unCOMMONly hardCORE Reading

Compare Princess Elizabeth with any other character's traits while collecting evidence from the text. Great way to introduce these challenging tasks to students using a fun and accessible story. This interactive notebook set includes four days of lessons which can easily be stretched into five, or condensed if needed. The unCOMMONly hardCORE Reading Teacher gives you this lesson on character traits and comparing characters to incorporate the practice of comparing texts, as well as synthesizin

The unCOMMONly hardCORE Reading teacher knows that you don't have time to draft newsletters for every reading strategy taught, so she has done it for you! Parental involvement letters, perfect for Title I requirements, detail six of the major strategies. Letters include: Making Inferences Developing Questions Making Connections Making Predictions Determining Importance of Information Visualizing

The unCOMMONly harCORE Reading Teacher presents: The President's Day Surprise! This reader's theater play is written with 33 parts, and can be used well with groups of six or eighteen students, or any number in between! Three levels of differentiated parts make it easy to assign parts for above, on level, and below grade level readers! In this eight page script, find out what happens with a Presidential Poster assembly proves preposterous, and the President's come to life! Students will rea

These reader response icons are great for Common Core close reading, and can be used for any text at a wide variety of grade levels! These think marks are great for encouraging reading comprehension, getting book talk groups started, and preparing students to talk about or write about a text. Perfect for literacy centers, Café, and Daily Five! NOW includes bookmarks for pasting into notebooks, posting on desks, and tucking into books!

Slideshow and writing activity using themes prevalent in The One and Only Ivan Ask students to write, respond to, and discuss major themes and issues addressed in this adorable and thought provoking novel. This product also available as part of the One and Only Ivan Comprehension Bundle!

Use these pages to engage in a brain dump, a preplanning document, and a task overview manager. These pages work well for planning your day or documenting multistep tasks.  Use these for your students or for yourself! These graphic organizers go well for homework planning, planning of long term projects and day to day tasks. NeuroSpicies will find success in crossing off tasks by using the map to break down tasks and activities into manageable action steps!

This editable Literacy Olympics Challenge, used by the students in the UnCOMMONly hardCORE Reading teacher's classes, requires students to complete a series of literacy tasks, including fluency folders, RAZ-KIDS comprehension quizzes, fluency phrase task cards, and more. Includes parent letter and certificate of completion, and can be used year after year. Please don't forget to leave feedback!

The UnCOMMONly hardCORE Reading Teacher Presents: Writing prompts inspired by Frozen! If you are willing to hear the songs in your classroom a few (dozen) times, use these writing prompts for on-demand writing practice, literacy centers, bell-ringer activities, homework, and more! Each prompt gives lines from a song in the movie, and asks students to write about a related topic. Learners can try out complex writing tasks, such as quote-based writing, while using lines that they know and lo

The Uncommonly Hardcore Reading Teacher presents: A close reading of "The Candy Man" by Sammy Davis Jr. Using this four part routine, analyze description, practice writing from a post it note, identify unfamiliar words, discuss connotation, and more! Please leave feedback for this product, and follow me here, and on Facebook for exclusive freebies and sales!

The Uncommonly Hardcore Reading Teacher presents the Quotations and Precepts motivation style poster project. Inspired by the SAT essay, NJASK - HSPA style Expository - explanatory essay, and the novel "Wonder," this assignment asks students to identify important quotations or precepts, and create a motivation style poster to present them. Students will also write about the quotation presented, in the style of an NJASK - HSPA - SAT essay. If you like this product, please rate me! If you don'

The UnCOMMONly HardCORE Reading teacher does it again! This free template modeled after the work of the Teacher's College Reading and Writing Project and has been used to coach many teachers in the writing of mini lessons. Please leave feedback if you use or share with FREE product!

Uncommonly HardCore reading brings you shades of meaning and synonym mapping to help students understand the difference between synonyms. Similar meanings does NOT always equal the same, and many students struggle with this BIG time. This easy, no prep lesson is great to back to school, right before or after holidays, or even sub plans! 45 minutes plus

The unCOMMONly hardCORE READING Teacher brings you word work activities that go beyond the spelling list. Build critical thinking skills, background knowledge, and more as students work with words in a brand new way. Word games and activities centered around winter vocabulary words makes vocabulary and word knowledge building fun! Prepare students for the rigors of Common Core, complex texts, and higher level thinking and vocabulary with these fun games and exercises.

Word Alert! This editable vocabulary chart allows you to select words from ANY text for vocabulary and word learning!! Simply add the words, then students add parts of speech, rate their word knowledge, and predict the words' meaning before, during, and after reading. Promotes close reading, word learning, dictionary skills, use of prefixes, suffixes, and affixes, and more. unCOMMONly hardCORE does it again, asking students to use critical thinking skills to determine and confirm word meani

The unCOMMONly hardCORE Reading teacher brings you a free parent letter to encourage summer reading as a family event! For students of any age, this is one of a serious of parent involvement letters that can be sent home! Need an editable version? Say so in the comments, and I'll get one sent to you right away! Don't forget to buy the full bundle! And please rate if you like, use, or share! Thanks!

the unCOMMONly hardCORE Reading teacher strikes again! After students read George Orwell's 1984, students compare the text to the movie Fight Club in a task not unlike the common core's requirements to compare and contrast different types of media. Students are then asked to create rules of the mysterious brotherhood, based on what they read in the "handbook." Rule #1 Do NOT talk about the brotherhood.... This is a great one day lesson, sub plan, or activity to spark creativity and imaginatio

The unCOMMONly hardCORE Reading Teacher brings you Close Reading Task Cards! Perfect for literacy centers, bell ringers, guided reading groups, sponge activities, homework, sub plans, and last minute lessons, and more! Simply select a card, hand to students, and have them record their examples, page numbers, and explanations in their notebooks, on the included log sheet, or in journals for quick formative assessment and close reading practice! If you like what you see, please rate me, and te

The Hardcore Reading Teacher brings you this survey to get to know your students on the first day or first week!

A newsletter for parents and friends about making inferences during reading. Perfect for parent involvement, portfolios, and more. The uncommonly hardCore Reading teacher uses this to send home following the related lessons, makes it available for parent night, back to school night, and parent-teacher conferences.

the unCOMMONly hardCORE teacher presents FREE information for parents, administrators and board members on internet safety! Give this to parents as a handout, use as a slideshow for back to school or technology night! Customization available for 1.00 each, just email me!