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55 Google slides to help you get started teaching ARC Literacy Lab in 4th grade. You will be provided with writing prompts for the books Alvin Ho and What Are You Afraid Of as well as discussion questions, vocabulary, and graphics to help increase student participation and engagement. This resource is intended to help you establish routines for the ARC ELA block. There are 55 slides to introduce the first week of this unit.

Comprehension questions, quiz, theme, 10 fun activity ideas, and a word search for the book Museum Mysteries: The Case of the Stolen Space Suit by Steve Brezenoff. This resource is ready to print and use with your students!

These Google slides illustrate some of the history included in this book: Civil War, Westward Expansion, Buffalo Soldiers, St. Louis 1879, etc. My class needed background knowledge in these topics to understand the book. Also included: comprehension questions, vocabulary, quiz, & support for writing about theme. Scraps of Time Away West by Patricia C. McKissack is a historical fiction book read aloud in Unit 3 of the American Reading Company (ARC) Core curriculum. This resource will help

Comprehension questions, vocabulary, theme, plot map, quiz and 10 fun activities. This resource is ready to print and use with students! Busy teachers will love this resource for the book Scraps of Time: Away West by Patricia C. McKissack.

Comprehension questions for each chapter, quiz, vocabulary, theme, plot map and a few fun activity ideas. Busy teachers need this resource to help them teach Alvin Ho by Lenore Look. Kids LOVE this book! It is so funny and it's a great way to teach overcoming fears.

44 Google slides to help you get started teaching ARC Animal Adaptations in 4th grade. These teacher friendly, editable slides include writing prompts, discussion questions, and rubrics for the first week of ARC Unit 2.

Comprehension questions for each chapter, quiz, vocabulary, theme anchor chart, story arc/plot map, word search, and 10 fun activity ideas. Busy teachers will love this resource to help them teach Storm Runners by Roland Smith!

Comprehension questions, quiz, vocabulary, theme, story arc/plot map, and 10 fun activity ideas. Busy teachers need this resource to help them teach Shipwreck Island and get kids excited about reading!

Use this lesson to teach the story elements of the book Alvin Ho by Lenore Look on a plot map. This lesson includes passages and illustrations from the book that you can use to make an interactive anchor chart. My class loved it!

This resource will help your students learn about American Historical Fiction with the ARC curriculum (American Reading Company). This is week one of unit 3 for grade 4. My class needed background info on historical fiction so I have supplemented that for you! This resource includes: lesson outline, anchor chart ideas, writing prompts, videos, discussion questions, and teacher notes. Using Google Slides really helped me stay on track and the graphics increase student participation and engagemen

Your students will LOVE using this resource to help them research animal adaptations in Unit 2 of the ARC reading curriculum (American Reading Company). These Google doc pages can be easily printed for students to use as they answer the ARC research questions. The pages become a note catcher or rough draft for their final project at the end of this unit. Students can use this resource to make Google Slides, an animal book, a poster, or anything else you choose! I have added a biome map, anima

Comprehension questions, quiz, vocabulary definitions and picture cards, theme, and 8 fun activity ideas. Busy teachers need this resource to help get kids excited about reading Trapped: How the World Rescued 33 Miners From 2,000 Feet Below The Chilean Desert.

Comprehension questions, vocabulary (definitions & pictures), theme, plot map, quiz, and 10 fun activities. This resource has everything you need for Runs With Courage by Joan M. Wolf. My class loved this book!

Comprehension questions, quiz, vocabulary, theme, and 10 fun activities. Busy teachers need this resource to help them teach this book!

These Google Slides support student comprehension through vocabulary, photos, plot map, comprehension questions, writing support and a quiz. This book does not have illustrations and some of the vocabulary is challenging. Runs With Courage by Joan M. Wolf is a historical fiction book read aloud in Unit 3 of American Reading Company (ARC) Core curriculum. My class LOVED this book, but these slides were a life saver!

Comprehension questions, quiz, vocabulary, theme, story arc/plot map, and fun activity ideas. The author incorporates a lot of figurative language, so there is also a worksheet to practice this important skill. Busy teachers need this no prep resource to help them teach My Teacher Is An Alien by Bruce Colville. Kids LOVE this book!

Comprehension questions, vocabulary, theme, quiz and 10 fun activities for the book Museum Mysteries: The Case of the Haunted History Museum by Steve Brezenoff. This resource is ready to print and use with students!

Students create their own PDK (personal disaster kit) just like Alvin Ho! Students will have fun drawing and writing about their kit. Resource includes the kit template and a list of things that Alvin included in his PDK to help students brainstorm their own ideas. This activity is the perfect way to blend art and writing. My students loved this activity!

Comprehension questions, vocabulary, quiz, theme, and 10 fun activity ideas. Busy teachers need this resource to help them teach the book The Girl Who Looked Beyond The Stars by L.B. Anne!

Comprehension questions, quiz, vocabulary, plot map, and 7 fun activity ideas. Busy teachers need this resource to help get kids excited about reading!