FreeBirdReading

A SmartBoard File including a comprehensive jeopardy game for grades 2-4 including categories such as context clues, sentence errors, run-on sentences, and homophones. 3rd and 4th grade reluctant readers love this game!

A comprehensive jeopardy game for grades 2-4 including categories such as context clues, sentence errors, run-on sentences, and homophones. 3rd and 4th grade reluctant readers absolutely love this game!

Each PowerPoint slide can be used as a “do now” in the beginning of class or can be worked on all at once. There are seven total problems. Each problem takes place in school making the settings relatable. Students solve real world problems. Topics include finding the pattern, area, comparing and ordering numbers, percent and adding and subtracting decimals. Answer key is included at the end. A fun follow-up activity is for students to create their own PowerPoint including real world math problem

A comprehensive jeopardy game for grades 5-8 including categories such as context clues, idioms, and homophones. Middle school reluctant readers absolutely love this game!

With continued practice, students will learn to preview text, examine text features, make connections to self, generate questions, make predictions, and visualize to become strategic independent readers.

Cut out the letters and move them around to make new words from the letters in Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas! How many words can you make? This is a great activity to use right before the holidays in a literacy center or as a whole class activity. Students can work in groups or on their own.

A collection of comprehension questions by chapter with some page number references. Designed to build understanding while reading and keep readers engaged. Writing response can be written next to "post it" question as students read.

A SmartBoard File including a comprehensive jeopardy game for grades 5-8 including categories such as context clues, sentence errors, idioms, and homophones. Reluctant readers love this game!

Comprehension questions and discussion with direct text evidence on each slide for the novel Stone Fox. These 13 slides create meaningful discussion that aide in comprehension (vocabulary, inferencing, drawing conclusions, character traits, predicting).

Use this heart worksheet for a class or school display. Copy worksheet onto card stock in pastel colors. Students write about a time they were kind to someone or a time someone was kind to them or a kindness quote they enjoy. Display the hearts in different colors throughout the classroom or school.

Cut out the letters and move them around to make new words from the letters in Happy Holidays! How many words can you make?

Cut out the letters and move them around to make new words from the letters in Merry Christmas! How many words can you make?

A nice display of simple things students can do to ensure their learning.

An activity that can be used to activate prior knowledge and set a purpose for reading! Students work with a partner to preview a text, access background knowledge, and make connections to their reading. Use with a book, article, specific chapter, or even a new section of a textbook to set up a successful reading for all students!

Use this worksheet during reading to help students find text evidence and build new vocabulary.