Elementary Unpacked

***This resource is student-facing and combines the daily warm-ups and assessments.*** Let Avery, your students’ new favorite reading buddy, guide them through 4 weeks of standards-based fiction practice. This student-friendly edition makes reading fun, structured, and confidence-building. Designed especially for 3rd–5th grade students, this printable workbook includes: Daily “Power Up” warm-ups (Monday–Friday)Engaging fiction passages with STAAR-style questionsSkills covered: plot, character, i

Prepare your students for the upcoming testing season. This resource includes 4 fictional passages, 1 editing passage, and answer key rationales for all 5 passages. Have students use their strategies to show what they know!

Testing season is approaching. Let students show what they know with these short daily warmups. You can assign the warmups daily as a bell ringer, during small group instruction, or as an exit ticket. With the answer key included, grading is breeze. If you like this product, don't forget to check out the short Fiction assessments with 8-10 standard-based questions and answer key rationales.

Make your close reading lesson interactive. Print and cut out the arrows for use while projecting a passage on the board. Use the large labels during your lesson to help students identify the thinking jobs within each genre. The large arrows include the definition of each thinking job. Students can use the small labels for independent practice and/or stations. Be sure to laminate for reuse.

Anchor student learning with these 11 literary and nonfiction anchor charts and 3 decoding strategies templates.

Do you teach kindergarten, first, or second grade? Do your students struggle with providing evidence and reasoning? If you answered yes to both questions, this strategy may work for you. Introducing a response strategy like RACE can be overwhelming for students at the primary level, especially those who are struggling readers and responders. The 4Ws strategy is a modified version to support students' responses to open ended questions. Start with easy and move to complex.