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This organizer will help students compare two characters within a story or between texts - focusing on traits. Thought bubble ideas are around the edges to gives clues - making students think about characters' actions, words, feelings, thoughts and behaviors. Venn diagram set-up so students can compare and contrast. Great for early skill development of character trait and comparing/contrasting as well as a great review for students who need a quick refresher.

This guided reading lesson is based on the Judy Blume book, The Pain and the Great One. It's a perfect book to review point of view and text-to-self connections. This packet was created for students reading at a low readability but working on higher level skills. Packet includes: Venn Diagram - compare/contrast characters describe a character - model from book similarities between the characters' emotions I can relate . . . Point of view problem solving

This is a matching activity (puzzle) for units of measure. I paired the abbreviation with a visual reminder of the unit, for example, a meter is a child's arm span. This includes length (mm, cm, m), capacity (mL, L, kL) and weight/mass (mg, g, kg).

his packet was designed to be used during guided reading with the book "Growl! A Book About Bears" (Hello Reader). It covers a variety of comprehension skills and offers various types of activities to hit different learning styles. The design of the packet lends itself to be used with ANY informational text about bears. This packet would also provide a solid framework for student research on bears. The pages cover "types of bears, eating habits, hunting, shelter, winter months, and cubs." Com

This activity packet was created to complete while reading Electric Fish, by Elaine Landau. Activities include: Parts of a book (author, illustrator/photographer, genre) Main Idea of sections of the book Nonfiction Text Features Inferential Questions Compare and Contrast Making Connections Summarization The book, Electric Fish, is level L (Guided Reading)/ level M (F & P) - the packet is designed to cover higher level language arts skills with a lower level text.

Cards or mini-posters with arrays for facts 1-5

Need a quick review of comprehension skills when students are independently reading or taking guided reading books home? Try this Comprehension Connection! There is a fiction version and a nonfiction version. Fiction skills: plot line, character trait, main idea, genre, author's purpose and parts of book Nonfiction skills; text feature, main idea/details, what I knew/what I learned, genre, author's purpose and parts of book

Direction cards for stations while guided reading is taking place. You can put these on a ring so the student can flip to the current station and read/follow directions.

This is a SmartBoard Lesson that focuses on teaching PARTS OF A GRAPH/CHART, as well as, basic INTERPRETATION of data. Links are embedded in SmartBoard Doc. that allow you to show various types of graphs, identify parts of graphs, and answer questions about the graphs. At the end, there are numerous examples of graphs/charts with a PDF attachment - generic questions for interpreting graphs. This was created for students with cognitive disabilities, who need practice with basic graph skills whi