Reading Rox
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Clearwater, Florida, United States
About the store
Together our experience covers over thirty years in Middle School. General education, special education/dropout prevention and reading. Currently co-teaching remedial reading in grades 6-8, also serving as Team Leaders, committee chairs, and grant writers.
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Text Features Matching Activity
Brief one-page activity matching text features to their descriptions.
Reinforces why an author would use a particular feature.
Quickly assess if students understand the concepts.
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5th - 8th
Close Reading, Informational Text, Reading
Text Evidence Sentence Starters
Super easy to use, these sentence starters assist students when asked to cite their evidence. Easy to make into a poster, laminate and hang in classroom; copy for students to place in their interactive reading/writing notebooks. ✔ Check out all of the other **Freebies** we offer! Reading Rox specializes in materials that will engage reluctant readers.
4th - 7th
Balanced Literacy, Close Reading, Reading Strategies
CCSS
W.5.1
, W.5.1b
, W.7.1
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Reading Response Task Cards-FICTION
This product contains 40 different reading response task cards for fiction. These task cards can be printed, laminated and cut apart. Randomly distribute for kids to answer; use in literature circles, interactive notebooks, bellwork and more! The 40 tasks cover a range of questions, suitable for differentiated lessons. Many ask for text evidence. Suitable for any work of fiction/novel/story. Check out our other task cards for all of your classroom needs: Task Cards While You Read"Free Time" Tas
5th - 9th
Balanced Literacy, Literature, Reading
Make Your Own Questions
After reading an article, students can create their own questions to share with partners. Easy-Medium-Hard question stems included, based off of Bloom's Taxonomy.
Reading Rox specializes in materials that will engage reluctant readers.
✔ Check out all of the other **Freebies** we offer!
5th - 8th
Reading, Reading Strategies, Writing
Reading Comprehension Graphic Organizer Bundle
A fantastic bundle of 8 graphic organizers for all areas of reading comprehension, including a few extras as well! These graphic organizers will fit any grade for any type of assignment, concentrating more on the skills instead of specific assignments. Any of these 8 graphic organizers would be awesome "grab and go" assignments to accompany any fiction or nonfiction reading.
Graphic Organizers included in this bundle are:
✔ Text Thoughts
✔ Uncovering the Meaning
✔ Fact & Opinion
✔ Main
Not Specific
Balanced Literacy, Close Reading, Reading
Exit Slip "Ticket Out of The Door" *Back To School*
Address different kinds of learners with these "Ticket Out of The Door" exit slips. There are 2 tickets per page. One ticket allows a student to illustrate what they have learned for the day and the other allows a student to write 3 things they have learned.
There are many ways to use these. Hand out the paper and let the students choose which one they want to do, cut a lot out ahead of time and students can choose the one they want to fill out, or even require students to write AND draw from
Not Specific
Balanced Literacy, Reading, Reading Strategies
Book Pass Worksheet *Back To School*
Great one page worksheet for students to use when they are browsing for more interesting books to read.
Can be used whole class, small group, or individually with students.
Easy enough for students to fill out and place in their Interactive Notebooks for future reference.
Reading Rox specializes in materials that will engage reluctant readers.
5th - 8th
Balanced Literacy, Reading
Exit Slip- Got It, Kind of, Nope *Back To School*
Assess how effective today's lesson was with these check box exit slips. With 3 choices, each student will easily be able to express how well they understood the material as well as being able to elaborate on their choice.
With 4 slips per page, you could easily print and cut a lot out at a time and store them away for easy access at the end of a lesson.
For a different version of an Exit Slip, click the link below...
Exit Slip "Ticket Out of The Door"
Reading Rox specializes in material
6th - 8th
Reading, Reading Strategies, Writing
Bellwork Bundle *Back To School*
Create organization in your weekly bellwork with this 5 copy bundle! These bellwork papers are the perfect solution to teacher and student organization. It's great for students because they only have one paper to worry about for the entire week. It's also wonderful for teachers because it makes grading a week's worth of bellwork a lot easier! With boxes for each day, a place to write the date and assign points, and to record overall points for the week, this will surely take time off of all the
Not Specific
English Language Arts, Math, Science
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About the store
Experience
Together our experience covers over thirty years in Middle School. General education, special education/dropout prevention and reading. Currently co-teaching remedial reading in grades 6-8, also serving as Team Leaders, committee chairs, and grant writers.
Teaching style
Our style is rather unconventional. We use a balanced literacy model of centers and rotations, motivate our students with fieldtrips, reading on beanbag chairs, and once a year they get to throw water balloons at us! It is challenging to keep kids interested in reading, given all the distractions and options and gadgets and testing in their lives! Getting kids to try a book and realize it was "pretty good stuff" is a fabulous outcome of this job! Having them come back for more? Priceless!
Awards & shining teacher moments
Celebrate Literacy Award "BOOK-A-PALOOZA"
Hillsborough County Council of IRA 2014-15;
Teacher of the Year 2014-15 (Karen)
Teacher of the Year 2021-22 (Sara)
Teacher of the Year 2022-2023 (Sara)
Technology in Reading Grants awarded from DonorsChoose and Hillsborough Educational Foundation
My own education history
Sara: Southern Illinois University BS Elementary Ed 2004
Karen: University South Florida BS Special Ed 1989; MA Anthropology 2001
Additional biographical information
Our goal for Reading Rox is to develop high quality materials for teachers needing something a little "different". Our students need a little extra motivation, worksheets and lessons with visual appeal. We are always on the lookout for fresh material that will hook our students’ attention. So much of what we find out there is so gosh darned cute, but not to our students! Ladybugs and polka dots don't cut it! Soooo….we’re creating a line of reading materials and teaching supplies that are edgy and modern and might just be what your students need to keep going.
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