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Teaching the reading skill 'inference' can be challenging. This is an entire 32 page unit that gives the students an opportunity to learn inference through art, music, images, situation cards, discussions and so much more. Guidelines as given for teacher instruction. Each lesson builds on the previous. Unique strategies help students tackle inference in a variety of ways. The 'In SPACES' inference reading strategy helps prompt students to organize and formulate their ideas around the clues given

Teaching the reading skill 'inference' can be challenging. The 'In SPACES' inference reading strategy helps prompt students to organize and formulate their ideas around the clues given in any text resulting in a more comprehensive understanding of the text. Included are also 7 group discussion scenarios requiring students to make an effective inference as practice and application of the 'In SPACES' model. proof reading patch is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3

This is an 10 page workbook that was created for a Solar System unit. It is the perfect resource for any 1st or 2nd grade study of the Sun and Plants. Each page gives some basic facts about the a plant. Students then work independently using the word banks given to complete cloze exercises on the content. For differentiation, teachers can remove the word banks for more able students. This also is the perfect type of resource to use for H/W activities during a Solar System unit. Check out my sol

This is a step by step worksheet that introduces and/or reviews the characteristics and construction of compound sentences. It is an excellent tool that differenciates the simple (FANBOYS) to complex (conjunctive adverbs) ways of constructing compound sentences.I have a similiar sheet on 'Simple Sentences' for those interested.

This worksheet demonstrates for students how they can bring abstract ideas to life with poetry. A matching exercise warms up students before encouraging them to create a 'performance poem' using strong 'showing' not telling language in a poetic form. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

FREE - Easily printable file to make your students a 'just right book' bookmark Follow me for more freebies coming soon

FREE: this simple resource is a quick tool you use do to get your students to check for patterns in their reading log Follow me for other great freebies coming soon.