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Summarizing Graphic Organizer
A chart to practice using the SWBST strategy to write a summary for a fictional piece of text.
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Reading Comprehension Strategies PowerPoint - Summarizing
A 14-slide editable PowerPoint template explaining the reading comprehension strategy of summarizing.
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Reading Response Templates - Complete Journal
A reading response journal for students to use to engage with text in meaningful and purposeful ways.
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Finding the Theme Worksheet
Identify and explain the theme in 3 short story paragraphs provided in this worksheet.
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What's the Theme? - Graphic Organizer
Outline and determine the theme of a text with this 1-page graphic organizer worksheet.
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Before, During, and After Reading Fiction - Question Prompts
Question prompts and a worksheet to use when asking questions before, during, and after reading.
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Summarizing a Fiction Text - Graphic Organizer
A graphic organizer to help students summarize a fiction text.
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Reading Comprehension Strategies PowerPoint - Inferring
An editable 13-slide PowerPoint template explaining the reading comprehension strategy of inferencing.
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Five Finger Summary - Graphic Organizer
A graphic organizer for students to use to summarize a fiction text.
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Reading Response Template - Personal Review
A reading response template for students to write a personal review of a piece of text.
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Comic – Healthy Body, Healthy Mind: Find Your Sport – Comprehension Worksheet
A comprehension worksheet paired with a comic about all types of sports.
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The Loudest Sound in the World – Comprehension Worksheet
A comprehension worksheet paired with a literary text about a princess who demands to hear the loudest sound in the world.
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Narrative Plot Structure Template
A template for students to use when planning the plot structure of a narrative text.
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Inference or Prediction? Worksheet
A worksheet to use when teaching your students the difference between an inference and a prediction.
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Inference Comics
A set of 5 comic strips to use when teaching your students how to infer information from everyday situations.
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Comprehension Strategies – Interactive PowerPoint
An engaging 44 slide interactive PowerPoint to use in the classroom when introducing comprehension strategies.
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Direct and Indirect Speech Posters
Amazing Man helps students to learn what both direct and indirect speech entails as well as providing examples on how they can use it themselves.
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Before, During, and After Reading Nonfiction – Question Prompts
Question prompts and a worksheet to use when asking questions before, during, and after reading.
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Reading Comprehension Strategies PowerPoint - Predicting
A 14 slide editable PowerPoint template explaining the reading comprehension strategy of predicting.
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Reading Comprehension Strategies PowerPoint - Questioning
A 15 slide editable PowerPoint template explaining the reading comprehension strategy of questioning.
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Summarizing a Nonfiction Text - Graphic Organizer
A graphic organizer to help students summarize a nonfiction text.
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QR Code Reading Comprehension Strategy Question Cubes
A set of QR code question cubes to use when working with reading comprehension strategies.
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#SUMitUP Summary Activity
Summarize fictional text through this whole-class station activity.
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Storytelling Finger Puppets Template
A set of 15 finger puppets that can be used to spark the imagination for creative writing or to perform puppet shows.
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Read Across a Story Template
A template for students to practice their summarizing skills.
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Novel Study - Character Map Worksheet
3 worksheets to assist with analyzing characters in a class novel.
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Novel Study - Points of View Worksheet
3 worksheets to help students analyze the points of view of opposing characters in a literary text.
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International Women's Day Gender Ground Rules – Task Cards
A set of task cards to be paired with the International Women's Day comic 'Gender Ground Rules'.
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Bloom's Taxonomy Question/Sentence Starter Cards
A set of reading question and sentence starter cards aligned with Bloom's Taxonomy.
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QAR Generic Question Cards
A set of 28 generic QAR question cards for students to use as a comprehension task after reading.
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Newspaper Themed - Book Report Template and Poster
A fun newspaper themed poster with 3 book report templates to use when responding to literature.
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Before, During and After Reading Fiction Questions - Dice
5 different versions of dice to use when asking questions before, during and after reading.