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Want to find a way to get your kids engaged during the weekly reading? This Tool-In-Hand is a great way to get kids digging into the reading AND get those higher order thinking skills in! This (typically) starts on Day 2 which you can find in the middle section. This is the weekly graphic organizer to teach the skill of the week (i.e. Cause & Effect, Main Idea & Detail, etc). This week is Story Structure. Students will identify the setting, characters, and then summarize the plot by

Want to find a way to get your kids engaged during the weekly reading? This Tool-In-Hand is a great way to get kids digging into the reading AND get those higher order thinking skills in! This (typically) starts on Day 2/3 which you can find in the middle section. This is the weekly graphic organizer to teach the skill of the week (i.e. Cause & Effect, Main Idea & Detail, etc). This weeks skill is story structure and you may find it best to do this as you read the story. On the inne

Want to find a way to get your kids engaged during the weekly reading? This Tool-In-Hand is a great way to get kids digging into the reading AND get those higher order thinking skills in! This specific Tool-In-Hand starts on day one, as students will be answering questions as they read certain pages. The inner flaps are to go with the first day reading; students will read to a certain page (which is stated above the question), stop, and answer the question based on what they just read.

Want to find a way to get your kids engaged during the weekly reading? This Tool-In-Hand is a great way to get kids digging into the reading AND get those higher order thinking skills in! This (typically) starts on Day 2 which you can find in the middle section. This is the weekly graphic organizer to teach the skill of the week (i.e. Cause & Effect, Main Idea & Detail, etc), along with a few questions that get them going back into the text. Day 3 (found on the inside flaps) is e

Want to find a way to get your kids engaged during the weekly reading? This Tool-In-Hand is a great way to get kids digging into the reading AND get those higher order thinking skills in! This (typically) starts on Day 2 which you can find in the middle section. This is the weekly graphic organizer to teach the skill of the week (i.e. Cause & Effect, Main Idea & Detail, etc). This week students will be identifying the setting, characters, and writing a summary over each chapter to se

Want to find a way to get your kids engaged during the weekly reading? This Tool-In-Hand is a great way to get kids digging into the reading AND get those higher order thinking skills in! This (typically) starts on Day 2 which you can find in the middle section. This is the weekly graphic organizer to teach the skill of the week (i.e. Cause & Effect, Main Idea & Detail, etc), along with a few questions that get them going back into the text. Day 3 (found on the left) is ei

Want to find a way to get your kids engaged during the weekly reading? This Tool-In-Hand is a great way to get kids digging into the reading AND get those higher order thinking skills in! This (typically) starts on Day 2 which you can find in the middle section. This is the weekly graphic organizer to teach the skill of the week (i.e. Cause & Effect, Main Idea & Detail, etc), along with a few questions that get them going back into the text. Day 3 (found on the inside flaps) is e

Want to find a way to get your kids engaged during the weekly reading? This Tool-In-Hand is a great way to get kids digging into the reading AND get those higher order thinking skills in! This (typically) starts on Day 2/3 which you can find in the middle section. This is the weekly graphic organizer to teach the skill of the week (i.e. Cause & Effect, Main Idea & Detail, etc). This weeks skill is Drawing Conclusions. Students will be required to draw a conclusion on Currie's finding

Want to find a way to get your kids engaged during the weekly reading? This Tool-In-Hand is a great way to get kids digging into the reading AND get those higher order thinking skills in! This (typically) starts on Day 2 which you can find in the middle section. This is the weekly graphic organizer to teach the skill of the week (i.e. Cause & Effect, Main Idea & Detail, etc), along with a few questions that get them going back into the text. For this specific tool-in-hand, students w

Want to find a way to get your kids engaged during the weekly reading? This Tool-In-Hand is a great way to get kids digging into the reading AND get those higher order thinking skills in! On the left side you will find the skill of the week, which is Sequence of Events. Students are to use the word bank to help them write the steps of making a tennis ball after they have read the text. The main center section is used to do a Double Journal entry, which is an AVID strategy. Students are

Want to find a way to get your kids engaged during the weekly reading? This Tool-In-Hand is a great way to get kids digging into the reading AND get those higher order thinking skills in! This (typically) starts on Day 2 which you can find in the middle section. This is the weekly graphic organizer to teach the skill of the week (i.e. Cause & Effect, Main Idea & Detail, etc), along with a few questions that get them going back into the text. Day 3 (found on the left) is either an

Want to find a way to get your kids engaged during the weekly reading? This Tool-In-Hand is a great way to get kids digging into the reading AND get those higher order thinking skills in! This (typically) starts on Day 2/3 which you can find in the middle section. This is the weekly graphic organizer to teach the skill of the week (i.e. Cause & Effect, Main Idea & Detail, etc). This weeks skill is text/graphic features. It may be best to do this as you read the storyOn the inner lef

Want to find a way to get your kids engaged during the weekly reading? This Tool-In-Hand is a great way to get kids digging into the reading AND get those higher order thinking skills in! This (typically) starts on Day 2 which you can find in the middle section. This is the weekly graphic organizer to teach the skill of the week (i.e. Cause & Effect, Main Idea & Detail, etc). This week is Compare and Contrast. Students will compare and contrast the two trips that the whales mate duri

Want to find a way to get your kids engaged during the weekly reading? This Tool-In-Hand is a great way to get kids digging into the reading AND get those higher order thinking skills in! This (typically) starts on Day 2 which you can find in the middle section. This is the weekly graphic organizer to teach the skill of the week (i.e. Cause & Effect, Main Idea & Detail, etc), along with a few questions that get them going back into the text. Day 3 (found on the left) is either an

Want to find a way to get your kids engaged during the weekly reading? This Tool-In-Hand is a great way to get kids digging into the reading AND get those higher order thinking skills in! This (typically) starts on Day 2 which you can find in the middle section. This is the weekly graphic organizer to teach the skill of the week (i.e. Cause & Effect, Main Idea & Detail, etc), along with a few questions that get them going back into the text. Day 3 (found on the left) is either ano

Want to find a way to get your kids engaged during the weekly reading? This Tool-In-Hand is a great way to get kids digging into the reading AND get those higher order thinking skills in! This (typically) starts on Day 2 which you can find in the middle section. This is the weekly graphic organizer to teach the skill of the week (i.e. Cause & Effect, Main Idea & Detail, etc), along with a few questions that get them going back into the text. Day 3 (found on the left) is either another sk