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Are your students struggling to summarize on their own? If so, have they ever practiced using the SWBST Strategy? This Summarizing Passages resource includes 3 different passages that give students a chance to practice and master the SWBST Strategy for summarizing a fiction text. Here's how it works... Students will use a highlighting system while reading the passages to find evidence to support each question of the SWBST strategy. Then, they will record their evidence on the Summarizi

Do your students struggle to find the main idea of a text when it is implied rather than stated? Do they understand what main idea and details "are," but struggle to determine them independently? Here's the scoop... Students must understand that the main idea of a text is not always clearly stated in the text. It is often implied. The What? So What? Strategy is a great strategy to use when the main idea is implied rather than stated, as it distinguishes the difference between a topic, main idea,

Are your students struggling to summarize fiction and nonfiction text? If so, have you ever tried using the SWBST Strategy for fiction or the What? So What? Strategy? for nonfiction? This awesome BUNDLE includes 2 resources with 6 different passages that give students a chance to practice and master both the SWBST Strategy for summarizing fiction and the What? So What? Strategy for determining the main idea and details to summarize nonfiction.In both resources, students will use a highlig

Do your students struggle with summarizing? Maybe they understand what it means to summarize, but are having trouble writing a summary on their own?This Summarizing SWBST PowerPoint is great to use as a guided lesson to introduce or review the skill of summarizing because it teaches students a specific step-by-step strategy to master the skill. Use this PowerPoint to both introduce and practice the Somebody Wanted But So Then Strategy. Copy the printables that accompany the lesson so studen

Are you an upper elementary teacher looking for a resource for your students to practice identifying character traits? These Character Traits Passages not only ask students to identify character traits, but provides them with a step-by-step strategy to analyze and infer character traits in detail. The Think F.A.S.T. Strategy asks students to analyze a characters feelings, actions, sayings, and thoughts in order to infer character traits. In this resource you will find: 2 fiction passagesThink F.

Are your students struggling to locate and refer to evidence in the text to answer comprehension questions? Let’s face it…when our students who are struggling to find text evidence see an extremely long passage with 20 multiple choice questions, it can be very overwhelming! With this resource we will meet them halfway with a quick half-sheet passage with 5 "text evidence" questions. You can grab their attention by letting them know they don’t even have to write their answers! They simply find

Have your students learned that the main idea of a text is not always clearly stated in the text? The What? So What? Strategy is a great strategy to use when the main idea is implied rather than stated, as it distinguishes the difference between a topic, main idea, and details. It is not enough to have students solely rely on reading the first sentence of the text to determine the main idea!Give your students multiple opportunities to practice this strategy and master the skill of determining

Are you looking for summarizing worksheets to boost your student's reading comprehension? Would you like students to practice the SWBST Strategy for summarizing? Check out this Summarizing using the SWBST Strategy Freebie which includes 3 worksheets to guide students through the SWBST Strategy!!! Here's what's included.... Worksheet 1 - a 2-column chart graphic organizer where students can record evidence for each questions of the SWBST strategy, and then a paragraph frame to put the summary tog

Do your students understand what main idea and details are, but can’t seem to determine them when reading independently? Are you looking for a new strategy to use when teaching students how to determine the main idea and details, especially when the main idea needs to be implied?This PowerPoint walks students through the strategy step-by-step with a practice passage. It offers students another way to determine main idea rather than just relying on reading the first sentence of the passage or

Are your students struggling to summarize on their own? If so, have they ever used the SWBST Strategy? Summarizing is a critical reading comprehension skill and using the SWBST Strategy is a great way to teach students to master it. This bundle combines 4 SWBST Strategy resources to cover all the bases... Modeled, Guided, and Independent Practice! Here 's what's included...Are your students struggling to summarize on their own? If so, have they ever practiced using the SWBST Strategy? Product

Are you looking for a way to make independent reading more engaging? Do These Character Traits Bookmarks are the perfect solution to keep students more accountable while reading while also practicing a reading strategy. These bookmarks feature the Think F.A.S.T (feelings, actions, sayings, thoughts) Strategy for inferring character traits.Here's the details....These interactive bookmarks were created to not only be mini anchor charts for each step of the Think F.A.S.T. strategy to analyze ch

Do your students struggle to find the main idea of a text when it is implied rather than stated? Do they understand what main idea and details "are," but struggle to determine them independently? This resource is going to help you tremendously! Students must understand that the main idea of a text is not always clearly stated in the text. It is often implied. The What? So What? Strategy teaches students to analyze the text to determine the topic first, and then use it to determine the main ide

Are you looking for resources that can be used to teach reading comprehension strategies and skills for your 4th and 5th grade students? Are you tired of using resources that only focus on the reading skill itself, but don't teach a way for students to actually master it? Look no further! In this BUNDLE, you will find 20 resources to teach and practice different reading comprehension skills and strategies! Here's what's included: Main Idea and Details - What? So What? Strategy3 SETS of Main

Do your students struggle to determine the text structure of a nonfiction text? Do they understand the difference of each text structure but struggle to determine them after reading a text independently? Here's the scoop... Students must understand that the text structure is how the author organizes the text. They also must understand that they must analyze the evidence and key words closely in a text to determine the text structure. This 40-page resource incorporates tons of practice with using

Do your students struggle to determine the text structure of an informational passage? Here's the scoop... Students must learn how to analyze the text looking for evidence that supports different text structures. This resource covers the following text structures:Chronological OrderCompare and ContrastCause and EffectProblem and SolutionThis text structure resource includes over 25 pages...Text Structure Mini- Anchor Chart and Instructions to copy for students as a reference or to introduce the

Are you constantly reminding your students to capitalize the beginning of every sentence and end their sentences with a punctuation mark to no avail? I have something to catch their attention! Essay Editors was created to bring attention to writing that has a lack of conventions. Students will have an opportunity to edit essays that have no punctuation or capital letters AT ALL! That's right... no punctuation or capital letters in the ENTIRE essay!Here's what's included: (5) 5- paragraph essay

Have you taught your students how to analyze and identify character traits? The Think F.A.S.T. Strategy teaches students to think about a character's feelings, actions, sayings, and thoughts when analyzing a character. Stop giving students a list of character traits to choose from with no strategy to get there! Start using the Think F.A.S.T. Strategy!In this ALL-IN-ONE CHARACTER TRAITS BUNDLE, you will receive: 30 slide Character Traits PowerPoint teaching the Think F.A.S.T. Strategy with a p

Do your students struggle to determine the text structure of a nonfiction text? Do they understand the difference of each text structure but struggle to determine them after reading a text independently? Here's the scoop... Students must understand that the text structure is how the author organizes the text. They also must understand how to analyze the evidence and key words closely in a text to determine the text structure. This resource covers activities for the following text structures:Chro

Are you looking for multiple sets of passages that can be used to practice different reading comprehension skills? This bundle includes 7 Reading Comprehension Strategy Passage Sets for a total of 18 passages that focus on many reading strategies and skills, such as summarizing, main idea & details, character traits, and text structure. You need this resource if you are not only looking for reading comprehension passages, but strategy-based worksheets to master reading skills! Great for test

Are your students struggling to identify and determine meaning of different types of figurative language including:metaphorssimilespersonificationidiomshyperboleStudents must be able to BOTH identify and interpret different types of figurative language, and this resource gives ample practice to master the 5 types above! This resource includes: o 4 Weeks of Figurative Language Morning Work- Each week (Monday-Thursday) includes a 5-question matching worksheet where students will practice identify