Learning Under Sail

This digital resource includes 6 functional text activities. Each passage has 12 rigorous multiple-choice questions and 12 open response questions. The type of questions includes author's purpose, main idea, cause and effect, questioning, and using context clues. Use these functional text reading activities and comprehension questions to introduce functional text, practice answering questions, or as an assessment. These Functional Text Activities include:3 fliers1 recipe2 sets of directions12 mu

These lessons on prefixes suffixes and root words includes direct instruction on the meaning of prefixes and suffixes, and how to identify a prefix or suffix within a word. This lesson tells exactly how to introduce prefixes and suffixes to your class. It can easily be broken down into minilessons so students can learn from your presentation, then practice independently. Check out the prefix and suffix resources below for independent practice. These Lessons on Prefixes Suffixes and Root Words i

This digital packet of functional text with questions includes a persuasive flier and directions for how to make a coffee filter flower craft. Students will read the flier or directions and locate information to answer questions regarding context clues, main idea, cause and effect, and author's purpose. The passage is located next to each question to encourage students to justify answers with the text. This digital functional text with questions includes:1 flier for Clean the Beach Day1 set of

Use these digital informational text activities to practice answering high-level comprehension questions. Skills addressed in these questions include context clues, main idea, sequencing, inferring, and questioning. Increase the rigor by having students answer the open response questions before practicing the same questions in a multiple-choice and technology enhanced format. These digital informational text activities include:1 flier about a Fall Carnival1 recipe for a Berry Smoothie12 multipl

These Main Idea and Key Detail Activities are made with Google Slides. This is a digital version of Worksheets on Main Idea. The activities are broken down so that students will only see one question per slide. The first four activities are digital versions of four main idea worksheets. In the first section, students drag a color-coded dot to match the main idea to the detail. In the second section, students drag the main idea sentence to the matching paragraph. In the third section, students d

In need of a worksheet for word problems? This resource is a great place to start when introducing word problems to third graders. There are four sets of four school-themed word problems. Print a set of manipulatives to go with each theme to keep students engaged. Each set of word problems includes both single and 2-step word problems with numbers no more than 12. The smaller numbers help students focus on the process of solving word problems rather than computation. Worksheet for Word Problems

These digital Google slides feature two functional text passages that are great for introducing functional text or test prep. The google slides feature one question per slide, so you can assign the slides that you choose. The questions come in two different formats - multiple choice and open response. Students will answer questions about author's purpose, cause and effect, main idea, text features, and context clues. These digital functional text passages include:1 flier for Summer Sports Camp1