐️Want to improve reading fluency?Each of the 2nd grade reading comprehension passages include a word count and a fluency tracker. Perfect for repeated readings and reading fluency practice.

Teach students high-frequency words with the Heart Word Method. Using orthographic mapping strategies, this science of reading-aligned, NO PREP Heart Word Resource teaches students to sound out the parts of irregular words that do follow phonics rules.  Students then only need to learn a small portion of the word which is the “tricky part” by heart.⭐️ Get a FREE SAMPLE of this resource here! ⭐️This resource is science-based and includes editable teaching slides, printable student activities and

Inside you will find 60 kindergarten comprehension passages! These passages are great for kinders and would also be suitable for pre-k or first graders depending on how you use them. There is a lot of variety included. Please check the images and preview to see IF these passages will work for your students.The passages are set up into three categories...First 20 passages: Basic story with 3 questions. The students are given two answers to choose from for each question.Second 20 passages: Basic

Provide targeted sight word and fluency phrase practice with these booklets! Each booklet contains 100 Fry's words. All five booklets track 500 Fry's sight words with corresponding fluency phrases. Each booklet gets increasingly difficult. According to Fry's, these words span from K-5. Meet the needs of your varied levels of readers! Easy to put together, easy to track! These would work very well with a data binder and student-led learning too! There are master lists for easy teacher refe

Do your students struggle to find the theme of a story? Theme can be a difficult skill for students to master but it doesn't have to be! Teaching theme with fables makes finding themes in literature a little easier. In this resource, students will learn how to explain how the theme is conveyed through morals, lessons, and key details in fables. Students will quickly and easily be able to determine the message or central idea found in a story that the author is trying to convey.Eliminate the conf

Ever have students who are just not learning their high-frequency sight words fast enough, despite everything you've tried? How about students who can read sight words on flashcards, but have difficulty recognizing them in context? These cards provide fluency, recognition, and sight word practice in context!⭐️⭐⭐️⭐️⭐️"THANK YOU! This is such a fantastic resource, especially for a first-year teacher! I feel like I have a million things to learn and keep track of, and this resource made my life a l

Summarizing nonfiction texts can be so hard for students! Give them lots of practice with these 24 informational task cards! Use in a print or digital format!WHAT’S INCLUDED:✍️ PRINT:24 Task Cards (prints 4 to a page)Black-lineColorRecording SheetsAnswer KeysDIGITAL:Google SlidesEasel ActivityDIFFERENTIATION OPTIONS:Digital or PrintChallenge Cards to extend the lessonAudio Support Multiple versions of the recording sheet includedGreat for 3rd, 4th, 5th, or 6th grade! CHECK OUT THE PREVIEW TO SEE

These 32 Informational text structures task cards are designed to help your students practice identifying five different non-fiction text structures: description, sequence (sometimes called chronological), compare and contrast, cause and effect, and problem and solution.WHAT’S INCLUDED:✍️ PRINT:32 Task Cards (prints 4 to a page)Black-lineColorRecording SheetsAnswer KeysDIGITAL:Google SlidesEasel ActivityEasel Assessment - Self-CheckingDIFFERENTIATION OPTIONS:Digital or PrintChallenge Card to ext

Transform your CVC instruction with these fun cards! Help your students practice blending CVC words and become better readers with these Read and Reveal & Write and Reveal cards.  Engage your students while they practice blend and read skills. Your kindergarteners will love these task cards and have fun while they learn to read. This perfect CVC practice is self-checking! Help your emergent readers build their confidence today.  ♥ BUNDLE AND SAVE ♥Save over 30% with the CVC Words Mega Bundle

You understand the importance of sight word practice! These sight word flashcards help children read high frequency words in isolation and in decodable sentences! Every card helps readers improve their word recognition, fluency, and decoding skills! They are perfect for guided reading, reading lessons, and homework. Click on the preview to see what makes these cards so special!Reading research supports learning new sight words within a sentence. What is included?400 sight word cards with decodab

Teaching main idea and supporting details can be frustrating for teachers and difficult for students to understand. This resource is scaffolded to help all of your students - even your struggling students - better understand main idea and key details. As an added bonus, most of the activities are no prep! This main idea unit starts easy (with activities that make a great introduction for beginners) and gets increasingly more difficult to help students develop a true understanding of the diffe

Grow your readers with this wonderful Reading Comprehension Passages and Questions for 3rd Grade- 5th Grade Packet (digital options now available)! The Reading Passages Bundle includes 20 Weeks of Weekly Practice perfect for: warm-up, bell work, homework, or quick assessments. Students can use these sets independently, in literacy groups, guided reading groups for homework, or perfect to leave for a sub. These activities check students skills without the boring bubbling in, it also allows teache

These 32 Character Traits task cards are the perfect practice opportunity for students who are working on inferencing and character analysis in a text. WHAT’S INCLUDED:✍️ PRINT:32 Task Cards (prints 4 to a page)Black-lineColorRecording SheetsAnswer KeysDIGITAL:Google SlidesEasel ActivityDIFFERENTIATION OPTIONS:Digital or PrintChallenge Card to extend the lessonMultiple versions of the recording sheet includedGreat for 3rd, 4th, or 5th grade! CHECK OUT THE PREVIEW TO SEE A LOT MORE! This resource