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Winter Holidays Around the World No-Prep Packet : This is a high-interest Winter Holidays Around the World packet for students to work on during the Winter holiday season. This NO PREP packet is PERFECT for use as: Winter/Christmas Break homework, early finishers or independent work and as a literacy or math center activity. This product can be used to practice ELA ask and answer question skills. Your students will be amazed by the stories behind Winter Holidays Around the World and astonished a

Thanksgiving Packet : This is a high-interest Thanksgiving packet for students to work on during the Thanksgiving holiday season. This NO PREP packet is PERFECT for use as: Thanksgiving Break homework, early finishers or independent work and as a literacy or math center activity. This product can be used to practice ELA ask and answer question skills. Your students will be amazed by the story behind the Thanksgiving Turkey on their plate and grossed out (yet fascinated) by what we can learn by l

This is a 4-day review unit aligned to Common Core standard RL 3.7/4.7 - How Illustrations Enhance the Story. This fully scripted unit uses a Thanksgiving-related mentor text and scaffolds students ability to find additional details and information to deepen their understanding of a text. Each day has a specific learning objective and uses the strategy of close reading to achieve this objective. Also useful as 2nd and 5th grade differentiated units. Includes fully scripted lesson plans, Independ

These ELL ESL vocabulary flash cards have a science vocabulary word in both English and Spanish on the left and a color picture representing the vocabulary word on the right. They are intended to compliment your science instruction and give students the opportunity to lower anxiety and to connect background knowledge in Spanish to 3rd and 4th Grade science concepts. ----------------- COOL TpT Tip! How to get TPT credit for future purchases: Go to your "My Purchases" page. Next to each pur

This is a 4-day review unit aligned to Common Core standard RL 3.7/4.7 - How Illustrations Enhance the Story. This fully scripted unit uses a social studies related mentor text and scaffolds students ability to find additional details and information to deepen their understanding of a text. Each day has a specific learning objective and uses the strategy of close reading to achieve this objective. Also useful as 2nd grade differentiated unit. Includes fully scripted lesson plans, Independent Stu

This is a single stand- alone lesson aligned to Common Core standard RI 3.1/4.1 & RI 3.7/4.7. This lesson provides three Halloween related fact pages full of details and information. Each page has a matching image to scaffold readers of many levels and abilities. Students complete a metacognitive 'Picture of Knowledge' strategy map to deepen their understanding of short, related texts. This 'Picture of Knowledge' strategy map serves as the Exit TIcket for this lesson. This lesson employs the st

This is a single stand- alone lesson aligned to Common Core standard RI 3.1/4.1 & RI 3.7/4.7. This lesson provides numerous Halloween related fact strips full of details and information. Each strip has a matching image to scaffold readers of many levels and abilities. Students complete a metacognitive 'Picture of Knowledge' strategy map to deepen their understanding of short, related texts. This 'Picture of Knowledge' strategy map serves as the Exit TIcket for this lesson. This lesson employs t

This is a 1-day review unit aligned to Common Core standard RL 3.7/4.7 - How Illustrations Enhance the Story. This fully scripted lesson uses a Halloween related mentor text and scaffolds students ability to find additional details and information to deepen their understanding of a text. This lesson has a specific learning objective and uses the strategy of close reading to achieve this objective. Also useful as 2nd grade differentiated unit. Includes fully scripted lesson plan, Independent Work

Developed to support RI, SL, W CCSS standards through close reading of complex text. Text is 820L and falls within the 3-5th Grade CCSS Lexile Stretch bands. This Lesson is designed to take 2-3 50-60 minute classroom periods to complete. Rigorous and aligned to highest standards. Questioning pushes students to refer to images and graphs to add to understanding. Includes 2 versions of text: Minimally and Highly Scaffolded, Student Facing Packet for all work and fully scripted Teacher Lesson Plan

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Developed to support RI, SL, W CCSS standards through close reading of complex text. Text is 810L and falls within the 3-5th Grade CCSS Lexile Stretch bands.This Lesson is designed to take 3 50-60 minute classroom periods to complete. Rigorous and aligned to highest standards. Includes 2 versions of text: Minimally and Highly Scaffolded, Student Facing Packet for all work and fully scripted Teacher Lesson Plan. Supports in place for ELL and Lower Level readers. ----------------- COOL TpT Tip!

1 week (4 Lessons) of lessons designed to target student mastery of Common Core Math Standards 3.MD.A.2 -- Adding and Subtracting Mass and Volume. Complete with Daily intra-lesson Independent Practice and Exit Tickets. ----------------- COOL TpT Tip! How to get TPT credit for future purchases: Go to your "My Purchases" page. Next to each purchase, you'll see a "Provide Feedback" button. Simply click it and you will be taken to a page where you can give a quick rating and leave a short commen

1 week (4 Lessons) of lessons designed to target student mastery of Common Core Math Standards 3.NBT.A.1 and 3.MD.A.1 -- Rounding to the Nearest 10 and Nearest 100 and Telling time to the nearest minute. Complete with Daily intra-lesson Independent Practice and Exit Tickets. ----------------- COOL TpT Tip! How to get TPT credit for future purchases: Go to your "My Purchases" page. Next to each purchase, you'll see a "Provide Feedback" button. Simply click it and you will be taken to a page

This is a 10-day unit aligned to Common Core standard RL 3.1 - Ask and Answer Questions by Close Reading. This COMPLETE, fully scripted unit uses 4 different mentor texts (including related non-fiction texts to hit the RI standards) and scaffolds students ability to find additional details and information to deepen their understanding of a text. Each day has a specific learning objective and uses the strategy of close reading to achieve this objective. Also useful as 2nd or 4th grade differ

This is a 4-day review unit aligned to Common Core standard RL 3.7/4.7 - How Illustrations Enhance the Story. This fully scripted unit uses 4 different mentor texts and scaffolds students ability to find additional details and information to deepen their understanding of a text. Each day has a specific learning objective and uses the strategy of close reading to achieve this objective. Also useful as 2nd grade differentiated unit. Includes fully scripted lesson plans, Independent Work Images and

This is a 4-day review unit aligned to Common Core standard RL 3.2 - Finding the Lesson in a Story. This fully scripted unit uses The Three Little Pigs as its text and scaffolds students ability to find the lesson or moral in a story. Each day has a specific learning objective and uses the strategy of close reading to achieve this objective. Also useful as 2nd grade or 4th grade differentiated units. ----------------- COOL TpT Tip! How to get TPT credit for future purchases: Go to your "My

This unit is all 'write'! Get your scholars ready to rock those Standardized Writing Assessments with this comprehensive 2 week (10 days) Unit of scaffolded mini-lessons! Carefully scripted and thoughtfully designed to build upon and reinforce those critical writing skills that will push them to be successful writers on standardized tests and beyond! COOL TpT Tip! How to get TPT credit for future purchases: Go to your "My Purchases" page. Next to each purchase, you'll see a "Provide Feedb