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The Giant Giraffe: Reading Comprehension
In this comprehension activity, students read a selection about the giant giraffe, then answer 5 multiple choice questions. Answers provided.
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The Beautiful Butterfly: Reading Comprehension
For this comprehension worksheet, students read a short selection about the butterfly, then answer 5 multiple choice questions. Answers provided.
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The Lion and the Mouse: Reading Comprehension
In this comprehension worksheet, learners read a selection about The Lion and the Mouse, then answer 5 multiple choice questions. Answers provided.
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The Bottlenose Dolphin: Reading Comprehension
In this comprehension learning exercise, students read a selection about the Bottlenose Dolphin, then answer 5 multiple choice questions. Answers provided.
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Living in the Desert: Reading Comprehension
In this comprehension learning exercise, students read a short selection about sand gazelles, then answer 5 multiple choice questions. Answers provided.
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SciPod Studies
Have fun preparing a science podcast. After reviewing vocabulary, learners record audio files to create science vocabulary podcasts for particular units of study. A clever way to incorporate technology.
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Inspector Readers: The 002 Book Club
This unit introduces book clubs/literature circles to lower elementary classes, but could be adapted to higher grades. It outlines the anticipatory activity that includes a WebQuest, a discussion to clarify questions about the unit,...
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The Things That Bothered Farmer Brown
Link language development to literacy skills. This lesson template provides a comprehensible way to use the Braidy Web to maximize language and reading skills. It would be appropriate for developmentally disabled pupils reading at a K-2...
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First Day of School
Primary learners complete pre reading, writing, during reading, and interdisciplinary activities for the book First Day of School. They will complete journal entries, answer short answer questions, have discussions, and much...
Special needs in Music
Music Work Sheet (Special Ed)
Music is beneficial for all learners. Help your learners with special needs learn about different styles of music, as well as the ways that music is represented on paper, with 30 different worksheets.
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Great Picture Books to Teach Social Studies for Grade K-3
Every class enjoys reading new books at the beginning of a unit. Use this resource to identify a variety of books for kindergarten to third grade that can be used to complement social studies standards. The books can kindle learners'...
National Geographic
Plant Life
Looking for a guide to pair with non-fiction concept books? Intended to go with science-based leveled text mentioned in the resource, a unit allows for the study of plant life while enhancing academic vocabulary, language skills, and...
August House
The Contest Between the Sun and the Wind
Learn the moral of the story with a series of activities about Aesop's fables. Focusing on The Contest Between the Sun and the Wind, learners complete a graphic organizer to discuss who, what, how, and why the events occur. Additionally,...
Scholastic
Will He See His Shadow? Groundhog Day Activities
What a fantastic collection of activities for celebrating Groundhog Day! This resource includes a variety of holiday reading selections, groundhog facts, links to printables, story comprehension lessons, and much more!
Mississippi State University
The Five Senses
Your learners engage their five senses every day without knowing it. Help them identify their experiences and extend their understanding with a month full of lessons designed for the five senses. Kids focus on a different sense every...
Scholastic
Ask the Author
Here is a quick activity that could help your kids with their reading comprehension. They practice a classic strategy that gets them to start asking questions about what they are reading, while they are reading it. They write out...
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We’re Going on a Bear Hunt
Second graders participate in guided reading and writing experience in this set of five lessons. They complete a picture walk of Michael Rosen's, We're Going on a Bear Hunt before listening to the story and retelling it. Working with a...
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Picture This
Students examine how to create mental images to help them comprehend what they read. They discuss what it means to visualize and they draw a mental picture of what they read. Students draw a picture of what they see in their minds while...
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Rip Van Winkle
In this comprehension worksheet, learners answer short answer and discussion questions for the story Rip Van Winkle. Students complete 13 questions.
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Little Red Riding Hood
In this comprehension activity, students answer short answer and discussion questions for the story Little Red Riding Hood. Students complete 13 questions.
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Jack and the Beanstalk
In this comprehension instructional activity, students answer short answer and discussion questions for the story Jack and the Beanstalk. Students complete 14 questions.
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Arthur's Lost and Found
In this comprehension learning exercise, students answer short answer and discussion questions for the story Arthur's Lost and Found. Students complete 9 questions.
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The Amazing Woodpecker
In this woodpecker learning exercise, students read a 1 page passage titled The Amazing Woodpecker and answer multiple choice questions about it. Students answer 5 questions.
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Re-Enact "The Mitten"
Students re-enact The Mitten by Jan Brett. In this acting lesson, students select a part and perform the story as it is being read.