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The Animal Adaptations Unit can be used to teach the different types of adaptations and includes hands-on tasks to reinforce student learning. This unit includes teaching points for the following: - Basic Needs of Animals - Physical Adaptations - Behavioral Adaptations Student organizers are included for each lesson. This gives your students the opportunity to practice note taking. The following interactive student tasks are included in the unit: - Eating Like a Bird Challenge - Butterfly Camo

"The Mouse and the Motorcycle," is a great book to complete the school year, because it reviews many reading concepts.  The novel lends itself to learning about the following reading skills:​​ - story elements​ - point of view​ - making connections​​ - sequencing​ - visualization​ - cause and effect​​ - character motivation​/emotions​ - character traits​ - compare and contrast ​ - asking questions​ - problem and solution​ - using context clues​​ - dictionary skills​​ - comprehension​​ ​​ Each ch

"Sideways Storied from Wayside School" is a great book to use for the beginning of the school year. The novel lends itself to learning about the following reading skills: Making Connections, Cause-and-Effect, Character Motivation, Context Clues, Dictionary Skills, and Comprehension. For each section of chapters, students will have words to define, dictionary practice, and comprehension questions. Students will create a brochure for the school as a culminating project.

In this Morphology Unit, students will study word parts throughout the school year. In this unit, you will find a weekly schedule, a list of affixes, examples of anchor charts, and graphic organizers to teach each new word part. Students will have the chance to break apart new words, find new words in the dictionary, and show their understanding of new definitions by writing sentences or illustrating the word's meaning.

"Amber Brown is Not a Crayon" is a great book to use for the beginning of the school year. The novel lends itself to learning about the following reading skills:​ - making connections​ - cause and effect​ - sequencing​ - compare and contrast​ - using context clues​ - dictionary skills​ - comprehensionFor each section you will find vocabulary words that students must give a definition for, in their own words. They must also look the word up in the dictionary. Each section has comprehension questi

These graphic organizers can be used for learning about Morphology, or the study of words. Each graphic organizer has a section for the chosen word part and definition and additional sections for new words, sentences, and/or illustrations. You can find these graphic organizers as well as examples of anchor charts, a list of affixes with definitions, and a weekly schedule to introduce each new word part, in my Morphology Unit in my TPT store. https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Morpholo

"The Secret School" is a great book to use for the beginning of the school year. The novel lends itself to learning about the following reading skills: making connections, cause and effect, character motivation, compare and contrast, sequencing, journaling, comprehension For each chapter students have comprehension questions to answer. The questions can be glued to the top of a spiral notebook and responses can be completed directly in their notebooks. Journal responses can be assessed for compr

"SOCKS" is a great book to review many reading concepts. The novel lends itself to learning about the following reading skills: figurative language, character traits, asking questions, sequencing/summarizing, visualizing, cause and effect, problem and solution, vocabulary, and comprehension. Each chapter focuses on a different reading concept and includes comprehension questions and vocabulary.