Meaghan McCafferty

150+ pages included pre reading questions, journal prompts, guided reading questions per chapter, and pages to take dialectical notes. Begin the unit with the guided reading questions. Assign journals for chapters indicated. Each chapter has multiple guided reading questions so that students can read as a class or independently. Quizzes can be made from guided reading questions. Edit the file to remove dialectical note pages if you do not need them. Students can also take notes in their notebook

Here are 10 weeks of spelling words! Prepare your students to be better writers with these 20 words per week! Words get progressively more difficult as the weeks continue. Also included is a quiz to use weekly. The quiz has spots for 15 words to be spelled and five words to be written in sentences. Ensure that your students not only know how to spell the words but that they are able to use them correctly as they write!

Use this packet to help introduce narrative to your students. Help them define the parts of a plot diagram, the setting, types of conflicts, theme, and character development. Includes suggestions of YouTube and Pixard videos to use to help students visualize. Also includes suggestions from ReadWorks

Use this packet as your one-stop for vocabulary resource! Included are vocabulary words for each chapter. Students need to find the definition, part of speech, a sentence from the story, and write their own sentence using the vocab word! You can use these words to create quizzes, or you can use them as a reading check each week!

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A comprehensive subject-verb agreement test. Includes tense, direct objects, indirect objects, and prepositional phrases. Also includes five bonus questions at the end!

Excellent way to get to know your students! Here are the guidelines for letters your students can write to you and also an example letter for you to give to them. Keep these in a binder throughout the year for when you need to know your students a little bit more :) Also an excellent way to get them writing at the beginning of the year.